Rise by S A Shaffer

Author:S A Shaffer [Shaffer, S A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-07T22:00:00+00:00

A NEW HOPE

Mercy walked through the underground’s facility toward the surgical center. She’d been there several times before, once when she’d reported to Johnson her findings on David during its construction, once when the underground decided to bring David in for questioning, and once a few weeks earlier when she’d visited David’s mother. This time, she needed to convince David she’d never died, and console him at the eve of his mother’s death. She shook her head as she walked, a mixture of excitement and terror amidst questions and confusion. She really didn’t know what emotion to feel; only that she needed David to forgive her for hurting him. But on the other hand, how could she justifiably ask him for anything. She’d abandoned him by faking her death after he’d expressed feelings for her, and now she’d come back at the time of his mother’s death, and she wanted to ask him for forgiveness? He’d throw her out the minute he saw her. He’d tell her he didn’t care she was alive, because he never wanted to see her again.

Mercy paused as she walked up to Marguerite Ike’s surgical room and looked at the shut door. Perhaps his mother had told David she was alive. Mercy wondered if she’d also told him to be wary of her.

She closed her eyes and went over the speech she’d rehearsed a thousand times in preparation for this moment. But the words seemed so trite in comparison to the emotions raging inside her. She struggled at the door before she mastered herself and knocked three firm times. Nobody answered. She knocked again with still no reply. Finally, Mercy cracked the door open and looked inside. The room lay empty, the bed stripped and the multiple machines she’d seen earlier wheeled off into the corner. Mercy turned back to the hallway and caught a nurse by the arm.

“There was a patient in this room.” Mercy said. “Has she been moved?”

“Not moved, no.” The nurse said. “She passed on less than an hour ago.”

“Was there a young man with her when she passed?”

“Aye, he’d been with her all day.” The nurse said. “Poor dear sobbed for an hour.”

“But where did he go?”

“I’m not sure, miss. He walked out in a daze just after the woman’s passing and took the stairs.”

Mercy forgot to thank the woman as she turned and rushed toward the stairway. She didn’t have time to be bothered with such things. She stepped into the stairwell and looked up and down its center. Nobody was there, and she couldn’t decide which way she should go. She looked up and decided she’d check there first because there was only one story above her and several below. She stopped off at the top floor of the facility and asked a guard if he’d seen someone with David’s description. The brawny man shook his head, so she raced back into the stairway and climbed the last flight to the rooftop. She opened the door and stepped out onto the expanse, turning as she went.

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