Chapter Forty-Eight

Captain Amir

I drove straight to the military headquarters with the rest of soldiers in a hurry.

We got there and I went straight into the General's tent.

"General!" I called with a salute immediately I entered his tent.

"What the hell is going on, I heard some shooting, what happened?" He asked.

"We were ambushed General, I took some of my men out on a patrol and we were ambushed by the Taliban forces. I lost most of my men Sir, we were able to retreat and hide in the woods and the next thing I heard was them invading the camp." I explained.

"They've taken over the camp?" He asked.

"Yes Sir" 

"Are the medical teams from the London still in the camp?" 

"I think so" I replied.

"This is bad, I gave my word to the president that I'll protect them, if anything happens to them we'll loose England as an ally and we can't afford that, get my car ready, we are going to the President's Villa right this moment."

"Yes General" I replied with a salute.

Alex's POV

I went to the hospital wing with my surgery team and the Taliban forces accompanying us with guns pointed at our heads.

I got to where they laid there leader and examined him.

"His pulse is very weak" I said.

"Then carry out the surgery right away!" One of the men said.

"Not yet, first we need to do an x-ray on him, to see exactly where the bullets are embedded in his body." I said and then turned to Susan.

"Susan you'll take the this patient to..." I was cut short by one of the men who held the collar of my shirt.

"He's our leader and you'll address him with respect" he said sternly.

"I don't care what you guys call him but right now he's fatally wounded and I'm his attending doctor so he is nothing but a patient to me right now." I said and he tightened his grip on my collar and I almost couldn't breath well.

"Stop this nonsense!" Jasmine yelled and the other soldiers pointed their guns at her. "You guys are just so shallow minded, you claim he is your leader right, yet you are delaying us from saving his life just because of your useless sentiments. Fine do whatever you want then, we'll just keep staying here and the next thing you'll here is your leader is dead." Jasmine said and the man slowly loosened his grip on my collar.

"Our leader must not die" he said.

"No patient dies on my operation table" I replied.

He stared at me for some moments and then nodded.

"Susan" I called again. "Take this patient and get the X-ray done him, after that take him straight to the O.R."

"Yes sir" Susan said as she wheeled the patient away and half of the soldiers followed her.

"Andrew" I called.

"Yes doctor"

"Get the O.R ready for use" I said and he nodded then left and some of the soldiers followed him too.

"Jasmine let's go change into our operation overall." I said and she nodded.

We started walking towards the room where the overalls were kept and soldiers followed us.

"Are you seriously going to follow us to get changed?" I asked and they stopped.

"We can't risk you escaping" one of them said.

"The room only has one door and you'll be standing right outside the door so how will we escape? Perhaps my friends are still here, I am not heartless enough to leave them in your brutal hands and escape" I explained.

"You can go in then, we'll be standing right outside this door and if you don't come out soon, we'll barge in" he said and I nodded.

Jasmine and I went inside the room and I locked the door.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"I should be asking you that, your hand is shaking vigorously." She said pointing at my hand and it was then I noticed it.

My tremors are back.

"I'm...I...I am fine" I stuttered.

"You are not fine, you stressed yourself out so much trying to find a cure to the bubonic plague. You did and we are just starting to recover from it and now all this is happening, you didn't have anytime to rest at all. And someone with tremors shouldn't undergo such stress." Jasmine said and I looked at her wide-eyed.

"How... How did you know about my tremors?"

"During our trip to Brazil, I kinda figured it out" she said.

"Jasmine, no one must..."

"No one must know about your condition or your medical license will be taken away from you, I know and I won't ever tell anyone, not even Megan, you trust me right?" She asked.

"More than myself" I said as I hugged her and it felt comforting.