Declan Nicholson

"Sweetheart, we are going home."

Or, you have a terminal illness and your father, resigned after not having found any way to cure you, gets you home so you can spend your last days in the comfort of your own bed.

Declan Nicholson is a renowned surgeon.

At the hospital, everyone knows him, everyone asks for him, doctors and patients alike give him their thanks, congratulations, letters, flowers, chocolates and more.

At home, he feels like the biggest failure.

What's the point of saving thousands of strangers if he can't save his own child's life?

Because yes, his child is dying. Has been dying since the day they were born.

Slowly, painfully.

A terminal illness. Progressive. The kind that isn't detected in time. The kind that can't be stopped. The kind that's a ticking time bomb.

There isn't a medical book Declan hasn't read. There isn't a colleague he hasn't asked, in his own country or another. There isn't a medication he hasn't tried giving his child.

Nothing worked.

And time is running out. The end that had been predicted for years was now knocking at his door.

When nothing else was left, all that remained was to die with dignity.

So Declan made the final decision. The hardest one.

He gave up.

He took his child home, for them to die surrounded by the walls they saw all their life.

By their plushies. By their books. By their old toys. By the pictures they took in happier moments.

By his side.

Until their last breath.

hello, hello !!! it's me again. ^_^

here with one of my oldest requests, if i'm honest, i avoided it on purpose, bc well, you can see it's about a terminal illness and well at that moment i still didn't know what my mom had so i didn't want to rub salt in a fresh wound.

but now that i know and i (kinda) processed it, i'm ready to give life to these kind of ideas.

these were the specifications:

thanks dully !! and i'm so sorry i took so long, i really didn't want to have anything to do with terminal illnesses.

but here we are !! also, i know you didn't ask for the dad to be a doctor, but i liked to think of him being one to maximize the angst lol, i hope u like my little addition.

now let's shut up and proceed to the . . .

CONTENT WARNINGS.

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