Chapter 5 "let it go Jack..."

"hold on hes waking up."..."Sir?"... "are you ok?"... "Sir?" when my eyes opened, all i saw was a blurry woman in a blue and white with a badge on her chest. "whats going on? my head is killing me." i reached my hand up towards the back of my head but i stopped midway after i felt a sharp pain shoot through my right shoulder. "you were just in an accident. as im told, there was a malfunction in one of the coffee makers and it resulted in an explosion." the paramedic responded. "you have a minor cut on your right shoulder blade as well as a wound on the back of your head from a bronze pipe." i saw the blurry blue woman leave my line of sight and a blurry red one take her place. "Jack?" a familiar voice sounded. "Gina? you okay?" i asked "im fine. you blocked everything with your head" she giggled a little "good thing your thick headed, otherwise you would never of survived."



my vision was clear enough now to see a smile of relief on gina's face. "how long was i out?" i asked "about twenty minutes. its about nine o'clock." gina said. "great, im late." i said "late for what?" by now i realized i was laying on the floor and everybody was standing over me. i used my left arm and pushed myself up into a sitting position. "im just late for something ok?" trying to change the subject. "do i need to go to the hospital?" i asked the paramedic to my right, staring in disbelief. "well um, usually massive head trauma victims arent able to sit up that quickly. im guessing it wasnt as bad as we thought." the paramedic took her hand and placed it across my back for support. i reached up to feel the back of my head with my left this time, and felt a golfball sized lump.


"ouch, that must of hurt!" a nasal voice from behind me said. i spun my head around almost in an "Exorcist" fashion. "you! you fucking bastard!" i saw Leo with a bandage wrapped around his right eye and ear. "you piece of shit screw up! you almost killed me!" leo was frozen solid in place. "dude, it was an accident! honest!" leo replied "lo-look!" he pointed at his right eye. "i got hurt too!" his hand was shaking, and he knew i noticed it. "im sorry, honestly!" i didnt hear him say those last words. Anger was filling my body. "too bad the boss didnt fire you for this." i muttered, trying to calm myself down. leo looked down and muttered to himself a bit too loud. "too bad that pipe didnt kill ya." when i heard what he said i jumped up, spun around a placed my right fist directly into his face. leo stumbled backward and landed neatly across one of the booth tables, knocked out cold. "jack!" gina screamed. my head spun around, followed by my body. i noticed that Gina, the Paramedic, my Boss, and another male Paramedic staring straight at me with their jaws dropped. "sorry" i smirked. "unbelieveable" the male paramedic said from behind everyone else. "huh? what i do?" i curiously asked. "you managed to sustain a massive head wound, stand up, spin 180 degrees and proceed to knock out your colleague with your arm that still has a large piece of shrapnel inside it. do you even feel it right now?" the paramedic stood there still with his jaw dropped, staring at my right arm. "i have never seen anything like it. its Inhuman!" that word stung me like ive heard it before. i just cant remember when.


my right arm was covered in my own blood. i must of forced the piece of metal in deeper when i punched leo. all of a sudden a massive pain began to build up in my back and right arm. "ow-oww-owww!" i clutched my right arm with my left. "what is this pain?" a familiar feeling of liquid fire ran through my arm, shoulder and back. "stop it!" i groaned "stop what? whats wrong jack?" gina asked. "my arm. its on fire!" i collapsed to my knees in pain. "let it out Jack, you know how." a familiar voice said behind me. "how?" i groaned "how what? sir whats wrong? answer me!" the paramedic demanded. "let it go Jack." the voice said again. "remember." a wave of pictures went through my head, but none of them made any sense. the pain was getting stronger now. i had no choice. i reached my left hand over my right shoulder and pulled out the knife shaped piece of shrapnel out of me with a blood curdling scream. the pain in my shoulder slowly dissapeared, but my arm was stil on fire. "let it out you fool!" the familiar voice said yet again. finally as if instinct, i grabbed the bronze metal pipe that hit my head and squeezed it as hard as i could. the fire slowly faded away as the subtle smell of burning milk filled my nostrils. i looked down to see that the droplets of milk and water on the pipe that got everywhere, was sizzling and dissapearing in front of my eyes. "what the hell?" i said to myself. "whats going on jack? are you ok?" ginas voice reminded me where i was. "im fine now" i muttered. "the pain just caught up with me thats all." the paramedics both stared at me knowing that was a lie. "do any of you have a band aid?" i smiled as i stuck out my bloody arm towards the paramedics."we can stitch up the wound as well a give you a shot of Roxicodone to dull any excess pain. would you rather that instead of a band aid?" the female paramedic smirked as she held up a needle and thread.