Holm, Stef Ann by Honey

Author:Honey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-08-24T15:32:25+00:00

"I don't want to go to Boston with you, Alex," Captain repeated as he and Alex walked across from the white-spired church on Hackberry Way to Dr. Porter's office.

"That's why we're going to the doctor's office, Cap, so I can give him your medicine and he'll help you take it while I'm gone."

Captain wore a Stetson identical to Alex's. "I can remember things sometimes. I think I could remember my medicine." His fingers splayed through his full beard. "But I can forget things, too. Huh, Alex?"

"You can."

"That's why we'd better give the doctor my medicines."

Crossing the street, Alex said, "You have to promise me you'll go to Dr. Porter's office every day."

"I promise. Because if I had to give myself my medicine, I might take too much like I did that one time. Or I might lose the bottles. I got lost in Philadelphia. It's a good thing you didn't stay mad at me, or you'd have to kick my ass. Right, Alex?"

Alex smiled. "I'd never kick your ass, Cap."

Captain grinned. "Maybe one day I'll kick yours."

The words landed hard on Alex, but he pushed them off his shoulders. "Yeah, you could do that, Cap. You're a big guy."

"So're you."

"Yeah."

Alex held on to a small bag containing the two bottles he'd been given from the Baltimore Hospital. One was administered daily. The other, a powder, was given only when Cap had a particularly bad headache. Alex had the medicines mailed to him in Harmony when he ran out.

Between the two, Captain seemed calm most of the time. But that calmness came with a price. His coordination had been affected, he grew drowsy and sometimes confused, more easily agitated—on rare occasions, hostile. But Alex had to give him the medicine. The doctors told him it would help Cap, and Alex knew of no other solution until he could get him to Silas Denton's hospital in Buffalo.

Alex pulled open the door to the doctor's office and was greeted by the doctor himself. He sat at a desk in the front office. A curtained partition led to the examining room. Glass cabinets with glass shelves held instruments and various items dealing with medicine.

"Mr. Cordova," Dr. Porter said, standing and extended his hand. "I've been expecting you."

He was an elderly gentleman with thick white hair and scraggly eyebrows that looked like tree bark. His face was kind and compassionate. Alex would never have agreed to do this if it weren't for the fact that he trusted the doc. He'd never taken Captain to him in an official capacity before. There had been no need, as Alex got his medicines from Baltimore and Captain didn't need physical exams.

"Doc," Alex replied, taking the man's hand.

"And you are the patient?" Dr. Porter said to Captain in a tone that didn't belittle Cap's capabilities.

Captain stood his full height, seeming to dwarf the room. His gaze had traveled across the four walls, looking and staring, then finally focusing on the doctor. "I'm Captain." His eyes darkened, uncertain; a little afraid.

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