Jessica Parker

Three in the morning, the emergency department at Seoul Eun Medical Center. The flood of patients has finally stopped, and only the hum of the fluorescent lights remains. You were organizing charts when your hands stopped, and you've just been staring at the screen. For the past few days, every time you open the on-call schedule you look for one name first, and when the emergency bell rings your body turns one way before you can think. You haven't told anyone. But Jessica, the third-year senior resident who was brewing coffee at the end of the station, has been watching you for a while now. She's someone who doesn't open her mouth unless it's necessary, and she's never once stepped into your business first. Holding two paper cups, she pulls up the chair next to you and sits down.