2 Lucas Tavares

Lucas Tavares was not an ordinary white boy to begin with, he had a very rich father who was almost a billionaire, so since his birth he would always be financially privileged, as well as tall, ideal weight, short brown hair and not much wavy, with green eyes. Normally that kind of life would be ideal, but unfortunately, or not, when he turned three he was diagnosed with a super rare case of leukemia.

Leukemia is a cancer that affects the blood, having some variants. In his case, the variant was unexpectedly unprecedented. Her blood production was normal, both red and white blood cells, as the problem was in consumption.

The disease attacked his bone marrow in a way that even the best doctors in the world could not understand. Your marrow sort of reabsorbs the blood, in this case, a genetic mutation in the main vein in the body, the vena cava. When passing close to the bone marrow, his vena cava divided and connected to the marrow. Thus, almost 70% of the blood would return to the marrow and accumulate in this tissue, as there was nowhere else to go, which caused sharp pains throughout the body, depriving him of much of his movement and preventing him from having a good night. of sleep, considering that the spinal cord was not prepared to deal with this type of problem.

Even the doctors didn't have a way to solve this. The most obvious solution would be to cut this divider in the vena cava, but this was almost impossible, this division was in a very complicated area of ​​the body, the most important vein. Any oversight could cause paralysis or even be fatal.

His father, Ferdinando Tavares, did everything during the four years after his diagnosis; he invested, bought and partnered with medical companies studying clinical robots and anything else that could help save his son. The operation was too risky for humans to perform, so robots were the best alternative. Unfortunately the 'discovery' of dark matter drastically changed the stock market and thus diminished its capital.

Even the biggest shareholders of these medical companies nearly froze their investment to focus on this new energy source. And everything got worse with the discovery of Neut.

Ferdinando no longer knew what to do, his son lived all day in the hospital, he spent all day working, his mother, who never met her son, was a drugged woman who was forced by justice to give him up for adoption. He adopted him and raised him to the best of his efforts, but it seemed like life hated his son.

When his son completed ten years of life and seven years of hospital life, he gave up investing in these companies, and waited for the market to return to normality. Even knowing that this would be almost impossible, he didn't give up hope.

To better care for his son and support him on this difficult journey, he sold many companies and businesses under his wing to build his own hospital where he could hire the best doctors and equipment to meet Lucas' needs and straightened out his schedule to spend more time with he. Of course, he couldn't spend all the time, but he did his best to let his son understand that he had someone by his side and that he would never be alone. So his life went on.

Lucas in his 19 years only left the hospital twice after receiving his diagnosis. Once, when he moved from his house to the hospital, something he didn't even remember. Another time was when your father rented an amusement park for an entire day, needless to say, that was one of the most memorable days of his life. There were no words to describe the love he felt for his father, his hero, nor could anyone or anything replace it.

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At home, father and son were on the balcony of the medical apartment, playing Lucas' favorite game, chess. The building was located in an upscale area a few kilometers from the city center, the apartment was huge, but not full of objects and decorations, as Ferdinando always liked the minimalist style and his son ended up having the same taste.

He taught him how to play when he was eleven years old and since then he has never stopped. His father couldn't be considered one of the best players in the world, but he was still in the top 3000 and his son wasn't that far behind him.

They always played when they met. His father let the boy win from time to time and always pretended to be annoyed when that happened. Lucas definitely didn't miss the opportunity to make fun of his father and said:

"Hehe, are you getting old? You don't even know how to think straight anymore! Haha ha.."

"What the fuck! It was just an oversight, it happens to the best players!"

Their relationship was like that, full of jokes and insults. He was definitely right on how to raise his son, he did his best to make him strong so that when his hospital condition improved and he finally had a normal life, Lucas wouldn't suffer when faced with things never felt before.

His father always tried to have these kinds of relaxed conversations with his son to improve his moral robustness.

Ferdinando was black with shaved hair, short in height and very well cared for, for comparison he had an 'athlete's physique'. Because his son spent his entire life in the hospital, it certainly wouldn't be easy to have friends in the future, so his father, premeditating this, always tried to catch up with the 'youth language' and be the friend Lucas didn't have.

The boy's life in the hospital was very calm, he spent most of the day watching movies, series or reading novels. He preferred to read novels as they gave more room for his imagination. He played chess online and the rest of the day was set aside for daily draining of blood from his marrow. His blood was building up very fast so daily drainage was necessary.

He also received education over the internet as he couldn't leave the hospital. He wasn't a genius, but he had some subjects that he excelled at like physics, math, chemistry and biology. Mainly physics and biology, ironically he didn't like chemistry all that much, but he still stood out.

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One day he and his father were again on the balcony playing chess.

"So how was business today?" Lucas asked.

"The same as always, NJ always pushing the market to low prices and the US trying to control dark matter weaponry."

"I see, it's very difficult for them to do it, Russia and Germany are very advanced in dark matter studies according to the media. It's also difficult to control others with so much potential that this energy has."

"True, Brazil is always the same, at least since the 2034 elections, Brazil started to grow."

"Well, I don't have much to d-"

Their speech was suddenly interrupted when a blinding white light mixed with black dome-shaped wires appeared several hundred kilometers away, throwing them from their chairs and nearly falling off the 14th-floor balcony.