Chapter 45: Touching moment and deadly predator
While the mysterious vampire and Brandon were teleported to an unknown location, Tyler Calvin and Seojun Kang were walking through the corridors of the clinics that had deep ties with Seojun Kang. This clinic went by the name of Blossoming Flower Clinic, it had specialized doctors with a broad knowledge in medicine but unfortunately the government didn't see them as much at the time when they requested some funding but were turned down, fortunately for them Seojun had seen what they were capable of and gladly offered to fund them, in return whenever one of his members was gravely injured they would have to treat them at a reduced cost but at a faster speed.
"The doctors here know a lot about the ancient eastern arts on acupuncture hence they also know what to do inorder to speed up the recovery rate of patients so you don't have to worry about you sister's health," Seojun explained calmly after seeing the concerned expression on Tyler's face that seemed to be getting worse with each step they took.
They were currently on the ground floor of the clinic and the moment they entered, a short Asian looking doctor with slight wrinkles on his face as well as wore round glasses even though his eyes seemed closed, greeted them.
"Tyler this is Doctor Felix he's a professional healer of the highest authority and has been in charge of your sister's treatment. He even came to heal you for a short while when you were unconscious," Seojun explained and Tyler took a mental note on the words 'healer' instead of doctor.
What did he mean? He honestly had no idea but all Tyler cared about was the part where Doctor Felix had helped Laura and that was enough for him.
Chasing after mysteries? He didn't care about that. Although he was curious about what Seojun meant but he still ignored it either way.
Tyler stood with a straight back before the doctor who 'looked' at him through his closed eyes and bowed at a 900 angle which shocked Seojun as Tyler had struck him as someone with a lot of pride and while it was true that Tyler was developing a sort of pride after his battle with Houston and his men, it was also true that he could recognize and thank someone who had helped him.
"Thank you doctor Felix. I swear to one day repay you for this," Tyler said
Felix smiled slightly as he said:
"Don't worry too much about it just follow me your sister has been awake for a while now"
"Really?" Tyler's eyes sparkled like diamonds as he heard this
This behavior did not go unnoticed by Seojun who inwardly chuckled at the sight.
And without further ado Tyler went to see his sister in her room.
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Laura was sitting on the bed with her lower body covered by a white sheet, she did not recall how she got here but the doctor who seemed blind said that a relative brought her in, as for who that relative was…Laura had no idea.
The events at the construction site still bothered her. She had been captured and almost beaten to death and that was probably going to scar her for life. However she didn't want to bawl her eyes out like a little girl, she needed to be strong.
'I wonder how Kim is doing?' she thought to herself and the universe seemed to give her an immediate response as the door to her room opened ever so slightly and Kim was sticking her head through like a little girl trying to get into her parents room.
When her eyes met Laura's brown ones she felt slightly embarrassed but that didn't stop her from rushing over to her side and cry as she hugged her. If anyone saw how the two girls were acting people would have thought that they knew each other for a very long time and even though they knew each other for less than 12 hours, the hardships they had endured were enough to create a sister bond between the two girls
"I'm so glad you're okay," Kim said while sobbing
"Yeah I'm glad you're safe too," Laura looked at the silver haired beauty. "Do you mind telling me what happened after you left?"
Kim nodded before she proceeded to tell her without even hiding the fact that Tyler had been there and that if it wasn't for him she would have been captured again. Hearing that her little brother was there to begin with had shocked her but what shocked her the most was the fact that he had gone up against more than a dozen fully grown men and had been in unimaginable danger throughout just for her sake.
She felt touched as well as guilty that her little brother had gone far and beyond just to ensure her safety while all she had done at that time was take a beating and silently pray for someone to come and save her.
Kim noticed Laura's mood go down when she heard about her brother and couldn't help but ask:
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing its just that while my little brother was risking his life all I could do was take a beating," Laura lamented with a sigh without even hiding it. Kim couldn't understand why her 'sister' acting like this but she didn't agree with her one bit.
"Hey don't say that. You also contributed in some way"
Laura looked at her helplessly
"She's right you know," a voice coming from the door said. A voice Laura recognized and sounded like music to her ears. Of course Laura wasn't the only one who recognized it as Kim's heart beat erratically in her chest and her breathing became somewhat erratic as she looked at the boy…No, in her eyes this was the man who had saved her in her most needful hour.
Tyler had been standing behind the door for a while now and had overheard the whole conversation between the two ladies. So he naturally knew that Laura was troubled emotionally and mentally.
He stepped into the middle of the room also still wearing the pajamas and he looked at his sister affectionately. Laura immediately jumped from the bed and leapt towards Tyler with her arms outstretched.
Kim gasped in shock as she thought that Laura would fall to the ground but Tyler moved forward and caught Laura who wrapped her arms around her dear brother. The way she had rushed towards him was like a bird returning to the nest after a really long time.
Tyler seeing Laura behaving like this didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She cried into his chest as she repeated apologized for getting Tyler into another dangerous situation. Forget about her earlier thoughts of being strong, right now Laura was too glad to care about how others would see her right now. She was just glad that she was able to hug her brother again especially after what she had been through.
Tyler also didn't take this lightly as he embraced her wholeheartedly, this was a touching moment for the family.
"About what you said earlier…you were also a big help because you managed to hold on for a long time and if you hadn't sacrificed yourself for Kim I might have never found you or even bothered to punish the bastard who kidnapped you in the first place," Tyler said
"What do you mean by punish?" Laura asked but instead of getting a reply Tyler simply hugged her more and said in a soothing voice:
"You don't have to worry about that anymore its over"
Laura just nodded and asked "Can we go home now?"
Tyler smiled slightly at her question before looking back towards the door where Seojun and Doctor Felix were standing
"Doctor?" Tyler directed the question at the good doctor whom he now owed a favor to.
"Sure kid sure. Just make sure you both avoid doing anything strenuous for a couple of weeks and get adequate rest while you're at it," the doctor replied to which Tyler nodded.
"I'll take you two home given that its really late right now. Your uniforms are in the car and your sister's uniform has been tailored so you don't have to worry about that," Seojun said while looking at the reunited siblings. He knew that Tyler had just arrived in town and it touched him that he had such a close bond with his sister, it was also evident that they had also grown closer after this incident.
Tyler nodded showing that he understood before looking forward at Kim.
"You were brave as well little princess," Tyler smiled towards Kim who was blushing furiously. The reason why Tyler called her a princess was because of her uncle's status as 'king of the city'.
'This scoundrel is stealing my princess right before my eyes' Seojun thought not knowing whether to laugh or cry as he saw his niece desperately trying to hide her shy face.
"I'll see you later," Tyler said to her as he signaled for Laura to let go but she was as stubborn as a mule and still clung to him. Tyler was helpless but then he couldn't deny the fact that he was actually liking this. So without thinking twice he simply lifted her off the ground and placed on his back while she screamed at the sudden motion and they got out of the room.
1 Hour later…
Tyler and Laura were standing in front of their house or more precisely Tyler was standing in front of their house while Laura rested comfortably on his back. They had now changed out of the pajamas and hospital clothes and were dressed in casual clothing.
They both agreed to keep what happened that night a secret but the problem came after that. With how late they were coming home heck they had practically returned home the next day, after Seojun had given them all their belongings Tyler had checked his phone which now had a cracked screen and was surprised to see 37 missed calls! But not only that. All the missed calls came from Aunt Carol!
There were no lights coming from the house so they thought Aunt Carol was asleep.
Tyler walked up to the front door and tried the door handle. To his surprise, the door swung open and when he walked in the lights immediately turned on assaulting his eyes and he had to squint them inorder to adjust to the sudden stimulus.
Looking infront there was a sofa where Aunt Carol sat facing the door and she had a firm expression on her face as she looked at the 'siblings'.
"Do you guys mind telling this poor aunty why you gave her a heart attack and are coming home this late?" Aunt Carol asked with a smile that wasn't a smile at all.
No one knew if it was an illusion but both siblings felt like they were staring at the goddess of death and Tyler felt a pressure he had never experienced before. As he looked into his aunt's eyes he couldn't help but gulp audibly.
"Aunt Carol… T-there's a perfectly good explanation for this," Tyler stuttered as he subconsciously took a step several steps back.
"Oh is there now?" she replied, the smile never leaving her round beautiful face.
Tyler and Laura suddenly felt the atmosphere become heavy around them as they suddenly felt like prey in front of a deadly predator.
Aunt Carol stood up and in her hand she held a care taker's deadliest weapon and a child's every nightmare. Slippers! Though they didn't have any physical attack power, it became a different story when it came to punishing trouble makers or in this case…two unfortunate kids who made their lovely aunt extremely worried.
Yes she held her slipper and was prepared to use it.
"You're explanation better be good then or else I'll knock some sense into you," she didn't have to say anymore because the presence of the slipper suggested that they would both get a good spanking.
So the remainder of the night was spent with Tyler explaining how Laura and Tyler were jumped by people with no good intentions and how Tyler had to fight some of the miscreants off inorder to give Laura time to escape.
Tyler also explained that he couldn't take all of them so he himself had to flee and since he wasn't familiar with Reinfield City that well, he got lost and because of that he also ended up in quite the rowdy parts of the city while his sister had to also look for him.
It was a completely bogus story but it was filled half truths and it also explained why they both had exhausted expressions on their faces while also gaining sympathy from their aunt. And coupled with the way Tyler told the story with genuine expressions on his face as well as his smooth narration even made Laura who knew and experienced the truth fall for his lie.
Laura didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she saw how touched Aunt Carol seemed to be by this story.
"I'm sorry you had experience all that. I'm sorry for not also giving you a chance to explain your side of your story," she said while wiping a tear from the corner of her eyes. "I don't think you kids have eaten anything so let me make you something."
Aunt Carol said as she walked off to the kitchen meanwhile Laura looked at Tyler with a shocked expression.
"You…," Laura was speechless at how good her brother was at lying and seeing her like that made Tyler smile slightly.
"What we said to keep it a secret so that she wouldn't be too worried and we wanted to lightened the punishment she would have given us that's all," Tyler shrugged as if it was nothing.
"…"
"But I must say that was an Oscar winning performance," Tyler praised himself and Laura couldn't help but laugh at his words.
Of course it never failed to occur to Aunt Carol that what Tyler said wasn't the complete truth as she figured he wanted to keep some things a secret for his own reasons. It was just that she was too glad that the two kids were safe and after seeing how exhausted they both were she just wanted them to rest comfortably before getting to the bottom of what really happened.
And so Tyler and Laura had their extremely late dinner before they both headed for bed
They were both so exhausted that the moment they fell on their respective beds they both instantly fell asleep. This was especially true for Tyler because although he had carried Laura for a while it was safe to say that he hadn't fully recovered his strength especially since his Qi was naturally at low levels.
The next day…
Tyler had slept through the entire morning and half of the afternoon so it was safe to say that he had slept for almost the entire day and had non doubtably missed put on school today. This was also true for Laura who only slept through the morning though.
Tyler was bursting with energy when he opened his eyes. He felt so refreshed and rejuvenated that he felt like if he were told to climb a 3m tall wall then he'd do it with no trouble at all.
After freshening up, Tyler went downstairs to get something to eat when he heard a commotion coming from the living room. Aunt Carol wasn't home so it was practically just the two of us.
"Oh my God Laura I'm so glad you're okay!" Beatrice shouted as she practically jumped on Laura.
"Jeez girl you're going to choke her to death," Patricia added as she herself squeezed her arms around the dual who were hugging…correction she joined Beatrice in the choking competition.
"C-can't breath," Laura wheezed as she looked at Tyler helplessly. Tyler looked away and pretended to whistle as if he knew nothing.
The time was 17:00 to it was safe to say that the students from Crimson Academy had finished the school day. Patricia and Beatrice had decided to visit Laura's place just to be sure they had not thought too far because they had just seen the van taking off at high speeds that day but had never seen Laura getting taken, they were both just too worried for their friend especially since Laura had not been to school throughout the entire day.
A few minutes of the girls sharing a moment passed before they all agreed to go to Laura's room to do girl stuff.
Meanwhile Tyler proceeded to the fridge and he helped himself to a poloni sandwich before going to the living room and putting on a Japanese anime channel.
After eating the sandwich halfway the doorbell rang and Tyler had to get it, to his surprise however at the door stood a man who was 7 ft tall and had a muscular stature and without seeing even his face I unconsciously heightened my senses at I labelled the man as a potential threat