Vietnam to America

Vietnam to America is a JanexCuong fanfiction by Japanlover86, it is set in a AU where Jane is an Irish-American nurse who works in an army hospital while Cuong is a homeless Vietnamese man who got smuggled to Florida during 1976 January

Chapter 1
Even though the Americans had sympathy for Vietnamese victims of the US Army, no one was nice to Cuong, not even the Vietnamese boat people that arrived from South Vietnam to escape Vietnam.

" (Shut up d***it!)" Cuong said as he put a hand on his stomach in hunger as it growled, demanding food, it has been 4 days since he has last eaten, even though he had US dollars, resturaunts denied him food, all because he was from North Vietnam.

Homeless shelters refused to keep him, he was brutally attacked by police officers.

Cuong was a former Viet-Cong soldier who escaped North Vietnam by lying that his name was "Hong Duc" and that he was from Saigon, he kept his slender yet muscular build underneath the baggy ao gam he wore even though he didn't eat for 4 days.

He then looked around, it was dark outside, he then rested backwards and fell asleep.

A young woman around 20 saw something and went to see what it was.

"Dia Dith?" The woman said in her native Irish tongue.

He woke up, looking at the woman.

"Are you alright?" the Irishwoman said

Cuong was in a bad shape, he had a 100 degrees fever, has many scars on his body, was wearing a tattered ao gam with a non la, he was in need of a shower.

He tried getting up but was too hungry and tired to even stand up.

"Do you want to live with me?" She asked him

He turned his head, but his stomach reminded him as it grumbled loudly, he put a hand on his midsection and grimiaced.

"Hungry?" She asked

He nodded, he may have been frightened by the way people treated him, but to him, there was no way in h*** he would deny food, he was starving.

She helped him up and put him in her car.

"I live in Miami." She said

" (Vietnam)" He said

When we got there, He tiptoed into the house to make sure no one heard me.

Jane followed soon after.

"Take a shower please, you smell of dead fish." Jane said

He went upstairs and went into the bathroom.

He took off the ao gam, He could see he had very little muscle left, he used to be slender but fit due to army training, but it's fading away slowly due to malnourishment.

He took off the non la, and started his shower.

A few minutes later, he came down wrapped with a towel waist-below, making Jane blush as she passed him his clothing.

"Here, I bought these for my friend, but he didn't want them." She said

Cuong went upstairs to put them on, he wore a black tee with the bio-hazard symbol, black jeans, white socks and black shoes, then went downstairs and sat watching TV with Jane.

While watching TV, Cuong felt a hunger pain and he rubbed his stomach in a feeble attempt to stop it and Jane looked at him.

"I'll make you something to eat." Jane said as she walked into the kitchen.

Cuong picked up the remote, it was on the news.

"10 people die and one injured when a group stopped their van and shot the Protestants in Kingsmill, County Armagh, Northern Ireland." The news anchor said.

Cuong looked at the TV screen.

Jane came in with pancakes and melted cheese as the topping, she passed it to Cuong.

"Yeah, I know, it is very sad." Jane said

" (Northern Ireland reminds me of Vietnam)" He said

"It's okay, I don't blame you, the Provies and the UVF is the reason I left Ireland because I was badly hurt in the Dublin bombing

He took a bite out of the melted cheese pancakes

"Me....gusta........" He said

He ate it rather patiently, he really liked the cheese.

After he was done, he burped, then apologised.

"So-rry." Cuong said despite his accent.