Disease. The world’s death sentence. I'm pretty sure most of you reading this don't know what it's like when a doctor comes in your hospital room and tells you that you're going to die in a year. But that was about 11 months ago. My condition has worsened since then, my legs being paralyzed and slowly worsening. 1 month. That's how long I've got. That’s what I thought up until today. Today, I got my second chance.
People sometimes underestimate how boring hospital rooms are. Unless you have visitors, it's boring. Monotonous. Nothing but you and the beeping of the heart monitor and the ticking of the clock. It created a beat of sorts, endlessly going on and on. Well, not endlessly. The beeping would be leaving the accidental harmony in a few weeks. I sat, my eyes closed, tapping along to the two sounds. tick BEEP tick BEEP tick click!
Click? I opened my eyes to look at the source of the noise, the door. My doctor, Dr. Hammerstein, walked in with an unfamiliar woman in tow. Hammerstein was a calm, easy going woman. She was the one who informed me of my condition, and then comforted me afterwards. We were close friends, our relationship strengthening over the past …show more content…
My vision was still extremely blurry, but I saw familiar pink hair on the other side of the room. “Redheart?” I tried to mumble, but it came out as barely a groan. She turned to me, a smile coming across her face. “Oh, good! You finally woke up. Now we can start the procedure.” All I could do is sit helplessly as the woman put a needle to my arm. “Don't worry, Tommy boy. Soon, you'll be a part of Celestia’s army.” She said menacingly as she pushed the needle deep into my skin. She injected about a quarter of the serum into my bloodstream before an explosion sent chunks of wall flying out, hitting her in the head and knocking her out. She collapsed to the floor. I turned to the wall to see Hammerstein standing in the
People sometimes underestimate how boring hospital rooms are. Unless you have visitors, it's boring. Monotonous. Nothing but you and the beeping of the heart monitor and the ticking of the clock. It created a beat of sorts, endlessly going on and on. Well, not endlessly. The beeping would be leaving the accidental harmony in a few weeks. I sat, my eyes closed, tapping along to the two sounds. tick BEEP tick BEEP tick click!
Click? I opened my eyes to look at the source of the noise, the door. My doctor, Dr. Hammerstein, walked in with an unfamiliar woman in tow. Hammerstein was a calm, easy going woman. She was the one who informed me of my condition, and then comforted me afterwards. We were close friends, our relationship strengthening over the past …show more content…
My vision was still extremely blurry, but I saw familiar pink hair on the other side of the room. “Redheart?” I tried to mumble, but it came out as barely a groan. She turned to me, a smile coming across her face. “Oh, good! You finally woke up. Now we can start the procedure.” All I could do is sit helplessly as the woman put a needle to my arm. “Don't worry, Tommy boy. Soon, you'll be a part of Celestia’s army.” She said menacingly as she pushed the needle deep into my skin. She injected about a quarter of the serum into my bloodstream before an explosion sent chunks of wall flying out, hitting her in the head and knocking her out. She collapsed to the floor. I turned to the wall to see Hammerstein standing in the