Daniel tapped the boy’s face. His eyes opened slightly, the deep chocolate eyes focused for no longer than a second and then rolled. Blood shot white corneas stared back at Daniel, and then closed. Doctors and nurses circled Daniel, pushing him out of the way. He stood watching, his hands fidgeted. An overwhelming feeling of anxiety took over. He couldn’t explain it. He reassured himself, you got him here, there is time, yet something nagged at him. He watched a full five minutes before he realized.
“The girl, there is a girl, has she come in.”
No one looked at him. The room was a world he was not a part of. A place he protected but didn’t belong. Daniele ran outside and began a rapid search. The sand had picked up a little again making it hard to see. Looking around he didn’t see her close by. His feet took off again, running to the spot where he had picked up the boy. She was only several feet ahead of where he had left her. She lay face first in the sand. Bending he shook her. “I am going to carry you in.” She was light. He could feel her chest rise and fall in his arms. She was breathing and this pleased him. His second entry was a little less chaotic.
“Hey, I got his sister. She is not shot. I don’t know what is wrong with her, but the girl carried him here the whole way from wherever they came from.”
“We got it soldier.” A uniformed doctor explained.
Two hours back at the barracks, gave Daniel enough time to shower, eat, and write. A self-disciplined schedule he constructed and adhered to.
A squeak and a clank alarmed the room that someone was entering. “Oh Danny Boy, the Sarge is looking for ya” said Oliver. A gangly guy who you could tell even from an instance, he moved like cooked spaghetti.
“What for?”
“You is in trouble” hollered Rich. A giant of a man.
“You guys are full of it.”
“No really go see sarge wants you.”
Daniel was confused, he had never been pulled out of the barracks. The walk was short.
“Knock Knock.” Daniel said as he popped his head into the half open door. “You needed me Sir.”
“Yeah, sit Danny.” “I got a problem with what you did today, you see I just can’t figure out how you could see the kid breathing if he had a girl laying on him. I am not going to ask if you lied to me, you see I have too much on my plate to be handing out discipline to Superman, or Clark Kent. Whoever you are pretending to be. You get what I am saying? You do anything like that again and I will find time for you! You got it Captain America?”
“Sir yes Sir.”
“Good get the hell out of here.”
The barracks came alive as he Daniel entered. A loud heckling ooooooo came from the guys.
“Shut up.”
“What he say” asked Rich.
“He said publisher’s clearing house came to my door, but I wasn’t home, so they gave it the neighbor.”
“You are a weird dude. No really what happened.”
“I just helped this girl and her brother today, kind of had to lie to help them.”
“Oh damn, you trying to get laid on the Highway of Death.”
“Kiss mine.”
“Oh she wasn’t hot?”
“I don’t know, I didn’t really look, her little brother was shot. I just wanted to help.”
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