Eclipsing Vengeance by Jeremy Michelson

Author:Jeremy Michelson [Michelson, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Nine

When I woke up there was a pretty brunette in Army greens leaning over me. She had a nice citrusy floral scent to her that I’m sure wasn’t Army issue.

“I must be in heaven,” I said, “Because you look like an angel.”

The side of her mouth quirked up in a half smile. She pulled a pen light from her shirt pocket and shined it in my eyes.

“Yeah, this one’s fine,” she said.

“What’s your name?” I asked.

She pointed to the name tag over her left breast. “Can you read that?”

It was black on green, but I managed to make it out. “Yardley? Is that first or last?”

“It’s all you need, sir,” she said. She got up and walked over to a desk. I watched as best I could. Army greens really weren’t made for checking out derrieres.

I was lying on a hard, narrow bed in what looked and smelled like a small hospital. The air was warm, stirred by a lazy fan above me. My head hurt a bit, but the rest of my parts didn’t seem to worse for the wear. I sat up, then had to grip the edge of the bed while a wave of dizziness passed through me.

Once that was through, I looked around. There were three other narrow beds in the room. The room itself had the no nonsense look of an Army facility. Greenish gray walls, industrial white and gray tile. Rows of fluorescent lights hung from the ceiling. At the end of the room was a single window. Harsh light came around the edges of the slatted blinds covering it. There were some flimsy looking folding chairs here and there between the beds. An Army M.P. sat beside mine, flipping through an old People Magazine. He glanced up for a moment, but went back to his magazine after a small nod at me.

Apparently I wasn’t a threat. Though that didn’t stop him from having a big .45 at his side.

The nurse–at least I assumed she was a nurse–sat behind the desk and started typing something into a computer terminal. A few feet from the desk was a set of double doors. Standing on either side of them were big, beefy MPs with rifles in their hands. They stared straight ahead, not making eye contact with anyone. I had a feeling they were paying close attention to everything I did, though.

“Where am I,” I asked.

The pretty Army lady looked up from her typing. “You’re at Holloman Air Force base in New Mexico.”

New Mexico? I was back on Earth? And alive? For a second I considered dropping to the floor and kissing it. Terra firma. I never thought I’d set foot on it again. It meant I could go home, back to my cabin. I could put my feet up and have a beer and catch up on reruns of Duck Dynasty.

The only thing that stopped me was that I knew nothing was ever that easy.

“How’d I get here?” I asked.

The nurse shot a quick look at the MPs by the door.

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