The Slave
Chapter 13- A Miracle
What made me recover consciousness once again, was a pleasant sensation in my cheeks. When I fixed my sight I realized it was my little brother, Bowsy, he placed his hands on my cheeks and playfully caressed me as he told me:
"Wake up already, lazy. Come on, wake up big brother, you've got an important visit."
It was weird to see him here as my father hadn't allowed him to visit me to keep him from having a bigger pain.
I noted that only one of the switches was left to be turned off, so the nurse should have turned off the other two while I was unconscious.
"Your baby has already hatched… it's a pretty girl! Wake up to see her, please!" Bowsy yelled at me each time more desperate, "You have to wake up, big brother! You have to wake up!" he repeated as he pressed his little hands against my chest.
"That's why dad didn't want you to come, Bowsy. Try to calm down, little brother." Iggy said, who was behind him holding my baby in his arms,
"Come here, brother. Please calm down," Morton was telling Bowsy, that was standing next to Iggy as he ducked to embrace him and take him out of the room.
Iggy, seeing Junior was a bit calmer, turned to me, leaning a bit and removing the blanket that covered the face of my little baby, he told me:
"Look, little brother, here's your baby…"
Her little eyes were closed, her small, blue Mohawk was pointing backwards. Being able to see her like this, sleeping calmly filled my heart with joy. I thought she was the most beautiful image I had never seen…
Suddenly the horrible nurse that surely came to turn of the last switch entered the room.
"What are you doing here?" she yelled desperately, fearing to have been discovered
"We only came to show him the baby," Wendy said consternate
"You can't be here, you have to leave!" the nurse yelled as she pushed Iggy to get him away from me, "get our immediately," she said desperately fearing her plans were sinking to the bottom.
"You can't do this!" I pleaded her in my mind, "let me see my baby a few more seconds, please!"
I felt desperate, my life's most precious moments were being, my life's last moments, were being taken from me! "Just a few more moments! I WANT TO TOUCH HER AT LEAST ONCE!"
"He moved!" Bowsy suddenly yelled from the door, where he was watching what was happening
Iggy and the nurse turned to see me and realized that my left arm was lifted up as if I wanted to reach my baby. The nurse's expression was so that in her hurry to get out as soon as possible, she dropped the serum jar that hanged next to my bed and spilling its content in the floor. She made her way between Morton and Bowsy and left running afraid.
"Call the doctor!" Roy asked Lemmy that was looking at me amazed
In that instant, I took the tube that came into my mouth with my left hand and pulled it desperately, trying to remove it. I felt I was drowning.
"Wait a minute, little brother, the doctor is coming," Iggy told me, as he rested his hand in my shoulder still holding the baby with his other arm. Almost immediately Lemmy and dad arrived accompanied by the doctor that had saved my life the first time, who, upon seeing me with the head lifted from the pillow, came closer to me and touched my forehead to calm me down. He retired two elastic bands that went from my mouth to my hind head and with a skilled move slowly got the plastic tube that obstructed my throat. When I took a puff of air, I could close my eyes for the first time, when I let it out, after coughing a bit, I started to cry unable to stop.
"Go out immediately," the doctor asked my father and siblings, Bowsy included, that had reunited around my bed.
"Come on, boys, let the doctor do his job," dad told my siblings inviting them to get out of the room.
"Will he be okay?" Wendy asked the doctor worried
"He's conscious, young princess," the doctor answered, "that's all we know until now. Please go out and take that baby to maternity where it should be.
"Thanks, Star Spirits!" Lemmy said excited
"I told you! I knew he was going to wake up!" Bowsy said happily as all of them went out.