Joseph by Kris Michaels

Author:Kris Michaels [Michaels, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0161JSHS0
Publisher: Troll River Publications
Published: 2015-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Ember heard the helicopter before she saw the shadow of the massive machine drift over the cabin. The noise from the blades pulsed with a whopping thrum, shaking everything in the house. Loose grasses and leaves from the meadow launched in a frenzy of botanic debris as the massive dual rotor aircraft sank onto the field. Before the helicopter settled, two men jumped from the open side door. A hand held stretcher slapped the legs of the faster man as the two men raced towards the back porch.

Ember watched them both vault the three steps to the landing. A tall blond wearing an eye patch saw her first and headed directly to her.

“Dr. Adam Cassidy.”

“Dr. Ember Harris. Chief is stable but critical. Extensive blood loss. No broken bones that I could determine. Massive tissue damage. I performed primary field triage and sewed him up the best I could. He will need surgery to clean him out and assess the actual damage. I have him on a morphine drip, plasma, and ringers lactate. The idiot tried to macho up and move, so I put him out.”

Both men followed her into the second bedroom where Chief lay unconscious.

“Roger that. Dixon and I’ll get him ready for transport. Where’s Fury?”

Ember’s mind went blank. Huh? “What the hell is Fury?”

Both men stopped and looked at her as if she had three heads.

The doctor seemed to search for his words before he replied, “Umm…Joseph?”

“Joey? He finally agreed to take something for pain. He may have thought it was Tylenol. He is in the other bedroom.”

Doc chuckled and shook his head as he and the tall, sandy haired man easily moved Chief onto the stretcher. His words came slow and measured…almost hesitant. “Let me guess. It wasn’t.”

She suspected the doctor might have a slight speech impairment. His mind was sharp though.

Ember eyed the doctor and shook her head now leery that the man might report her deceit in dealing with her patient. “Drugging a patient without informed consent would be considered unethical. Anyway, you’ll need to run some labs but the wounds are definitely infected. His strength had returned and his injuries were repairing nicely until he went out into the hills. Whatever he had to do up there, it ruptured every laceration that had been remodeling. I believe he may be in the early stages of septicemia. Now that he is out I have him on IV antibiotics.”

The doctor flew into a flurry of sign language and the younger man nodded and bent to lift the stretcher. As the men carried Mike out of the room, the younger one spoke. “Alright we’ll get Chief to the chopper and come back for Joseph. Pack everything you need. You won’t be coming back here. The location has been compromised.” Doc nodded in agreement.

“Ma’am, Fury…I mean Joseph…he recovered a backpack with a computer and a notebook this morning. We’ll need that too.”

“It’s all by the back door. Joey made me pack everything before he would take anything for his injuries.

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