Survivalist - 21.5 - The Legend by Ahern Jerry

Author:Ahern, Jerry [Ahern, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

He felt stupid in the sterile surgical garb, but he had to be here.

He wore no rubber gloves because he did not have to touch anything, nor did Maggie, who had said she would be his wife.

Jason Darkwood held her hand.

The head of the medical team administered the injections, first to Sarah Rourke, then to John Rourke.

Doctor Munchen, a good-hearted man, stood between the two coffin-like chambers.

Sarah Rourke’s face looked incredibly peaceful.

John Rourke’s face look disturbed, almost angry.

Lights flickered on within the chambers and in the consoles surrounding them as the lids were brought downward.

In the instant that they closed, clouds of gas, light blue in color, began to fill the chambers’ interiors.

Jason Darkwood held Maggie Barrow’s hand tighter.

The light within each chamber shone through the gas, making the interior of the chamber seem to glow.

Living people who might never live again were inside, and watching the clouds of gas Darkwood thought, for just an instant, that perhaps the brightness was their souls. But were they freed or imprisoned by what the Rourke Family called The Sleep’?

The question was for a philosopher or a priest and Jason Darkwood was neither, nothing but a man. Knowing Doctor John Thomas Rourke had made him appreciate all that being a

man implied, more than he had ever understood it before.

The chambers were fully closed, the gas all but totally obscuring the faces of John and Sarah Rourke.

Maggie’s hand trembled in his. He looked at her and her eyes were filled with tears. Through her surgical mask, she said, The first time I saw him, he was like this, more dead than alive.”

Darkwood held her hand more tightly, saying, “John Rourke survived then. Maybe they’ll both survive this, too. At least we can pray”

And Maggie leaned her head against his shoulder and Captain Jason Darkwood was glad he would make her his wife.

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