"What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly."
- Lao Tzu.
Suddenly waking up in the hospital room startled and taking heavy breaths while covered in sweat. "Was that a dream, no it felt way too real, I felt every single part of my body burning" Dimitri says to himself as he holds onto himself while he shivers from fear. A nurse rushed into the room pulling back the curtains to see Dimitri dripping in sweat with confusion across his face.
"Are you ok young man, I heard the heart monitor going off so I came as soon as I could"
"Yeah, I just had a bad dream"
"Oh okay good, but I'm still going to have to check your" as the nurse was about to finish what she was about to say she then remembered who this patient was "wait your Dimitri Daniels, you were in a coma" Dimitri confused ask her "A coma?" Suddenly Dimitri remembers the last moments before everything went black, the last traumatic moments of his life flooded his head. "Oh right, ugh you said I was in a coma right, how long has it been?" He ask the nurse. She answered him saying "I'm new here but you were in the coma when I got transferred here and that was 4 months ago, so you probably were in here longer than that if anything" Dimitri looks towards the window seeing that it's morning and ask her jokingly "so what do they serve for breakfast in here".
Later that day the Dimitri's family are informed about his miraculous recovery. They all head over to the hospital excited to see him up but when they got to see him they were genuinely shocked to see that he was able to run over to them and hug them all. "Big brother your okay" his little sister says while hugging him "Yeah I am, I feel much better" he replied. "Dimitri your injuries and bruises you look... fine" his father says while checking to see if he had any injuries still on his body "yeah I'm perfectly healthy the docter said I'd need to stay a bit longer so they could be a hundred percent sure I'm doing well enough to leave" Dimitri says. "My baby boy, your hair and you, you got taller" his mother says as she further examines him with tears running down her face "Yeah, you're even now taller than me" his father says.
The family's joyous moment together again is cut short once the docter comes into the room telling them that visitation hours are over and to comeback earlier next time but the Daniels plead with the docter to give them five more minutes but he is strict upon enforcing the rules, so they leave without much of a fuss.
A week later Dimitri is released from the hospital and he goes back home feeling very energetic as he nears the apartment. He then gets a text on his phone and he looks at it asking himself "that's weird". Mrs. Daniels hears a sudden knocking at the door, she gets up saying to herself "my son is finally home" the knocking persists as she got closer "Oh my, you must be in a hurry or something to get in I hope you don't have to pee" she then opened the door to see two men in exosuits asking her of the whereabouts of Dimitri.
"I thought you were him, but why do you want to see him sir"
"Because we have suspicion that he's a Chimera and for both your family and his own safety we need to know where he is"
"He's supposed to be on his way into the building right now"
"Ok then we will wait for him, please do not inform him of us... for his and your sake"
Meanwhile
Dimitri is walking towards a door outside an abandoned warehouse. As he outstretched his arm to the knob to twist it he hears a female's voice behind him "You must be Dimitri, you look just like he said you would"
Dimitri turns around quickly to see who it was but as he did so he realized the woman was a bit too far for him to have heard her properly from that distance.
The woman quickly dashes forward and from Dimitri's perspective she had moved in a sudden blur appearing infront of him in an instant.
Startled by her Dimitri backs up on the door. She then looks him up and down, after doing so she introduces herself "Hello my name is Khora and I am sorry for scaring you" she says with a smile, Dimitri still scared struggles to get himself to speak to her "y-yo-you're a Chimera aren't you?" She then smiles and says "yes we're both Chimeras"
"Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both."
- Kristin Kreuk.