WAGES OF SIN 3

EPISODE THREE

"But I'm not done with you yet" Deberus replied, displaying his long poisonous claws, "and it looks like you have forgotten you were a man."

The doctor suddenly hit his head and banged his right leg slightly on the floor without making some noise, indicating he forgot something behind. "Sit right here while you wait for me, I need to get a fluid myself at the pharmacy to administer to this patient. It's very important" the middle aged doctor said, concentrating on what he was penning down on his notepad and would not even look at the nurse in the face. "Make sure your eyes are wide opened till I come back" he concluded, finding his way out of the room.The young dark skinny lady took her seat by my bed, stared at my helpless body for some seconds before she brought out her phone from unimaginable place. I thought it was prohibited for nurses to have their phones on them while on duty.

The doctor left, the nurse remained but the words of Deberus hit me so hard that I became confused. What on earth did he mean? How could he be so sure I was a man when my instinct was saying otherwise? But at this point I myself couldn't even say if my instinct would be right or wrong anymore with the way Ranos had thoroughly dealt with me. Ranos' deep devilish touches must have reset a lot of things about me.

Can you remember your parents, your family and who you were?" Deberus asked, whispering into my ears as he rose above me, with about seventy percent of his body overshadowing mine. I could feel his body and perceive the smell of the evil of hell on him, and my heartbeat kept rising.

Parents? Family? I didn't seem to understand what he meant by those two words. As a matter of fact I didn't know if I ever had parents or was even born into a family. Concerning who I was, I couldn't say, because I couldn't remember anything. My memory had formatted, all I knew were the things that were present.

I think Deberus also guessed I couldn't recall anything about who I was. Then he knew Ranos had touched me beyond skin and bones. "I understand" he said "I can help you to regain your memory, at least for the main time. He stretched and was about touching my forehead with his middle left claw when the middle aged doctor returned to the room. Deberus withdrew his claw, waiting for the doctor to finish his work before he helped me in regaining my lost memory. The nurse must have heard the doctor coming before she hid her phone again under the padded cup of her bra.

The doctor returned with a drip in his hand and asked the nurse to set up the drip pump and the stand. "The volume of this drip is more than the patient needs, I couldn't get the exact milligram. So I need you to stand by and keep watching the level. Look here" the doctor said, pointing his right index to a marked level on the drip, "stop and disconnect the drip at this level. Understood?" "Yes sir" the nurse replied. All he was trying to do was to make sure the nurse did not make a mistake. "Anything more" the doctor warned sternly, "and the patient would enter a complete comma and might eventually die in a few hours because no one had ever survived it." "I'm cleared sir."

After the doctor located a vein he carefully applied a local anaesthetic patch on an area on my wrist and put in the needle. He used tourniquet around the vein area to make it tight. He later removed the needle and replaced it with plastic tube and held it with tape and bandage. He attached a long tubing to the drip and put it into a special (IV) pump on a drip stand that will control the amount of fluid that will go in. "So you can start watching the level..." the doctor was trying to explain all over but there was an interruption.

A lady, who was also dressed in white like the nurse that's with the doctor rushed into the room, gasping and trying to get the doctor's undivided attention. The doctor unsteadily shifted his concentration from me and faced the nurse, wondering what could have caused the hullabaloo. "Shhh!" The doctor tried to shush her. "This is an hospital, and have you forgotten that so soon?" "I'm so sorry sir, but you too could have forgotten if you get to know your only son is about to lose his precious life due to a fatal accident." The stethoscope dropped fron his hands and nearly slumped. "Come again, please" the doctor demanded, shivering, but still wouldn't wait for the nurse to repeat herself before he nudged the other nurse to run behind him. The latter nurse also ran after them, shouting, "He's in the surgical room three."

They all left, leaving the drip to run on it own. Suddenly, the words of the doctor banged in my head, "anything more, and the patient would enter a complete comma..." I tried to cry out for help because I didn't know when the drip would pass the marked level. It would be better there was no drip on me than for it to pass the marked level.

Deberus sighed and I could hear it so close like I did. It was then I remembered he had always been there at the corner where Ranos loved to stay whenever he wanted a break for himself. "It now dawns on me that your sins must have been great" Deberus commented, "I have not even started with you yet that your iniquities are speaking against you. I think it will be better I don't touch you, but allow your past records to do the work for me."

He turned his back to leave but I cried out with tears, with tears streaming out of my eyes like that of a river. "How great then were my sins, how mighty were my iniquities that I so much deserve such treatment from life and darkness?" I asked, "who was I?" I cried out the more, "how badly had I lived my life?"

He turned again at me and gave a slow filtered smile, "Really?" He asked. "I'm also kindly interested in knowing your past. Maybe we should see together" he said and made a swift move to my bed and touched my forehead with his middle right claw.

to be continued...

Story by: ADENIJI MICHEAL (MICHEALHADEN)