Born Again I Suppose: KDO in a different set of circumstances
The characters are not mine.
1. Crossing Paths
Two babies were wheeled down a hallway by two recalcitrant nurses. The nurses looked remarkably alike: hair scraped back into painful looking ponytails, scrubs with giraffes and ABC's on them, and identical indifferent expressions hanging on their faces. It was not their fault, even the miracle of birth fails to inspire when a nurse is serving her third understaffed shift and it is well past midnight. Even the infants looked alike: similar dark patches of hair, squinting eyes, and wailing mouths. The only thing to distinguish the two nurses and their charges was that one infant was smothered in a light blue blanket and the other in pale pink. The two nurses parted at an intersection of two hallways.
It was the first time the mother had seen her little girl since the birth two hours ago at midnight. Though she was faint with exhaustion she pushed herself up in her bed to watch as the nurse wheeled in the screaming child wrapped in a pale pink blanket. The mother reached out to receive the child the nurse held out and as the mother settled the warm bundle that was now emitting less ear-splitting yelps, the blanket fell open and the mother saw something that surprised her very much. So much that she screamed even louder than the baby girl had moments before as she discovered that the supposed baby girl was proved a boy by one obvious fact of anatomy!
The nurse gasped and grabbed the child whispering "Sorry, sorry, sorry...we wrapped the wrong one, oh God!" as she backed out of the room breaking into a run when she struck the hallway. A scream was heard from the other side of the hospital wing and another nurse came running and the exchange was made. Apologies were made and accepted and so it was that from birth, two babies who would be named that very day, Sana Kurata and Akito Hayama, had already crossed paths.
1. Crossing Paths
Two babies were wheeled down a hallway by two recalcitrant nurses. The nurses looked remarkably alike: hair scraped back into painful looking ponytails, scrubs with giraffes and ABC's on them, and identical indifferent expressions hanging on their faces. It was not their fault, even the miracle of birth fails to inspire when a nurse is serving her third understaffed shift and it is well past midnight. Even the infants looked alike: similar dark patches of hair, squinting eyes, and wailing mouths. The only thing to distinguish the two nurses and their charges was that one infant was smothered in a light blue blanket and the other in pale pink. The two nurses parted at an intersection of two hallways.
It was the first time the mother had seen her little girl since the birth two hours ago at midnight. Though she was faint with exhaustion she pushed herself up in her bed to watch as the nurse wheeled in the screaming child wrapped in a pale pink blanket. The mother reached out to receive the child the nurse held out and as the mother settled the warm bundle that was now emitting less ear-splitting yelps, the blanket fell open and the mother saw something that surprised her very much. So much that she screamed even louder than the baby girl had moments before as she discovered that the supposed baby girl was proved a boy by one obvious fact of anatomy!
The nurse gasped and grabbed the child whispering "Sorry, sorry, sorry...we wrapped the wrong one, oh God!" as she backed out of the room breaking into a run when she struck the hallway. A scream was heard from the other side of the hospital wing and another nurse came running and the exchange was made. Apologies were made and accepted and so it was that from birth, two babies who would be named that very day, Sana Kurata and Akito Hayama, had already crossed paths.
