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Chapter 5: Life or Death
The cab ride to the Laily's apartment was silent, mostly cause Jesse was in too much pain to talk. The bullet was at the point that massing wasn't going to help anymore. Dasimah knew she needed to calm Jesse down, cause she knew that more stress could cause the bullet to move faster through Jesse's bloodstream, moving ever so closer to his heart, and eventually killing him.
"Jesse calm down! Your only making it worse."
"How can it get any worse, I've been shot!" his response getting a backward glance from the Taxi driver, but she motioned him to keep driving.
Over the last 10 minutes she had noticed the area around where he had been shot was increasing the flow of blood, opposed to when he had been massing, the blood had almost entirely stopped.
She closed her eyes and imagined Jesse on a beach, relaxing with a drink, she pushed the thought out, and sent it to Jesse. "Here lay down, and put your head in my lap." As Jesse did, she sent another image to him, this one was to comfort them both. It was her and him watching a movie together, laughing at the cheesy comedy, American Pie.
"Dasimah? I hate that movie!" he said with a smile, opening up one eye and looking up at her.
"Oh, sorry. Wait! how did you know? Most people don't realize when I am laying a thought in their head." she said low enough so that the taxi driver couldn't hear her.
"You're not the only person who's been able to get in here." Jesse says as he taps the side of his head, " Although it's been awhile."
" Really?" Dasimah was new to her powers, and still fascinated by other Psionics.
"Her name was Emma DeLauro, she was a member of Mutant X for two years. She died last year."
"Oh, I am sorry. Were you two close?"
"Yeah, she was like a sister. Always felt like I had to protect her. Although she was pretty strong herself. Still felt like I needed to protect her."
"Like a good big brother." she said stroking his hair. She could feel he pain coming from him, he missed this girl. At that point, she had to do whatever it took to keep him calm, and not thinking about the bullet. "We're here!"
Jesse slowly sat up and turned to see the apartment building standing there. It was bigger than he had imagined. Looked about 19 stories. They got out of the cab, Dasimah paying the taxi driver. They both walked over to the front door, Dasimah helping to support Jesse weight with her own body. Dasimah looked at the door panel, and buzzed an apartment. "Hello?"
"Laily, it's me. I need you to come down and help me get him in."
"Be right there!" Laily said.
Before Dasimah knew what was happening, she felt Jesse let go of her, as he fell to the ground on his knees, and to her horror, he was coughing up blood!
"OK, here ... oh my God what happened?" Laily exclaimed as she opened the door
to the apartment building. She ran to Jesse's side, and help Dasimah get him back to his feet.
"He's been shot, and now he's coughing up blood." Dasimah said with the full horror of the incident on her face.
"I can see that, and smell it" she said flashing her feral eyes. "Come on, let 's get him inside, where I can get busy repairing the damage."
"OK, you get his right side, I'll get his left!"
Both girls took their sides, and helped Jesse upstairs. Thank God Laily only lived on the th floor. "OK, this is my apartment here."
"Yeah, I remember." she said. She kinda grinned when she realized her old roommate had forgotten. But under the circumstances, she could understand.
"We can lay him down in your old room." Laily said as they helped Jesse into the room. "What's your name sweetie?"
"Je ..sse" he said through gritted teeth.
"OK, Jesse. This will put you to sleep." holding up a vial of some blue liquid." And this will ease the pain." holding up what looked like Morphine." When you wake up, you will feel a lot better."
"OK ....... Thanks." he said as he drifted off to sleep.
"Das, I need your help. I need to know where the bullet is exactly. I need you to open up and tell me where this bullet is."
"I don't know if I can do that. I'm new to this Psionic stuff."
"Enter his mind. Tap into his massing ability."
"How do you know this?"
"Dominion taught me well."
"I had forgotten you were with the Dominion. Still don't know why they let you leave to go to med-school."
"Don't know either, and don't want to know. We can talk about this later, after I finish here. Now, tell me where the bullet is."
Dasimah closed her eyes and slowly began pushing at the walls of Jesse's mind. Obviously someone had taught him how to avoid being probed by a Psionic, she wondered if it had been this Emma he had mentioned earlier. She finally managed to get in and opened her own mind up further, Dasimah could feel the pain that Jesse had felt before the drugs had overtook him. Letting the pain guide her to where the bullet had been stationed. "The bullet is here." she said opening her eyes, and pointed to a specific place in Jesse's chest.
"Then we don't have a lot of time. Hand me the scapula over there, just bring that whole tray over here. When I tell you to hand me something, do it as fast as you can."
"OK."
Laily made a 3 inch slice into Jesse's chest. "Hand me the Iodine there." She then poured Iodine over the hole that she had just made, it was to keep in infection from setting in after she was done. "OK, I see the bullet, hand me the tweezers there." She poured Iodine over the tweezers before inserting them into Jesse's chest. "Got it!" she said as she pulled the bullet out.
"Thank God! You are so amazing."
"I'm not done. But thanks. Now I have to sew up the hole the bullet made as it went in, and the vein it obviously hit, have to repair that as well. Then I have to fix the hole, where I just took the bullet out, and then close the incision I made."
"Oh, but he's going to be alright .......right?"
"He should be. Will know more when I finish."
Laily then got busy trying to close all the opened wounds on Jesse. Secretly hoping that she would get them all, but she was worried that the bullet had mad a hole that she couldn't see, somewhere inside of him. It took all of in hour for he to close all the holes in Jesse. "Hand me some more gauze. And the gauze tape too." She placed the gauze on the incision that she had just closed. "Now we wait for him to wake up."
Five Hours later ..........
Jesse awoke with a pounding headache, and a soreness in his chest that prevented him from moving. He slowly raised his head up enough to look around the room. His eyes falling on the dark-haired girl sitting in a chair in the corner, fast asleep. He tried to push himself up on one arm, but the pain was too much, and he let out a yell as he fell back down.
"Uh.... Jesse! Are you alright?" Dasimah said as she ran over to him.
"Yeah, just sore, that's all." he said with a smile.
"No that's not all." a voice said coming into the room. Jesse glanced up to see woman about 19 years old, with medium length dark brown hard, walking over to set on the edge of Jesse's bed."You almost died." said Laily.
"You don't have to tell him about that. " said Dasimah, giving Jesse the idea that she was hiding something.
"Tell me what?"
"That just as I closed you up, your heart stopped beating. I was unaware of another whole that the bullet had made. It had made a 2 inch tear in your heart."
Jesse looked down at his chest, it was covered by gauze, gauze tape, and some blood, that looked like normal leakage from a wound. "But you did it." The full realization that he almost died hitting him fully, " Thanks!"
"Well, I repaired the hole, but couldn't start your heart."
"Then, why am I still alive?"
"Cause, our friend here is a walking defibrillator." she said pointing sideways at Dasimah. "She saved your life."
"Dasimah, why? I mean thanks."
"Your welcome, and as far as the reason why. Our talk over here, I found that I ain't alone in my feelings. And I'm not ready to let you go yet."
"Good."
OK, that's it for now. I am not a medical doctor, my only medical knowledge comes from my dad going to the hospital, so if I got anything wrong, I'm sorry. Read and Review please.
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