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No one knows what life has in store for them. No one really has it figured out, sure people have dreams, ambitions but no one truly has control over what happens in their lives. He sure didn't. He'd focused all his time after graduation on his studies and had come out victorious with a Doctorate Degree in Medicine, Metaphysics and Psychology. His name was Theta Sigma, he didn't live a lavish life, but he was happy. Or so he thought until he met Patience, the two hit it off quite well and ended up falling in love, married within a year and settled down in the city of London. He had his wife, young daughter Jenny who had just turned five, they were all he needed in his life to feel complete. Things were fantastic in Theta's book. They lived the medium class lifestyle, his main focus was his family, keeping them safe and happy, nothing could go wrong, right?
Who would think that their world would change in the blink of an eye? Not for better but for the worst? Certainly not him. Theta had been finishing his shift at work when chaos ensued, he saw a flash of brown curled locks wheeled by on a hospital stretcher. The face was so familiar that panic entered his heart immediately
'Patience' sure enough he was approached by the head of the paramedics with the information and without a second to lose Theta was racing toward the operating room. A fatal car crash, but there was a still chance he could save her right? Wrong. He'd seen it all before, had helped in numerous surgeries due to crashes and other causes of internal bleeding. But the moment he appeared in the room, the man who had been stone solid during the worst of operations and procedures was struck heavily with an emotional blow to the stomach at the sight of his wife in the horrid condition she was left in from the crash.
Being ushered out, and later given the news that her life couldn't be saved, it was the biggest strike down in his life. After her death, the funeral, the countless nights of holding a sobbing Jenny in his arms at night until she fell asleep. The man could feel himself slipping into a deep depression, so much he called up his twin sister, Donna who immediately moved in with him. To try to be the balance to his chaotic mind. For months the two spent nights just sitting in the living room in silence, Donna just being there for her brother, offering him a cuppa tea, an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on when he needed to.
But even then that comfort faded. Theta had taken his leave from the hospital, being around the medical facility that his wife had lost her life in was too much for the Doctor to handle. Having taken a position as a physician in the city of Gallifrey, his home city at that. Theta found himself not home as often as he'd like. Leaving early in the morning to travel the hour drive to the clinic and arriving home rather late. With Donna working odd hours, Theta out at least five set days out of the week. Their time at home wasn't set in stone so the need for a nanny to look after Jenny had come up in numerous of the twin's nightly conversations over tea.
This particular day, both siblings had taken off from work to interview women for the position. After a full morning of harsh drill sergeant type personas, too firm, too strict or others that just were not the right ones for the job. Both siblings were exhausted.
"C'mon, chin up" spoke Donna with a smile as she handed him a cuppa tea, having went to brew them both some.
"Just a few more interviews I'm sure we'll find someone" she added, handing over a few couple of aspirins for a headache she knew the man was getting.
Theta gave a sigh as he reached up and pulled off his black horn rimmed glasses from his face and gave his eyes a rub before a groan escaped his lips
"I hope you're right" he took the items handed to him and down the pills then winced at the sound of the door bell
"I don't care if this one is horrible. It's the last one for today I'm tired all these failures, Donna" he muttered with a sigh and sipped his tea.
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