SECRET AGENT DAWSON
Chapter Thirty-Four
Tobey knocked on the door. Rose
answered it. "Tobey, what are you doing here?"
"Bill called me. He said he
needed me." Tobey carried a small medical bag.
"Well, they’re you know
where." Rose pointed, wondering what was going on.
"All right." Tobey went
into Jack and Rose's bedroom and entered the small elevator. He pressed the
button to go down.
With the defenses down, he was
able to go in without a problem. He saw Bill leaning over Jack.
"What happened?" Tobey
asked, putting down his bag.
"Ah…Tobey. Well, he was just
about to call you when he fainted. This mind controlling agent is weird. Maybe
you can figure out more about it. I left a sample on the microscope
slide." Bill pointed to the small desk with the microscope already set up.
"Let me take a look."
Tobey took out his glasses and looked into the microscope.
What he saw amazed him. Slowly,
the serum was breaking down the cells, and the longer it was in the body, the
longer the side effects would occur. Tobey worked on the sample, trying to find
an anti-serum. It took several hours, and Jack was going into critical
condition. They dared not tell Rose that her husband might be dying. Tobey was
really close. He knew he was.
It seemed that extreme heat was
what Jack needed. They needed to burn it out of him. But how?
The only thing Tobey could think
of was raising his temperature to one hundred six degrees.
"Bill, I am gonna need your
help. Could you take off Jack's clothes?" Tobey gathered the things he
would need to make the anti-serum.
"What for?" Bill asked.
"We need to burn this thing
out of him. We need to raise his temperature to at least one hundred six
degrees." Tobey grabbed a syringe after mixing the concoction.
"Are you sure that won't
kill him?" Bill took off Jack's clothes, glancing over at Tobey from time
to time.
"It's the only thing I’ve
got." Tobey couldn't think of anything else.
"Everything?" He looked
over at Tobey, wondering if he needed to take off Jack’s underwear.
"Yeah." Tobey nodded
his head.
Bill took off all of Jack's
underwear and reached for a sheet to put over his privates. Jack was thin and
frail. He sort of had the body of an old man.
"Ready," Bill said.
"All right. Let's hope this
works." Tobey inserted a syringe into Jack's arm.
Within a few minutes, Jack's body
started getting extremely hot. Jack started to toss his head from side to side.
Tobey checked Jack's temperature every few seconds. He had to get this right or
his friend would die.
Jack’s temperature rose and he
opened his eyes. "Why's it so hot in here?"
"It's all right, Jack. I
just gave you something to burn the serum out of your body," Tobey
explained to him.
"Ah…I feel better already."
Jack could feel his body burning off the poisonous concoction John had filled
him with.
Tobey checked his temperature.
When it reached one hundred six, he injected another dose of anti-serum to
bring down his fever. He took some blood out of him and put it under the
microscope. The serum was now disappearing. Jack was going to be just fine.
"How am I, doctor?"
Jack asked, looking over at Tobey.
"You're doing great. The
serum is disappearing like it was never there." Tobey smiled, proud that he
had saved him.
"Thanks, guys. For
everything." He closed his eyes, feeling sleepy. So he fell asleep.
"You did great, man!"
Bill hugged him.
"Thanks, since there is
nothing wrong with you. Well, there's nothing I can do. Your body should burn
off the serum, if it hasn't already." Tobey sat in a chair.
"Yeah, well. You’re a
lifesaver," Bill told him.
"No, you are the true life
saver. You saved my life, Bill. Thank you." Tobey got up and hugged him.
Rose came in and saw the two men
hugging each other. She smiled. She was glad they were all getting along.
Immediately, she knew that Jack was coming back to her. She could tell by his
appearance. "Jack."
She went to him and hugged him.
She didn't notice that he was naked underneath the sheet.
Jack heard her voice and smiled
at her. "Guys, can we be alone?"
"Sure, Jack. Rest all
right." Tobey patted his arm and took his medical bag with him.
"Yeah. Thanks, you
two." Jack hugged each one before letting them go.
"Anytime." Bill smiled.
"Yeah. Bye, Jack,"
Tobey said, heading for the elevator.
Now that Jack was cured, the next
thing to do was make a plan for their revenge. John, Mark, and Jason had
something coming to them, all right. If Jack could beat them at their own game,
that was what he intended to do. Everything had been taken away from him. His
life, his memories, and most of all, his fiancée, Chloe Sullivan. He still
remembered her. The blonde hair, her soft skin…he loved her more than he had
ever loved his first girlfriend, besides Rose, of course. She was the apple of
his eye. He remembered the first day they had met. He had been at a coffee
shop, ordering coffee and espresso for some of the guys at the agency. That
day, he had had no idea that she was working for Omega 3, as well, until his
brother had introduced him to her at the office.
She had smiled at him. It was a
smile he had loved seeing day after day. Then, one day, he had invited her to
lunch. They had had a blast talking about things other than work. When he had
gotten an assignment that required him to have a wife, he had requested her. It
had been in Romania. He had never been there before. Neither had she, for that
matter.
They had held hands during the
day, walking down the streets like lovers. They had shared a room and he had
never so much as made a move on her, until one night she had surprised him and
taken his hand and led him into the bedroom. She had kissed him softly. He had
taken the bait and kissed her. That night was the night he had asked her to
marry him.
She had been so happy. She had
never dreamed that he would ask her. Then, that next day, she had been shot
saving his life. She had cried because she didn't want to die. But she had told
him that she would always love him, no matter what.
He not only had to fight for her,
he had to fight for himself, no matter if George was gone. He still had
unfinished business. No one had the right to take his life and cheat him out of
his love this time. He would fight back.