My Mind - Short Stories From My Imagination

Chapter 32 ~ Dream ~ Jack Baur

I followed close behind Jack as he went for the guards.

He had taken out one guard and taken the other one hostage. "Stop trying to run away. If you do it again I'm gonna kill you!" He threatened the guard.

As he approached the floor he wanted to be on, the guard tried to escape again. He got free of Jack's grasp and ran down the stairs as far as he could, but didn't get far before Jack shot him in the back.

Jack busted open the door and ran in with his gun. The guy and the girl in the room both jumped out of their seats. Jack ran over and pushed them both down into the couch again. He pointed his gun at them. They both looked really scared and surprised.

"What do you want?" The guy asked nervously. "Where is it!?" Jack asked loudly. "What're you talking about?" The girl asked crying. "Shut up! He knows what I'm talking about." Jack yelled to the girl. She looked at her boyfriend with a concerned look on her face. "Babe, what's he talking about? Whatever it is, just give it to him!" She continued to cry.

"Honey I swear, I have no idea what he's talking about." The guy said to her. "Stop lying! You know exactly what it is I'm talking about." Jack yelled looking at the guy now.

Jack hit the girl in the head and she passed out. Then he took a hold of the guys shirt and began pulling him out the door. He was doing his best to fight Jack's form grasp, but it was no use. Jack was hiding in too tight and the guy was to skinny to be able to fight back. When we got out into the hallway the guy stopped resisting. He noticed the dead guard at the bottom of the stairs and his eyes widened.

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We got to the park.

In the park the guy gets shot.

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We get to a hospital and try to get a doctor to look at the guy but all the doctors, including the only one Jack trusts, is operating on someone at the moment. Jack gets desperate and walks into a random operation room. All the nurses turn to look at us. "This guy needs immediate surgery! He's been shot." Jack says, the desperation clear in his voice.

"We terribly sorry sir, but if we stop this operation now this man will die. We need to prioritize and this man came first." One of the doctors said and the nurses quickly went back to helping the doctors.

Jack got angry. He cocked his gun as loudly as he could, making it very apparent that patience was not a thing he had much of.

The nurses looked up once again with fear in their eyes. Jack made a motion with the gun that told the nurses to go to the wall on the right. "Listen, I know the value of a life can be hard to figure out, and it's not easy to figure out which patient to help first. So right now I'm gonna help you figure it out. I'm gonna give you 3 second to determine whose life is more important to you, your patient's or your own. "1..." The doctor didn't look up.

"2..." Jack took a step forward and the gun were now touching the doctors head. "3..."

"Stop! I don't know why that man is so important to you, but as a doctor I have to value my patient's life over my own. I cannot stop this procedure, even if I wanted to. If I stop, this man will die. The guy you have there has at least a few more hours if you put some more pressure on his wound. Now please leave the room and let me do my operation. I will look at your patient as soon as I'm done. Nurse I need you to hold here."

The nurse hesitantly looked at the patient and then back at us. "Now, nurse! I'm losing him!" The doctor yelled. She rushed over and helped him. Jack was about to leave the room when I took out my own gun.

"Look, doctor. This man here is an agent. I don't know what he wants with the other guy, but I damn well know he won't just give up like that. He might have rules to follow and procedures to go through, but I don't. I'm no agent, I don't have rules to follow like he does. Which means, I won't have any problem shooting your patient right here, right now. You are at least two doctors and three nurses in here. You seem to be the doctor in charge in this room, so tell me; you will give up your life without a second thought if it meant saving the life of your patient, but will you do the same for your female partner?" I asked pointing my gun at the female doctor.

"Don't hurt her! Please." He begged. The doctor lowered his head and was silent for a moment. "Fine. Doctor, please go with them and help their patient..." The doctor said in a gruff voice. "But... Yes, sir." The female doctor said. The male doctor continued his operation and we left the room with the female doctor.

We got into an empty operation room. "I'm very undermanned, it's gonna take a miracle for me to do this all by myself." She said under her breath. "Just know, he has a girlfriend at home waiting for him. I don't want to be the one to go to their house today and have to tell her that her boyfriend got shot and didn't make it. If he dies, you die." I threatened. She gulped and began the operation.