For those of you who have read this in the past, I would recommend re-reading as I've gone through and changed some things
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The last thing Ruby had expected was to end up in a hospital. When she had discovered the annoying lump under her arm, she though it was nothing, just an ingrown hair or something stupid like that. But when it didn't go away after a week, the young brunette started to wonder exactly what it was. She would have been content to just ignore it; it didn't really bother her all that much. Most of the time she barely even noticed it. It was only through Yang's insistence that she ended up at the doctors. That, and the fact that Yang had threatened to carry her sister over her shoulder right to the doctors chair if she didn't go herself.
Truth be told, Ruby hated going to the doctors. The surgeries themselves were nearly always the same; bland on the outside, functional on the inside. From the shade-above-white walls, to the uncomfortable and creaky chairs, they always screamed "Bring out ya dead!" to her. That, and the multitudes of screaming children and people who looked sick enough to be classed as zombies, had made doctors surgeries a place Ruby usually liked to avoid.
Then there were the doctors themselves. Ruby hadn't been to many doctors, but she had always found it hard to be comfortable and upfront with any of the doctors she had seen. Some doctors were too old; they looked like they should be the ones getting taken care of, not the other way around. Others were from parts unknown with accents so thick it made the normally frustrating language of doctors seem like another language entirely. Then there were the young doctors. Ruby didn't know why, or how, but every young doctor she had ever seen had been ridiculously attractive, like they had been meant for runways and flashing cameras, rather than stethoscopes and bodily fluids. All in all, she had never met a doctor that she'd really liked, and wanted to go back to.
But when she had gone to get her lump checked out, her doctor had been female and old, so Ruby didn't feel as uncomfortable as she thought she would. That's not to say she was comfortable with being told to take off her shirt. Doing as the doctor asked, Ruby had to resist the urge to cover herself up. It wasn't like she had anything to be ashamed of really; she wasn't flat chested, and she was in good shape. But she still didn't like feeling so exposed, especially in front of a perfect stranger. She found herself thinking about anything and everything but the old lady poking at her armpit. It didn't take long for Ruby to lose herself in her thoughts, but her reverie couldn't last. She was brought back to the real world by the sudden lack of contact under her arm. Ruby knew something wasn't right when the doctor wouldn't immediately look at her.
Absently rubbing her chin, the old woman asked, "How long have you had this lump?"
"Um, a little longer than a week I guess."
"And how long has your breast been irritated like this?"
Ruby looked at the doctor like she'd grown a second head and asked her about life on Mars.
"But it's not..." she didn't finish her sentence. Looking down, Ruby saw exactly what the doctor had described.
Feeling her heart rate escalate, Ruby tried to hide the worry in her voice, "What does this mean?"
She could practically see the doctor steel her face, an automatic reaction to delivering bad news. "Well, this just a preliminary precaution you understand, but I think there is a possibility that you have Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Now, you have to understand, while this is a less common form of Breast Cancer, there are still treatments..."
Ruby stopped listening after hearing the term a second time.
Cancer.
The doctor wasn't even sure she had it, but something about her demeanour gave Ruby an uneasy feeling.
Cancer.
It was like everything Ruby knew was about to change, was about to be shattered. The life she had always known, even complained about, was about to become something she'd give anything to get back.
Cancer.
Lost in her thoughts again, it took Ruby a moment to realise that the doctor was waiting for her to respond.
"Oh," was all Ruby could manage.