Inside room 007 of the medical ward....
Diana was reading Eddy's pulsating pulses and heartbeat, and presently she heaved a sigh upon noticing how severe Eddy's condition was. Her heartbeat was relatively slow also.
Diana couldn't believe she will actually be treating this despicable woman lying on the bed. She and her daughter shattered her seven years ago! However, Diana still felt sympathy for her. Her sight was a heart-wrenching one as she had been reduced to a bony frame work after losing a substantial amount of weight overnight. "She has only few minutes or hours till she kicks the bucket" , Diana deduced
"Woah.... I just need to treat her and in return find out my kid's father. Nothing more!" Diana convinced herself and then made her way towards the head of the hospital bed whereupon, Mrs Eddy was laying.
Diana kept Eddy's forehead still with her hand and quickly tapped on several acupoint on her forehead with three fingers. She then fished out four silver needles with her left hand and jabbed them precisely at four acupoints on her face in a flash. The next instant, she brought out a white material soaked with some liquid from her first aid box and then, she rubbed it on Eddy's face.
After the needles were poked into the acupoint on her face and her face drenched with the liquid, a small nodule emerged on her forehead at once. Something materialistic began to protrude from the nodule, at that point someone barged into the hospital room.
Seeing that someone was attending to his sick mum, and that, she was not dressed like a medical officer raised suspicion in him.
"Hey!!!!! What are you doing to her?" He heard himself query as darted forward, obstructing Diana's swift process of examining the nodules.
"Get away!" He said again as he got closer to the lady backing him, and treating his mother.
The voice was familiar to Diana. Before she could raise her face and turn, Harvey grabbed her and dragged her up and then, their faces locked.
Ex-partners.
Diana squinted her eyes to be sure of the face she was seeing.
"Harvey????" She said between a shocking voice as Harvey's grip on her loosened. Harvey was in turn surprised and shocked altogether, however he acted on impulse.
"What are you doing here? ...." Harvey stuttered, Examining Diana's fine features.
Diana's responded with a graveyard muteness as she vigorously began to boil in rage inside of her.
"What are you doing with and to my mother?" Harvey snapped out of his reverie and bellowed at Diana at once.
Surprisingly, Diana was not moved, not even a millisecond. Harvey was taken aback when he saw that. The Diana he knew would be thrown into shivering and fear by a mere shout from him, she has changed, probably.... afterall it's been six years.
Diana stared at him indifferently. Her eyes glinting with a glacial stare and fury surging through her.
"I can see you miss us alot or you either want to kill my mother as an art of revenge..." With that said, he pushed Diana to the sides to have a closer look at his heart-wrenching mother.
It was hard to believe his hitherto healthy fat mother had drastically become a bony frame work overnight.
He then caught sight of the nodule that protruded from Eddy's forehead, infuriated he turned to Diana.
"How dare you get close to my mother? You trying to kill her? What did you do to her?" Harvey bellowed, asking his questions one after the other without getting an answer.
Diana only kept mute, she didn't expected to see Harvey so soon. Nothing particular has changed about him. Just that his aggressiveness and impulsiveness increased ten fold.
"What would make him think I miss them?" And how
"How can he just walk in on her and accuse her of wanting to kill his mother?"
"Officers!" Harvey picked up the intercom by the beside and called the emergency line at once. He needed to be sure Diana didn't do anything to harm his mother.
Immediately his loud utterance into the intercom died down, Eddy started to tremble violently.
Diana's face turned pale when she scrutinized Eddy. "Her condition is worsening!" She said out of sympathy.
"Get away!" Harvey barked, not minding what Diana had said. There was no way Diana would be a medical officer and even if she was a medical officer, there was no way she would agree to treat Eddy.
At that moment Anamika walked into the room,
"Mum?" She blurted when she caught sight of her mum trembling and white foams coming out of her mouth.
"Is she okay?" She said in panic as she darted forward.
"Diana save her!" She turned to Diana and bawled.
"Will you? You'll never get to know his identity if my mum dies!" Anamika's panic intensified over Diana's inaction.
Evidently, Anamika's threat was beginning to lose its effect on Diana.
Harvey was in turn bewildered and consequentially discombobulated.
"Why would Anamika be asking and threatening Diana to treat their mother? Is she insane? Who the fuck is Diana to treat their mother?
Without giving it too much, he turned to Diana and uttered, "Diana, you'll pay if anything happens to my mum!" Harvey threatened, and then he turned to her sister and narrated, "I walked in on her inserting some needles into mum's forehead. It worsened her condition..."
"Shut up!" Anamika retorted, ", She is general Laura!"
Anamika dropped the bombshell sending a shockwave through Harvey.
With that, Anamika walked over to Diana, her legs were jelly already and panic successfully crept into her. "Treat my mother!" She pleaded, her eyes glowing with tears and pain.
Diana chuckled and said, "She has only two minutes before she kicks the bucket...."
Immediately her words fell, Anamika's plight increased drastically. "Two minutes? Please treat her. I'll forward you his identity...." Anamika pleaded as tears gushed out of her eyes.
Harvey was finding it hard to process the news that had just got to him. "Diana is General Laura! The incredible general Laura? If this was not coming from his sister, he would have disregarded it..."
"Is that a joke? What kind of joke is that? Mum is dying and you dare make a joke?" He said, but the word's didn't come out when he saw how Anamika was pleading with Diana to treat their mother.
"Cough cough"
Eddy's cough rang out in the room. The next instant, Eddy was already Coughing out blood in conjunction to her trembling semi death state.
Harvey was discombobulated, unable to relate to anything. His mum was dying... And he finds out his ex wife is the incredible general Laura. The only person who can revive his dying mother.
At that moment, two uniformed medical officers entered the room, the first thing they did that shocked Harvey who had called out to them was that they saluted Diana, ignoring the dying patient.
"She is really General Laura? How?"
Diana eased the officers, the next moment, she dismissed them. She then turned to Anamika,
"Okay! As far as you keep to your side of the deal. I'll treat her!" Diana declared and walked over to the other side of the bed.
She leaned closer to Eddy and then pressed his thumb on Eddy's neck.
At this time, Harvey was wide-eyed in shock and apprehension. He didn't expect any of this and why didn't Anamika told him beforehand?