Better be survived (4)

Sou tightened her hand around her knee, "No, too painful. No!"

"You will be okay, my dear. Come on, stand"

"No..I don't want to. Pain, too pain"

"No, my dear. You have to stand", the old man pull her to stand. "Good, how? Still pain?"

Sou then realized, she no longer feel pain.

"Now dance, my dear. Dance"

"What's dance"

"The one that Suzanna teach you"

"I am not remember"

"You do, my dear. Just feel it. Come close your eyes, dance", he take her hands and guide her.

In a moment,Sou dance on her own - the willowy dance. She dance like a trance, forgetting the pain, the old man, the surrounding. She dance over and over again.

*******

Dennis feel relieved when Sou's face no longer writhing in pain, he push the call button and soon a doctor came in.

"Yes, Sir?"

"Her face relaxed"

The doctor came closer and do some check, "Yes, her status a lot better than before. Better let her sleep for tonight and do the test tomorrow".

Dennis let the doctor go and follow after assign a nurse to standby.

He enter his office, sit behind a huge desk with floor to ceiling high window as background. His managed to reach the main goal, now it depend to Rommy to tidying the loose thread.

He leaned back in the chair, hand massaging his stiff neck. Soon, sleepiness come and take Dennis away.

The sun already high on the sky when he awake, his back numb from sleeping in the sitting position. A stack of documents with a piece of note with only one word 'Rommy', seems he came late at night and left the documents without wake Dennis.

"Rommy" he said right when the call he just make connected.

"Hello my dear, do you miss me?",

it tell Dennis that Rommy not alone.

"Oh come one, honey. Don't be mad, i was forced to leave you alone this morning. You know, yeah..him. Annoying riiiiight...." he laughed, "I can't tonight, how about friday? We can spend a romantic weekend on your place. I will bring a good wine for you. By the way, I left a heartfelt note for you, read it okay. I write it especially for you, all my heart was there you know. Okay, be good now. I need to work, miss you too". The line cut.

The entire conversation done by Rommy alone yet it answer all his question without need to response or asking.

Far from there, some where inside The Quanbu Shale base, a man in laboratory white coat glare at another man wearing a white lab jumpsuit who just laughed at his reaction. "We not supposed to talk on the phone while working" Xiao Han said to Rommy who casually answering the phone,

"Yeah, while working right? We still in the changing room, so not start to work yet", Rommy grinning at annoyed face of Xiao Han.

"Why I am cursed with you" he grunted,

"Well, I am the best engineer here and you the best scientist. Don't you think we match made in heaven?Hmmm..."

"Shut up and go"

"Yeah..yeah..", Rommy turn his phone off and lock it on his locker.

********

A nurse approach Sou's bed, the girl still in deep sleep. Her face look serene like what happen to her just a fleeting nightmare. If not because a surgical suture mark on chest and a cast installed around her right hand and her chest, proving the torture she had escaped from.

She cleans the girl body with soft towel soaked in warm water, gently scrub a blood stain here and there. 'She look so young, is she really twenty five?' the nurse questioning in her mind, she then pat her dry and preparing her for series of test will conducted to her.

Not long after she put the hospital gown to Sou, two other person come in. The doctor come first and Dennis follow from behind, he attentively listen to the doctor explanation. Another nurse come in, "The room is ready, doc" she reported. She and the first nurse then push Sou's bed out the room towards the CT - Scan room, another team already wait for them there.