(You can add your OC to this if you like.)

Campbell Alexander: "I have an iron lung,"

Campbell Alexander says curtly,

Campbell Alexander: "and the dog keeps me from getting too close to magnets. Now, if you'd do me the exalted honor of leaving, my secretary can find you the name of someone who--"

But I can't go just yet

Anna: "Did you really sue God?"

I take out all the newspaper clippings, smooth them on the bare desk

A muscle tics in his cheek, and then he picks up the article lying on top

Campbell Alexander: "I sued Diocese of Providence, on behalf of a kid in one of their orphanages who needed an experimental treatment involving fetal tissue, which they felt violated Vatican II. However, it makes a much better headline to say that a nine-year-old is suing God for being stuck with the short end of the straw in life."

I just stare at him

Campbell Alexander: "Dylan Jerome,"

The lawyer admits,

Campbell Alexander: "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him."

A rainbow might as well have cracked down the middle of that big mahogany desk

Anna: "Mr. Alexander,"

I say

Anna: "my sister has leukemia."

Campbell Alexander: "I'm sorry to hear that. But even if I were willing to litigate against God again, which I'm not, you can't bring a lawsuit on someone else's behalf."

There is way too much to explain--my own blood seeping into my sister's veins; the nurses holding me down to stick me for white cells Kate might borrow; the doctor saying they didn't get enough the first time around. The bruises and the deep bone ache after I gave up my marrow; the shots that sparked more stem cells in me, so that there'd be extra for my sister. The fact that I'm not sick, but I might as well be. The fact that the only reason I was born was as a harvest crop for Kate. The fact that even now, a major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion

There's way too much to explain, and so I do the best I can

Anna: "It's not God. Just my parents,"

I say

Anna: "I want to sue them for the rights to my own body."