Immortally Embraced by Fox Angie

Author:Fox, Angie [Fox, Angie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 2013-02-25T23:00:00+00:00

chapter fourteen

I banged into our tent. Rodger was still organizing the action figures he’d brought back from his leave. At least that’s what I hoped they were doing spread out all over my cot.

My roommate was stretched out on his neat and clean bed with a Justice League comic book. “You’re back,” he started to sit up. “Whoa!” He gave a gross-out look. “What happened to you?”

“The minefield,” I said, looking for a place to sit.

Rodger leapt up and began clearing action figures, for their sake more than mine. Heaven forbid vinyl cape jawa 1978 get fish goo on his original, factory-sealed packaging.

“Oysters or chicken guts?” he asked, making sure the twelve-inch masterpiece edition of Captain Kirk was safe from my stench.

“Sardines,” I said, sitting, not caring about my blanket and sheets. They were washable.

Now that his children were out of the way, Rodger was impressed. “Nice one,” he whistled under his breath.

“I don’t have time to worry about it,” I said, resting my head in my hands.

“Actually, I think you should.”

That’s right. Rodger had an über-sensitive werewolf nose. He’d just have to suffer.

“I shot Marc.”

“Damn.” Rodger slumped down next to me.

That didn’t begin to cover it.

He sat with his elbows on his knees, trying to get me to look at him. “Marc was the enemy?”

I cringed. Yes, Marc was technically the enemy, but, “No, I didn’t shoot him because he was on the other side.” I explained the horrible mistake I’d made.

Rodger’s eyes were going bloodshot. “Marc might be okay,” he said, rubbing at his face with his sleeve. He dropped his hands. “We’ve both seen patients with twenty percent odds pull through just fine.”

But we usually saw them die. “The worst part is, I don’t know anything.” I stood, unable to sit for one more second. “Before, I knew Marc was dead. I could at least try to deal with it,” I said, pacing the tent. “Now he could be clinging to life, in pain and alone. He could have gotten caught anyway. He could be getting court-martialed or shot. They could be shoveling dirt over him at this very minute and I don’t know.” I’d failed him. “I’m not there.”

“I understand,” he said quietly. I stood looking out at the bubbling tar swamp and we just were. Rodger knew I was right and that he couldn’t make it better. So he just chose to be with me. It helped. Maybe.

I didn’t know anymore.

My throat felt raw. “Before, there was at least someone to blame,” I said, chest heaving. It felt hollow. “It was the old army’s fault. They took him. They put him on the front lines. It was their fault when the enemy slashed his throat and left him to bleed out on the ground. He left me because they took him from me.” I dropped my head, not wanting to say it. But I had to. I owed it to Marc to at least face what I did. “Now it’s all me. I pulled that trigger.

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