And that was not the end at all!!
One of the nurse from the operation room who participated in Lia's operation stepped up and recited a similar tale about the necklace.
According to her story, when they were preparing Lia for her surgery they removed the necklace along with her clothes and other things she had on her. They were meant for throwing away everything except any jewellery. She had personally taken away the necklace and placed in a safe locker outside the operation room to give it to the concerned party later. But to her surprise, the moment she entered back into the operation room the necklace was sitting on the same table she had placed it while preparing Lia. And the process repeated itself quite a few times after which she didn't have anymore time to waste as the surgeon was about begin the operation. For the entire forty two hours of operation , the necklace sat on the table at the farthest corner of the operation room and watched over Lia and her baby while the doctors were operating on them.
When the operation was over and Lia was shifted from the recovery room to the intensive care unit, the nurse handed over the necklace to the attending nurse of the ICU.
" That's a very convincing fantasy. " The head surgeon complimented with a low growl. " But, would you lot mind explaining me what's that got to do with the patient, For goodness sake!! " Then he literally barked at the nurses.
" Mr. Nicolas will be calling us any minute and I have to report him about the patient's condition. What do you expect me to say, your story of the ever looming necklace? "
" We can definitely give it a try, sir....." His assistant prompted.
The head surgeon was so furious that he glared at his assistant to the point that if looks were able to kill he would have been vapourized by a glance.
" Don't you dare give me that and go check the CCTV footage! Do I need to tell you everything?" He roared at his assistant.
The assistant quickly excused himself and rushed out of the ICU before his boss gave him some other crazy orders. The poor fellow was still grumbling about his idea.
' Honestly! What else can you say? One minute she is nearly dead and in the next minute she is fit as a horse.' He thought by himself and began checking the CCTV footage.
Meanwhile, in the intensive care unit....
The head surgeon along with his team repeatedly scanned every inch of Lia's body inside out but the results were the same everytime.
No broken bones, no shattered skull, no brain injury, no lungs injured, no acid burns, no stitches, no marred marks.
No nothing!!
It was as if nothing had ever happened to her. Even her broken front teeth were restored back to normal.
Looking at Lia now, no one would believe that just half an hour ago she underwent a forty two hours surgery and was on the brink of death.
The only thing prominent about Lia now was that she was still in coma. Hence, even after such a bizarre incident the doctors didn't take any risk and continued with the life support system as planned.
The head surgeon was issuing new set of instructions ; now stricter then ever, when he received a call from his assistant requesting his presence in the control room.
His assistant's nervous tone really tested his patience.
His gut feeling told him that for whatever reason his assistant needed him in the control room, it can't be any good.
And for once he wanted to be wrong.
Sadly, his good luck wasn't on the good side.
The cctv footage proved the story of ' The Ever Looming Necklace ' although it failed to capture anything about Lia's incident.
As per the recordings, until ten hour fifty two minutes and thirty sixth second Lia was all wrapped up in bandages but on the thirty seventh second everything was gone just like that.
He have had enough. He felt like crying.
Well actually he was crying.
Explanation? What a joke ?
Even nightmares and miracles have explanations. Proper scientific explanation! But, this incident was beyond any of that scope.
The head surgeon was extremely frustrated, infuriated and exhausted all at the same time.
Unfortunately, where goes the fear, there follows the night.
The head surgeon had to swallow his anger and frustration because Mr. Nicolas was already calling.
At first he gave Mr. Nicolas a general report but, when the latter specifically asked if anything unusual had happened he couldn't hold it anymore and explained everything that had happened and even sent him the CCTV footages to prove his point.
However, to their surprise Mr.Nicolas was not at all surprised upon hearing about the incident. On the contrary, from his tone it felt as if he was expecting something like this to happen.
Mr. Nicolas ordered them to ensure that Lia and her child remains absolutely safe and they would be moved to his villa only after the weather fully cleared up.
Speaking of the weather, it was already third of January when Mother Nature's rage finally calmed down. The sky began to clear up, the water retreated back into the sea, the trembling earth also began to calm down.
By then, over a few billions were dead, millions went missing, hundreds of thousands were homesless, cities laid in dust, nations crumbled.
If humanity was lost from the face of earth, then human weren't needed either.
Miraculously though, those who truly cared for Lia, those who tried to save her from the brink of death and their needs for the hour was never overlooked. Instead they were well protected along with India, Oriens, Country E and the Hill Court Island.
After the Heavens played its game of destruction only these three countries and the island stood miraculously unharmed.
Hill Court island was the world's second largest island owned by Mr. Nicolas. The island contained a huge antique brown stone mansion which was fully renovated by Mr. Nicolas after the possession and he also built a private airport with five airsheds on the island. Surrounded by the ocean and close to both Country E and Oriens this island was a natural paradise. When Mr. Nicolas learnt about Lia's appearance at Goa beach, his sole purpose of dispatching JaiWar S107 was to bring Lia away from the human society and on this island.
Because of the bad weather they didn't risk moving Lia into the mansion and continued with her treatment in the plane.
Well at least they had one less thing to worry about.
( End of Flashback)
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" After the weather fully cleared up, you were move into the mansion and was under constant monitoring.
Seven and a half months passed within a blink and soon it was time for your delivery.
Once again JaiWar S107 was called back to the island along with a team of expert obstetrician, cardio, brain and neuro surgeons as well as medicine doctors from Oriens. Even though you were in coma, you gave a perfectly normal delivery using C-section.