Rachel who had been sitting motionlessly for about an hour, thinking of her past, suddenly jolted out of her thoughts, it was the doctor who had tapped her, standing up she looked at the doctor expecting some information from him.
The doctor who had been in the operation room for about an hour, was sweating, smiling at Rachel "he's fine now, initially there was a blood clot on his head that was why I asked them to rush him to the theatre room, if it was delayed, he would have brain hemorrhage," the doctor said when he saw Rachel's questioning gaze.
Thanking the doctor, she immediately rushed into the ward only to see that Alex was sleeping, he was lying the bed on his back, there was a bandage on his head, and also on right arm where he had a major injury, the others were just minor cuts or bruise, looking at the figure sleeping peacefully, tears flowed out of Rachel's eyes, she was crying silently.
Today was supposed to be the most happiest day of her life, it was her graduation today from the University, as fate would have it, she was also abe to be reunited with Alex, but everything was spoiled when her mother had called her to leave Bangor, Alex who was with her stayed as they tried to leave together, before she could get ready she was attacked by some men who wanted her to come with them, in the process of protecting her, an innocent soul had been hurt, how could she be happy.
Although she still knew nothing about what the men had said, they had said that she was wanted, what did she know?, She knew it had to do with her mother, but her mother had never told her anything about any sort of organization, although Alex had protected her and told her it was nothing, she still felt guilty, letting him being involved in the mess she was in, she could only hope for his quick recovery.
Alex who had dozed off before he was operated on, due to the injection he was given opened his eyes slowly, scanning the room, although he knew he was in the hospital, he was still in alert, glancing at the side he saw Rachel sitting quietly, tears flowed down her face, she had a kind of remorse look in her eyes.
"Silly girl, why are you crying, nothing is going to happen to me," Alex used his left hand to wipe away her tears.
"You've woken up," she beamed in joy, allowing him to wipe her tears away from her face, "am sorry for putting you in this mess with me," she tried to apologize to Alex when he removed his hand from her face.
Frowning slightly "nurse, nurse, please come over," he beckoned to the nurse that was passing by, not replying Rachel as the door of the ward was open.
"What can I do for you" the nurse asked Alex while smiling.
"Can you please help her treat her injuries," he pointed to Rachel by his side.
It was then Rachel remembered that she had yet to treat her injuries, the tension had made her to forget about treating her injuries.
"Sure thing," the nurse smiled while taking Rachel with her.
After she left, Alex surveyed his surroundings with his eyes, from his experience in the past four years in the institution, he knew that the organization would not give up capturing Rachel and would soon send another set of people once they discover that the ones they sent earlier had died, it may take some time but he was still sure it won't be long before they discovered.
Actually the institution Alex went would only teach them how to utilize different kinds of weapons, fighting skills, driving skill, and other skills required for them to know for a year, after that they would be sent on different kinds of missions for three years, although this missions were not mission that may take their lives they were still life threatening missions, it was after undergoing this missions for three years would they be considered to have graduated, also for one to graduate within three years, one rate of failure must not be much in each missions he or she takes, this was how Alex got his experiences, so he wanted nothing but to leave quickly.
While Alex was surveying his surroundings, thinking of what to do Incase they found him before he recovered, Rachel came back in, her injuries had already been dressed, she had also changed her blood stained cloth.
It was two in the morning, so it was still dark, Alex raised his head, seeing that Rachel had come back "could you please call the doctor over," he requested.
"Why do you wanna see the doctor, did something happen," she asked worriedly.
"No everything is fine, I just wanna ask somethings," Alex smiled as he replied.
Hearing that he was fine, Rachel went out of the ward to call the doctor over.
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Dear readers do not forget that every thing that had been happening from chapter eleven till now is in the night, so it almost dawn of the next day that was why I mentioned 2:00 in the morning, I hope you would not be confused.
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After a short while, Rachel came back with the doctor, seeing the doctor Alex eye lit up, "I just wanna ask when I would be discharged," Alex asked immediately he saw the doctor.
The doctor was taken aback by his question, "he was already thinking about leaving the hospital, it was as if his injuries didn't mean much," the doctor thought.
"From the looks of it, it might take you two week for you to fully recover," the doctor quickly snapped out of his thoughts and replied.
Alex frowned when he heard the reply, "two weeks?," they didn't have much time, how could they stay for two weeks, that would be delivering themselves.
"Can I be discharged in about a week from now," he asked the doctor in reply.
The doctor froze when he heard his question, "if your injures are better, then, we may discharge you," the doctor thought before replying.
Rachel did not interrupt when she heard the question Alex was asking the doctor, instead she trusted him.
After checking Alex condition, the doctor departed from the room.
"Why don't you sleep on the empty bed besides me, I can see you are tired," Alex pointed to the empty bed.
"How can I sleep peacefully when I got you into this mess," Rachel rejected Alex, shaking her head in disagreement.
Alex was finally able to convince her to sleep on the bed after a lot of argument.
Five days passed since Alex was admitted in the hospital, he would spend his day talking to Rachel about his experiences, it was then Rachel knew where Alex got his courage and also the reason why he wanted to leave the hospital in a week, his injuries had also healed, the bandage on his arm was already removed, leaving the one on his head.
During this days, he had also gotten much more closer to Rachel, as he had heard about her life in the university the last four years, as they shared their experiences.
On the night of the sixth day, Alex and Rachel had already slept, some men in black approached the hospital, if one looked closely at them, four amongst them were among the people that had first attacked Rachel at home, but were injured by Alex, after they discovered that their comrades have been killed, they went back to the organization for back up, they were given an addition of four men, making them eight, they had finally found the hospital where Alex and Rachel were staying but this time they were more careful.
Alex suddenly jolted up from his sleep, he was having a bad dream, suddenly he frowned, looking through the transparent window in the door he saw eight men in black, silently approaching the ward he and Rachel was, four amongst which he knew and four which he knew not.
"It seems like I have underestimated them, they actually found us quickly, well am almost fully recovered, they can't stop us from escaping," he thought.
He went to where Rachel was sleeping, waking her up quietly he whispered to her "we must leave now".
"But why?," she asked in confusion, taking her to the glass window on the door and making her observe the men approaching, instantly she recognized four amongst them, shaking her head in understanding she packed some of her things as she looked at Alex.
"How are we going to escape," she whispered to Alex.
"Don't worry about that just don't think too much," Alex smiled.
Looking at the window Alex saw that four amongst the men where perspiring to go into the ward while the remaining four decided to stay and block the road Incase they escaped, signalling to Rachel, she hid under the bed he was sleeping on, while he himself pretended to be asleep on his bed.
Immediately Alex slept on his bed, the men barged in, looking around they saw it was only Alex on the bed sleeping, "let's go tie him up we will ask about the whereabouts of the girl from him," one of them whispered.
Two of them went close to Alex, preparing to tie him up.
Immediately they got to him and were on the verge of tying him, Alex suddenly stood up and collided their head together making them go unconscious.
Alex jumped up and gave the nearest one to him a roundhouse kick, immediately he turned to the other one, kicking the gun in his hands away, before punching him on the face, immediately he went unconscious, all this happened in an instant.
The men were caught off guard by Alex action, the two who had tried to tie him up thought he was sleeping so they were careless, the other two also couldn't care much as they also thought he was sleeping.
Alex looked at the one he kicked, quickly he picked up the gun before he could take his own gun "now tell me, why are you after her," Alex pointed the gun at him, pointing at Rachel at the same time.
"Kill me, I won't tell you," he said stubbornly.
Alex glanced at him, shooting him on his leg, immediately the men yelled in pain, "I would tell you, I would tell you," he said.
Alex was surprised as the man had quickly talked just after a shot, it was obvious that he was new to the job and couldn't endure much pain.
"We are from the red skull organization, we were just asked to capture her by our superiors, they didn't tell us why".
Alex face paled when he heard the name of the organization, "how had Rachel offended them?," He asked himself.
Red skull organization was one of the most powerful organization that existed in united kingdom, not many people knew about it, it was a very dangerous organization, they had branches in almost all the states in United kingdom, they would take money to assassinate those who paid them and those who offended them were killed, Alex knew this organization well, they wouldn't stop until they've got what they want, he was surprised on how Rachel had offended them to the point that they wanted to capture her, naturally anyone who offended would be killed, but it seems like they were bent on capturing her alive.
The man had a smug smile on his face when he saw Alex shocked expression, "if you kill, me you k...,".
Before the man could finish what he was saying Alex used the butt of the gun and knocked him unconscious.
Rachel who had been hiding all along under the bed was shocked
by what the man said, although she did not know which organization was that, she knew it must be powerful from the expression on Alex face.
All the commotion in the ward could not be heard by the other men because it was sound proof, they had no idea of what was going on.
"Come out now let's change into something else," Alex called out to Rachel, letting go of his thoughts.
Dragging two of the unconscious men, he removed their clothes, he and Rachel then changed into it.
"This cloth looked good on you," Alex whispered to Rachel who had just finished changing, giving her the black shade to put on as he also put one on, he had long removed the bandage on his head.
"Don't get nervous, just do as I say," Alex whispered to Rachel preparing to go out of the ward.