Darkest Night by James Cherry

Author:James Cherry [Cherry, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

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The doctor had awakened early the next morning, after only a few hours of sleep, and hurried to the airport. Once there he exchanged his ticket to Milwaukee for a ticket to Denver, and caught the plane.

The doctor remained oblivious to everything around him as he sat lost in thought, as his mind pondered all of the new information that he had acquired. He ignored the flight attendant as she offered a drink and he did not hear the passenger to his left attempt to strike up a conversation.

As he sat immobile and unresponsive to the world around him, just staring out the window, when a sudden thought hit him, why didn't the military tell Bo that Carter had survived?

The fact that Bo thought Carter was dead meant that the military did not want Bo to know that Carter was alive. And with Carter in a mental institution, no one would believe the young man if he did talk. Everything pointed back to the fact that the military was hiding something.

A sudden stomach-churning drop caused the doctor to snap out of his trance. He looked around at the unfamiliar faces about him and suddenly realized that he missed his team.

He missed Ayako with her caring smile, he missed Bo and his silent strength, and he missed Ron and his Southern humor. He even missed Marty with his arrogant and argumentative attitude.

Marty was the biggest mystery of all. It almost seemed as if Marty was working for the government. He had tried to discredit the doctor at every twist and turn and had succeeded in turning the rest of the team against him. Just where did Marty fit into the puzzle?

As the doctor contemplated the situation, he realized that he had never notified anyone to let them know where he had gone. He would need to brief his team on everything that he had learned, top secret be damned. The doctor also needed his team to accompany him when he finally got to view the creature's corpse firsthand.

His mind worked in high gear as he tried to figure out how to convince the military to allow the rest of the team to accompany him. His friends’ confidence in him had been shaken, if not completely lost, and the only way to regain their trust was for them to finally see the truth. They needed to see that the he had been right all along.

The fasten seatbelt sign appeared and the captain's voice piped in cheerfully over the intercom, jolting the doctor out of his thoughts yet again. "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I have just turned on the fasten seatbelt sign since we are preparing to land at Denver International Airport. Please make sure your tray tables are up and your seats are in their full upright position and please fasten your seatbelts. I hope you have enjoyed flying with us. Thank you."

The doctor sighed in relief as the plane finally touched down. He patiently waited as the plane taxied to the gate and finally stopped.

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