Darius

(chapter 4, part 10… )

Nurse Jane Aspen beheld the girl in the hospital bed with baleful eyes. The girl looked unsure with her surroundings as far as Nurse Aspen was concerned. With standing a respectful distance, about two or three feet from the bedside, Nurse Aspen held herself demurely at attention as she was trained to do within her field of study as a registered nurse.
Looking as cheerful as she could muster, Nurse Aspen began with the procedure of getting the patient in her care ready for transport. She gave a firm but kindly nod as the girl relaxed within her bed and allowed Nurse Aspen to approach with tense but steady trepidation to set up the bed for mobile transport.

As Drew eased herself more into a relaxed state of calmness once the frantic waiting was over, she watched as the dutiful nurse wheeled her from her hospital room. Drew laid within the bed and gazed up at the translucent bright white light fixtures set into the hospital ceiling.
She barely noticed two other staff orderlies had come to help the nurse move the mobile bed as corridors zoomed past in front of Drew’s field of vision. Drew felt oddly at peace in this moment, barely noticing the slight jolts of movement as she was transported around the hospital corridors and corners. At on point, the bed halted, possibly to allow the opening of doors. But Drew was unsure of her surroundings at the moment as a lull of tired sleep sent her to oblivion before she awoke in a more brightly lit white room that smelled of steel and sterile surroundings.
Drew was laying down upon a cold and hard surface with a whirring machine around her that seemed focused upon Drew’s head. A whining of wind turbines could be heard all around Drew as a voice vaguely instructed her from a muffled speaker telling her to not move and try to relax. The voice was oddly reassuring and comforting so Drew just shut her eyes and tried relaxing her body as the voice told her to.

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( chapter 4, part 11… )

There was a slight flash of brightness from behind my closed eyelids as the whirring continued around me. I tried to remain as still as possible, scared by the unknown machine doing whatever it was doing around my head and body.
I felt a sense of denseness within myself, but tried remaining still upon the cold metal table. I lapsed in between discomfort and ache, my mind reeling at what had happened over the last day or two since seeing Darius. My mind flittered back to the first meeting of him in the woods, how I felt seeing him lost and helpless.
And yet the machine kept spinning around me, sweeping my mind back to the here and now, possibly trying to make sense of whatever was in my head.
I could not help my mind as I mentally screamed in anguish at the increasing amount of discomfort I felt until suddenly the whirring stopped. How long was it until it died down? My mind was unsure as I heard the muffled voice announce they had enough data now and I was to be transported back to my hospital room.
My mind remained numb at this, just my body muscles aching from having laid so still for how long? It could have been five, maybe twenty minutes lying upon the cold hard surface, I did not know.
I just knew my bones felt slightly numb and my body felt icy cold that it was hard to move my body even an inch for fear of hurting myself. I was mentally and physically exhausted that I could not sustain enough energy to keep myself awake before passing out in a deep slumber.

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Copperfox said:
Good lifelike detail here. It's true, human eyelids _are_ translucent to a bright enough light. I've experienced this.
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Yeah, it is. I expect a few people have experienced things like that.

( chapter 4, part 12… )

I awoke to a slight sensation of aching pain within my body, possibly from the unexpected sleep I had.
As my eyes adjusted to the brightness as I opened them, I found myself propped up in a sitting position within my hospital room.
There was a familiar sensation of my surroundings but the feeling soon faded from my mind as I noticed I was alone within my room. No hospital staff, no parents and no Darius. I did not know why I felt mostly saddened by this thought as it crossed my mind but I mentally brushed it aside as I familiarised myself with my body by stretching out my limbs slowly as the numbing pain faded from myself as I relaxed within my hospital bed. Whatever I experienced within the cold and sterile metal table room was but a memory of unpleasant uncomfortableness.

Darius, the boy that time forgot, jostled out by a happenstance of a girl that hurt her head in the woods. Maybe it was easier for him to fade from exsistance at that moment. But even he felt the pain and unease that Drew had felt in that heartless machine. But he had retreated, possibly out of uncertainty and fear.
‘Coward,’ he bitterly thought to himself with disgust.
But, no amount of mental anguish towards himself made Darius feel even more pitiful than the thought of abandoning Drew to be alone in her time of need. But, he still held back from her. He owed the girl that he became that much, though he could not explain it to himself why. Was it chivalry of a bygone age? Was it a simple act of kindness that people did? Or was it still a vindictive part of himself that still resided within Drew to survive for what he went through to become her?
That last thought made Darius feel physically and emotionally ill, but it sparked a slight indignation burning within his being, or whatever it was, possibly a soul? Even that simple concept was lost within Darius. Was he even there anymore? What even was he but a memory of a concept lost in a thought?
Struggling and frustrated by this, Darius pushed these thoughts aside. He had to get back to Drew, had to keep his head on the level if he wanted to be there for her. For without Drew, he knew deep down, he would no longer be, as scary a thought as it was, it was the truth.


End of Chapter 4.


( to be continued… )
 
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