As soon as they got off the phone with Derek and Katie, Ethan and Gillian made plans to return to Hong Kong to attend their upcoming wedding in December. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect because Ethan would have just completed another 10 weeks of training before the next one was to begin in January 2001. As for Gillian, she would have an excuse to not waste the returning portion of her air ticket which she left in open status when she had flew here last year. The only disadvantage was that they had to fly out separately due to Gillian’s ticket expiring the day Ethan was scheduled to write his finals.
It was near the end of November and Thanksgiving Day was just around the corner. Just before the long weekend, Gillian had an appointment to see a family doctor who accepted her as a patient because of Dr. Millard’s wife.
