Safe 23

Chapter 5: Escape Plan

"Joe I can't" he said

"Listen Todd I need to get out of here...something's not right with this case and I need to get to the bottom of it."

I sat up, but Todd pushed me back down.

"Joe I can't let you do this, you're going to kill yourself and I can't let that happen. I love you I'm your brother you're the only family I have left." He wiped the tear from his eye.

"Joe...look I wasn't meant to tell you This but the doctors said that your Heart went through so much trauma that...." He looked down and tried to keep the tears in.

" What Todd...tell me please"

He held it back and started to bite his fingers

"Just look down at your chest Joe"

Todd turned his face and stood up, I watched him as he walked towards the wall, with tears in my eyes I looked down and slowly began to unbutton my Pyjama top...i felt painful stabbing pains in my chest which I thought was an after effect but... This explained the pain.

There it was.

A long cut from my chest down to my belly button

I breathe heavily, tears streaming down.

"Bro, what's happening" I whispered

He turned around and looked at me. He sat beside my bed and buried his head in his arms and cried from the pit of his stomach. My bottom lip dropped and I couldn't hold back the tears.

"Talk to me mate" I said crying holding his head

"J-Jo-Joe" he stumbled wiping his tears

"They did a major operation... your heart stopped twice...they managed to get it beating again but..."

"But..." I whispered

"One day it will stop again...and you won't wake up...and if you don't recover right it will stop sooner than they expected...Joe...your dying"

I lay still for a few seconds...I don't care about dying, never been a problem. But the thing that kills me is leaving Todd, I can't die, he is my brother, I can't leave him alone.

Todd stares at me and I grab him by the shoulders and I hugged him tight.

"I'm not going anywhere bro, you gotta believe me...my heart may be week but mentally i am strong and I know that I need to get out of this hospital and find out what's going on with the case...something is not right"

He lifts up his head and looks at me and stares me right in the eyes.

"Fine but let me tell you this now...if you die I die"

"I won't die" I said buttoning my shirt back up

"What's this plan of yours" he said.

"Well I had some time to think about it...Tomorrow at 12:00 you come to the hospital dressed in a doctors coat with a fake ID and a bag. In the bag you must have a wig, so they don't recognise me, and change of clothes for me to wear."

"Great I can make the ID tonight...what's next." He said

"Then you need to to log on to the system use the user name: SpringR70 and the password: SR@1960"

"How do you know this" he said

"I lip read a doctor saying it to a student nurse."

"You can lip read!" He said excitedly

"Sure can buddy my adoptive dad taught me, he was part of the CIA" I said taking his mind of the "me dying" situation

"Wow...I never met my dad, my mom just said he used her for drugs before I was born."

"Depressing kid trying to make me die quicker." I laughed. Maybe joking about it isn't the best way, but I needed him to be okay.

"You're stupid." He laughed

"So what's next Joe?"

" Well once you have logged on, you need to go straight to my file and say I have been admitted to St. Peter's hospital down town. Then you go and get a wheelchair from the closet with the blue door down the hall. Then you come and get me, that's when I change into the wig and clothes and you drive us back to my place to pack food for our journey."

"Then do we go to Lewis office to check out the scene."

"You're right bro, the gang will be in a meeting when we get there,so there will be know body at the crime scene."

"Wicked!" Todd said

"I almost forgot...in the drug unit up the hall there should be extremely strong pain killers...there called Oxydoestus...there kept in a safe behind the cabinet, securely locked away."

"JOE...why do you need those...there a new make only to be used for serious injuries in the armed forces."

"Don't you think I know that ....there is 5 cameras in there you can control them from the security room...you need to cancel all recordings and try to access the safe...if I'm gonna get out of here i need serious drugs."

"Alright mate, I'll try my best...it's getting late you go home and get everything sorted i will see you in the morning." I say hugging him

"I love you man."

"Love you to bruv." He says walking out the door.