BLOOD FOR BLOOD - Episode 14

***********Episode 14********

They were banging on the door now and the door didn’t look like it would hold out for long….

I scanned the room for a lifeline,wait a minute!!!! I had seen a stack of neatly folded towels, an idea flashed into my head…It was a gamble but I was gonna take it…


As I packed the stack of towels to the window, I looked out to see several soldiers running into the hospital, the entire compound was deserted now except for the lorries which had brought the soldiers earlier in the day and a black BMW x6 which I suspected belonged to a doctor in the hospital….”crash” my thoughts were interrupted as the first hinge on the door broke…..As fast as I could, I tied the towels together, tied one end to a bed, pulled the bed to the window and out the window I went….As I climbed down, the bed rocked dangerously and the door gave way as soldiers poured into the room and as soon as they were able to decipher what I was up to….they turned back and made for the stairs. I already had a headstart….

Hanging by the series of towels I had linked, I positioned myself at a window on the second floor, shattering the glass with my elbow, I swung in during which the linked towels started tearing…..I held on to the window frame with all the strength I could muster and pulled myself into the room……..knowing I didn’t have time, I raced past the startled patients to reach the door and as soon as I had opened it, I saw several soldiers racing down the stairs. Remembering the chlorine canister, I retrieved it from the overall I wore, threw it up the staircase and pulling the gun I shot at it while it exploded and diffused into the air sending the soldiers back up the staircase as they held onto their chests coughing violently…..

Knowing they would not shoot ‘cos they had definitely kept me alive for a reason, I rushed into the adjacent staircase as I descended to the first floor….Making to navigate to the next flight of stairs,by now the soldiers were in pursuit…Looking ahead, I saw three soldiers pointing in my direction…..I didn’t have time to aim and shoot now….I hurled myself through a door as I made my way into the first floor corridor, ran through a large room filled with patients and without giving myself time to think, I spotted an almaco window and dived at it, shattering the glass in the process as I jumped into the unknown…….”diim”, I landed on the ground with a heavy thud.

I never knew I would make it this far……I turned to look at the window through which I had jumped, soldiers were looking and speaking into their walkie-talkies while some others had started pouring out of the hospital’s entrance….