Heroes We Could Be

Storm Warning

If you're still feeling a little less-than-capable of saving the world remember this: "It's about what you believe. And I believe in love. Only love will truly save the world.
 - Wonder Woman.

Hospital always smell the same. They always smell clean. A Light smell of bleach. The bleach always hide the stench of sickness and thoses who are dying. I hate both theses smells. The lobbys are always the worst. Those waiting for the bad news of there condition. The wait of news that's never going to come. The lobbies are always quiet, a painful quiet. It's a quiet that you could feel the worry of the person next to you.

"Ora Smith?" A nurse, she was pretty. She was clearly overworked. She was working the nightshift and it's now 4pm. I feel sorry for her. Youlson sounded as if he had bad news. News that could change my life. I got up and followed the nurse with the name tag Karen. She got my weight and my height and took me into Youlson Office where more of the wait. The room was so quiet I could hear both of my parents breath.

The five minutes waiting felt like an internity.

*knock knock*

"Hello Mr and Mrs Smith, Ora." Youlson was one of thoses people that was professional even at work. So he called my parents by there last names.

"We are good doctor Youlson." Thoses words looked sour on my mother mouth.

"Ora how are you feeling?" Thoses words no matter the appoment felt like needles on my ears.

"I'm feeling fine, never better."

"Good, there's no bad news." Thoses words echoed in my head. "And the latest tests on the s52 serum proved all the kinks nonexistent."

I'm fine, really. It's not comming back. Thank god. My mind was whirling all over the place happy but still terrified because he could of called us a told us that.

"Just to make sure, I'm going to need recent samples."

There it is. The unsure factor. Youlson got up lead me to the area where they drew blood. He drew blood and I healed.

He started to whisper. "Ora from the samples I collected the night you where over it confirmed for certain that we can not reverse the effects the serum caused. Also once I isolate that part of the serum I can release it to the public."

"That's good news, and I know you don't want the to live that other life but I can't." I said to him in a whisper.

After all the test where collected and sent to the lab we where able to leave when I started to cough. I looked down at my hand and saw I was coughing up blood.
My mom noticed the blood.

"Ora are you alright?" She grabbed my sholders.
I can't breath. I can't breath. I couldn't speak. I grab my neck trying my hardest to breath when everything went black.

*Youlson's Pov*

I watched them exist. Right when they where about to leave the doors I saw Ora fall to the ground.

"GET A GURNEE!" I yelled at a nurse and rushed over to Ora where Samantha and John where putting her on her back and started to perform CPR. Once the gurnee got there we rushed her into emergency surgery. Once we got into the room nursed grabbed tubes and shoved them down her throat trying to open her throat. While other nurses where sucking out the blood that she was coughing up. She was finaly breathing but her heart rate was dropping and fast too. I was forced to put her under and medically induced coma so her chances of survival would he higher. Her parents weren't in the room with us because other nurses wouldn't let them and they tried to tell them that they were nurses but Ora was already in the room. All the nurses hooked her up to machines to keep her breathing and heart rate stable. I walked into the waiting room where I see Samantha and John, Samantha was crying and John was comforting her. They noticed me and I didn't even realized it was covered in the blood that was being cleaned up when cleaning her air ways.

"John...Samantha... I was forced to put her under a barbiturate-induced coma. Her heart rate was dropping fast and her lack of oxygen to the brain."

"James can we see her?" Samantha had tears falling from her face. It's the hardest to tell bad news to a family friend.

"She currently in the ICU, so no." I felt horrible.

"Is this because of the serum or the tests conducted?" John who had a face of terror.

"The current theory is yes, but it could also be differnt thing also."

"She was doing so fine." Samantha now sobbing. She seemed so out of control with her emotions.

"Doctor Youlson?" A voice of a nurse said behind me.

"Yes?"

"The girl Ora Smith is going to be in the ICU for 3 days. Do you want me to collect any blood samples?"

"No thank you, we gathered samples before she collapsed." Thoses words made Samantha cry harder. I looked over back the the direction of Ora's parents. "I'm staying all night to make sure she's in stable condition, mind texting Sam that I won't be home tonight."

John putting his hand on my shoulder. "Thank you." John stayed sitting in the chair while Samantha was going home to pick up some things for them to stay the night. They also texted Samuel about what is happening.

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