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As a woman of science, you believed in hard facts and logical thinking. Just like your husband Black Jack, a renowned unlicensed surgeon, you had a hard time believing in supernatural phenomena and always tried to reason through things with logic.
However, life has shown you that sometimes not everything can be explained with facts and logic. You have seen firsthand what miracles can do, and as such, you have become much more open minded than you had been when you first started working in the medical field. You’ve learned to have more faith in the human body; like when Pinoko’s young friend had the tip of the needle flowing through his veins. Everyone believed it would pierce his lungs and even his heart, but it had miraculously flowed through his entire body and returned to the area it entered. You’ve even learned that, contrary to popular belief among the science world, there is evidence of other worldly powers and happenings. That encounter with the aliens was anything but logical, but you’re sure it happened. It’s too strange for several people to have the same dream, and that money (though it turned out to be worth nothing) certainly did not appear from thin air.
Life has taught you that sometimes things happen, things that just can’t be explained by facts and logic.
It’s best just to accept them as they are and move on.
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It was one of those days where you were waiting for Black Jack to return from one of his trips. He had called a few days ago to tell you that he wouldn’t be returning for a couple more days. He was attending a very wealthy and private patient; a picky one who wanted things done in certain ways. That included staying with the patient throughout the treatment process.
All the chores had been done in the house, and it was too early to begin cooking dinner, so you decided to take a walk along the little beach below the cape where your shared house was. You invited Pinoko to walk along with you, the little girl following along happily, kicking sand around and searching for pretty seashells to collect. You watched her play gleefully, enjoying the way the salty breeze caressed your face. Your sundress billowed around you and loose strands of your hair tickled your cheeks. Normally you’d be cheerful on beautiful days such as this one, but it made you feel quite blue to think that you couldn’t enjoy such fine weather with your beloved.
But you knew things would be this way when you married Kuroo. When you weren’t going with him to his patients, you resigned yourself to finding ways to busy yourself to avoid the emptiness you felt without him around. He was your other half— your dearest heart. You supposed this made you a bit clingy, but he didn’t seem to mind. He enjoyed cuddling with you (in private, of course) and being near your presence just as you did with him. Besides, it’s not like you couldn’t manage without him. You simply felt the solitude all that much intensely when he was away for several days.
Naturally, the loneliness was diminished when Pinoko was around, but since there’s two women to do the chores, they get done pretty quickly, and Pinoko gets so bored in the house all the time, so she often goes out to play with Largo and her friend Sharaku, leaving you all alone.
That’s when the isolated quiet of the house really gets to you.
It goes without saying that you could just simply go out, but you’d rather be near the house so that you may reunite with, and welcome home Kuroo with open arms as soon as you see him.
Random, fleeting little thoughts like these swirl around your mind as you continue to walk along the beach, silently admiring the clear blue skies and foamy ocean waves.
As you follow the invisible path, you notice a little brown lump in the sand up ahead. What could that possibly be?— You wonder. You hope it wasn’t a poor, drowned creature. What if it needed help?
These questions fuel your urge to go over there and check, and eventually, you cave. But as you get closer to it, the brown lump that looked small from far away reveals to be a larger lump of wet, matted brown fur
Curiosity gets the best of you and you decide to get closer to it. But as you approach, you start to notice that the lump is really just a ball of wet, matted brown fur. You can even see little brown antlers peek from the other side.
Immediately, theories fill your mind. Could this be… a baby reindeer?
But it didn’t look completely like a reindeer, either. It had a rounder body and limbs that were a little more human shaped than they were reindeer shaped.
Nonetheless, you recognized that this was a creature in need of help, so you rushed over to it to check its state. It seemed to be passed out but thankfully, it was breathing albeit shallowly.
Poor thing! I have to get him to a dry and warm place…
"Pinoko!" You called out, gaining the attention of the little girl. Upon noticing the brown lump, she rushed over to your location. You quickly explained your theories, and asked her to rush ahead to the house to prepare towels and one of the patient beds for the little guy to rest on.
Pinoko cheerfully accepted and set off to her mission. The baby reindeer didn't look like he weighed much, but the water certainly added a bit of weight. Nonetheless, you picked him up gently, not minding that you were getting your sundress wet from his soaked fur. You'd get him all warmed up and see what you would do from there.
But as you were moving him into a comfortable position to carry, you noticed some blood leaking from injuries that had been washed by the sea and hidden amongst his fur. Not only was the poor thing floating at sea for who knows how long, but he was severely injured as well! This made you even more determined to get him home and fix him right up.
"Hang on, little guy," You whispered to him as you brought him up the path. "You'll be okay, you'll see."