ZODIACS
CHAPTER 1
Ostheaven City, March 26, 1990.
Circumstances in one of the hallways of Kartika Hospital panicked; two male hospital attendants pushed the emergency stretcher at a rapid pace towards the operating room. A nurse seemed to be constantly monitoring the situation of the woman patient who lay moaning in pain due to bleeding. On the other side of the bed was a man holding the patient's hand tightly. “You must be strong,” the man said to the patient with his panicked face and cold sweat pouring down his face.
In front of the operating room door, a nurse who opens and holds the entrance of the operating room in order to provide hospital staff and patients who want to enter the operating room, can, and when the patient had entered the room, he stopped the steps of the man who had since seemed worried about the state of the patient.
“Pak Davin, just wait here,” said the nurse, then hurriedly entered the operating room.
Bobby and Wanda, who previously managed patient administration at the hospital cashier, found Davin sitting in a waiting room chair in front of the operating room. Davin's face looked very anxious, sweat soaking up the long-sleeved blue shirt he was wearing. The arm part of his shirt looks like a blood stain that's still wet.
Bobby who sat to the left of Davin said, “opration has started?”
“Ya,” Davin replied.
Wanda sat on the right side of Davin. His hand stroked Davin's back, “All will be fine,” Wanda said. He tried to calm Davin down.
Davin looked at Wanda's face and nodded.
After an hour they waited anxiously, the door of the operating room opened. A doctor accompanied by a nurse came out of the room.
Seeing the Doctor out of the room, Davin, Bobby and Wanda rush to the Doctor.
“How is my sister's operation, Doc?” ask Bobby worried
“Which is her husband?”
“The mother's wife is bleeding heavily, because the placenta separated from the uterus before the time of birth. We did everything we could to save the lives of our mother and daughter. But I'm sorry, sir. We can only save Father's son.”
Davin was speechless, his eyes kept staring at the doctor with a look of disbelief, his body trembling. Wanda hugged Davin, her tears breaking. Bobby is looking for a backrest for his body that wants to collapse. These are not things Davin ever prepared. Davin was never ready to accept this reality. He just lost the woman he loved the most.
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Time passed, a very deep sorrow felt by Davin after hearing news that was like the worst nightmare for him. Bobby goes to take care of Sarah's body, while Wanda is in front of the NICU room accompanying Davin. Davin did not say a word from the moment he first heard the news. Even in front of Sarah's stiffened body, Davin said nothing. Her tears are shed.
A nurse came out of the NICU room to Davin and Wanda.
“Father Davin, I have been allowed to see my son,” said the nurse.
Davin got up from his seat and walked into the NICU room accompanied by Wanda.
Arriving in front of the incubator— where her newborn child is cared for. Davin, who was wearing a green protective gown, bent her body so she could see her son in the incubator. Wanda is behind Davin, she does not want to interrupt Davin's first meeting with her son while holding back tears.
Davin turned his position into a squat, his face brought closer to the incubator. After looking at his newborn son for a while, Davin removed the mask he had been wearing.
“Welcome to the world, my son,” Davin told the baby.
“Your name is Kin Dananjaya. The golden male knight. Thou shalt be kept away from the pride of a peacock; for thou shalt be tender-hearted and covetous. You are the first star that Zeus placed on the ceiling of the World. Your steps will frighten thousands of your enemy's armies; for you are loved by Ares. Your guide is a golden sheep. You symbolize fire, courage and ambition; for you are Aries.“
