Chapter Thirteen: Is It Over?
Tessa sat up abruptly in a cold sweat. Her lungs felt haggard, like she'd been running
the perimeter of the whole of America. She looked round disorientated. She was in a
room, a hospital room and the lights in the room were off but a few shafts of light
shone across the ceiling from the corridor light outside. She could hear the bustle of
nurses and doctors talking outside about patients' medicines and injuries. Eventually
she gathered herself and pushed her denim jacket off her. She was sitting curled up in
a chair next to a quilt-wrapped bundle in the hospital bed beside her. The gentle
beeping and humming on machines was soothing and disturbing at the same time.
Where the hell am I? Am I in hell! She stood slowly and looked at the unconscious
man and frowned miserably. Now I remember.
Go down fighting, if you going to hell your sure as fuck taking the son of a bitch with
you. She threw herself around the corner and was stopped dead. The sound of dry bone
scrapping along something sharp but wet pierced her ears. John was stood there, rifle
dangling from its strap. The creature stood there, staring at the man it'd just skewered
on its razor sharp bone claw. It'd gone right threw his chest and was poking out the
other side.
"John…"
The creature turned its head to look at her slowly, as if it hadn't meant to hurt him, as
if it was all a big fucked up accident.
"You bastard."
She continued staring at John in disbelief.
"You… BASTARD!"
Lifting her gun, she put several holes in the creature's head where it's many eyes
where. Before it had even hit the ground she had already dropped her gun and was
pulling John free, trying to keep herself calm as he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
His face screwed up in a grimace of agony and the colour had drained from his skin.
"John? John, please don't leave me. Please."
His eyes glazed and he felt limp in her arms. She couldn't control her tears as they fell
onto his cold face.
"Come on marine! Stay alive, that's an order Corporal!"
"John?"
His eyes stirred slightly, flickering as if the light was too bright for him. Eventually
they opened to look up at Tessa's relieved face. The ceiling was white and the air was
filled with the smell of antibacterial hospital cleaner. Where the fuck am I?
"You're safe."
An uncontrollable smile spread over her face.
"Is it over?"
She leant down and kissed him gently on the lips. Her breath was warm and her lips
her soft. Finally he felt better. Tessa lifted her head up slightly so she could look into
his deep brown eyes.
"Some things are. But other things are just beginning."
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