They Called It The Apocalpse

Chapter 29

Jason felt numb as he was bustled between hands and tossed into a vehicle, he hit something else, something squishy like the flesh of a person and he could hear them crying softly. His own tears soaked into the bag and stuck it to his cheeks as the doors of the vehicle slammed shut and they set off. He was bustled side to side as they travelled over bumps and slid onto his side as they turned a sharp corner. Someone grunted, a deep guttural sound and Jason wondered if it had come from Tate. Something slid into his leg and pain shot through it but he never winced or cried out or reached for it, instead he hardly felt it through his grief.

When they arrived at their destination, Jason was dragged from the vehicle and bundled through a door. He was thrown backwards onto what he assumed was a seat and someone bustled about in front of him. All of a sudden the bag was yanked from his head and his sense were flooded with bright white lights. "Sorry about that, but they're bright for a reason." A voice explained and as his eyes adjusted he could make out the woman in front of him, she wore a white lab coat and had her brown hair scraped back with a blue scrunchie. She wore thick rimmed glasses and tanned skin that complimented her dark eyes. She smiled at him kindly, "I apologise that you have to go through this after everything you've been through, but unfortunately without the medical examination, we can't admit you to our little slice of heaven." She plucked a sterile packet from the drawer under her computer and fished out a vial with a blue top. Jason took the time to look around, he appeared to be sat on a blue hospital bed that had been covered with a thin paper sheet to keep it clean. Above him a bright dentists light shone down in a spotlight and a light curtain closed them off from the rest of the world. "I'm Doctor Surya Sharma, though if you need anything just call me Doc." She tapped the vial to check that it contained the correct substance then tapped her syringe. She spun on her office chair and held them both up to him, she smiled, even though she wanted to perform tests on him like a lab rat. "So how this works is that we're gonna take just a little of you're blood and-"
"I know how it works." Jason grumbled and his voice came out thick and gravelly, though he didn't much care what he sounded like.
"Excellent, well we'll get started then." She scooted towards him and took his arm in her hand, frowning at the dirt in the crease of his elbow before relinquishing her hold on her medical supplies and finding a cotton bud in her desk. She used a small bottle of alcohol that had a permanent home on her desk to soak it then scrubbed at Jason's arm until she had a significant space for taking her sample. She popped the cap off the needle then poked around for a vein, seemingly finding one she inserted the needle, Jason watching every move she took wearily. He watched as the syringe filled with deep red and she pulled the needle back out from under his skin then pressed another cotton bud against the insertion hole. "Hold please." She said bluntly as she spun back and fitted the end of the needle to the cap of the vial. She injected the sample of his blood into the vial then swirled it in a circle. Jason watched as the liquid inside turned from clear to a deep red then became a translucent purple. "See that..." she held up the vial and smiled happily, "it means you're clean. Evolved people turn it yellow." She abandoned the vial on her desk then spun back to him and clasped her hands on her lap. "Now, is there anything else bothering you? It's best for me to take a look now before we have you escorted in, otherwise you might have a bit of trouble getting an appointment." He lifted his leg and looked at her grudgingly. "My leg." She nodded and took the offering of his leg, pulling back his trouser leg to reveal a chorus of bruises and bumps. "Wow, you really went through the ringer out there, huh?" She said as she prodded some of the bruises. Jason flinched a little and she nodded to herself. "Well, the good news is, if you got yourself here on it, I'm pretty sure it's not broken. I think you may have a fracture or possible just painful bruising. I can't send you for an x-ray since we don't know how much radiation you've been exposed to out there and we don't want to risk contaminating your body anymore than it already is, so for the time being I'm going to prescribe rest and relaxation. Now if that's everything bothering you, I'm going to pass you off to my buddy Geof." As she said that the curtain was drawn back by a buff guy with a gun and a military uniform.