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“I
m sure he
ll get over it one day.”Help fund the $15 daily operational cost of Derpibooru - support us financially!
m sure he
ll get over it one day.”
walks up crying
Drako:
hello Pink
Pinkie:
what do you want?
Drako:
I work here
Pinkie:
oh
right
Drako:
I came to tell you that I like it when you’re nice to the patients
Pinkie:
what are you talking about?
Drako:
I’m better at stealth than you
I’ve seen how you treat the people in the burns ward and the fracture unit
It’s a very admirable quality
Pinkie:
What would you know?
Drako:
you’re not the only person who’s lost someone to leukemia
Pinkie:
how do you know that?!
Drako:
When you’ve been through that you recognize it in other people
You blank it from your mind all the time but when you walk around the hospital your smile is ever so slightly off
it’s not obvious to others
but i know how it feels
and i can see it in your face
what i see could fill a thousand books
Pinkie:
who were they?
Drako:
who weren’t they?
did you ever wonder why i quit the medical profession Pink?
I was one of the best, I dare say, THE best surgeon there was
I knew a little about medicine too but it really wasn’t my forte
I studied a lot and my knowledge of medicine could best the best
But it was the dark days of medical treatment
I knew the world needed skilled surgeons more than anything else
In those days there was little to it
People either recovered fast or died fast and the right person could tip that the way they wanted
but then medicine started to get more complicated
pharmaceuticals meant that medicine could heal pretty much anything
for me it seemed like a miracle
if only i’d known then what i know now
things that killed people quickly slowed down
even though a lot less people died
the ones that lived survived years of suffering
often what i did wasn’t exactly legal but i did what i could to help people
and in some cases ease their pain
but then there was this new thing
something that had never been so bad before
sure we used to have the growth
but if it was cancer the victim died fast
then with all this new medicine the doctors started keeping them alive longer
you have to understand
for someone like me it was torture
knowing that these people are going to slowly waste away in agony until they finally fade
i put all my knowledge into finding a cure
but cancer is the only incurable disease
every single day i had to look at their smiling faces knowing what was going to happen to them
i couldn’t take it
especially not the children
i worked myself into the ground trying to help them as best i could
and one day i found i’d lost some of my accuracy
only the tiniest of fractions
only a laser could spot it
but i knew it
i was starting to get the shakes
my mind was so full of what ifs
what if i didn’t cut enough of the tumor out?
what would happen them?
i shouldn’t have but i always blamed myself for it spreading
deep down i knew i’d done the best i could but the pressure i put on myself to get it right scared me
knowing that the tiniest mistake could doom this person to a life of slow agonizing death
i’ve seen that look on your face a thousand times on the relatives of my patients
and believe me, i suffered alongside them
as a surgeon you’re not meant to know the patient
but i knew i could make their last days a little happier with the right attitude
and where the doctors couldn’t keep on smiling i could fake it
i was good
nobody suspected how i felt inside
and it made the patients and their families feel much better
but when i started to crack
a tiny little twinge
much smaller than a fraction of a millimeter
i knew i was headed for a downward spiral
you see one of the reasons i fight the people who cause suffering is because they have no idea
they don’t know what it’s like to suffer
not like me
not like my patients
not like their family
they’re just in their own little bubble
sometimes it takes a lesson like torture to open their minds to what they are doing
so
i’m telling you now Pink
you don’t have to be the cancer
Pinkie:
What! I’m not! I’m just-!
Drako:
The way you are with those patients
That’s what you can be
You can be so much more than you are
It’s the kind of person you really want to be
It’s the person i see in you every time we meet
Don’t throw your life away Pinkie!
You’ve got the chance to make good I never had
It’s not too late
Pinkie:
It doesn’t bring them back though does it?
It doesn’t stop the memories
Drako:
…
Pinkie:
thanks Drako
but i have to do it
i know it’s only for me
but i can’t bare to live life like that again
Drako:
…
Pinkie:
you know it don’t you?
you know what it does to you
you know how it eats you up inside
and you know the relief you get when you kill
it doesn’t fix it but it helps
Drako:
…
Pinkie:
you know i can’t turn back
not now
not after that
Drako:
holds hand out
Pinkie:
shakes hand
Drako:
i only wish it didn’t have to be like this Pinkie
this world makes monsters like us
the next time we meet i’ll try to ease your pain
Pinkie:
and i yours
Drako:
but you know I wont leave without a fight
Pinkie:
nor me
Drako:
to deadly enemies
may they have happiness
kisses her hoof
Pinkie:
leaves
only not as annoyingly upbeat.