Life Goes On
Chapter 9
Taking a deep breath in through my nose I smell the beautiful red bouquet of roses in my left hand keeping the box of chocolates in my right hand close to my body for warmth, everyone knows that soft chocolate is better than frozen chocolate. Unzipping my coat the cold winds of Maine send chills up my body not allowing anything less in the cold month of December.
Walking into the hospital I put on my well practiced smile and reminisce about the past four months.
After Kara agreed to help me we went back to the hospital and I got my five grand, broke my phone, and took that old bastard's ID. After getting questioned by Kara about it I was forced to make up a lie about how he saved me the first time around from dear old Eobard before making my decision on how Kara could help me.
I asked to go to New Hampshire and after she dropped me off I went straight to work burning any sort of identification that I had on me. I would've burned off my fingerprints but they would just come back so there wasn't a point to do it. With the money I had I was able to find someone to help me start a new life; normally it would cost a lot more to create a whole new identity but I said I'd do a favor for the guy which is what led me to Maine.
The man I was contracted to kill was Nolan Keegan. He was in a business similar to that of the man who was supposed to give me my new identity working with illegal smuggling and giving people new identities, but I didn't kill him. Broke and desperate for money I told Nolan about the hit that was on him and told him about the deal I had with his competitor… he made a better one.
With my newfound small amount of wealth I was going to go right back to work and go to my next lead to gain power. I remember this lead from my memories and I know that I will gain something with a small amount of difficulty if I make it on time but something else caught my attention and my lead could wait a couple extra months. It's on an island after all .
Walking into the hospital my nose having gotten accustomed to the sterilization smell over the last few months I shoot a smile at the lady at the front desk.
"Theo, back again so soon?" Janice says with a knowing smile pulling out a clipboard. "I'm sure you know the drill by now, just fill out your information she's in the same room." Janice says while turning back to her computer as I fill out my information putting it back on her desk when I'm done. I kept a part of my old first name Theo but fully changed my last name to Walker. I can't make it that easy for anyone to find me.
"Thanks Janice I'll see you when I leave." I say with a wide grin as I walk down the long hallway walking through the maze that is the hospital going up and down stairs and turning every other corner. Ignoring the other patients and nurses I solely focus on the room numbers until I see it, room 4054. The door is closed but the blinds on the window to the door aren't dropped, looking through the window I stare in looking at a thin, pale, bald girl on her laptop.
Her name is Zena Heirnsburg the daughter of famed Doctor Louis Heirnsburg and Doctor Annabel Heirnsburg, but she prefers Anna. Finding that old bastard's daughter was always on the list of things to-do I just didn't expect to find her as fast as I did.
Hiding the flowers behind my back I knocked twice on the door with the chocolates still in my hand before swinging open the door quickly hiding the box behind me.
"Hello beautiful!" I call out with a smile watching as Zena looks up from her laptop a look of shock on her face that quickly changes a wide grin replacing it as I walk towards her bedside.
"If you think I'm beautiful now you should see me when I'm healthy." She says with a small laugh moving the laptop off of her lap as she gasps when I reveal the flowers and chocolates. "What's all this for?" She asks with a smile taking the box of chocolate while smelling the roses.
"Did you forget?!" I ask with mock shock grasping my chest. "This is our one month anaversery!" I say with a small laugh watching Zena's face morph to one of guilt. Zena is twenty one years old and with my new information I am eighteen. I wouldn't say that I look eighteen but with my height I can pass off as being older than I am.
"Theo I-I'm so sorry I forgot…" before she's able to continue I put my finger to her lip silencing her while I stare at her beautiful freckled face with a small nose. Zena is beautiful, by no means as beautiful as Kara because one of the things that is most beautiful to me about Kara is her power but Zena could definitely compete in the looks department with petite B cup tits and a formally very fit body.
"Zena it's ok." I say while sitting down on the side of the bed leaning in giving her a hot passionate kiss trading saliva as my tongue invades her mouth only for Zena to pull away a look of sadness on her face.
"Theo it's not ok, you've been coming here for the past two months taking care of me and I know your parents aren't there so instead of visiting me you could've been working to pay for your rent. I know it's coming up." Placing her hand on mine she gives it a squeeze as I smile at her. Originally I was just going to kill her and be done with it but then I started to do research on the family name 'Heirnsburg'. I was able to find out a lot about the family by just the last name and the memory of that evil bastard's face. Zena's mother died during childbirth giving birth to her first and only child Zena. Zena's father Randol Heirnsburg took over the family pharmaceuticals company which is worth millions and is inherited to the firstborn child Zena after Randol's untimely death and I want that company. Not only will it give me a better standing on where I legally get my money but I'll also get to spite that old bastard.
"What's a little late rent if I get to spend time with my favorite person in the world." I say with a smile going to lean in for a kiss only for a finger poke to the forehead stops me.
"Theo I told you work first then you visit me not the other way around." She scolds, making me chuckle kissing her forehead.
"I have work in an hour. I just wanted to visit you beforehand, now tell me how did the treatment go?"
"It's bad news…" She says solemnly while looking down. "The tumor has shrunk, it's operable now!" She shouts while looking up at me with a broad smile and tears in her hazel eyes. Hiding my anger that raises in me I embrace her in a tight hug hiding my face that loses its grin going emotionless. For two months I've been visiting this girl who had lost all of her friends, and had just lost her father getting close to her to become her everything so that way when this nasty disease finally takes her life I can take it all. Now I find out that she may live?
Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world this is merely another roadblock that I will have to work through.
"That's fantastic." I whisper, forcing tears in my eyes.
"I-I just wish that dad was here to see this… to meet you." She says while pushing out of my hug staring into my eyes. "He'd love you. You know you guys are so much alike both willing to do whatever it takes for those you care about." The sadness in her voice makes me give her a weak smile while standing up from the bed picking up the roses.
"Is there any news about what happened? I know you were talking about an explosion that happened at the hospital your dad was working at. Is there any news at what caused it?" I ask while taking out the dead roses on the window sill replacing them with the alive ones admiring my reflection my blonde hair now dyed black to help with my new identity.
"No, the investigation is still going on. They suspect a gas leak but that doesn't make any sense, there should've been measures in place to prevent a gas leak! There should be an answer soon with the amount of people who lost someone there. People are demanding answers." It doesn't surprise me that Thawne blew up the hospital whether it was a threat to me that he'll never stop looking or just to cover his tracks the message is clear. I am not safe with the reverse flash alive and I've already been here for too long.
"And you'll get answers soon… I'm sure of it." I say turning around throwing away the dead roses sitting back on the bed staring into Zena's hazel eyes. "Zena I have to leave." I say seriously watching her look at me in confusion.
"What do you mean, why do you have to leave? I thought you were going to stay a little longer."
"No Zena for work, Nolan gave me a good job opportunity overseas and I think I'm going to take it." I say while staring at Zena her face unreadable.
"Theo you don't have to leave i-if it's money that you need I can support you… I told you this before money isn't an issue." Laughing I can't help but feel a small bit of care for this girl. At first I was just using her to spite that old bastard of a father but after realizing how alone she is and how moldable she is I could've easily manipulated her to become a powerful pawn but it wasn't worth the effort because of the cancer. Looking into human psychology you'd be surprised how easy it is to mold a weak willed mind and with some tricks of my own I can have a handful of loyal soldiers. When I come back if she is better I might have to do some sculpting of my own.
"Zena I don't want to leave you and I don't want to take your money. This is a big deal to me and I think it would be in our best interest if I took it." Trying to hold Zena's hand she pulls away while looking down at the bed.
"So you're leaving me too huh?" Zena's whisper is barely audible but the pain is clear.
"Zena I am not leaving you." Grasping one of her shoulders I lift up her chin revealing her tear stricken face. "I will not be long Zena one year tops and I will be able to call you anytime I want but once I come back we can be together." I say putting on a happy face as tears begin to fall from my eyes only for Zena to pull away.
"When?" She whispers out her face still turned away.
"When what?" I ask as Zena turns to me rage beginning to take over the sadness on her face.
"When did you accept this "Deal" with Nolan, Theo?"
"He offered it to me today and the plane leaves tomorrow. What is this about Zena?" I question as her face grows to one of disgust.
"One year? You took this deal before I told you that there was a chance of me living so you knew that if you were to take the deal I would be dead while you were away." Going to interject, Zena raises a finger at me, stopping me before I can talk. "I had told you Theo that if the tumor kept growing as it was and the treatment didn't work in shrinking the tumor that I would be dead by February and you still took it? You were going to let me die alone?" She asks as tears begin to profusely stream down her face.
"Get out." She whispers looking away from me.
"Zena-" I try to say.
"Get out!" She shouts looking up at me with narrowed eyes filled with rage.
Sighing, I stand up turning my back to her, my face going emotionless. I'm in her Will, she had told around a week ago saying that if she's to die she wanted her money to go to someone who she cared for and needed it and I fell into that category. I didn't need her to be alive past her putting me in the Will since then I've merely been entertaining her fantasy of not dying alone but this outburst of anger could lead to disastrous consequences and me leaving unable to mend our connection is unacceptable.
Walking to the door the only sound in the room being that of the fast beep of the heart monitor and the weeping of Zena I put the blinds down on the window before turning back around getting the chair at the desk putting it under the door handle.
"What are you doing Theo? I told you to get out!" Zena shouts as I turn around making my face stay emotionless as I look at Zena quietly walking towards her.
"I was going to kill you the moment I laid eyes on you because of what your father did to me but then I realized how useful you could be to me…"
"What are you talking about Theo you knew my father?
"Silence." I whisper harshly quieting Zena as I stop in front of the window grabbing the strong dropping the blinds leaving the room significantly darker. "If I'm going to be honest with you Zena I pity you." I say while turning around looking at Zena who has tears streaming down her face looking at me with confusion and sadness. "I pity how alone you are. It reminds me of me except you are unable to find people to fill the void that you're stuck in that bed so I took pity on you… but my pity has run thin and what I feel for you now is nothing to the assets you have to give."
"Theo what are you…" Before Zena can finish her sentence I lunge forward her heart rate monitor screeching as I pull out a syringe from my back pocket that I had lifted off of a nurse on one of my first visits here. Sticking it in her arm Zena's body quickly goes limp, her head falling back on her pillow. Reaching behind Zena's head I pull out the pillow gently resting Zena's head on the mattress as I fluff the pillow slightly before placing the pillow down on the bed lifting Zena's hospital gown Revealing her thin body. Taking off my shirt I carefully switch the heart rate stickers from her body to mine as the heart rate monitor quickly mellows out as I pull down Zena's gown picking up the pillow.
Kissing Zena's forehead I lift my head before covering Zena's face with the pillow putting pressure down as her body tries to weakly fend me off to no avail.
Looking down at Zena's dead body I sit back down on the bed next to her corpse.
"It had to be done. The situation merely didn't work in your favor. If I had more time I could've made you a masterpiece, time merely wasn't on your time." I say to myself as I place the pillow back under Zena's head before quickly putting the stickers back on Zena's body as the once calm heart monitor begins to screech again making me bolt across the room moving the chair from the door as I swing it open.
"Someone help she's flatlining!" I shout as I watch nurses as doctors begin to rush down the hall as I silently slip through the crowd.
It's time to see Nolan…