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The Gun Is Fired

“See, look at that. You bored her to sleep! What kind of a doctor are you?!” Shade yells, hatred increasing rapidly.

“Sir, please! I am almost done, please just have some patience!”

“I had patience carrying her over here. I had patience in the fricken traffic it took to get in the hospital. I had patience waiting to get in this fricken room. But now – I’m out of patience! Fix her now!” he says as he pulls his gun out and points it at the doctor.

“Sir, please! Don’t! I will call security and you will be out of here faster than yo-”

“SHUT UP! FINISH HER NOW OR I SHOOT !”

The doctor slowly but surely heads for the Security button, never taking his eyes off of the pistol. One false move and he would be dead – in a hospital.

All at once, the doctor stumbles, the gun is shot.

“Where’d the bullet go?!”

Both men’s eyes look at the metal that the bullet had richocheted off of, then headed over to their patient.

In the middle of her stomach, they found a hole leading to the bullet.

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