To Become a Doctor

by chickanary

Van wants to become a doctor, but there's just one problem. He grows squeamish at the sight of blood. Little does he know that he and his father, Jin, actually have this in common. Staring rival children Van and a tiny bit of Vivian.

To become a doctor, blood was a sight you had to get use too. Van knew this. He had seen how calm his father, Jin, was when he had to patch up his patients, and when blood was present his father's calculating eyes never revolted in disgust or shrank in horror. He would simply clean the wound and ease the patient.

But Van was not his father.

When Van saw blood his stomach would turn, bile rising at the back of his throat. He just didn't understand how his father could take it so well. As Van told this to his good friend Vivian she huffed.

"Maybe it's not meant to be."

"But I want to be a doctor!"

"You can't be a doctor if your knees buckle at the sight of blood, Van. No one would even want to bother with you."

"There has to be a way though."

Vivian thought for a moment. She twirled her silver blonde hair between her dainty fingers.

"I suppose you could just ask your father. See if he's really as clam as he poses himself to be."

"I guess I could try that. Thanks Vivian."

"Of course."

Later that day, Van found his father organizing patient records.

"Father, do you ever become squeamish doing your job?"

His father turned towards Van, a smile was on his face.

"I did."

"Did?"

"You get used to it in time. Though I do remember my first time watching a live operation. It was during my internship. Why I threw up shortly after."

"But how could you still become a doctor?"

Jin's smile grew. He placed a folder down on the counter.

"Ah well despite how I felt when I saw the insides of people, I found that my desire to be a doctor stronger than anything. I learned to adapt, forced myself to watch operations until my stomach grew numb to it," he ruffled Van's black hair, "don't worry my son. We all go through this, consider it a good thing."

"A good thing?"

"The fact that you grow uncomfortable at seeing things from a human that should stay inside a human why, at least to me, it lets me know that you will do everything in your power to treat that person to the best of your ability."

Van smiled. It would seem that becoming a doctor was meant to be, after all.

Hello! Thank you so much for reading this. This is my first story ever on and I find myself rather nervous, but excited too! I hope that you enjoyed it and hopefully you'll see more coming from me.