"What did you just say?" She looks at me with utter shock and confusion on her face.
"Travis may be saved...." Placing her hands over her mouth she forced back sobs and tears. However, not tears of sadness and anger. Tears of joy and happiness. I place my hand on her shoulder only to move it and slowly rubber back. After a few minutes, she finally says something.
"Thank you, Marshall...you have no idea what this means to me...." She says sniffling quietly.
"I think I do...raising Tink there were many times where I was grateful, I was able to save her from a bad situation or my friend Micheal did. He is like an uncle to her and I can't say how many times that if it weren't for him...." I pause. "If it weren't for him, I don't know where Tink would be..."
"Do you mean...?" She ponders what I could mean and to ease yet startle her mind I just tell her.
"If I would've kept her. Micheal was sort of the reason I kept her for as long as I did. There were a lot of times where I was on the edge of giving her up but Micheal talked me down and had me give it another chance and I'm glad he did. Raising Tink has been some of the best times of my life." She looks at me surprised that I would have thought of that at all when raising her. The two of us now seem inseparable so I can understand why she'd be. "Now, of course, I couldn't see my life without her. She is the light of my day. Coming home from work to her smile and enthusiastic attitude fills me with happiness and assures I chose right." She looks at me with a smile on her face and places her hand on top of mines. Then with no warning, she plants a kiss on my cheek.
"I'm happy for you Marshall. You really have changed from that brooding man I met all those years ago." I blush at her words getting a warm feeling in my chest.
I start the car engine and drive us back to the hospital. When we get there, we do the procedure necessary to get to Travis' room and sit outside. I check my phone to see it's almost 8 pm. "Um, Bell?" I say I need to still talk to her about Travis and the possible cure.
She looks at me with wonder in her eyes. "Mm?"
"I still need to tell you about the possible cure for Travis. At least for cancer." I whisper the last part out of fear for any peering eyes and ears.
"Yeah what about it?" The wonder now turns to worry.
"It's nothing bad...well too bad. While it is possible that at its current stage it will only kill off 75% of the tumor leaving still 25%. While this sounds bad the bright side is the last 25% cannot spread so it will be isolated unable to cause full brain damage. The second thing is the 'cure' takes a while to complete, actively and nonstop work will take a few hours to do. And lastly is the initial problem. To get rid of the last 25% of the cancer is surgery, which they won't do because of the coma..."
"So, what do we do?" She says her voice full of worry. I think on it for a while, while she sits shaking thinking about what I have just said. "Marshall please tell me something." Now beginning to hyperventilate she walks back n forth and just as she looks to have almost passed out, I pull her back to the seat. I wrap my arms around her pulling her into my chest hoping to console her. Her breathing dies down and she nuzzles her head further into me as I rub her side.
"We have two options." Looking up at me she, with her eyes, asks what they are. "We could A. Wait for the 'cure' to finish completely before using it in Travis. Or we could B use it now and either wait to see when he wakes from his coma to operate. Or....sign a waiver to have them operate as soon as the 'cure' has finished its job...." She looks up and me again unsure of what to choose. "You have been there since square one for them. This is a decision only you can choose."
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Daddy Venom.
General Fiction{COMPLETED} Professor Venom was a very contempt and in control of his life kind of person. One day he wake up to banging on his door and when he goes to check on it he finds a baby and a note. 13 years later he is on the verge of ground breaking res...
