Searching for Salvation
Chapter One, Prologue
It had ended harshly, violently, taking away all I had ever longed for, and giving me an eternity of despair to cherish. I was now more alone than I had ever been before, and the agony soothed my desire for him, my need to tell him my soul. I can't imagine telling him all the sins I've committed, nor the crimes I've master-minded, but will tell him my love, now, while he's still within reach...
The nurse had just gotten on duty, and she was assigned to watch over a single comatose patient. An easy job, when he'd been that way for over a year, and so she'd brought the latest smutty romance, and she was curled in a chair beside the window. The insistent beeps of the machine were a steady, annoying reminder that the poor man was probably going to die soon – no one had ever recovered from that many gunshot wounds to the vitals, and the entire medical staff was amazed at his perseverance. She never noticed when he opened his eyes and started watching her. Or the moment he smilingly started undoing his tubes (the characters in her book were about to kiss, she thought the increased beeps were normal) and creeping from the bed. He slipped on his spare clothes, pocketed the note on top without reading it, and slowly, silently, staggered out the door. It would be another three hours before the nurse dragged her face away from her book long enough to check the bed.
Spike Spiegel was a one-man army, and he was determined to find and correct his one mistake. How he was going to do that, he had no idea. What he would do when he eventually found said mistake, he didn't really know. What he'd do if she said no was certain though. He would fade away into nothing like he had been meant to do, so long ago. He smiled in the fluorescent lighting of the hospital hallway.
"Faye, you never could say no, could you?" He walked to the front desk, signed his own release. He stepped out into the sunshine, pale, ghostly, and once again trapped beneath the Martian sky. But not for long. Oh, no, Spike was leaving this damn rock one way or another, and never –never- coming back. He started whistling and headed for the ship docks. His account was full and cheap ships were easily had.
"Wait for me Faye. Soon, you'll be mine, in eternity."
End Chapter One, Chapter Two will be posted when I have 5 reviews.
