Gotta Catch The Pretty Ones
© 2011-2014 by Mr. David R. Dorrycott
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Sara woke groggy. Very groggy. It was as though a soft fluffy blanket was between her and reality. The last clear thing she remembered was dialing the emergency number. She couldn’t even remember what she had said. There were flashes of images, her kitchen security door exploding outward in slow motion. A nurse looking at her with pain in her own eyes. An airplane, but where had an airplane come from? Stonehome didn’t even have an airport. Someone telling her that they had called her wife, oh what must Penny be thinking the redhead asked herself.
It was the pain in her right hand though that focused her mind, waking her fully. Her fingers felt like they were on fire and there was a sharp pain in the palm of her hand as though someone had cut it with a knife. She tried flexing her right hand but felt no response, it must be in bandages she finally decided. Just how badly had she been burned anyway? Still the clouds between her and reality held. She could smell that she was in a hospital, but where? “Nurse” she called, ignoring the little bulb sitting by her left hand that would have done the job better. “NURSE!”
Eventually a nurse arrived. She took one look at her patient before leaning out and yelling down the hall. “Doctor.” Apparently seeing someone coming she entered the room fully. “It’s all right Mrs. Richards” she said in that mind numbing soothing voice all Nurse’s seemed to have. “Your going to be fine, are you in pain?”
“A little” Sara admitted, “My right hand hurts and the worlds all fuzzy. Where am I?”
“Vermilion City Central Hospital” the nurse answered. “That was a very, very bad injury.” Just then the door opened and an elderly Doctor walked in.
“Mrs. Richards?” he asked in greeting.
“Gods I hope so” the fuzzed out Sara admitted. “Otherwise Penny is just going to kill me. This nurse just said my injury was bad. How bad.”
Looking to the nurse, who deftly placed her hand on a bulb attached to the drip going into Sara’s right arm the Doctor took a deep breath. “You lost your right hand Mrs. Richards. All the way to the wrist. I’m sorry.”
Sara never got a chance to scream. As she started to inhale the nurse squeezed and the world faded away.