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While Hailey and Jim were talking, Dr. Erwin, one of the trusted member of the research team who was summoned to come over, walked in towards them. He had been watching their exchanges and was so emotionally moved.
"Dr. Hailey, it's not the right time yet to go back to the lab. Dr. Jim needs you more now that he is awake. So, I will be going back ahead. "
He moved forward and tapped Jim's shoulder. "I'm so happy for you, Dr. Jim, get well very soon. "
Then, he looked back at Hailey.
"Dr. Hailey, wishing you both the best. Just call me again if you need me. "
Feeling guilty for his effort to travel all the way from Palawan, she apologized.
"I understand. He needs you more. " He, then, smiled and winked at her before he left.
Being left alone with each other, Hailey turned her attention to Jim.
"Dr. Jim, let's focus now on your physical rehabilitation since you are now in a deconditioning
process." She suggested with excitement.
Prolonged lack of movement can make the body become deconditioned with wild range of psysical and functional effect. Physical endurance would wane, muscle tissues would be wasted and blood volume would decline.
Dr. Jim held a long gaze at her.
"Dr. Hailey, is it the new formulation of the pill that causes my recovery? Is it already perfect? " He asked with remarkable curiousity, being skeptical in these kind of treatment.
Dr. Hailey smiled. "I think, it only accounts at a rate of. 01%. The 99% is miracle. I believe that you do not deserve to die early, Dr. Jim. You still have a great task to accomplish here on earth. "
Jim was touched by her humility. Despite her effort to scan the whole forest of Palawan to find the source of a miraculous component that would address the world's long cry for deliverance from cancer, she still did not attribute it to herself. Thus, she deserved the success to be the founder of the most potent cancer cure because of her humility, selflessness and her love to serve.
"As the discoverer of the enzyme, Dr. Jim, with so many clinical trials, I have proven that this new formulation is indeed very potent but only for cancer stages 1 to 3. For advanced stages like yours where the cancer cells have already widely spread into the major organs of the body including your brain, it is still worthless like the rest of the treatment. "
"Will I fully recover or am I only in a remission stage again?" He asked, considering the possibility of a relapse.
"It is still early to say it, Dr. Jim, as cancer always have the possibility of a relapse. But as I said, I believe that your recovery is not about what I give you but an answered prayer. "
He smiled and was moved by her statement once again.
"Dr. Hailey, can I make a request? " He said with a sense of guilt for adding another thing to her existing burden.
"Sure, what is it? "
"Whether I can make it or not, on Jia's remarriage, please give her my gift. I have pre - ordered and paid two diamond necklaces on Verdant Rings, the famous supplier of expensive jewelries. If her new husband would be my brother, give it to them but if not, give one for her only and sell the other for your research fund. "
Hailey was very quick to reply. "You will make it, Dr. Jim. And you don't have to give that gift because you will soon be returning to your
family. "
___
Hailey worked on his physical rehabilitation without delay. For few days, she made passive exercises for him like flexing and extending his legs and arms. Then, she allowed him into sitting position with dangling of legs and later proceeded to wheelchair rides by the shore.
After few trials of putting some weights into his legs, Jim began to stand up, took few steps later and soon, walk some miles away with Hailey holding and assisting him as they encircled the edge of the small island everyday.
In all the days after that, except on bad weather, they watched sunrise and sunsets together above the magnificent view of the horizon beyond the vast spread of the open sea...
___
Two years after Hailey brought her to the island...
One afternoon, as they rested on a rock boulder while watching the waves and the penguins, Jim started to open up.
" Dr. Hailey, don't you miss Aijohn? How were you able to endure the pain of losing him? "
Hailey laughed. "You miss her? "
" Yes. "
She couldn't understand. Of that two years she had been assisting him in his recovery and rehabilitation, she felt a pang of pain deep inside in this confession. But this should not be! She's only helping Aijohn secretly. Most of all, she just wanted to avenge for Dr. Jim against those research team who withheld the repurchase of Hailey's Pill just because they desired for his death!
"Dr. Jim, I'll take you home. "
She said it but her heart didn't agree. Of the two years he was with her, she could no longer imagine a day without him. Even just a thought of it, made her start to feel a sense of deep loneliness.
"Not now, Dr. Hailey. I will only go home once you will be able to proclaim the perfect cancer cure to the world. You have already wasted two years just because you did not leave me. And what about our revenge to our enemy? Didn't we have an agreement that on the day you will launch it, you will also surprise them with my existence?"
She should have felt a sense of relief with this answer but his happiness mattered to her more than the success of her research.
"I have changed my mind, Dr. Jim. The fact that you're alive will already blow their minds away. What would they attribute to your recovery than Hailey's Pill itself?" She argued, resisting the temptation to hold him back.
"I will help you finalize everything first and I want you to present me to the world as the living testimony of your product. "
"You might be too late in coming home. " She pushed him away while she still had the courage.
"To the world and to my family, I am already dead. "
"What if Jia will get married? Won't you regret it? Go home while it is not too late yet. "
___
Hailey accompanied him to the city and while Jim was still preparing himself to meet his family again, he decided to hear some news about them first. For more than two years, he had cut himself from the world and even a single update about Catherine Fields in the internet, he did not have.
One morning, while she and Hailey passed by the entrance of Jian's Garden, she saw a familiar car and knew instantly that it was Jia. He wondered why she was not changing it into a new one but then he remembered that she always held sentimental values on things. He realized that the reason she kept it was because it was the car he bought her after her abduction. It only meant, he still held a special place in her heart.
While he was tempted to stop her right then and lift her up into the air to fill out his loneliness, he decided to follow her instead. Few minutes after, they were already on a memorial garden. It was already past four in the morning and they were already joggers all around. Deciding to disguise themselves as hikers, they alighted from the car and followed her.
Soon, they saw her enter a mausuleom and through the bright indoor lights, he saw his name being inscripted into a marble tombstone.
Being emotionally disturbed as she appeared to be, she did not turn to her left or right to see if there was anyone around. She even did not saw them when they hid behind the big pillar of the building.
Few moments after, through the eerie silence of the whole place, they heard her bitter cry.
"Jim, would you forgive me if I would break my promise to be your wife forever? Would you confront me if one of these days, I would be marrying your own brother? Would you hate me or would you understand just as how you understood my own failures and unworthiness? "
While she cried hard, Jim also couldn't hold himself from crying with her.
"I'm sorry for failing you. I know that I could no longer find someone whose heart is as big as yours. I could no longer find someone who would love and embrace my deceitful heart like you do. And I could no longer find someone, who only knows how to give and to forgive. "
" But you're unfair, you're leaving me
forever ... and now I also need to go..."
They watched her wailed and fell on the floor, writhing in pain. They also watched her kissed the tombstone as she said her last goodbye.
And they saw Anthon as he arrived and as he gently pulled her into his embrace, reprimanding her for going out alone.
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While Hailey and Jim were talking, Dr. Erwin, one of the trusted member of the research team who was summoned to come over, walked in towards them. He had been watching their exchanges and was so emotionally moved.
"Dr. Hailey, it's not the right time yet to go back to the lab. Dr. Jim needs you more now that he is awake. So, I will be going back ahead. "
He moved forward and tapped Jim's shoulder. "I'm so happy for you, Dr. Jim, get well very soon. "
Then, he looked back at Hailey.
"Dr. Hailey, wishing you both the best. Just call me again if you need me. "
Feeling guilty for his effort to travel all the way from Palawan, she apologized.
"I understand. He needs you more. " He, then, smiled and winked at her before he left.
Being left alone with each other, Hailey turned her attention to Jim.
"Dr. Jim, let's focus now on your physical rehabilitation since you are now in a deconditioning
process." She suggested with excitement.
Prolonged lack of movement can make the body become deconditioned with wild range of psysical and functional effect. Physical endurance would wane, muscle tissues would be wasted and blood volume would decline.
Dr. Jim held a long gaze at her.
"Dr. Hailey, is it the new formulation of the pill that causes my recovery? Is it already perfect? " He asked with remarkable curiousity, being skeptical in these kind of treatment.
Dr. Hailey smiled. "I think, it only accounts at a rate of. 01%. The 99% is miracle. I believe that you do not deserve to die early, Dr. Jim. You still have a great task to accomplish here on earth. "
Jim was touched by her humility. Despite her effort to scan the whole forest of Palawan to find the source of a miraculous component that would address the world's long cry for deliverance from cancer, she still did not attribute it to herself. Thus, she deserved the success to be the founder of the most potent cancer cure because of her humility, selflessness and her love to serve.
"As the discoverer of the enzyme, Dr. Jim, with so many clinical trials, I have proven that this new formulation is indeed very potent but only for cancer stages 1 to 3. For advanced stages like yours where the cancer cells have already widely spread into the major organs of the body including your brain, it is still worthless like the rest of the treatment. "
"Will I fully recover or am I only in a remission stage again?" He asked, considering the possibility of a relapse.
"It is still early to say it, Dr. Jim, as cancer always have the possibility of a relapse. But as I said, I believe that your recovery is not about what I give you but an answered prayer. "
He smiled and was moved by her statement once again.
"Dr. Hailey, can I make a request? " He said with a sense of guilt for adding another thing to her existing burden.
"Sure, what is it? "
"Whether I can make it or not, on Jia's remarriage, please give her my gift. I have pre - ordered and paid two diamond necklaces on Verdant Rings, the famous supplier of expensive jewelries. If her new husband would be my brother, give it to them but if not, give one for her only and sell the other for your research fund. "
Hailey was very quick to reply. "You will make it, Dr. Jim. And you don't have to give that gift because you will soon be returning to your
family. "
___
Hailey worked on his physical rehabilitation without delay. For few days, she made passive exercises for him like flexing and extending his legs and arms. Then, she allowed him into sitting position with dangling of legs and later proceeded to wheelchair rides by the shore.
After few trials of putting some weights into his legs, Jim began to stand up, took few steps later and soon, walk some miles away with Hailey holding and assisting him as they encircled the edge of the small island everyday.
In all the days after that, except on bad weather, they watched sunrise and sunsets together above the magnificent view of the horizon beyond the vast spread of the open sea...
___
Two years after Hailey brought her to the island...
One afternoon, as they rested on a rock boulder while watching the waves and the penguins, Jim started to open up.
" Dr. Hailey, don't you miss Aijohn? How were you able to endure the pain of losing him? "
Hailey laughed. "You miss her? "
" Yes. "
She couldn't understand. Of that two years she had been assisting him in his recovery and rehabilitation, she felt a pang of pain deep inside in this confession. But this should not be! She's only helping Aijohn secretly. Most of all, she just wanted to avenge for Dr. Jim against those research team who withheld the repurchase of Hailey's Pill just because they desired for his death!
"Dr. Jim, I'll take you home. "
She said it but her heart didn't agree. Of the two years he was with her, she could no longer imagine a day without him. Even just a thought of it, made her start to feel a sense of deep loneliness.
"Not now, Dr. Hailey. I will only go home once you will be able to proclaim the perfect cancer cure to the world. You have already wasted two years just because you did not leave me. And what about our revenge to our enemy? Didn't we have an agreement that on the day you will launch it, you will also surprise them with my existence?"
She should have felt a sense of relief with this answer but his happiness mattered to her more than the success of her research.
"I have changed my mind, Dr. Jim. The fact that you're alive will already blow their minds away. What would they attribute to your recovery than Hailey's Pill itself?" She argued, resisting the temptation to hold him back.
"I will help you finalize everything first and I want you to present me to the world as the living testimony of your product. "
"You might be too late in coming home. " She pushed him away while she still had the courage.
"To the world and to my family, I am already dead. "
"What if Jia will get married? Won't you regret it? Go home while it is not too late yet. "
___
Hailey accompanied him to the city and while Jim was still preparing himself to meet his family again, he decided to hear some news about them first. For more than two years, he had cut himself from the world and even a single update about Catherine Fields in the internet, he did not have.
One morning, while she and Hailey passed by the entrance of Jian's Garden, she saw a familiar car and knew instantly that it was Jia. He wondered why she was not changing it into a new one but then he remembered that she always held sentimental values on things. He realized that the reason she kept it was because it was the car he bought her after her abduction. It only meant, he still held a special place in her heart.
While he was tempted to stop her right then and lift her up into the air to fill out his loneliness, he decided to follow her instead. Few minutes after, they were already on a memorial garden. It was already past four in the morning and they were already joggers all around. Deciding to disguise themselves as hikers, they alighted from the car and followed her.
Soon, they saw her enter a mausuleom and through the bright indoor lights, he saw his name being inscripted into a marble tombstone.
Being emotionally disturbed as she appeared to be, she did not turn to her left or right to see if there was anyone around. She even did not saw them when they hid behind the big pillar of the building.
Few moments after, through the eerie silence of the whole place, they heard her bitter cry.
"Jim, would you forgive me if I would break my promise to be your wife forever? Would you confront me if one of these days, I would be marrying your own brother? Would you hate me or would you understand just as how you understood my own failures and unworthiness? "
While she cried hard, Jim also couldn't hold himself from crying with her.
"I'm sorry for failing you. I know that I could no longer find someone whose heart is as big as yours. I could no longer find someone who would love and embrace my deceitful heart like you do. And I could no longer find someone, who only knows how to give and to forgive. "
" But you're unfair, you're leaving me
forever ... and now I also need to go..."
They watched her wailed and fell on the floor, writhing in pain. They also watched her kissed the tombstone as she said her last goodbye.
And they saw Anthon as he arrived and as he gently pulled her into his embrace, reprimanding her for going out alone.
While Hailey and Jim were talking, Dr. Erwin, one of the trusted member of the research team who was summoned to come over, walked in towards them. He had been watching their exchanges and was so emotionally moved. "Dr. Hailey, it's not the right time yet to go back to the lab. Dr. Jim needs you more now that he is awake. So, I will be going back ahead. " He moved forward and tapped Jim's shoulder. "I'm so happy for you, Dr. Jim, get well very soon. " Then, he looked back at Hailey. "Dr. Hailey, wishing you both the best. Just call me again if you need me. " Feeling guilty for his effort to travel all the way from Palawan, she apologized. "I understand. He needs you more. " He, then, smiled and winked at her before he left. Being left alone with each other, Hailey turned her attention to Jim. "Dr. Jim, let's focus now on your physical rehabilitation since you are now in a deconditioning process." She suggested with excitement. Prolonged lack of movement can make the body become deconditioned with wild range of psysical and functional effect. Physical endurance would wane, muscle tissues would be wasted and blood volume would decline. Dr. Jim held a long gaze at her. "Dr. Hailey, is it the new formulation of the pill that causes my recovery? Is it already perfect? " He asked with remarkable curiousity, being skeptical in these kind of treatment. Dr. Hailey smiled. "I think, it only accounts at a rate of. 01%. The 99% is miracle. I believe that you do not deserve to die early, Dr. Jim. You still have a great task to accomplish here on earth. " Jim was touched by her humility. Despite her effort to scan the whole forest of Palawan to find the source of a miraculous component that would address the world's long cry for deliverance from cancer, she still did not attribute it to herself. Thus, she deserved the success to be the founder of the most potent cancer cure because of her humility, selflessness and her love to serve. "As the discoverer of the enzyme, Dr. Jim, with so many clinical trials, I have proven that this new formulation is indeed very potent but only for cancer stages 1 to 3. For advanced stages like yours where the cancer cells have already widely spread into the major organs of the body including your brain, it is still worthless like the rest of the treatment. " "Will I fully recover or am I only in a remission stage again?" He asked, considering the possibility of a relapse. "It is still early to say it, Dr. Jim, as cancer always have the possibility of a relapse. But as I said, I believe that your recovery is not about what I give you but an answered prayer. " He smiled and was moved by her statement once again. "Dr. Hailey, can I make a request? " He said with a sense of guilt for adding another thing to her existing burden. "Sure, what is it? " "Whether I can make it or not, on Jia's remarriage, please give her my gift. I have pre - ordered and paid two diamond necklaces on Verdant Rings, the famous supplier of expensive jewelries. If her new husband would be my brother, give it to them but if not, give one for her only and sell the other for your research fund. " Hailey was very quick to reply. "You will make it, Dr. Jim. And you don't have to give that gift because you will soon be returning to your family. " ___ Hailey worked on his physical rehabilitation without delay. For few days, she made passive exercises for him like flexing and extending his legs and arms. Then, she allowed him into sitting position with dangling of legs and later proceeded to wheelchair rides by the shore. After few trials of putting some weights into his legs, Jim began to stand up, took few steps later and soon, walk some miles away with Hailey holding and assisting him as they encircled the edge of the small island everyday. In all the days after that, except on bad weather, they watched sunrise and sunsets together above the magnificent view of the horizon beyond the vast spread of the open sea... ___ Two years after Hailey brought her to the island... One afternoon, as they rested on a rock boulder while watching the waves and the penguins, Jim started to open up. " Dr. Hailey, don't you miss Aijohn? How were you able to endure the pain of losing him? " Hailey laughed. "You miss her? " " Yes. " She couldn't understand. Of that two years she had been assisting him in his recovery and rehabilitation, she felt a pang of pain deep inside in this confession. But this should not be! She's only helping Aijohn secretly. Most of all, she just wanted to avenge for Dr. Jim against those research team who withheld the repurchase of Hailey's Pill just because they desired for his death! "Dr. Jim, I'll take you home. " She said it but her heart didn't agree. Of the two years he was with her, she could no longer imagine a day without him. Even just a thought of it, made her start to feel a sense of deep loneliness. "Not now, Dr. Hailey. I will only go home once you will be able to proclaim the perfect cancer cure to the world. You have already wasted two years just because you did not leave me. And what about our revenge to our enemy? Didn't we have an agreement that on the day you will launch it, you will also surprise them with my existence?" She should have felt a sense of relief with this answer but his happiness mattered to her more than the success of her research. "I have changed my mind, Dr. Jim. The fact that you're alive will already blow their minds away. What would they attribute to your recovery than Hailey's Pill itself?" She argued, resisting the temptation to hold him back. "I will help you finalize everything first and I want you to present me to the world as the living testimony of your product. " "You might be too late in coming home. " She pushed him away while she still had the courage. "To the world and to my family, I am already dead. " "What if Jia will get married? Won't you regret it? Go home while it is not too late yet. " ___ Hailey accompanied him to the city and while Jim was still preparing himself to meet his family again, he decided to hear some news about them first. For more than two years, he had cut himself from the world and even a single update about Catherine Fields in the internet, he did not have. One morning, while she and Hailey passed by the entrance of Jian's Garden, she saw a familiar car and knew instantly that it was Jia. He wondered why she was not changing it into a new one but then he remembered that she always held sentimental values on things. He realized that the reason she kept it was because it was the car he bought her after her abduction. It only meant, he still held a special place in her heart. While he was tempted to stop her right then and lift her up into the air to fill out his loneliness, he decided to follow her instead. Few minutes after, they were already on a memorial garden. It was already past four in the morning and they were already joggers all around. Deciding to disguise themselves as hikers, they alighted from the car and followed her. Soon, they saw her enter a mausuleom and through the bright indoor lights, he saw his name being inscripted into a marble tombstone. Being emotionally disturbed as she appeared to be, she did not turn to her left or right to see if there was anyone around. She even did not saw them when they hid behind the big pillar of the building. Few moments after, through the eerie silence of the whole place, they heard her bitter cry. "Jim, would you forgive me if I would break my promise to be your wife forever? Would you confront me if one of these days, I would be marrying your own brother? Would you hate me or would you understand just as how you understood my own failures and unworthiness? " While she cried hard, Jim also couldn't hold himself from crying with her. "I'm sorry for failing you. I know that I could no longer find someone whose heart is as big as yours. I could no longer find someone who would love and embrace my deceitful heart like you do. And I could no longer find someone, who only knows how to give and to forgive. " " But you're unfair, you're leaving me forever ... and now I also need to go..." They watched her wailed and fell on the floor, writhing in pain. They also watched her kissed the tombstone as she said her last goodbye. And they saw Anthon as he arrived and as he gently pulled her into his embrace, reprimanding her for going out alone.
