Fates Aflame by P. Anastasia

Author:P. Anastasia [Anastasia, P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NA
Published: 2017-09-18T23:00:00+00:00

landed the Tetra-Haizon with less finesse than usual and pulled in disturbingly close to the hangar, sending the landing crew into a frenzy.

Another second could mean the end for her. I had no time to waste. The cockpit canopy lifted and I climbed out. I’d secured the antidote in a small leather pouch and tucked it away in my heavy flight jacket for safe keeping.

“May I help you, Commander?” The receptionist stood upon my arrival to the infirmary. The woman I’d spoken with earlier, Tabitha, was no longer there.

“Yes. The… Lieutenant… from Celestial Galaxy.” I was out of breath from the rush over. “Hawksford. How is she?”

“She’s still in Intensive Care, Sir. I believe her condition has declined and they moved her to another room in case she had to be placed on life support.”

“What!?” A chill swept over my skin and a sickening feeling of dread made my stomach turn. “I need to see her. Now.” I marched down the hall toward the room she was in before.

“She’s not there anymore, Sir!” The woman trotted after me. “She’s at the end of the hall, but—”

I picked up speed, glancing through the glass windows in the last few doors of the strip, hoping to find the room they’d put Valhara in.

There!

“You can’t be in here!” a man wearing a long white coat said, alarmed by my sudden bursting into the room. Valhara was there, hooked up to half a dozen machines, her skin an unnaturally ashen shade, resembling a color I’d seen before, but not on anyone still breathing.

“Doctor, I have something you need to give her.” I reached into my jacket for the satchel and carefully slid out the vial of colored liquid. “This is the only thing that can save her right now.”

The doctor scowled, looking at me as if I had lost my mind. “You expect me to give her that?” He scoffed. “I don’t even know what it is.”

“Nothing you’ve done for her thus far has helped, has it?”

The doctor’s lips thinned, but he fought the urge to validate my question.

“This is the cure. You have to give it to her. Now. Before it’s too late.” My hands shook, but I held firmly to the priceless bottle of life-saving liquid. “Please. Trust me, Doctor.”

“Commander, do you know how many hospital policies you’re violating right now, and how many I’ll violate if I administer an untested, unknown compound to my patient?”

I glanced at her. Her skin was so pale.

She was slipping away right in front of me, and there I was trying to convince her caretaker that I had the one and only thing that would give her a chance.

I flexed my fingers and took a deep breath, contemplating the ignorance of the dangerous thought flitting through my mind. It would, without a doubt, get me court-martialed.

But it was my first reaction.

Valhara was going to die.

“Give it to her.” A sneer wrinkled my lips. I parted the flaps of my jacket and slid my hand in, wrapping my fingers around the grip and sliding my gun out just far enough for him to see it.

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