The Day Death Went Away Chapter 5 Waiting

Mark sat in the waiting room looking at all the people in urgent need of medical care. One young girl with sandy blond hair in pig tails. Had a Javelin going right through her abdominal, the Javelin point was covered in blood. The blood was dripping off the javelin onto the white linoleum floor. The girl seemed to be fine though. She had a big cheesy grin on her face like she was unaware of the seriousness of her accident. She was not the only one. Mark and Ruby looked around the waiting room. A man whose arms and legs were facing in Ways Mark thought should not even be possible. Yet the man still seem like he was not in any serious pain, just mild discomfort. The most flabbergasting of all these people, was a tiny boy. He had olive skin with scruffy brown hair. He looked no older than seven. To Mark and Ruby’s astonishment his head was twisted around the wrong way. Mark and Ruby wondered how he could even possibly still be breathing. His parents next to this boy with their worried faces, They too must have been wondering the same thing. The mother looked like she was about to faint at any moment as the father held her.

‘None of it made sense. How were any of these people still breathing?’ Mark said to himself. The lady at the desk who was calling out the people, looked like she was also going to faint every time she said “The Doctor will see you now” to the patients as they approached her. Everyone was staring at each other in the room gobsmacked wondering the same as Mark was.

Ruby sat down next to Mark “Looks like it’s going to be awhile. You gonna tell me what happened to you Mark?” Mark was not paying any attention to Ruby. He was too busy contemplating how he was still alive. How any of these people were. At first he believed he was dead. Then he thought he had got extremely lucky, but as he sat and watched these people, did they all also dodge death. Mark faced Ruby; he noticed her eyes were closed.

“Why are your eyes closed?” He said.

I don’t want to see these people. My gut can’t take it.”

Mark said nothing else on the matter. Ruby tapped her feet impatiently back and forth against the legs of the chair. “You ready to tell me, I saved your life. For all you know if I hadn't come along you would be dead by now. I think you own me an explanation.” Mark give in and told Ruby all about what had happened to him. She was utterly stunned, all she could say was. “You’re pulling my leg right?” She opened her eyes for a brief second. “I think I believe you though, after seeing all this and what I heard on the radio, your just one more of them miracles. Mark asked Ruby to feel his arm for a pules just make sure he was not imagining it. She placed her fingers onto marks wrist. Mark watched her face go into complete bafflement. She quickly removed her hand from Marks wrist and yell out “Your right you have no bloody pulse, how can that be?!”

The lady at the desk said. “Mark Fallen the Doctor will see you now.”