Chapter 6-- One Life For Three

(Sunday 6pm) He awoke to a pounding headache, to find himself lying on his right side on the floor of a spotless, and very cold room. He was damp and chilled to the bone. His knee was hot and very swollen, and was sending waves of pain through his entire leg with every beat of his heart. His arms were tied behind him, but by shuffling sideways he slowly managed to get himself into a sitting position. His legs were not tied, thankfully, but he had no energy to attempt standing at the moment, and was not sure if he could stand. He assessed his situation and was pretty sure on the way the room looked that he was in a hospital room of some sort. There was an exam bed for one, and posters of medicines on the wall. He glanced at his shoulder, which now that he had started moving, was starting to bleed. Not much he could do about it at the moment though. He finally started trying to get to his feet, he needed to find a way out of here before whoever it was that put him in here came back for him. Ten minutes later with much puffing and panting he was on his feet, or foot, actually. He couldnt put any major weight on the bad leg, but it was sufficent to allow him to hobble toward the cabinets. It was hard work backing up to each drawer and pulling it open, but he searched each one for anything sharp he could use to free himself. Nothing with a sharp edge was to be found in any of the drawers. As he was contemplating his next move the door opened and in walked Kado. He turned slowly towards Kado with a surprised look on his face.

"Did you get them to safety?" he instantly asked.

"Yes, they are out of harms way and no one will be able to find them." Kado said as he walked over to Chance and glanced at his shoulder. He then started pulling him towards the exam bed and with a little effort got Chance seated on it. He gazed critically at his shoulder wound. Blood had run down to the end of his elbow and was dripping steadily onto the floor.

"Let's get you cleaned up," as he started to untie Chance.

"Why aren't you tied up?" Chance asked uneasily

Kdo sidestepped that question and whispered. "Nori and Dani should be on a plane to Tokyo very shortly. Her brother will be traveling with them. He won't let anything happen to them."

Chance nodded, and then inhaled sharply as the last of the ropes came off and feeling started returning to his hands."

"Hold still while I find something to fix this with." said Kado as he got up to search for some bandages. He found an ace bandage in one drawer, and some antiseptic wipes in another, and brought them back to Chance who was rubbing the feeling back into his hands. He cleaned the blood off as best he could, wiped the antiseptic over the wound and started to wrap the ace bandage around his upper arm. "You may need a few stitches later, but that can wait for now."

Chance just stared at Kado. "Why haven't you told me what's going on?"

Kado finished the wrap job, and looked at Chance. "I did what I had to do."

"What do you mean by that?"

He hesitated as if searching for the right words "I traded my life for their life and yours. They wont be coming after any of you. But you have to promise me you will stay out of this."

"No way! I'm in this till the end."

Kado sighed. "I was afraid you would say that. Look the deal is I give myself up for harvesting. They can use whatever organs they want from me, and you and my family go free."

Chance exploded. "GIVE YOURSELF UP! Are you crazy?" He slid off the exam table onto his one good leg and grabbed Kado's shirt. "There are other ways out of this, you don't have to die. We can...."

"NO!" he was interupted. "I don't care about my life so long as my family are ok." as he yanked his shirt out of Chance's grasp. "I want to thank you for your help, but it's already done. I agreed to this, and I'm not backing out. "

"Well, I'm not going to let you do this, we can make it out of here."

But Kado was shaking his head. "No, and I thought you may feel this way, so I'm sorry I have to do this." He walked over to the door and knocked on it.

And who should walk through the door but the big blond guy. Chance groaned. "You are like a bad penny that keeps popping up." As Chance shuffled backwards. "Can't keep calling you big blong dude, what is your name anyways?"

The big guy just smiled and handed Kado a full syringe. "That should knock him out for about 18 hours or so."

Kado accepted the syringe and looked at Chance. "Please let me do this gently. You won't feel a thing and when you wake up you'll be somewhere safe. I need you out of the way until everything is over."

Chance shook his head. "No, Kado, don't do this, I can help you......" he was saying when the big guy jumped at him. He was already trapped in the corner of the room, so he ducked under the big guy and was almost clear of him when he saw out of the corner of his eye, Kado swinging something at his head. He had no time to duck--the metallic object hit him in the back of his head and he felt himself falling. For the second time in as many hours his eyes rolled up into his head, and blackness overtook him again.....

TBC

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