That Night

Strangers with no past

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Fairly short but epilogue after the next chapter

 

A third person narrative


He has been in a state of prolonged unconsciousness for a few years, with just about everyone now at their wits end, there was little to no hope of him ever waking up he. The doctors and specialists have done their share. Today just might be the last of one of his many evaluations. The last time the neurosurgeons had evaluated him, there were concerns he had minimal brain activities. So the fear of him being in a vegetative state was apparent amongst all involved.



As he was being wheeled in for a series of scans and blood tests, Dr Reuben couldn't help but hope all his efforts had paid off. If it hadn't, then they will have to pull the plugs, but news of his death would be a massive blow not only to his family, but also to the economy. And the last thing everyone needed was a news that'll rock the stock market.




Thinking back to that day years earlier when he had been brought in with severe head trauma and heart failure, everyone had thought it a lost cause but not Dr Reuben. He had to make that decision to give him a radical treatment, one he had never had to do in his centuries of being in existence. But one look at his family helped made the decision for him. They had been a close associate of his and a patron to the hospital, hence he came clean to them. And the decision to have him turned was made.




"Doctor, can we have a word with you privately?" His parents asked the nervous specialist. Who proceeded to walk with them to his office away from hearing range. Once sure they were alone, his mother asked, "What happens next if the news isn't positive?" He could feel and see just how terrified the woman was of the unprecedented task at hand.



"I have thought about it ma'am, and there just might be our last resort and only thing we could do to keep him alive." She immediately grabbed his hand and gave him a pleading look as if to say just do whatever it takes and make sure my son wakes up.

"Do it, do whatever you have to do as long as he wakes up. We don't care just bring our son and only heir back to us." She then looked at her nodding husband who seemed to have greyed overnight.  "Darling I want our boy back. I wont be able to live without him." She whimpered as she buried her head into his chest. Doctor Reuben could only sympathise with the elderly couple. "If he dies, I die."

At her final word, the elderly gentleman held her firmly as a crackling sob she seemed to have been holding before then broke through her throat making her collapse to the floor from exhaustion. Unfortunately, her son's near death experience was beginning to take it's toll on her fragile self.

Doctor Reuben quickly helped sit her on a chair where he proceeded to tell them all about his kind and gave them the choice of having their son alive though no longer a human but a vampire. What perplexed him was the fact that they weren't scarred of him and they were very quick to make a decision to have their son turned into one of his kind as long as it kept him alive.

Four years on, though alive he fell into a coma. Staring at him Reuben couldn't help but feel himself a failure. He had failed his patient and his family. But he looked so peaceful as he slept hence making Reuben wonder what was going on in his head. What dreams was he having? Is he in such a happy place that he have refused to wake up?