Heart and Soul 2
Todd woke up feeling a sharp, stinging pain in his chest. He looked around the room and he realized that he was in the hospital. He remembered seeing Jack at the gas station with a gun, but he didn't remember anything else.
"What happened, Vicki?" Todd asked as his sister walked into the room.
"I'm so glad that you're awake. You gave us quite the scare?" Vicky said as she leaned over and gave him a hug. "I'm going to go get the doctor now," Vicki said as she headed for the door.
"Wait Vicki, what happened?"
"You were shot."
"Did Jack shoot me? The last thing I remember is seeing him with a gun at the gas station."
"Yeah, when you tried to take the gun away from him it went off. Todd there's something else that I need to tell you. The bullet caused too much damage to your heart and the doctor's couldn't salvage it," Vicki explained.
"What are you trying to tell me?"
"You had a heart transplant."
"I have somebody else's heart. Whose heart do I have, Vicki?" Todd said as he placed his hand over his bandaged chest.
Vicki wanted to tell him the whole truth, but she knew that Todd would be devastated when he found out who his donor was. She knew that she couldn't keep the truth from him forever, but she didn't want him to have a major setback, so she lied. "I don't know who your donor was. They keep organ donations confidential."
"You don't know anything?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know much. I'm going to go get the doctor now."
Todd felt unsettled. His sister was acting strange and there was something wrong, he could feel it. Todd called Briggs, his lackey from the sun, and asked him to pick up a copy of every type of newspaper that is distributed in Llanview. Todd was hoping that he could figure out who his donor was by reading the obituaries.
The doctor showed up and Todd did his best to grill him about the donor's identity, but he wouldn't say anything. After examining him, he told Todd that he should make a full recovery as long as he took it easy and then he left.
A half hour later Briggs showed up with the daily papers from the local distributors. Todd paid him and sent him on his way. He looked through paper after paper, but they were all useless. Todd gasped when he picked up the last paper that had a cover story all about Todd's heart surgery. Todd felt sick when he read the title: "Rapist gets Victim's Heart." Todd stared at the picture of him and Marty and read the rest of the article. According to the article Marty had been in a car accident and died on impact. Todd threw the newspaper across the room. It couldn't be true. This had to be some kind of sick joke. Marty couldn't be dead.
