Plotline's Ms. Gate Crasher

Twenty-Seven

"Good morning Mr. Walker. I'm sorry but Ms. Hanson can't make it to work anymore. I just received a call from her home today. They said that Ms. Hanson is in the hospital and in critical condition because of the gunshot from shot fire yesterday in their neighborhood."

I froze to my position. I don't remember when I was able to go back to my office but all I remember is that I kept murmuring. "No, this can't be happening. This isn't happening."
***

I took a deep breathe after rushing to the hospital where Ms. Hanson was admitted. I don't know how I ended up here but here I am wearing several suits just to see her lying on the bed with several tubes inserted in her body.

I can still remember every reaction after coming here and still shocked me to the core as I saw her pale as sheet of paper.

"I'm sorry Mr. and Mrs. Hanson but your daughter is clinically brain dead after arriving at our hospital. Only the life support is sustaining her but unfortunately it can only hold for more or less than a week until her body collapsed from multiple organ failure", the doctor says shaking his head.

Mrs. Hanson almost fell on the floor as her husband support her. Both of them are crying from to much agony for loosing their daughter.

"It can't be! This can't be happening! Our daughter!" Her mom wails. "She's too young to die, she didn't even enjoy the life she should have because of the responsibilities she carried for us"

*****
          It took me days before I had the courage to visit her at the hospital again. On my way to her room I ran across two of the nurses that came out of her room.

"I pity her. She's the bread winner of the family yet they can't call the help as soon as she is shot near their house. If it weren't for the delay, there could still be time for the doctors to resuscitate her",

"Yeah. I heard from Dr. Salazar because of the delay, the lack of oxygen and formation of blood clot in her head caused her brain dead. But why do they still keep her here if she's already at the death's door?"

"Oh. I heard that because the family lacked money, they signed the rights of her body to the hospital for experimentation. The scientist who bought her body will come here two days to claim her body. They said they want the body alive even if the brain is dead. Poor girl", the nurse shakes her head in pity that I stop my track and hold on to her.

"Excuse me? What did you say? Her family sells her body? They can't do that. She's still alive", I reasoned out.

The nurse pulled her arm I'm holding on. "That's what I'm pointing out Mister. But what can we do? The family said they are poor and can't pay the hospital. The only option left to them is by selling her body to pay the bills. Well, if you excuse us"

Senseless, I walk into her room with a confused look. Inside the room is her mother sobbing trying to pull a crying little girl.

"No! No! N-no! I won't leave my big sister here alone! She's always alone, this time I'm not going to leave her alone!" She cried. "Big sis, open your eyes. You promise me that we're going to sleep together when you come home. So let's go home, forget about the big bear, I want you instead, big sis", she murmured but enough for us to hear.

The mother must notice my presence and look at me.

"Excuse me. I'm her co-worker, Jace Cole Walker. I'm rude to ask this but is what I heard from the nurse true? You sell her body to the scientists to be experimented on?" I asked with a tone of doubt in my voice. She was supposed to be loved by them why do they sell her like that?

Barbara's mom wiped her tears and shook her head.

"N-No. We wouldn't do that. It's, that Barbara herself does sign the contract. We just received a notification yesterday of what she did. That brat, she never thought that we might be against her decision and do whatever she wanted just because she doesn't want to trouble us", she sobbed and handed me a copy of an unbreakable contract signed by Barbara herself.

I read the contract carefully, aside from the money, the body will undergo memory scanning which will be sent to her reincarnation and will reawaken at the age of the original body's last consciousness taken place. These studies are to prove that reincarnation is real but there must be a great exchange to these experiments. The body will absorb a massive amount of radiation killing every part of the body completely.

"W-What do you think? Is there anyway we can contest this contract?" Her mother asked.

I shook my head sadly. "I'm sorry. This is irrevocable. T-This is her will"

Her mom collapsed and hugged the little girl crying.

"N-No. My daughter"

I weakly sat down at the chair near her and gently took Barbara's hand. My heart felt so empty, wanting to ask someone. Why do I realize my feelings so late? Is this only how far my interaction with her takes place? But there's so many things I wanna tell her.

Maybe this time wasn't for us, huh? If that was the case then maybe we can be in another lifetime? That is, if it exists. Can you fall in love with me? A man they called JC? So that I can pay you back the second life you gave me? I promise I will repay you with all my life.

After a long day, I bid farewell to her family to take a rest. The next day I came to the hospital, I was looking forward to seeing her again but then the room was already empty. They already took her and I lost her.