Resurrection by Sue Yockney

Author:Sue Yockney [Yockney, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 19084724
Publisher: Sue Yockney
Published: 2013-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36

18/06/304223:24 hours

JONATHAN

I’m not dead. I may have broken my arm as I dived to the floor and my left leg is twisted at an awkward angle and hurts a lot…but I’m not dead. Wounded? I can’t move, not yet. A mental audit of my body, checking each part for any sensation of seeping blood, finds nothing. I’m not dead, but I am too late. Opening my eyes for the first time since I hit the floor, I stare along it in the direction of the gunfire. A thin haze of white smoke hangs a metre or so above me, but at ground level it’s clearer. I can make out two sets of legs, from the knees down, one, wears an SRU uniform, the other, the blue of the Maintenance Department. I don’t know which one has the gun and I’m not going to do anything to find out. If they’re speaking, I can’t hear them. My ears are battered into deafness. I stare out at the smoke-cushioned, sound-muffled world I now inhabit, and wait.

There’s a voice, distant and indistinct, I can’t make out the words. I notice, through the whitened gloom, a set of legs approaching me and cringe from them, spotting the end of a gun against the thigh. They kneel down next to me and I feel a hand grab my arm and roll me onto my back. A sharp pain shoots through my left shoulder and I can’t stop myself from crying out.

‘Sorry, sorry,’ someone says above me. ‘Jonathan?’

The voice breaks and turns into a choking sob.

‘Stuart?’ I whisper.

‘How…how, can it be you? What have I done?’

I see him wipe his dripping nose with his sleeve, his face contorted with emotion. Fear? Remorse? The gun lies on the floor next to me, next to him. It gives off a faint acrid smell and I realise that he was the one who fired it.

‘Stuart, why…why did you…?’

‘I thought you were the Fulcrum. I knew they’d work out this way of getting into the Council Chamber but Sarah was right, it was you.’

‘Sarah’s with you?’

‘Yes, she is, but…’

‘I don’t understand, Stuart. Why have you got the gun?’

‘I took it off her,’ he says, looking back over his shoulder, ‘she can’t be trusted, Jonathan.’

‘I know,’ I say.

‘How can you be alive?’

He looks at me with a puzzled smile.

‘What you mean…after you shot at me?’

I laugh then stop, as it hurts too much.

‘I’m so sorry…’

‘It’s alright, I’m alright…I think, despite your efforts to kill me. But, I tell you something, Stuart, you’ve changed. What happened to the shy, nervous person I used to know?’

‘We’ve all changed, Jonathan,’ he says, misinterpreting the words I meant only as a joke.

‘I’ve got so much to tell you, Stuart but…’ I glance over his shoulder, ‘I’m not sure whether…’

‘No, don’t tell me now,’ he says, ‘let’s get you up.’

He moves towards my left shoulder.

‘Not that one,’ I say, anticipating the pain.

Going around to my other side, he hooks his hands under my right shoulder. Then, using him for support, I raise myself onto my feet.

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