Loving and Leaving Him

Chapter 13

I silently made my bed since the doctors had told me that the surgery should have killed off any radiation that the rays had left. Ryan was at work and I knew my parents probably thought I was dead so my arrival would be a happy surprise. I couldn't wait to hear my mother's sing-song voice and to hold Amelia in my arms again. I could just see my father pacing in the living room while mother stress cleaned her worries away, my kid siblings would be playing while Timothy sat out front waiting for me to come home. 

I hummed a tune my mother had taught me and folded my took one last look at the roses Ryan had left for me in the short time I was ill. I wanted to take them home but my family would ask to many questions about them. The soft pink petals gave my little 'room' a nice touch. I did not know where Ryan had bought them but when I awoke he had them placed neatly beside my bed.

"Mrs. Strong are you ready to go now?" the nurse asked smiling politely I nodded and followed her down a hall into the hospital lobby. The pale blue tiles had dried blood stains on them and dirt giving the hospital a eerie effect. The front desk had a older lady for a secretary and there was cobwebs covering it, old beaten dated furniture was placed through out the room. 

"What happened to the lobby?" I asked dragging my finger across the desk leaving a path.

"We don't have any cleaning services to come in and clean anymore King Tex has taken them all." the nurse sighed and then continued to walk. I stopped dead in my tracks as I saw the two guards standing in the entrance talking to each other. At first I thought I was seeing things then I knew I wasn't there just a few steps away from me was Douglas talking and laughing like what he had done to me had never happened.

"I can't go out there." I told the nurse who seemed confused of why I couldn't leave.

"Dear, your tests say that you're fine yo can leave the hospital now." she spoke slowly and reached for my hand I jerked it back and shook my head. I felt like a young child not wanting to get on the bus for their frist day of school but my situation was much more life threatening. Douglas could take me tell the nurse anything and she would believe him since he was a guard. I started to feel dizzy I grabbed onto a chair to steady myself then my knees started to give out. I dropped to the floor and my vision started to blur.

"Mrs. Strong? Someone get a doctor!" those were the last words I heard before I went completely black. I heard a continuous ringing in my ears I wanted it to stop but it didn't the noise kept going as if someone was playing it in my ear. 

I awoke with blinding lights in my eyes and a needle in my arm. Staring at me were five surgeons wearing masks over their faces and gloves. The middle surgeon, a short young man, put a flashlight in my eye causing me to shut them until the light was gone. I felt a sharp pain in my neck but couldn't see what was causing it. I was back into my hospital nightgown and was laying on a bed in what looked like a operating room.

''Calm down we just need to find out what's wrong.'' one of the surgeons said her voice muffled by the mask over her mouth. I looked down at my wrist and watched as the lady rubbed a cold damp tissue on it. As soon as the liquid from the tissue touched my wrist a red line appeared on it, my wrist started to burn. I screamed and then all the four other doctors scrambled for something to silence me. Finally someone struck me with a needle causing me to go back into blackness.

''She might not make it the rays are so powerful.'' I was in black abyss but still heard voices as I did when Ryan had me.

''But you're doctors! Get one of the scientists in here anything!'' I heard a teary voice of a young girl then the hush of another. I wanted to wake up but my head hurt and my eyes felt like lead.

''I'm sorry but they won't help we just have to hope she'll recover and fast.'' the voice and coughs of Ryan's doctor were heard. I grew frightened since now even the doctors didn't know my faith I didn't want to die nor was I going to die. I wasn't going to leave my life behind, leave my loved ones behind. What ever was in me I was going to make it go away.