BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARK

Untitled Part 1

                                                                        CHAPTER 1

(Coughing) As I opened my eyes, they met a very blurry image of slim woman with a white shinny dustcoat; she looked like a nurse... I couldn't tell for how long I was away from the world of reality but her words indicated that it was really long... Long enough to keep people waiting hopelessly "Welcome back...we have waited for so long..." she said and stormed out of the room shouting "Doctor! Doctor!" At this point my eyes were getting clear enough and I realized I was in calm room. My body was connected with various tubes whose other ends were connected to external machines and suspended bottles with liquid.

A few seconds later, four strange faces walked into the room with the nurse, three were men in full combat uniform and one wore a white dust-coat just like the nurse and I guessed he was the Doctor.

The men in full combat uniform saluted just immediately they stepped into the room. I couldn't tell why but to me that was a show of respect "How are you feeling today Captain" the Doctor first spoke. I didn't know what to answer but words just popped out of my mouth "Am fine." And the other three men spoke in chorus "Welcome back Captain we have been waiting for this moment... Everyone has been. " One who seemed to be above all went on "We are glad...glad that you came back to us, because all..." But the Doctor couldn't let him finish his statement but he shouted as they left the room "You have a great destiny..."

Things were getting more stranger than I had thought at first. Everything happening, everyone was strange. At this point in life I was between confusion and dilemma. Question kept crossing my mind. Questions that I had no answer for them... Why salutes? Why welcome back...? For how long have I been away? Who am I? Why me? Why 'a great destiny...'? And much more. Questions that I needed someone to help me answer them but I didn't know whom to inquire from.

I fell asleep and when I awoke the nurse was sitting beside my bed and the look in her eyes showed sadness, deep down in her heart though immediately she saw my eyes open, she had her smiley, glowing face back like nothing was happening. I guessed she didn't want to speak what had happened before, may be not at that time. My body was now connected to few tubes. She gave me a glass of cold water when I was sited. I was feeling more relieved than before.

She began to speak, "don't worry Captain things ain't that bad but..." She couldn't hold it any more. She let tears ran down her chins freely like a child. Nothing more came out of her lips. She wanted to say more but she couldn't. Her heart pounded hard, hard enough that I could feel it in mine as if we were connected, connected in a way that I couldn't tell. I felt the pain, the pain that was hidden deep down below her heart. I felt like she was part of me but I couldn't accept it.

She walked out and in the next few minutes, the Doctor walked in we had a little chart as he took measurements of my temperature and heartbeat rate. When he was done he disconnected the tubes and gave me some piece of paper to sign below the name Captain John. And said, "You are good to go Captain John, hope you full fill your destiny" I realized Captain John was my name. He never much and walked out. He was the second person to tell me about having a destiny yet to my definition being a soldier meant honor, honor meant destiny, destiny meant death. Maybe I was back from the dead... May be am in a dream...Yet I feel everything that happens to me. I was getting more confused.

Maybe I was never meant to know some things, some reason as to why things happened the way they did. I stood up and stretched, reached for a laptop that was on a desk beside the bed. Turning it, it requires a password; I think for a while and decide to enter CaptainJohn as the password. It is accepted. It's a shock, the background picture, is a picture of me holding the nurse, the three soldiers who had come to my room earlier before and some other soldiers in full combat uniform.

The three soldiers later walked in with the lady nurse who was also in full combat uniform and holding a heavily loaded briefcase in her arm. They all helped me get dressed up and when I was done we walked out into a track and realized that I wasn't in a hospital like I had thought before but a forsaken home with a bushy compound but with a very nice smelly flowers beds. It's like no one lived there before or maybe they were long gone, long gone before we had arrived but that wasn't that important. What was important was why not in the hospital? Why there?