He was going to die, Hadyn thought as his foot sank deeper into the snow and he stumbled. Catching himself against a tree, he winced as snow scattered to the ground around him. Looking down he could see the blood that was slowly oozing out of the wound at his side. A knife wound, not particularly deep...but it was enough to slow him down. It was probably what that damn Rook had had in mind when he caught the Spade with the blade. At first Hadyn had pushed it aside, determined to worry about it after he got home, but he didn't even make it half way to the Deck.

His back tire hit the black ice and spun out from under him fast than he'd really had time to react. In truth, he was probably lucky that he had be flung head first into the pavement of the road, and left as road kill. Instead he'd landed roughly in the snow, skidding and tumble across the ground before coming to a stop. His cracked visor hid the wreckage of his bike from his view, but he could make out the flames as they licked up toward the sky. And then everything had faded to black. He was lucky again, he thought, that when he came back around, the Chess Pieces hadn't found him where he was buried in the snow. Or at least, he didn't think they had as he pushed himself up and looked about.

Hell they hadn't found the wreck yet- but he wasn't going to waste time waiting for them. Looking about the area, he wasn't sure it mattered if they chased him down or not- there wasn't a damn thing out there that he could see. So he'd picked a direction, away from the road, and limped his way into the woodland landscape. What had started as small wound, he thought as he looked away from it, was now just as likely to kill him as the fucking cold. As the Chess Pieces if they caught him. Hell, just as likely as Jordan to kill him for being an idiot if he survived all of this to begin with.

"Well," he muttered to himself as he pushed off the tree and swallowed back the pain. "At least Mother will be happy- I'm finally dead, out of her way. Something, fuck....something good out of this." He didn't have to look down to know he was leaving a trail. Looking up though, he saw the faint outline of a cabin ahead, smoke rising out of the chimney. He almost cried, both for the good fortune and the fact that fate was obviously mocking him at that moment. "Well...freezing to death didn't sound that great, Hadyn." He said to himself as he started forward with renewed vigor. In the distance he could here sounds coming from the road, likely the Chess pieces finally giving chase now that dawn was here.

Moving to the Cabin as quickly as he could, Hadyn started running through all the things he could tell this unsuspecting soul- 'sorry, I don't want to die in the cold, but we're both going to probably die' just didn't seem likely to go over well. Not that he was coming up with anything better as he stepped onto the porch and banged on the front door of the cabin. "O-open up," he shouted as he hit the door, "F-fuck, please.....Open up."

It was his last shift at Masonic, and they sent him off with a flourish. Cora swapped with another of the nurses to work the graveyard with him, and brought him a cake she'd made for him that morning. She then spent the whole night telling him that if he ever needed her to come knock some smartass over the head at Laurie, he just needed to call. She'd 'come a runnin'. He was going to miss Cora the most.

Pat's send off to him was to ensure that every one of the weirdest cases that night came his way. There was the dildo that, uh, 'accidentally' ended up someone's ass. He didn't really ask, but he got the story about it anyway. Then there were the boys who somehow ended up with split heads. They 'fell', and that was their story. Mom, however, seemed to suspected they'd been daring each other to do stupid flips off the shed behind the house. Hadyn just tried not to judge anyone on the matter. Adam was back, asking about the tumor again. He wanted to know if he'd be allowed into Laurie so that Hadyn could scan his head there.

Hadyn said no.

Most of the night was fairly boring, really, but it was peppered with things at random. And for once, Hadyn was legitimately walking out the door at 6am, smiling and waving at the people who'd given him a happy send off.

"Hey," he said, turning back to Elisha as he walked toward the car. "Don't tell me, you spent the night working?" He grinned though, leaning in to steal a happy kiss. "You know, I should be scolding you if you have been. But I might let it go for coffee..." And sex. He could really go for some hot and steamy morning sex before he passed out. And wine.

Hadyn stared at his coffee with a look of betrayal as he yawned. He was not a fan of his current rotation, he thought to himself. Surgery was too long, and time consuming for him. Still, his advisers were set on trying to convince him to take it on. 'You're really quick to it', Dr. Thompson had told him last week, 'took too it much faster than the others. You'd make a fine surgeon.' But honestly, it wasn't what he wanted. He was the top of the class, though, and everyone was trying to sway him to their cause. And they were causes.

He'd already decided what he was going to do, though. Even if he couldn't bring himself to break Dr. Thompson's heart, yet.

Standing, Hadyn closed his notebook with his application to Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago's residence program for Emergency Medicine, and he picked up his coffee. Family Care was what he thought the world needed more of, and honestly it was something he thought he could enjoy. Maybe even Pediatrics, but he imagined he would grow uncomfortable with only ever tending to children.

"I need a life," he decided as he turned to walk out of the coffee shop with his coffee in hand. He was clearly still lost in his own thoughts, though, as he ran right into someone else- splashing his still warm coffee onto the other man's shirt. "Oh, damn. Sorry...I..." he looked up, and for a moment seemed to forget what he was going to say. "I'm, I'm sorry. I wasn't looking. Uh, let me get a napkin."

Smooth, man, Smooth.