Project Dandelion: Resistance by Heather Carson

Author:Heather Carson [Carson, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-23T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Mia bounced around in the seat as Katrina maneuvered the ambulance back to the road. The enemy dropped more rockets, destroying the vehicles next to the mechanic shop.

“They got Gunny!” Mia screamed through angry tears.

“They’re going to take out anything that can be of use to the rebel forces,” Katrina said as she turned right down the long stretch of empty road. “Thankfully they got the helicopters out in time.”

“Will they leave after they blow up the vehicles?” Mia cried as she watched the smoking remains of the old tank in the distance.

“No.” Katrina shook her head as she slammed the gas pedal onto to the floor. “They’ll come for the buildings and the people next.”

*

She pulled the ambulance into the emergency entrance and rushed into the hospital. There was a blur of activity as the last of the bedridden patients were being carried to the helicopter. The hospital staff not actively helping were running out of the doors to safety. Dr. C and another doctor balanced a wounded veteran awkwardly between the two of them.

“Thank you, sweetheart,” Dr. C paused to whisper to Katrina.

“Katrina,” Natalie Sprague cried out. She was carrying a small child with an oxygen tank in her arms. “Dreya said you got us the flight. Your dad would be so proud of you.”

Katrina nodded. “How many more are there?”

Natalie looked to the waiting helicopter. “I think that’s it. Dreya and Rose are coming with Admiral Neil now. Thirty-two patients. I don’t know how we are all going to fit.”

“It’s all I could get,” Katrina said. “I’m sorry.”

“No, no. You did good. Thank you,” Natalie reassured her and the boy in her arms began to cry. She hugged him closer and whispered in his ear while pointing to the helicopter.

Dreya came out of the elevator pushing the wheelchair of an old man wrapped in a robe and hospital gown. His shoulders were hunched, and his hands were bent with arthritis. When the Admiral looked up at Katrina, she saw his roughly shaven chin quiver, but his eyes were intensely focused.

Dreya handed the wheelchair to Rose and ran over to her little sister. “Oh thank God,” she cried out while grabbing Mia. “How did you get here?”

“Katrina drove me in an ambulance,” Mia mumbled out from under her sister’s gripping hug.

“Thank you so much Katrina,” Dreya turned to face her friend.

“Can everyone please stop thanking me?” Katrina threw her hands up in the air. “We need to move. Like right now.”

The drumming of the helicopter blades drowned out the sound of the machine guns in the sky. Natalie tried to put the child on the aircraft, but the screaming boy wouldn’t let go of her shirt. Dr. C pulled her up the ramp into the back.

“There is not enough room,” Natalie screamed at the doctor.

“I’ll get off,” Dr. C said. “Then the Admiral can fit.”

“We can fit him without the wheelchair,” a Corpsman holding an IV bag of a patient behind the doctor yelled. “We need you ma’am.

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