Interlocked
Chapter Five - Half Of A Human Body
Note: OKAY! IFINALLY got the new chapter up! I know, it's been ages, but I wrote and re-wrote it at least a dozen times before I got it to what it is now. I know this one is fairly short as well, but I know that next chapter will be quite long, since I'm already over halfway through it. Alright! Read on!
Two months later…Lisa is comes into the tent and sees an envelope on her bed. It's a letter from Rachel and Will. She grabs it, holding it close, breathing in the scent of home, before opening. She reads it and starts crying.
Lisa is crying, and one of her friends came into the tent.
"Lisa, are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just got a letter from my daughter and my son. A lot has happened, and I've only been gone two months."
"That is a long time, being away from people you love. How old are they?"
"Sixteen and eight."
"You are so lucky."
"Thank you. But I miss them so much."
"I'm sure you do." Her friend said, and touched her on the shoulder. Lisa soon went to sleep, with the letter under her pillow; she had a really early day tomorrow.
A year later…Lisa has been there for a year and two months, and has so far managed to reply to every letter Rachel and Will sent. Lisa is sitting on her bed, hugging her pillow and trying not to cry. The director of the team she came out with comes in and sees her.
"Are you alright?" He asks softly, moving to stand at the foot of her bed. She shakes her head no.
"Do you want to talk, because I'm here, if you do." He said. She looked up at him and he sat down.
"Today is my wedding anniversary and I can't even talk to my husband, tell him how much I love him and miss him."
"Oh, Lisa, I'm so sorry. Do you want to call him?"
She shakes her head. "I can't." She says, tears streaming down her cheeks heavily now.
He waits a few minutes.
"Why?" The director finally asks softly, placing his hand on her knee.
"He, he…was taken as a POW nine years ago."
"Oh god. Lisa, I know you've probably heard this countless times in the nine years, but I'm so sorry."
"I know. It's all right. I just want to see him."
"I can understand. I wasn't with my wife for two years, and it was really hard."
"Where were you?"
"In Africa."
"Oh. You know, he doesn't even know he has a son?"
"Really?"
"Yes. He came home once, before he was taken. And clearly the fact that I have a son, you know what happened."
"Yeah." He said with a laugh. She smiled slightly.
"Danny!" Someone called.
"Go. I'll be okay." Lisa whispered. He nodded and stood up and exited the tent. Lisa just buried her face in her pillow and cried. Ten minutes later, after a good long cry, Lisa sits up and wipes her eyes, but doesn't move from the end of the bed. Danny comes back in.
"Lisa?" He asks in a quiet voice.
"Yes?" She asked, not looking at him because of how her face looks.
"Soldiers were just found on the side of the road. We need you to go out there and look them over."
"Of course. Of course." She said, stood up, grabbed a jacket and her doctor bag and left. She climbed onto a truck with four other doctors and off they went.
"Lisa, you, Jamie, and Mitch take that side. Nessa and I will get the other half."
"Alright Judy." Lisa replied, and went over to the men, six of them. Lisa bent over one and inspected the wound in his abdomen. A fairly deep knife wound, but it didn't hit major organs, so he got lucky.
"Sir?" She said, shaking his arm. He opened his eyes and looked into her face.
"You will be fine. You got lucky that the knife didn't hit any major organs. I'm going to bandage you up and load you onto a truck back to the medical base." She said, taking out the tape, scissors, and gauze. He nodded. She bent over him, and his eyes lingered on her chest. She just rolled her eyes.
"That necklace." The man whispers so that Lisa barely heard him. That's when she realizes he's staring at the necklace and not at her breasts. It's half of a human body and Greg has the other half. He said he thought about getting a heart, but that didn't represent his love for her, so he got a human body made because they are both doctors, and he loves her with all of his body, not just his heart.
"What about it?" She asked, glancing at the man as she bandaged him.
"I've seen it before. Where did you get it?"
"My husband gave it to me as a birthday gift. He has the other half." She said. He then just noticed the ring on her left hand. The man is silent and Lisa keeps bandaging him.
"Wait…how could you have seen this necklace before?" She asks, her hand going up and touching it.
"I saw it…on a fellow prisoner. We became close, while locked up. Where is your husband?"
"Gone. He was gone long ago. Nine years now." She says, sadness evident in her voice.
"I'm sorry."
"It's alright. I've come to accept it." She said, sighing, cutting the gauze.
"Well, if it's any consolation…is his name Greg House?" He asked. "I am supposed to tell his wife something, find her, and tell her something." Lisa freezes at his words and tears well in her eyes,
"That's him." She says with a thick voice.
"Well, I'm supposed to tell you that he loves you very much, more than anything could ever express, and he hopes that you and Rachel are doing alright without him, and the only thing in the world he wants is to see you two again. And don't give up on him. He'll come back to you one day." He says, finishing. Lisa is just silent.
"Thank you." She finally says, her hand on the necklace, tears running down her cheeks.
"You're welcome. Now, where do I go?" He asks, smiling. She smiles faintly back.
"That truck, just behind me." She replies. "Oh! And what's your name?"
"Andrew Jacobs."
"Thank you, Andrew." She says again, and goes to help another man. Meanwhile…in a dark and freezing room about fifty miles away from Lisa…
"Where is the secret base?" A man, full of anger, yells at a figure staying strong, but tied up, in a chair.
"I'm telling you, I don't know. I am only a soldier, I have no ties to the upper government in the army!" He barks back.
"Bullshit! You're a General. Of course you know someone that knows something."
"I swear, I don't. I don't even know what you are talking about!"
"How could you not know?"
"I've been a captive for nine years. You found me, and took me for information, but information that I do not have. I haven't even seen the inside of a military base camp for nine years!"
"How come you didn't tell us sooner? We would have found somebody more useful." The man sneered, hitting the man in the chair across the back with a leather whip.
"You didn't ask." He said through gritted teeth, glaring up at the man.
"You're useless. We should kill you." The interrogator said.
"NO! Don't. I don't know anything about anything here, and you don't want to a kill a man that doesn't know anything. Killing me will just get you into more trouble."
"How do I know you don't know anything?"
"I've been in here for two months, the door only opening for someone to slip food in so I didn't die. I haven't seen outside the walls of this room or talked to anyone for two months."
"I see your point. I don't know why we can't just…let you go." The man says, untying the man in the chair. He then calls the guard in and orders him to blindfold their prisoner and take him out, ten miles away, and just dump him on the side of the road. The guard nods and does so and then returns to the place from which he came.
Two hours later…Lisa is at the base, treating patients, when Danny comes in.
"Lisa, a man found on the side of the road is being brought in. We don't know where he's from, but he's badly beaten. We need you to come and look him over once he gets here."
"Of course." She says, apologizes to her patient, and follows Danny out. Just as they reach the unloading point, the truck pulls up and the back is opened, revealing the man.
"Don't move him. It's under his best interest. Move him when I say." Lisa says, and climbs into the truck to inspect him. He's fine, just very bruised. His whole body is bruised and there are welts on his back. She then notices a chain around his neck and picks it up to look at it.
It's half of a human body.