The Comatose by Kate Myers

Author:Kate Myers [Myers, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733232227
Published: 2020-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

25

Max

Morning slowly rolls in, each second antagonizing and painful. I wait eagerly in anticipation for whatever update Dad might be able to provide. I barely slept, dozing in and out of consciousness, hopeful that maybe, just maybe he would burst through the door any moment and tell me he figured out how to save Skylar, how to bring her back.

The clock on the nightstand reads 6:08 a.m., and I know soon that the house will begin to stir—people will wake, have breakfast, and start forming a plan for the day.

Footsteps permeate the hall and then make their way into my bedroom.

“Hey, you,” Dad says, almost cheerful.

My heart decides to do a flip, anxiously catapulting itself.

“Hey,” I manage to respond.

“Quinn will be in shortly,” he says, approaching Skylar’s side, notebook in hand.

“Is everything okay?” I ask, a sinking feeling taking hold. My palms fill with a light dusting of sweat.

He smiles. “Yeah. Don’t worry, I wanted to go over things together, instead of individually, saves time.”

An eternity passes, or maybe a minute, and Quinn finally enters.

“Morning, fellas,” she says, towel drying her freshly showered hair.

“Glad you were able to find some of Maura’s old clothes that fit. I could never bring myself to get rid of them. It’s nice to know they’re coming in handy now.”

“I had to do a little digging; that woman has way more style than I do.” She laughs. “I really appreciate it, thank you, Keith.”

I clear the log that has formed in my throat. “So, what’s the update?”

“Right, Mr. Impatient over here,” he chuckles and winks at me. “So, get this, after further analysis, there is most definitely a reaction with your blood and Skylar’s, and your blood with the woman’s, but here’s where it gets weird—no reaction with the man we’re claiming is deranged. I tested all of the rest of our blood against the two, and there was no positive reaction. Quinn’s and Sanchez’s blood both drastically mutated whatever virus is present from the deranged man’s blood, leading me to assume that had they been infected, they would show signs of being deranged.” He pauses, perhaps allowing this information to sink in.

Quinn speaks first. “How does Max’s blood factor in here, and yours and Wiley’s?”

“Well, mine and Wiley’s had no positive effect on Skylar’s. And even though Max’s did, it deems to be only temporary.”

“What do you mean, temporary?” I say, clearly speaking out of turn.

“It’s almost as if your blood acts as just a bandage, helping, but not necessarily fixing the problem.”

My heart seems to shatter, the hope of thinking I could help in some way swept out from under me.

“Oh,” I say, shrunken and defeated. I must have misread his smile from when he entered the room and his excitement last night of whatever theory he had thought.

“The immune response is incredible, really. Your blood alone basically attacks what bits of Skylar’s blood is injected, in small quantities obviously. Being such a small sample, it’s a manageable volume, but as a whole, to send minimal amounts of your blood into Skylar’s isn’t feasible.

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