"Do you ever feel like our work matters?" Ben asked as he got into his scrubs.

"What are you talking about?" asked his colleague Erin. "We save lives."

"God complex much?"

"Ben, we work ER and ICU. I don't know how much more we could matter."

"It's just... I applied for Doctors Without Borders a while ago. That really meant something to me, you know? Affecting change in a country that needs it. I mean, look at the state that America's in. Look how many preventable deaths every year... "

"But if you'd been accepted to Doctors Without Borders, you never would've met your boyfriend. Right place, right time, Benji."

"Yeah. Maybe that's it. Everyday, Charlie is making a difference in his kids' lives. He teaches. He advises their GSA. That's something."

Doctor Nicholls came rushing in. "Scrub up. Incoming in the ER."

"Wonder if it matters now?" asked Erin.

*

Ben checked the charts as he rushed to the ER. John Doe, approximate age sixteen. A baby. Multiple bruises, broken ribs, cigarette burns on his arm, stab wound in the abdomen. Whatever angst he was feeling would have to wait. He burst into the ER ready to save Baby John Doe's life. As he walked up to the operating table, he recognized Baby John Doe immediately.

It was Charlie's former student Robbie.

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