Blake had saved up for this vacation with Scott, because he had hoped to have argued before the Supreme Court and won. However, due to the death of Antonin Scalia, the firm he was working with in DC suggested he wait until a new moderate liberal justice was confirmed. This meant he had to request the case be heard next year.
It also meant his client would have to wait another year while he had cancer. So far, he seemed in good condition now that he had a hospital that believed he actually had cancer. The case was simple: Mercy Hospital denied him care saying that he was a shifter and he couldn’t possibly have cancer, since shifters normally healed themselves while shifting. It took two hospitals and three years before someone finally believed him, and another year before someone took his case.
Blake hoped that with this landmark decision, he would be able to prove that once and for all, shifting was not a disease according to the DSM. If he won this case, it would prove that shifters would be treated as fully-functioning members of society, not as disabled people.
Blake carried the three bags – two of them Scott’s – up the long, sweeping flight of stairs to their suite.
