Secrets - Part XXVI
Monday, October 12, 2015
"Have you never done that? In all those times you were treating someone in the hospital, when you were the great Doctor Tam, didn’t you once tell less than the truth to someone if it made them feel less desperate?”
[Maya. Post-BDM. Inara's fate, and what follows. My apologies for the wait!]
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The beeping stuttered. The machine counting Inara’s heartbeats wavered, recovered, then faltered again. A little race of heart-beats, then a pause.
“Simon …” Sam was white, a shade he shouldn’t have been able to reach.
Simon nodded, pulling on a clean pair of sterile gloves and picking up a scalpel. “You need to leave.”
“No.”
“If I’m to save the baby –”
“Simon, wait.” Freya spoke from the common area.
“There’s no time.”
“Please. Just … wait a minute.”
He looked across into her clear gaze, hearing her steady voice, then shook his head as a wave of distrust broke over him. “No. No, you don’t do this. Not again.”
A feeling of immeasurable sadness almost drowned her, but she said again, “Please.”
“Doc, give it a minute.” Mal’s voice was quiet but firm. “Sixty seconds.”
Simon glared at him then nodded just once, turning pointedly to face the infirmary chronometer.
Ten. Fifteen. Twenty … seconds passing, each accompanied by little hiccups in Inara’s heartbeat. Thirty. Forty. Fifty. He turned back and prepared to make the incision.
They steadied.
Sixty. Sixty-one. Sixty-two.
Simon hadn’t moved.
Sixty-five. Sixty-six. Sixty-seven.
She licked her lips. Not much, just the smallest flicker of her tongue, but Sam felt his own heart leap, the tension in his body as tight as a bowstring.
“Inara?” he asked again, pleading to be heard.
There was an eternity of waiting, the gaps between the seconds so wide galaxies were slipping between. Then …
“Sam?”
Just a breath. A whisper.
“I’m here.” If anything he managed to get closer to the medbed. “Inara, my darling, I’m here. Can you open your eyes?”
Her fingers extended as if she was stretching. “Thirsty.”
“Here.” Simon held out a cup with a spout to Sam, the scalpel fallen to the floor and forgotten. “A little. And slowly,” he added, his eyes scanning his screens, taking in the information and allowing his brain to process it.
“Top three percent,” River murmured, coming out of her
HE FIX THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS TO ALL
ACROSS THE GLOBE ON:
1. Getting your lover or husband back
2. Spiritual bulletproof
3. Training
4. Money spell
5. Long life spell
6. Prosperity spell
7. Protection spell
8. Get a job spell
9. Becoming a manager spell
10. Get a huge loan without paying any fee spell
11. Getting your scam money back
12. Child spell
13. Pregnancy spell
14. Freedom spell
15. Love spell
16, vanishing spell
17. Invisible human spell
18. Success or pass spell
19. Marriage spell
20. Avenging spell
21. Popularity spell
22. Killing spell
23. Cancer spell
24. Supernatural power spell
25. Madness spell
26. Free house loan spell
27. Production spell of films and movie
28. Hiv/aids spell
29. Tuberculosis spell
30. Loose weight and body spell
"You can't take the sky from me!"
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