Winter's Storm by Karen Luellen

Author:Karen Luellen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Karen Luellen
Published: 2011-11-04T05:00:00+00:00

33 Final Countdown

Evan spent the night in the lab working on his mother’s request. And true to his word, he was able to extract the original serum from his own DNA blood samples inside five hours. He made three sets of the serum. One, he assumed would travel with Meg, one would remain here at the lab as a backup, and the third was a backup to the backup. No one but his mom and he would know about the third batch. No one needed to know. It was a contingency plan he hadn’t even concocted yet, but knew life well enough to know it is always a good idea to have a plan B.

He put batches one and two in the laboratory’s locked refrigerator. Before he did the same with the third, he first slipped into a small, self-contained cooling unit. As he sealed it shut, it made a sucking, vacuum-like hiss before it locked into place. Satisfied, he put the whole unit into the fridge and closed the door. He finished cleaning up his materials before Alik arrived to take over watch. He didn’t want to worry his brother any more than he already was.

“Hey, man,” Alik called to his baby brother when he was finished scrubbing in. “How’s our patient?”

“Alik, hey. She’s the same. Stats are constant. Fever down. I just finished documenting everything on her chart, so she’s good to go for you.” Evan’s eyes looked over his sister’s face and welled with tired tears. Gone were the days of stoic, detached Evan; he’d cried more in the last few days than his entire life previous.

“Great. Good deal, Ev. I got it from here. You go on and get some sleep, okay?” Alik knew his brother better than anyone else and to see his formerly unemotional little brother suffering so deeply was making everything feel even more desperate.

“Right,” Evan sniffed. He turned and walked stiffly out of the room.

Alik could hear the whoosh of the sliding doors as his brother stepped on the sensor. Then again, the woosh of the doors closing behind him. He glanced up and saw the top of his baby brother’s head as he pulled off the scrubs he was wearing and tossed them into the biohazard hamper. He pulled on his plain blue T-shirt and walked out of sight.

“Well, big sister, it’s just the two of us,” Alik said, trying to pretend his sister was just sleeping and not on death’s door.

He reached over and grabbed the clip board off of the table beside him. He saw his brother’s notes written in his typical neat script. The last note was written about ten minutes ago. Alik put the clip board down softly, so as not to disturb his sister.

Last night he had decided to read everything he could get his hands on having anything possibly to do with Meg’s medical condition. He never before needed to study medicine, that was Evan and Mom’s specialty, but now, he felt so helpless that he was determined to at least know what the heck all these doctors were saying when they spoke.

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