Now & Forever 2 - The book of Danny by Joachim Jean

Author:Joachim Jean [Joachim Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporain
Published: 2011-11-11T22:24:53+00:00

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Though Danny was still experiencing nightmares, they were fewer than before. He saw Dr. Weiss regularly and wrote in his journal but not every symptom had disappeared. He still had a hair-trigger response and felt jumpy from time to time. Once during office hours a student came up silently behind Danny. When the boy tapped him on the shoulder, Danny grabbed his wrist, whipped around and had him painfully subdued in a second.

“I’m so sorry Duncan,” Danny said to the boy who rubbed his wrist.

“What did I do, Professor?”

“You surprised a military guy and got a military, defensive response. Not your fault. Are you hurt?” he asked, examining the boy’s wrist.

“Nothing is broken,” Duncan said.

“That’s a relief. I’m terribly sorry. It’s just a knee-jerk reaction,” Danny said.

“Could you teach me how to do that?” Duncan asked.

“I’m here to teach English, not hand-to-hand combat.”

David Cohen watched silently and after the boy left with his paper, he spoke up.

“Holy crap!”

“What?”

“Where did you learn that?”

“You mean how to subdue the boy? I learned in the Army.”

“That was amazing. You whirled around in a second and had him in a hold. Wow! Maybe I should have joined the Army.”

“Anyone can learn to do what I did,” Danny replied, giving his friend a sardonic smile.

“Oh well, I’ll have to dazzle an assailant with my Shakespearean quotes because I sure as hell won’t be able to lay a finger on anyone.”

Each day Danny left the killing and death of Iraq a little farther behind him.

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