I dedicate this fanfiction to my girlfriend and all my followers, reviewers and beta reader wallaceb.
I do not rewrite it every time, so remember that Jekyll has a British accent.
Chapter 12 - Broken Heart
Tikr... crack... tic... zak...
It was dark and Mavis was awakened by metal noises emanating from within had a feeling of oppression, but she was still too confused to understand what was happening.
She began to see a little light, so she forced herself to get a better look and began to distinguish her arm lying on an iron bed. She felt cold on her back; while a strong heat began to burn her pelvis becoming more and more painful, so with difficulty she turned her head to see what was happening.
The view was blurry, but she distinguished two nursemummys and Dr. Jekyll who was touching her. Then, slowly everything became clearer, the doctor and the assistants wore paper masks with completely blood stained long white aprons.
She shifted her gaze on what Jekyll was doing and noticed he was trying to remove the arrow by pulling it with old pincers while cutting the flesh around it with a rusty scalpel to assist in the extraction. He continued to turn the knife inside her, he almost seemed to be having fun, while the blood splashed on him or falling on the operating table.
Rather than an operating room she seemed to be in a crazy butcher's slaughterhouse...
Mavis began to come out of that comatose state and completely regained consciousness, but with it came even more pain, which until then had been soothed by her altered state.
"Aaaaaaargh!" Mavis screamed and tried to get up, but she realized that her wrists and ankles were tied to the operating table with big leather buckles.
"Damn, I was hoping you would not wake up" the doctor said, leaving the arrow alone, then:
"I'm sorry, but I'm doing this for your own good, but now try to stand still."
She tried not to move, but the pain was too strong to resist.
"Aaaargh! I can't do this!"
"Nurses give me a hand, hold her still!" the doctor ordered.
The nursemummys brought down some long linen strips taken from their arms, and like snakes grappled the naked body of the girl, holding her pinned to the bed.
"Aaaaaaargh!" Mavis continued to scream in despair, while the doctor resumed the operation. He put down his scalpel and began to pull the arrow with both hands succeeding in the attempt. He put the arrow on a plate then looked back at the wound. He put two fingers deep inside and opened it wide making Mavis grimace in pain.
"It's strange... Why are the veins also damaged so far from the arrow? Mavis, I know I'm asking a lot, but I have not finished yet. I need to check something important, but it is very risky, so whatever happens, do not move. Unfortunately you vampires are immune to sedatives, so I cannot sedate you." Dr. Jekyll said while taking a new scalpel and placed the blade on middle of girl's chest, but before start cutting, he looked into her eyes so big and scared, and said:
"Maybe it's better that you do not look." the doctor advised, and then a nursemummy gently placed her hand over girl's eyes.
Mavis could not see anything, but she felt the knife sink into her skin. She was exhausted; she could no longer suffer so much, for what had happened to Jonathan and for torture that she continued to undergo.
The pain was unbearable, so she merely grit her teeth; she could not do anything else, while she lay helpless on the bed as cold as her soul.
Something had changed inside her; she did not care about anything of herself, nor anyone else.
Then she began to feel all her bones vibrate in rapid intervals so she took the hand that covered her eyes and shifted it. She saw the doctor holding a serrated crescent blade; he was sawing her intercostal line. Realizing that the girl was watching him, he left the instrument stuck where it was to scold her:
"Are you crazy? I've already told you not to look! Do you understand if I'm wrong I could kill you?"
"Who cares? I'm already dead..." The vampire said.
"Mavis, what are you saying?"
"Who cares? I'm already dead..." she continued to mumble without listening what the man said.
"Mavis?!"
"Who cares? I'm already dead..."
"Damn, she is delirious!" the surgeon said trying to feel the radial pulse from the girl's wrist.
"It's all my fault ... I don't deserve to be happy ... I deserve only to suffer ... I deserve only the pain ... Hurt me in the worst way possible ..." The girl kept talking to herself, but at least she was calm and still, so the doctor continued the work.
The noise of the saw against bone began again; Mavis felt it throughout her body, even in her ears.
"Aaaaargh!" The screams started again, they were less strong than before and choked by tears, they were not screams of pain, but screams to vent the torment that her soul was feeling.
The doctor put down the saw, then turning to an assistant and ordered:
"Rib retractor."
The vampiress saw them pass over her a big rusty and dirty tool, not very reassuring, that leaned against her chest. She heard metallic noises inside her, and then Dr. Jekyll stroked her hair, saying:
"I'm sorry, but this will hurt you..."
That said he began to turn a crank.
Mavis tried to scream, but from her mouth not even a whisper escaped. She could not breathe, so she remained shaking while feeling her ribs brake.
"Oh my God ..." Exclaimed the astonished doctor.
Mavis looked up to find out what had happened and saw her chest was being kept open by the hooks of the retractor. The heart was exposed and when she looked at it, it began to beat faster, but the most disturbing thing was that it was full of black spots. She realized that this was not normal and taken by agitation; she dropped her head on the table while her heart went into tachycardia.
Dr. Jakyll saw her and said:
"Why don't you ever follow my advice? I warned you that you should not watch! My darling, I'm sorry for what they did to you and for what I did, too. I think I understand what has damaged your heart, silver nitrate, probably contained in the tip of the arrow. Do not worry; I will now close your wounds."
Dr. Jekyll turned for a moment and Mavis took the opportunity to break a belt that blocked her wrist and took a knife from the table beside her with which she tried to stab her heart. Only the good reflexes of the nurses were able to stop her arm and disarm her just in time, while the doctor turned bewildered.
"Damn, I never expected this from you; unfortunately you leave me no choice."
Jekyll took an old red crowbar which he slammed into the vampiress head making her faint instantly.
I will publish the Chapter 13 soon, where there will be an exciting monologue, I hope you will like it.
See you at the next chapter!
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