The God And His Bride - Episode 5

 

Present. 

While I try my best in making sure I don't cross paths with Jeter except on occasion, the universe has another thing planned for me. 

How do you explain the fact that when I turn a corner he's there? I walk to the vending machine to get a soda? He's standing there talking about last nights match with someone. 

I walk to the breakroom to rest my hand before a surgery? He's there going through a patient file. 

Hell, I almost ran into him on my way to the rest room the other day. 

It's been 2 good weeks of hardship and stress. 

Why didn't I just talk it out with this man the other time? Even Mila's solution did not work. 

Mila had told me to act cool and a little bit flirtatious, well, news flash, that did not work, it is as if he has written me off his radar. 

Like I don't exist for him anymore, that does not sit right with me, we connected, we had fun the other night, although we spent our time chatting, it had been fruitful. 

Sigh, I don't even know what i want, can't believe I'm trying to gain the attention of a man I dissed. 

I shake my head as I press the call button for the elevator, I just want to get home and rest. 

No more shifts for me until Tuesday, and it's just Friday today, yasss. 

The elevator doors open and standing inside... But of course.

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. Is Jeter. 

I take a step forward when he raises his head, he is alone inside the elevator and I try to get his attention by smiling but I freeze when pain lances through my stomach. 

I gasp. 

"Are you getting in?" He asks in a bored voice. 

I double over when the pain gets too much and he realizes that I'm not joking. 

"Star?" He calls, stepping out of the elevator and bending at the waist to look at me. 

"Doctor? Doctor Star, are you okay?" He asks in a calm voice and I shake my head. 

I'm fine, I'm okay, it's been so long this happened. 

"Where are you coming from?" I ask in a hoarse voice. 

"From the cafeteria, I have to get to the emergency room, there's a patient...." 

But of course.... A patient. 

"You have to take me with you.. You have to.." 

"Aren't you going home? Doctor I have to..." He says but I grip his hand, he looks into my eyes before nodding and leading the way. 

When we get to the ER there are juniors standing around, I look at their faces and I know that the person on that bed is dead. 

" Status "Jeter barks and a junior rattles off the situation and time of death. 

As I take steps closer the pain in my stomach double, I almost shed tears. 

Lying on the bed is a teenager and she looks to be.. No, she isn't dead... I look around the room and I see her.. Her soul clinging to her body. 

"What happened to her?" I ask 

"She fell off the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle, fractured spine and a broken neck" I nod. 

Easy peasy. 

I nod at them and they know what to do, this won't be the first time. 

They step out of the room and when I'm alone or so I think I gently smooth away the hair from the girls face. 

"You are alright, you are going to just fine" I say to the crying soul. 

I take a deep breath and the pain in my stomach channels itself out from my hands, it hits the chest of the girl and I hear the sound of bones resetting. 

The girl take a deep breath and I falter, healing takes a lot out of me. 

I step back as I watch the soul settle back into its body. 

"What did you do?" A voice asks from behind me and I startle. 

I had forgotten how I had come to be here, I had forgotten that Jeter did not leave the room. 

He takes a step closer and he feels the pulse. 

"She was dead a while ago, what did you do?" 

Instead of answering I just point at the iv. 

"Help me set up the Iv and do every other thing" I say, stepping back, I have to escape, I'm too weak to make excuses right now.

Later. 

"Do not move Star, you owe me an explanation" he says but I'm already at the door, I slide it open. 

"... Not to worry, the grim reaper is going to steal that girls life back.." A junior is saying jokingly and they all laugh, someone mentions how much of a freak I am and the jab pricks my heart. 

They freeze when I step out. 

"Why don't you try to do your job instead of idling around, yeah?" I ask and they all take a step back, assuming I'm gonna discipline them. 

They assume wrong, I'm too tired for this rubbish. 

I pull my bag higher in my shoulder before walking out of the ward. 

I know what they think of me, it's not like I can help it, ever since I found out I could this thing I always have done it. 

If I don't I have to go sick for the rest of the week. 

It's not like I asked for it, I'm aware in different, just as long as my parents and the people close to me accept me then it's fine by me. 

I leave my car in the parking lot and I get a cab to take me home, no need risking my life, I'm too weak to drive.

I go directly to my room, pulling my dress and going directly to sleep. 

He comes at once. 

"Why?" He asks and I shake my head. 

"I've warned you child, stop stealing souls back" He says and I take a step closer. 

"I've missed you" I say, my voice breaking. He pauses. 

"Star..." 

"It's been so long you've come to me, why haven't you been coming?" 

"Is that the reason you keep stealing souls?" 

"No.. I can't help it.." 

"There are consequences for action you know that?" 

"I don't care" I say at last. 

Ever since I could remember my first dream he has always been here, the child, then boy and now man with the dark wings and the star tattoo on his forehead. 

He stopped coming to me when I became a teen, he only returned when I started stealing souls from the dead, it wasn't to help me like he always did but to scold me. 

"Star.." 

"I'm going to keep stealing souls until you show yourself to me" 

"I'm never going to" 

"Then I'm never going to stop" I say. 

He sighs before shaking his head and walking out of thr dream. 

This is the main reason why people think I'm crazy. 

AN

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