RESI: Cold

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Canon Story: The Resident Patient

Title: Cold

Author: Chess Ka

Rating: G

A/N: Doctor Trevelyan's point-of-view on his circumstances when he was in "want of capital", and trying to save up for a practice in Brook Street.

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I struck a match, cupping my hand around it as I lit my last candle. My table - an overturned wooden box – wobbled as I wrote my patients' notes. I was forced to wrap myself in one blanket. My breath misted in the air before me, and my fingers ached with cold.

My circumstances could not change soon enough.