Island Hideaway 28 - Awakening

By Terrence Oblong

Mon, 13 Jan 2020

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You're alive," I said.

"Fuck me," she said, "How can you tell. Have you completed a six year medical degree since I last saw you? What gave it away?"

"Let me get you something to piss in."

"You're a gent, Terrence. Your mother must be so proud."

I had a bedpan I was keeping for when Mo woke from her coma. I'd found it in one of the junk rooms when I moved in and had moved it into the loft, not because I thought I'd ever need it but because my parents had always kept a bedpan in the loft so it seemed sort of the right place for it. I'd brought it down when Mo moved in, just in case.

"If you removed the fucking tubes and things I could go to the toilet you know. I don't really need you as my piss-waiter."

"That might be a trifle ambitious," I said. "You might find walking a struggle at first."

I left the room and returned a few minutes later on piss-waiter duties. I took the piss to the toilet and returned, via the kitchen, carrying a glass of water.

"Water," I said. "In case you're thirsty. Do you want anything else."

She took the glass, or tried to, but it was too heavy, and she clutched the glass clumsily to her chest.

"Let me help," I said, lifting the glass to her mouth.

"Fuck," she said. "I can't hold my drink."

There was a paused during which could have laughed at her joke, the first she had told for months, but there was too much going on in my mind.

"Where am I," she said.

"You're at mine," I said. "On my island. Eddie brought you."

"How long have I been here?"

"Three months."

"Fuck," she said. "I must have overslept."

"Just a bit."

"What happened?"

"I don't know. Eddie said it was best if I didn't know. He brought you here and said it was a good place to hide you. It's not on any maps or anything."

"Where is Eddie?"

"He didn't stay."

We talked for a while, twenty minutes or so, Mo slowly getting to grips with where she was, but the endeavour must ahve exhausted her, as she cloed her eyes and went back to sleep.

I thought of phoning Eddie with the news, but I was under strict instructions to keep stumn.

I stayed with her for a while, but she was dead to the world, though sleeping this time, a completely different form of dead to the world. Or so I hoped.

I set my alarm for four hours time and went to bed.