Peace Keeper by Greg Prado

Author:Greg Prado
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titanite Books
Published: 2020-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

5

Disposable

“I don’t need your help!” Mieke cawed, swatting away Doctor Rutger’s hand as she tried to stand on the newly bandaged leg and gestured across the room. “He needs those stitches dressed!”

William looked over his shoulder at the damaged Mr. Fisher. He looked like a man without a purpose.

“So, I’ll be the first to ask. Do you remember what happened before you—changed?” William wondered.

“I remember everything,” Mieke lamented. “It’s a bit confusing to see that man as my father and simultaneously care about my creator as though he were as well. My mind is running two separate partitions that I can’t seem to fully mesh.”

“You know we decided on this,” Friedrich explained. “You wanted this.”

“I know that,” Mieke sighed, favoring her right leg as she stood. “But it’s my brain that is scrambled eggs right now and I’m pretty fucked in the head. I can distinctly remember being pushed on the swing by my—”

Mieke halted, her mind swimming.

“. . .being pushed by Mrs. Fisher. My mind is short-circuiting.”

“The memories I implanted will fade,” Friedrich sighed. “For better or for worse, you will view them as one might remember a pleasant book or movie soon enough. I designed you, and agents as a whole, so that you could easily bounce back from the process of reprogramming.”

Mieke looked forlorn as she leaned against the countertop.

“I’m going to forget my mother?”

Friedrich placed a palm over hers and frowned a bit as she quickly withdrew.

The four stood about in the stark white jewelry storage and appraisal area. The stark white tile floors were a sharp contrast to the elegant blacks and smooth display cases in the customer area. Of course, the grandeur had been marred by the addition of a corpse and streaks of blood. William glanced at the disintegrated head of Thirteen as he passed the barred doorway.

He put the pieces together as he began to sew up the wound on Mr. Fisher’s shoulder.

“The Crown is working on something like that monstrosity out there, aren’t they?”

Friedrich shrugged as he reloaded the rifle that was laid across a steel work table. He fiddled with the slide as he slipped the magazine into the base.

“I know as much as you do, Doctor Rutger,” Friedrich responded. “I only know that I wanted to give Mieke a normal life apart from all of this—”

Mieke held up a hand as her ears heard something that no one else could pick up. She looked at William and held a hand at chest level while gesturing downward. He paused mid-suture and looked up. Mieke looked worriedly at Friedrich as she pointed toward the entrance they had emerged from.

William stared at her face as she brought a finger to her mouth.

Peacekeeper, she mouthed.

Without informing the group or asking permission, she waved them forward and out of the store. Her pace was rapid, even with the bandaged leg. Slit from knee to ankle, William was sure her advanced body had some kind of pain management system. He began to wonder if it was adrenaline based, or something more.

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