Alpha Plus MXM 💙

Chapter Nine

Bernard Marx

After passing many different towns, we arrive in a small town with not many buildings.

Lenina stops at a building that had the sign which said 'doctor' in big letters. She turns off the car and walks over to the red building. She knocks on the door and a man opens the door. I don't hear the conversation because the car is park too far. Lenina, then, walks back to her car and sits down in the driver seat.

"What did he say?"

CLICK

She taking orange Soma from her pen.

As I waited for her respond I start to panic. What are we going to do? Did anyone survive like this disaster? What should we do next?

"He said that he can't help us but there is a nurse outside of town that maybe could," Lenina said as she starts the car up again. Both of us were starting to get even more worry about the whole decision.

Why was someone killing all the Alphas? What was the point in all this?

Lenina drive out of the town and in a couple more minutes found a dirt road that led up a hill. Night-time had fallen and animals were making noises. Lenina found the house and turn off the car. I grab Lenina's hand before she grabs the car door handle.

"What if this is a mistake? What if we get killed?" I ask in a fit of panic. Maybe this was a bad idea. Maybe we should try to make it to the spaceport instead of trying to get help for my shoulder.

"We don't have any choice. You need medical help or something bad can happen to your shoulder. Besides, you can save me with your shooting skills," said Lenina jokingly to lighten the mood but fail to do so. She whispers to me that she got this and opens the car door to get out.

I see her walk up to the door of the house and knock. Only a small light-post makes her visible to me. Lenina talks to the male for a couple of seconds and runs over to me.

I grab the gun for the cup-holder and hide it under the back of my shirt. She pulls me out of the car and the male comes to help her. I make it inside the house with their help.

"Put him on the table." I heard the nurse say. The male then grabs me and lifts me up on the table.

"I forgot to tell you my name, it's John," said John to Lenina.

"Lenina." As she looks dreamy into John's eyes.

"My eyes! I'm going to die while these two are flirty," I said dramatically telling the nurse because Lenina and John were not paying attention.

"John, go get me the painkillers from my bathroom," said the nurse as she sat down on a chair.

"Hello, my name is Linda. Let's see what the problem is," said Linda as she tries to inspect my shoulder. She starts to cut my shirt open with scissors and I hand over Lenina the gun that I had hidden. John come running down the stairs and hand over a small white bottle to Linda.

"This is painkillers it helps in taking away the pain," said Linda as she hands me two white pills.

I, then, take the pills and she hands over a water bottle. After that Linda tries to take out the bullet. I grab Lenina's hand as she tells me that everything is okay. I look away and shut my eyes because of the pain. Till I hear the metal of the bullet drop on the table.

I try to endure the pain as I wish that I had any Soma left.

"Now, I need to close the wound," said Linda. I still look away and hope she will go faster.

"All done," Linda said calmly to me as she starts to bandage my shoulder. She was going to say more, but a knock at the door stop everyone in their tracks.

"John, get the door," said Linda as she shouts at him but grabs him to whisper something in his ear. John, then, grabs the shotgun from the back of the door and proceeds to points at the door.

"Dears, you need to hide in the underground shed. Go to the back of the house there you will see a rug. Pull the rug over and you will see a door on the ground. Then open the door and hide there," said Linda as she starts to push Lenina and me away from the main room.

Lenina and I run to the back of the room and find the rug. Lenina hands me the gun that I had give her before. She, then, pulls the rug and opens the door on the floor.

Lenina quickly went down the stairs and I soon follow. All that was left to do was to wait and see what happens.

"Where is your jacket?" Whisper Lenina to me in the darkroom.

"Shit," I whisper back to Lenina. There's no way that anyone would find my jacket, right? I didn't have time to think because I hear a loud sound coming from the front of the house. Should I go up?

I wait a couple second as I think about going up. Suddenly, hear even more noise from above.

"I'll be right back," I whisper back to Lenina as I start to walk up the dark stairs.

"Wait, you're injured," whisper Lenina. I don't listen to her as I slowly move the door to see what is happening with Linda, John, and the intruder.

I hear shouting and see the female intruder pointing the shotgun at Linda and John. Linda is trying to explain why there is blood on the table, but the female intruder doesn't care. I was able to move away from the floor and move next to a wall with my gun in hand. I try to find a clear shot but John is covering my view.

I wait a while longer to see what happens. The female intruder finds my bloody jacket in the garbage pin and all hell breaks loose. The female intruder shoots Linda and tries to shoot John too, but he moves before the intruder hits him.

I spring to action from behind the wall. Now I have a clear shot of the intruder: thus, I take the shoot and hit her in the hip. The female intruder guns fall from her grasps. The intruder tries to drag herself toward the gun. While Lenina runs out of nowhere and knocks the female intruder out.

John runs toward his mother and Lenina tries to find something that will hold the female intruder down. I also run to Linda to see if she is okay.

"We have to leave. If they sent her here then there are more people coming," said Linda panicking as she holds her side where the bullet had hit.

So...I made John's mother a nurse. In the TV show, Linda bothers me so much because of so many plot holes around her👩‍🏭