First Favor: A Sam Archer Novel by Joseph Weinberg

Author:Joseph Weinberg [Weinberg, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Insomnia Publishing
Published: 2021-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

The present. Tuesday, 3:14 a.m. St. Paul. Things Forgotten.

I call Barry and tell him about the gun, but I don’t mention who how Stacy got shot.Lilah and I carry Stacy inside and put her in the back room behind the counter, on the same little cot Lilah had put me in the first time we met. I guess this makes it Stacy’s second trip. I call Barry and tell him about the gun, but I don’t mention who got shot.

Lilah never asks about the hospital. Instead, she has me bring Stacy in and retrieves her medical equipment. For someone who worked as a nurse in college and used to be an EMT, Lilah’s got one hell of a setup. Like, trauma surgeon setup. It’s like a hospital in here. She has a lot more training than she does degrees. In no time flat, she has Stacy on a morphine drip. A bag of O negative blood hangs next to it, waiting to be switched into the IV. There’s a defibrillator around here somewhere, too. I don’t even know how those things work. I just figure Lilah’s boss must’ve had a hand in bringing all this here at some point.

“Does she need anything special?” Lilah asks. “Like silver forceps? Or not-silver?”

I shake my head, but it does answer my question about what kinds of patients she has. Despite her protests to the contrary, I bet Lilah does quite a bit more than sell books. When supernaturals come to me for help, it’s about finding something. When they come to her, it’s about receiving medical attention.

“She’s essentially a normal human being,” I explain. “The physical form is what it is.”

“It’s in pain,” Stacy adds, but with a smile. “At least, I think it is.” She looks down at her stomach, then up at me. “Will you marry me, Sam?”

“What?”

“Marry me. Get me a green card so I can stay on this side forever.”

Lilah looks at me, but I shrug. I’d never heard of that.

“It works for Beetlejuice. Why shouldn’t it work for me?” Stacy turns towards Lilah. “Will you marry me? We can go into the woods and dance naked under the moon or something.”

Gotta love morphine. And shock. Shock is a thing too.

“You’re going to be okay,” Lilah remarks. “I’ll have you stitched up in no time.”

“You have to get the bullet out,” Stacy says.

“No, I don’t.”

“Won’t it get infected?”

“No. Bullets are superheated when they enter the body. They’re sterile,” Lilah explains. “Trying to get it out might result in cutting an artery or something, causing more problems than it solves.”

“I need the bullet out.” Stacy looks at me with fear in her morphine-dulled eyes. “It’s important.”

Stacy could use magic to heal the wound and either leave the bullet in or force it out. In fact, I can already tell she’s done some healing, which is a good thing. Lots of dangerous things happen when someone gets shot in the gut. She must’ve healed it enough so it isn’t fatal anymore, but still not all the way, and not enough to remove the bullet.

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