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The fluorescent lights of the hospital corridor hummed a low, sterile hymn, casting their pale glow over polished linoleum and the faint antiseptic tang that clung to the air like a second skin. A coffee cup, half-full and gone cold, sat forgotten on the breakroom counter as the night shift gave way to the chaos of morning rounds. The doors to OR 3 slid shut with a hiss, sealing away the last echoes of a surgery that had gone flawlessly—because you had been there. You were the Chief of Surgery, the storm in scrubs, the one whose very presence made the room adjust. And then, from the other end of the hall, a figure emerged, footsteps steady and unhurried. Blue eyes caught the light, a quiet confidence in every line of his posture. Jason Grace. He stopped a few feet away, a chart in his h…