Week 8 - Midnight

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
There she is.

Welcome back, Ms. Pollock.

You're okay, sweetie.

Just a fainting spell.

Pretty common for someone
with your diagnosis.

I thought I saw someone, an old lady--

I'm not exactly an ingenue,
but is pretty harsh.

Not you, someone…

Never mind.

I'm Dr. Georgina Stanton.

Welcome to Brightcliffe.

I'm sorry about earlier, Doc.

-Earlier?
-When you fainted.

He scooped you up and ran for the door,

which I completely understand.

It makes no sense.

No at all to leave her here.

To leave her here when she's sick.

Trust me. I know.

It's exactly how I felt
when I lost my son, Julian.

I couldn't talk to parents
in your situation

if I hadn't been one myself.

I'm sorry, I didn't… didn't realize.

The thing I didn't understand
when we talk about

or any terminal illness, really.

Look at the language we use,
the language of battle.

We're gonna fight this thing.

We're going to fight
with everything we've got.

Be for the fight.

And then people say…

they lost the battle.

It's so backwards.

I get it. To talk about the fight,
it's active, visceral.

Don't look at the hard part.

Look at all these shiny, sharp
we've developed all for you to try.

Brightcliffe isn't about battles.

It's about permission
to leave the battlefield.

To focus on living instead of fighting.

We aren't about a fight,
and it's certainly isn't losing a battle.

Every living day here is a .

You and I can talk a little more, Tim,
if you'd like.

Maybe while Ilonka finishes her tour.

Um, I'd like that.

So this is the dormitory.

Boys or girls?

Both. Boys and girls
don't rooms, of course,

but we don't see the need
to quarantine them.

These young people are dealing
with more than some ever will.

The least I can do
is treat them like grownups.