Mission to Sector ZZ1219 by Jerry D Young

Author:Jerry D Young [Young, Jerry D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creative Texts Publishers, LLC
Published: 2018-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

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Johnny groaned when he came awake early the next morning. A quick touch of the pain dispenser and he rested a few minutes, a smile forming as the pain lessened, and thoughts of Willi entered his mind.

It was a few moments longer before Johnny realized that it was the buzz of his communicator that had woken him. He kept it in silent mode almost all the time. The device would only give a sound if he failed to answer in a timely manner after the initial signal.

Johnny fumbled slightly, reaching for the communicator on the bedside table. Though there was no one there to see it, Johnny’s features changed dramatically from the happy smile, tinged with just a bit of pain, to the plain, emotionless façade he often wore when things were not the way he would wish them to be.

A touch and the communicator went back into standby mode. Johnny, despite the pain, and without triggering additional medication, rose from the bed and began to dress. Showing almost none of the frustration he began to feel with the difficulty he was having, Johnny made a decision he figured would cost him, but needed to be made.

When he activated the house communicator and spoke Willi’s name, he steeled himself, in more ways than one.

“Johnny?” a very sleepy sounding Willi asked. She rolled over in bed and squinted at the bedside display. “It’s five in the morning…” she muttered.

The particular sound of Johnny’s voice was beginning to register on Willi’s somewhat foggy mind. And she started to come awake very quickly then.

The words were coming out of her mouth even as she swung her legs around and tried to get up. But her unsettled sleep during the night had twisted the coverings around her legs, and she literally fell out of the bed, forcing a huge “Umpf!” out of her when she hit the floor.

Not one to panic, ever, Johnny found himself out of his bedroom, running as best as he could toward the other wing of the house, no notice of the pain, or anything else, as he headed for Willi, the thought that something might already be happening nearly terrifying him.

“Johnny, are you okay?” Willi was saying now, trying to untangle herself and get off the floor, something in his voice when he had called her moments before really bothering her.

When there was no response, Willi muttered, and redoubled her efforts to get up, finally able to kick with her legs enough to get free of the coverings. Now she was starting to feel like something was terribly wrong as her next, “Johnny! Say something!” went unanswered.

Just getting to her feet now, one hand on the bed and the other reaching for her robe, she spun around when her bedroom door slammed open and Johnny ran in, his face ashen.

The sudden spin had her going down again, backwards onto her rump, eyes wide as Johnny rushed to her. She could see the anguish in his eyes, and the concern.

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