Youth Patrol by Andrew Lueders

Author:Andrew Lueders [Lueders, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 31

I then realize very quickly who the stranger is; it’s Perry. He wheels me away rather hastily. We’re not heading back to my apartment where he usually dumps me off in the evening. He’s taking me straight to the medical building. We go inside, and like last time I was here, it’s empty; no one is around. We find an examination room and go in. He lowers the back of my chair until I’m lying completely flat. He places the tweaker device on my L-Chip and pulls up my hologram chart. He dials a few things up and a few things down. Then I feel a rush come over me, my blood flows through my body. My muscles are stimulated almost to the point of agony. Then Perry shuts off the hologram and pulls the device off my L-Chip. I lie there, unable to move, wondering what he’ll do next. He looks over me and then jabs something into my forehead and starts digging.

“Awwww!” I scream. I can scream?

It feels like my brain is being sucked out, he’s killing me. He keeps digging and digging. Oh God, just put me out of my misery. Then all at once, the pain stops.

“It’s done, Evan,” Perry mumbles.

“It’s done?” I say, realizing I can speak. “I can talk.” I blink a few times and then quickly sit up. “I can sit up too! I can move!”

“Yes you can,” Perry says, turning around to clean his medical tools under the ultraviolet light. One of his tools looks like the apparatus that the old man used when he tried to take out the Arab boy’s L-Chip.

I touch my forehead. The chip is gone, but a scar has replaced it. “What’d you do?” I ask.

“I took out your L-Chip,” he answers directly. “I cut open your forehead and pried out the chip. I cauterized the wound to stop the bleeding but more importantly, I stopped your brain from hemorrhaging.”

“It’s really gone?”

“That’s right, you’re now mortal. You’ll grow old and die.”

“Why’d you do it, Perry?”

“I did it so they can’t track you or record your conversations any more.”

“That’s not what I meant. I mean, ‘why’ did you do it?”

“Because we’re escaping.”

“What?”

“Yeah, me, you, and Val. Now listen to me,” he says, holding something between his fingers. “See this, Evan? It’s your L-Chip, it’s still operational as a locator device. We’ll bury it in the gardens before we leave. They’ll think you’re still out there.”

“Wait, wait, wait, what the hell are you talking about?”

He’s about to say something, but he stops. “You hear that?”

“What?” I say.

“That.”

“I don’t hear anything.”

“Yo medic, where you at?” a voice yells from the lobby.

“Oh no,” Perry whispers to himself. “Is it 1:30 already?” Perry comes rushing over to me and sticks the tweaker device back onto my forehead. “Keep that on and don’t move, okay.” He raises the back of my seat to the ‘up right’ position. “Stay there and act like you’re still in a coma.”

“The last time I listened to you I ended up paralyzed.

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