The day ended with the whole town smelling like blood. This was very unfortunate but common. For the past 2 years, men have been sent out to fight against the Hadila. They were the neighboring nation that bore no ill intent to anyone however their downfall was their resources.
Kira was known to many as a ruthless nation. Its government was comprised of men who only went after wealth and their own comfort not putting others, even their people in their mind.
Hadila is a small nation mainly made up of country land. The people are farmers and fishers. There they lived a simple happy life not meddling in other nations' affairs. They had everything right where they needed it, and that is what Kira was after. Kira was mostly made up of mountains and hills. There many mined for metals and coals which helped with their business industry but they wanted more. Recently the Hadila government found that their land was filled with gold, gold that they were not crazy about. This made the Kira government start to take interest in their land.
When asked about their gold the Hadila refused to share or make any alliance with the Kira. This was their way of saying that they didn't trust Kira and rightfully so. However, this did not work for the Hadila as Kira declared war on them on the grounds that the Haldia government was taking advantage of its people and that Kira wanted to help. Their help consisted of killing all the soldiers leaving ordinary people to fight. This then made it that regular people got killed as the Kira "thought" that they were dangerous.
This is the situation that the people were in.
When Verna went back to the hospital to check on Max he wasnt there. She stood for a minute confused, where the hell would an injured man go. Then at that moment, Alex walked in.
"Verna what are you doing here?" asked Alex with a frightened voice. He knew what was about to happen. She would interrogate him forever until he told her where max went.
"Spill it where the hell did Max go". Laughing Alex knew he stood no chance against her anger.
Scratching his head he answered, "well you know Max, he was worried about his soldiers and went to go check up on them."
With an angered look Verna takes a step towards Alex "he's worried about his soldiers? Ha what about you. Do you not worry about your captain. He was awfully injured and shouldn't even be awake right now and what are you doing".
Alex frowns as Verna leaves to go look for Max. Verna feels bad for screaming at Alex. She knows that no one can control him and his actions, but Alex should have at least watched over him.
***********************
Verna gave up. No one would tell her where Max was but everyone assured her he was fine. When she got to her house, she saw Max standing by her door. He was leaning on the door crossing his hands looking at the ground. Max was an attractive man that many would fall for. He was 6'2 and very buff. His brown hair was in a mess considering he just came out of battle. As Verna approached him her heart dropped. She knew why he was here and what he was going to tell her.
"Where were you all day," said Verna raising her eyebrows.
"Verna! How are you". Max was trying to distract Verna from the fact that he got up.
"Don't Verna me. You know you're in the wrong. What are you doing up and not only that but running all over town trying to avoid me"
Max nervously laughs. Both stand quietly for a moment trying to come up with something that would break the sad silence.
"So your leaving"
Max looks up quickly. He has a sorrowful smile, Verna can see right through it. He puts his hand on the back of his hand trying his best to tell Verna that he was leaving again.
"Did you go see Leo yet"
"Not yet"
"hum" Verna feels a tear falling down her face and quickly wipes it.
Verna was trying her best to be nice and understanding. It was hard on everyone. It's not like he wanted to go. His father was the general and this was his punishment. A year ago Max questioned his father's authority and reasoning for this war. As a result, he threatened to kill his son, Leo, who was born out of wedlock. None of that mattered to Max but his Father had a lot to say about it. One might think that a father wouldn't stoop that low but that was farthest from the truth, Verna saw it first hand. That day, when max first defied his father's orders:
[FLASHBACK] 2 years ago
BANG BANG BANG
Verna was asleep when out of nowhere someone sounded like they were trying to break her door.
"Calm down calm down, who the hell bangs like that in the middle of the night"
Verna quickly put on her jacket and went to open the door.
"Alex?"
"Verna I have no time to explain we need to get to the hospital now."In a moment Verna put her shoes on and ran with Alex to the hospital. To herself, Verna starts panicking. What happened? I'm sure it's nothing too serious. Maby Leo's sick again.
When they ran into the emergency room there Liyla lay covered in blood. Verna's eyes grow. What the fuck happened here. On the side, 5 nurses were trying to hold back Max. Verna ties her hair quickly and goes to asses Liyla.
"What do we know so far"
"She suffered multiple hits to her abdomen and has a broken rib cage." Verna can tell this just by looking at her, her whole stomach was bruised. She presses on her stomach to feel how bad it is. Her abdomen was tender. It was clear that there was some serious internal bleeding.
"SHES BLEEDING SOMEONE GET ME A SCALPEL" Verna puts out her arm waiting for someone to give her a scalpel
"NOW"
Max is screaming in the back while a nurse sprays antisepsis on Liylas's abdomen. At that moment everything goes quiet. All Verna can focus on is the patient in front of her. She cuts Liyla open. Verna is doing an Exploratory laparotomy to try to find what is causing all the bleeding.
"DAMN IT! it's her aorta"
"What do you want us to do," asks a nurse panicked.
"Get me another surgeon, NOW!"
As one nurse tries to stop the bleeding Verna cuts a piece of skin off Liylas's forearm. She needs to use this to repair the aorta.
"Her vitals are dropping"
Verna looks back panting as to look at her vitals shes flatlining. Verna pushes everything out of her way and gets on top of Liyla to start CPR.
Beep beep beep beep beep
"Come on come on"
Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh humph humph
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Looking down Verna's sweat starts to fall on Liylas's face. She has been doing CPR for 10 min now.
"Doctor you need to call it."
Ugh ugh ugh
Verna's not stoping she cant. She won't be able to face Max after this. The chief enters the room.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING" the chief screams making everyone stop what they were doing. Verna doesn't stop.
Ugh ugh ugh.
"The girls dead, you know this more than everyone else in the room, call it"
Ugh ugh ugh
A nurse grabs Verna's shoulders, it was Mia.
"Verna, that's enough."
Mia gets Verna off Liyla, Verna refuses to let anyone see her face. She looks up to the ceiling and calls it.
"Time of death 2:37 am" as she starts to walk off she stops in front of the chief.
She bites her lip as to not cry but can't hold herself back.
Forgetting Max was there Liyla began to scream "WERE THE HELL WAS EVERYONE, AM I REALLY THE ONLY SURGEON THERE WAS, LIYLA DIED BECAUSE OF YOU"
Max comes in with a pale face. He walks passed Verna to Liyla. He grabs her arm and starts to plea,
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this was all my fault" the whole room was quiet and all that can be heard was Max's cry.