Chapter 5: A mystery is afoot!!
A sharp knock on the door scares her, losing her place in the book. She looks up at the person only to find a smirk on his face.
"You're so easy to scare, Evy." She huffs in annoyance. Grabbing her book mark.
"You made me lose my place." He walks up and pats her head, while looking at the beeping machines.
"At this rate, you should be able to go outside, for a day at most."
"Really?" He looks down to her.
"Yeah, if your body doesn't have another hernia. Then you should be good." She looks up at him.
"I was thinking, since you need a guide to get around, Japan. That I would go with you since I have quite a few paid days off." He looks down to see her grinning like a child in a candy store.
"Thank you, so much Trafy!!!!."
"But, don't ge-" He couldn't finish his sentence as he was tackled by the small woman. Not knowing how to react he pats her head. She stands up and crawls back into the bed.
"Thank you so much, Trafy" She smiles up at him. He smiles back.
"It's not a problem, Evy" He looks down to his wrist watch.
"Well, I suppose I should get going. I've got a ton of other people to treat. So I'll see you soon." He starts walking toward the door.
"See you soon Trafy." The door closes behind him. She looks to the clock, seeing it's nearing 10 o'clock. She leans over to the desk and grabs her newly prescribed sleeping pills, takes the recommended dose, and turns off the light to end the rather full day she had had.
She wakes up the next morning, stretches, and sits and contemplates life, her usual routine. A knock on the door startles her out of her depressing thoughts of humanity.
"Who is it?" She asks, not really wanting to see the good doctor quite yet.
"Tina, your nurse." Her face lights up at the realization of the party she had planned for said doctor.
"Oh, come in." She moves to stand up and open the door, but stops feeling a sharp pain in her stomach. She grabs her stomach and sits down, with a slight grimace on her face. 'Totally, forgot about that. I hope I didn't tear any of the stitches.' Tina walks in carrying a armful of bags, with the logo of the closest convenience store on the bags. In the other hand is a rather long box. She smiles realizing It got here in time.
"I got the stuff for the party, you also have a package for you." The small woman makes grabby hands for the box. Tina hands the box to her with a smile on her face, while setting the other bags on the floor.
''What are you so happy for? And what's in the big box?" She points to the box in the small woman's hands.
"This is Taffy's gift, but I didn't think it would get here in time. But I'm so happy it did."
"Well, come on don't keep me waiting." Tina looks at her with the most sassiest look she could give.
"It's a Sword sheath. He told me that he had always been a fan of swords, and that he has one named the Nodichi? I think it was. I just thought this would be a better gift than what others I had thought about. Such as a book, antique scalpel, or something else of the like. I also had it specifically designed with a black cover, and red crosses." She looks down at the package.
"I hope he likes it. It cost a fortune. Bye bye Christmas money." She looks up to the nurse with a smile.
"I think he'll love it. When did you order it? I didn't see you ever leave the room. There's also no phone in here." She gestures around to the room.
"If I tell you, you've got to promise not to tell Taffy." The small woman looks at the nurse with a serious face. The nurse rolls her eyes.
"Alright, cross my heart, hope to die, stick a pencil in my eye." The small woman looks up to the clock and sees that she has plenty of time.
"I went out in the middle of the night, after everyone was either in their rooms or doing paperwork. I had to go out a total of three times to make sure the company didn't send it to the wrong place."
"And no one caught you, trying to sneak out?"
"Nope, not a single soul."
"Weird..." The small woman looks up at the clock and grimaces.
"What is it?"
"We only have 10 minutes to hide all of this stuff, and with this big of a box there is nowhere to hide this thing." She gestures to the abnormally large box.
"True..." Tina grabs her chin in thought. "How about under the bed?"
"That's a good idea!.. Could you put it down there? Since I can't move?" Tina lets out a humorless chuckle.
"Alright, fine. You slug."
"Hey! I would've put it down, there if I could move!"
"Yeah, right. You're as lazy as a sloth, With tranquilizers."
"Still offended, but too true. You can hide the rest away in the closet over there." The small woman points over to a closet in the rightmost corner of the room.
"You sure he won't look in it?"
"I've never seen that closet ever opened. So I think it's pretty safe in there."
"Okay, I guess I'll have to trust you." She moves over to the closet, opens it up to find a few papers. Along with an old journal.
"Weird." She picks up the journal, and blows off the caked on dust.
"What? Whatcha find?"
"An old, dusty journal." She walks over to the girl, book in hand.
"Who wrote it?"
"I don't know the how to prononce to word on the front, maybe you can?" she hands the old book over to Evy. She takes the book and blows away some more dust. The cover is marked with one word "I can barely make out the word, it says 'Iögum'. I think. Maybe that was an old nick-name of the doctor?" The nurse shrugs her shoulders, and hands the book to the woman. She looks up at the clock, seeing the daily visit of the good doctor was about to happen in 2 minutes.
"You should probably get going. Before the good doctor catches you "Not doing your duty"." The woman lowers her voice to mimic the grumpy doctor. The nurse jokingly salutes the woman in bed.
"Sir, yes sir." The nurse walks off to leave the room, waving as she closes the door. A comforting silence takes over the room. She lets out a sigh, and looks down to the book in her hands. 'I should hide this somewhere.' She leans over to her book pile and sets it underneath all of the bigger sized books. 'That should do it!' She smiles happily at herself. Just as she looks up to the clock, the door opens. 'Always on time.' She looks up to the man in white.
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