Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse!

And once again ignoring his screams, I continued to cauterize his wounds with the literal bloody iron as the little stub from his clipped-off digit was bleeding out, but it didn’t take long before I felt that he was nearing his limit. Even with adrenaline and pure fucking grit making him continue on, it’ll be a matter of time before his body breaks down and all we received from it was a fixer-upper.

Granted the 50-ish people and the alliance with Mr. Garciano were a huge plus, but I’ve already invested a lot of time in this fuck, I’d really want a name or two before he kicks the bucket.

‘He gave a vague description of a particular place though…’

But yeah, it was taking him longer and longer to rise up from his stupor with every press because sometimes, I could even be two presses in before he jumped up. Still, I think the right move going forward was to ease on breaking his body but break his mind instead.

It was already past 10 PM when I finished closing him up but I left precise instructions to my soldiers that he’d prefer some death metal at max volume at midnight, and he’d need it to fall asleep. I know that two hours was barely enough time for him to recover but that was all he should get.

Before going into this, I swore he wouldn’t even get to live another day but as much as I would’ve hated to say this, he was a tough son of a bitch. I could’ve probably broken him with a little more push, but this time, I think all we’d need was a bit more time.

In any case, I dropped by Dr. Nichols’ office which was an appropriate distance between the emergency room and the cardiology department and I saw her face down on her desk while Mimi was nowhere to be found. I thought for sure that she’d be here with Mrs. Sandara though I just assumed she walked around the hospital once again to check on everyone’s needs.

It was something Mimi used to do out of habit that made her liked by everyone in the university because even if it was simply her job, she treated everyone like family.

I was just about to leave a note for her and Dr. Nichols but I almost bumped into her on my way out the door and I discovered that she was carrying a set of pillows and blankets.

“Ah— Y-You done?”

“Yeah.”

“E-Excuse me—”

“Right…”

I opened the door for her and let her place what she was carrying on the sofa, but I stopped whatever it was she was trying to do before I woke up Dr. Nichols by knocking on her desk.

“Wake up! Wake up—”

lightsΝοvel Mimi tried to stop me, “Hey! She’s—”

“Whaaat? Hmm?” Dr. Nicols lifted her head before she tried to figure out who I was, “Where— Ah, fuck… What time is it?”

I motioned for her to get up, “Come one, it’s a little bit past 10—”

“I slept that long?! How’s it morning—”

I cut her off, “PM! PM! It’s a little bit past 10 PM! C’mon now! I know you’re both used to this but you gotta sleep on a proper bed. It’s gonna be a matter of time until you both have back problems.”

Dr. Nichols still looked a little groggy but she rolled her eyes as she glanced at her chest then looked at me, “I already have back problems, at least I could use them as pillows…”

Mimi interjected, “W-We really need to sleep here, what if we have patients to look after?”

“We have doctors who are living here but you two don’t. Don’t let them get used to that. And you’ve been here since morning, take a break—”

“But—”

“No buts. I think you two probably noticed we don’t have a lot of patients that need urgent care or attendants to check on them by the minute… We still have a few but most of them asked to be ‘let go’ by themselves or their families while I decided on a few myself. I don’t know if it ever happened in the university but we already had a few incidents and we can’t just put them on life support or hospice care until they… you know… that’s just the way it goes around here.”

“…”

“…”

Mimi and Dr. Nichols were wearing a difficult and complex expression as they looked into my eyes, but it seemed like they were very familiar with this situation but they just didn’t want to talk about it.

It was very true that they nary witnessed a murder or something along those lines but mercy-killing or euthanasia—even if it wasn’t legal in this country—it was pretty obvious that hospitals all around had decided to come around that method.

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But yeah, it seemed to have gotten the mood down, but even though a little stupid, there was a sure-fire way to cheer them up:

“I’m sorry, how about some ice cream and a movie?”

Mimi chuckled, “Sure…”

“Alright—”

But Dr. Nichols wanted more, “I want some alcohol in my bowl and the movie better have some ‘you-know-what’ scenes on it. You did disrupt my sleep, I wanna have to think about something before I… you know…”

“Sure…”

With that said, it didn’t take long before we reached our house and to my delight, Tatiana already asked Nancy if they could heat our meals for us. It was a little heavy to have some chili and cornbread this late into the night but I really needed some comfort food right now and topping it off with some ice cream that had a few shots of alcohol did the trick.

But yeah, it seemed like we would be topping this night off with the usual but like Micah, a few people have decided to pass. I would usually welcome that with open arms but one of them was Mimi who quickly told us goodnight before retreating to her bed to the next room.