A/n: Writing a medical drama makes me really feel challenged to write this.

Arima Takahiko breathed deeply while he is in the waiting room. Dr. Nicole told him that she called the neurologist in New York Cancer Center to check Kousei's medical scans and she had already made an appointment for him. He doesn't have anything to worry about. After a few minutes, a young man around his 40's went closer to him. 

"Are you Mr. Takahiko Arima?" he asked him. "Dr. Nicole told me that her patient's father would want to have my opinion."

"Yes. I am Takahiko Arima," he replied. "Are you the doctor that Dr. Nicole wanted me to talk to?"

"I'm Dr. Mikheil Brown. I've already been a neurologist for twenty-two years. I'm forty-seven years old. Doctor Nicole's my student in Harvard Medical School. If she was wrong in diagnosing your son, I'll talk to her," he promised him. "So, can we go now in my office?"

... 

After a while, they went inside his office at the Neurology Ward. He quickly gave him all of the scans for Dr. Brown to look and observe. He pasted it on a board and stared at all of them for over ten minutes. "How old is your son and how is he, now?" 

"He's nineteen years old. He's a rising star among his age group. He studies music in Juilliard School. When they said my son does have cancer, my son cried like a baby," he replied. "I had never seen him cry like that for the past five years. He had also become workaholic and he plays his piano for hours until he faints."

"What are the other things you observed from him?" he asked. "Any strange thing you were able to see occurring to your son?"

"I don't know that much but every morning, he had been vomiting. He takes stomach pain relievers and after that, he goes to school. It was also a huge shock to me that he secretly went to optometrists to get glasses and check why he's having trouble seeing. Most of all, I wonder why the school never reported to me that he had been fainting most of the time. He also began getting easily irritated this past few months," he informed him. "He was sent in Manhattan Medical Center after I saw him having seizures. That's the only time I knew everything that had happened to him for this past few months after he became a second year college student."

He sat back down where Takahiko is waiting after he finished looking at all of the scans. "Sir, it will be better for your son if he moves here. Manhattan Medical Center is a good hospital but they don't specialize in treating cancer. It's still a good luck that Doctor Nicole was there and diagnosed your son correctly. Looking over all of your son's brain scans, I'm glad that I have taught my student well."

Takahiko couldn't even believe it. "Are you saying my son truly have cancer? He's not a child nor too old! H-how? How could this happen to my son?"

Dr. Brown stood up and held his shoulder. "I'll ask the Manhattan Medical Center to move him here. I've heard that they had already began the radiation and chemotherapy. You must not worry. Cancer this days can be treated. I also heard from her that he will be having another surgery and they attempt to get all of the tumor out. Dr. Fuji Daisuke is a great neurosurgeon. Trust him, sir. He would help your son get back on his feet."

"When will Manhattan Medical Center transfer him here?" he asked him.

"He will be moved a day after his surgery. He will be observed again and I'll check whether the cancer cells spread out in his other organs. Do rest easy. We'll help him recover," he told him.

...

That night, he returned to the hospital with a heavy heart. At the same time, he was surprised to see his son sleeping with a beanie on his head. 

"What happened to him?" he asked Seto Hiroko.

"He received surgery a few hours ago," answered Seto Hiroko. "They shaved Kousei's hair."

"How's the surgery, Seto?" Takahiko asked.

"Apparently, they told me that they can't take all of the tumor out or it'll be fatal for him," she told him. "What happened to you? He told me that you left to go to another doctor to get a second opinion."

"My son needs to learn to accept that he has cancer. He really does have cancer," cried Takahiko as he walk closer to him. "After tomorrow, he will be sent in New York Cancer Center. His friends need to know what's wrong with him especially Tsubaki. Help them arrive here in the USA."

Seto Hiroko was so surprised. "I understand. Tsubaki will be a huge addition to help Kousei accept the truth."

...

A day after Kousei was observed by the team of Manhattan Medical Center, Dr. Nicole, Dr. Fred, and Dr. Fuji said goodbye to Arima Takahiko while his son was being carried inside the ambulance. 

Arima Kousei was deeply asleep at that time and he was already allowed to be transferred after they found out that at least, the wounds on his head were healed. Even so, they all know that Kousei would still need intensive observation. He still have a tumor on his head. 

They couldn't take it out safely or they might damage more of his brain nerves. 

"Thank you for all the work you've done for him," he said to her.

They did shake their hands. A few minutes after the staff of the ambulance is finished with their jobs and done attaching the clip of the heart monitor and gave IV fluids to Kousei, they already called his father if he would come with them. 

When he nodded, he quickly jumped in and sat. They closed the doors and after a while, they already left.

...

Kousei woke up inside the ambulance while they are on their way to the New York Cancer Center. His eyes were too blurry but he can observe that there were strangers around him and he's not inside his room at Manhattan Medical Center but inside an ambulance. He did his best to find his father but since he doesn't have his glasses and he couldn't move on his stretcher, he just whimpered in pain. "Otou-san... otou-san."

His father heard his whimpers and so, Takahiko held his hand. 

"I'm here, Kousei," he told him. "What's wrong?"

"My head's aching," his son cried out. "It hurts so bad, dad."

His eyes began to water while he also hold his father's hand tightly. Since he complained of a headache, he was quickly given a pain reliever in his IV tube. After a while, he went back asleep.

...

They arrived in New York Cancer Center after an hour. He was quickly brought at the third floor of New York Cancer Center where Neurology Ward's located. Kousei wasn't aware of everything that was happening to him since he just kept on sleeping all the way in the Neurology Ward. 

A few more minutes later, he was finally at his designated room. 

Arima Takahiko was actually surprised on what he observed that day while the hospital staff do their different jobs after his son was placed in the VIP Ward.

There were two doctors who quickly examined him and checked his vital signs while the nurses replace his IV bag and give him a new bag of fluids. A clip was also attached on his finger after a hi-tech heart rate monitor was opened beside him. 

Dr. Brown truly accommodated Kousei's arrival in the hospital as he was placed in the VIP Ward of the Neurology Department. His room looked very spacious unlike his room in Manhattan Medical Center. He did have all the best medical machines, intravenous bags and a very comfortable bed. The walls were glass walls but to give the patient privacy, there were blue vertical blinds. There's also a blue, three-cushion couch made of durable plastic near the entrance and exit of his room. Also, there's a small refrigerator beside his bed. There's also a huge bathroom attached on his hospital room for his private use. He had also noticed that the doors of the hospital move automatically. He smiled after seeing it all and felt happy that he was moved in a hospital that could really give everything that Kousei would need to recover. He actually feels like his new hospital room was like a luxurious condominium room. 

After a while, the leader of the medical team that analyzed and examined Kousei approached him. "I assume you know how to speak English, sir?" Dr. Lincoln Gareth asked Takahiko. He's a middle-aged man around his thirty's. He's been a doctor for a decade already. He does have green eyes and brown hair.

"Yes," he replied to him. "My son and I know how to speak in English even if we are Japanese."

"Come with me, sir. I heard the situation from Dr. Brown. I'm Dr. Lincoln Gareth, a American-British. I'm thirty-five years old. I'm the neurologist that the New York Cancer Center Administration assigned to look after your son. Dr. Brown is a neuro-oncologist and a world-renowned man who specializes in treating Brain Cancer. He had told me that he would be guiding us in curing your son," he informed him. "Rest easy, sir. Your son is very lucky to have a doctor like him to get himself interested in his case."

Suddenly, another doctor went closer to them. "Rather than showing off everything that Dr. Brown achieved, why don't you go and step away now? The patient needs total rest."

After that, she bowed at Takahiko. "I'm Dr. Joan Fujihito. I'm a Japanese that grew up here in US. I'm still a resident doctor. I'm with his team, sir."

The other nurses quickly left Kousei's room while Dr. Lee and Dr. Gareth stayed behind to talk to him. They closed Kousei's curtain for a while and walked a bit further from him. 

"He seemed to be in a stable condition, sir," Dr. Gareth told him. "He doesn't have any fever at all and when I looked through the files and reports that the Manhattan Medical Center passed to us, he seemed to be responding to chemo and radiation."

"He told me inside the ambulance that he's still having head aches," he told him. "What does it still make his head, ache?" 

"He'll be closely monitored. He would have CT Scans again, sir. There are still things we need to observe. Most especially, we need to know how much his brain adapted to the surgeries that was performed on him in Manhattan Medical Center. We need to know if he had metastasis or in quick terms, if his cancer cell spread out in other parts of his body," he explained to him. "They also told me that he can still move his hands due to it that he's still using his two hands to play a toy piano. Tell him to keep doing it. It's helping him to exercise his two hands."

Takahiko thanked them afterwards. He ran down his right hand on his son's right arm as tears fall on him. "You'll survive this, son. I'll get you off from here and we'll go home like you want to after everything that is currently happening to you."

...

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Technical Terms:

Neuro-oncology- A physician trained to diagnose and treat patients with brain tumors and other types of tumors of the nervous system. From neuro- + oncology and sometimes written with a hyphen as neuro-oncologist.

Metastasis- The development of secondary malignant growths at a distance from a primary site of cancer.

*New York Cancer Center is only real in my imagination.

Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells (1). X-rays, gamma rays, and charged particles are types of radiation used for cancer treatment