"Please, Keswick you have talked for more than an hour now. Shut up. Please. PLEASE!" Dudley screamed. Of course he screamed it not out, he still lay in this coma, but he screamed with his inner voice. He knew that he was in a coma, that was even for him clear.
Mainly because everyone around him said the word coma and because he couldn´t move. But Dudley imagined being in a coma was more like sleeping. For example you have a car crash and then you wake up again months later. But that… that was like hell. He couldn´t move, say or do anything.
He couldn´t even go to the bathroom what was the most embarrassing part of that. What he could do was hearing what was going on around him and screaming into himself. Keswick´s permanent visit didn´t made the whole thing better.
Of course it was really nice of him to come and talk with Dudley but everything what Keswick talked about was so boring. He told him yesterday more than a half hour how to water your rhododendron right because if you water it wrong… a disaster would happen.
Luckily there were of course some rare interesting things that Keswick told him. About the chief and his retirement plans for example. Keswick said that there was almost nothing that could prevent him from making Kitty to his successor. "Good news. Kitty´s dream would finally become true." He thought as he heard that.
The nurses with their cold hands and their rough attitude also didn´t make his visit nicer. They just did their job of course but sometimes Dudley felt like he was just object for them and no longer a living being. The strange Doctor was interesting for Dudley besides Keswick´s stories about the chief. He still came every day and checked his vital signs.
Amid or something like that was his name. Really a strange guy but also the only one of the staff who treated him like a person. Not like a piece of dead meat. Dudley always had the feeling that he materialized himself out of nothing. He never heard steps or something coming to his bed, really nothing that would be a sign of somebody coming. He was surprised every time when he felt the cold fingers on his eyelid.
And then these strange things he always said. "You should not be alive Mr. Puppy" That was like he was kind of against it that Dudley lay in this bed. And in a contrary to that he said every day. "Have another nice day on this planet." That guy really scared him and Dudley could just hope that he wouldn´t press a pillow on his head one day.
"Well D..D..Dudley, that´s all you should know about how to tie a t..t..tie. I have to go now. Some people have to w..w..work." Keswick patted Dudley´s shoulder laughing and then left the room.
"Great, he haven´t told me when Kitty will visit me." That was the only thing Dudley was looking forward to in Keswick´s speech. Kitty hadn´t visited him yet and that made him kind of sad.
She was his partner and he confessed his true feelings for her in this house. But maybe she just didn´t share the feelings he had for her? Nevertheless a visit out of decency would be the least. "If I could stand up or at least talk to her. I could…" The known cold hands touching his eyelid interrupted his thought.
The Doctor again. "Well, Mr. Puppy. Still nothing changed. I would usually wish you a nice day but not today. As you may heard or not… Well under the assumption that you can hear what is going on around you. We have to take of the lower part of your left arm."
"PARDON?!" Asked Dudley unheard.
"Your surgery will begin in almost an hour so I will inject an anesthetic syringe."
A weak pain flooded Dudley´s arm which was replaced by a numb feeling that spread from his arm. He felt immediately calmer. When he was seconds before like "YOU WANT TO CUT OF MY FREAKING ARM?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" he now was like "Hey, it´s okay. Arms grow again."
"A nurse will bring you soon into the operating room. A coworker of mine and good friend will remove your arm. He is a good surgeon but nevertheless… good luck." And like he materialized he dematerialized again. Dudley was laying there and the last thoughts before he slept away belonged Kitty.
"Kitty… I wonder what she is doing. Is she okay?"
She was okay but Doctor Rabies who lay blood spitting in front of her was anything but okay.
"Tell me have you done it?" She kicked him with her pointed boot into his ribs.
"Why can´t you just believe me? I haven´t done this. I have an alibi." He coughed.
"Why should I believe you?" Kitty asked and kicked him again.
"What the heck is going on here?!" shouted an angry voice behind Kitty. Madame Catastrophe stood with two filled shopping bags in the door.
"That isn´t your business Catastrophe! I warn you, get off! NOW!"
"Not my business, huh?" Catastrophe threw the bags out of her hands and ran towards Kitty. Almost in front of Kitty she tried to jump on her. Catastrophe wanted to pull her down but Kitty reacted faster.
In the style of an old western cowboy she pulled out her gun and shot from her hip directly into Catastrophe´s kneecap. Like a stone she fell on the ground and reached in pain for her knee.
"Sorry, Catstrophe. But I warned you."
Kitty walked to her bleeding enemy and kneed down next to her. "Maybe you´re a bit more talkative. Tell me. Who destroyed the Puppy´s house? Who sent Dudley in this coma?"
"He´s in a coma?" Even if she was surprised and her knee hurt like hell, Catastrophe grinned.
"Wrong answer." Sighed Kitty. She stood up again and was about to kick Catastrophe into her stomach but a hand grabbed her foot.
"Please. Leave her alone. I´ll tell you anything." Begged Rabies who held her foot. He must crawled to her even if he was covered with deep bleeding cuts.
The blood trail that he left on the floor proofed this theory. That must have been terrible pains and Kitty asked herself why he done that.
"It depends on what you´ll tell me."
"Okay, right away, I don´t destroyed the Puppy´s house and neither did Catastrophe."
"O really? You had this earthquake machine!"
"Exactly! I had it" Rabies stood up and tried to stand on his weak legs. "I sold the device a week ago. To Birdbrain! Ask him if you want to know something more. He´s your man."
He walked past Kitty and helped Catastrophe gently to stand up. "Are you okay?" he asked her worried.
"Under the circumstances I´m shockingly nice." Catastrophe forced a smile on her
face and added. "It´s just my leg."
"Really? Try to stand. I´ll take a look." While she was standing on her healthy leg Rabies eyed her knee. "That looks bad. Damn Katswell. What´s gotten into you?!"
"Hey, she attacked me!" Kitty justified herself.
"Of course. She also attacks me. That are the hormones!"
"Hormones?! Is she…?"
"Yeah. I´m pregnant! Do you have a problem with that?" Called Catastrophe irritated in.
"No, I…I didn´t know…I" stammered Kitty. That explained why Rabies did everything to prevent her from kicking Catastrophe´s stomach. He must be the father of the unborn child.
"What do you think why you haven´t heard anything of me and Catastrophe lately? We´re out of the active business! We´re just build and sell stuff now! And we thought it would be safe." Rabies gave Kitty a really angry glare.
"Can I do something to…"
"You done enough I think. Get off! NOW!" ordered Rabies. Kitty turned around and walked out of the storage hall that both call their home. It was an old hall somewhere in the harbor district. The sun already set and Kitty wandered confused to the T.U.F.F. car which she had parked nearby.
This was the first time she really thought that this whole thing maybe went too far. But that was just a little part of her. The greatest still wanted to repay blood with blood, broken bone with broken bone and coma with coma. So she just sat into the car and watched how the ocean swallowed the sun in a firework of colors.
"So Birdbrain is the next on my list and this list is getting shorter and shorter. Soon I´ll have this bastard if the bastard isn´t Birdbrain… Soon, Dudley. I will avenge you soon." Then she put her sunglasses on and started the engine, ready to remove the next and hopefully the last one from her list.
