The story of a mercenary.

Chapter 40. The night after the mission ...

Base Hereford. Herefordshire. England. 02:34 GMT.
Nurkanat lay on a hospital bed, wrapped in a bandage. From the open places on the body was only his left eye, fingers and heels. On the other side of the room, Ela was sitting, shot through her leg and with a plaster on her hand. Dominic and Marius were sent to another room.
Ela: How are you?
Nurkanat: How would you feel with burns from 1 to 3 degrees, and with two dozen gunshot wounds? Of course, cool, got dammit.
Nurkanat began to get up from his bed. Ela takes out her crutch and gets to Nurkanat.
Ela: Lie down, you need rest ...
Nurkanat: I need to drink alcohol ...
Ela: Lie down, you drunkard ...
Ela sat down on the bed and put the crutch near the bed. Zofia enters quietly into the room.
Zofia: Good night.
Ela: Zofia!
Ela embraces Zofia, and she hugs her.
Zofia: How are you?
Ela: I'll be fine for a week. But to him ...
Ela points to Nurkanat.
Ela: ... he's got a month or two to hang around.
Nurkanat: Two months ?! Oh fuck ...
Nurkanat tries to get back up.
Zofia: Lie there, you idiot. What do you want?
Nurkanat: Drink, about the fact that there are two months ...
Zofia left the room and in a couple of minutes she brought whiskey and three piles.
Zofia: Wait, can you drink now?
Nurkanat: What's the difference? Pour it ...
Zofia pours whiskey in three piles. Nurkanat rises from the bed and sits on it.
Nurkanat: Is there anything to say?
Ela: For your health ...
Nurkanat: I do not have it. So for your health ...
Nurkanat at once drinks the contents of the stack. Then women.
After the bottle.
Nurkanat was conscious, in contrast to Ela and Zofia. Ela could hardly sit on her bed, Zofia surely tried not to get drunk. Nurkanat carefully takes Ela on her hands and puts it on her bed. Ela did not want to let Nurkanat go, but he unclasped Ela's grip. Zofia tried to get up from her chair and lost her balance, but Nurkanat managed to catch her. Zofia muttered something drunk, and Nurkanat puts it on another bed. Zofia, like Ela, did not let Nurkanat go, and tried in every possible way to drag him onto the bed.
Zofia: See, this cool ass ...
Zofia pointed at Ela.
Zofia: ... I want this ass ...
Nurkanat: Zofia, this is your sister ...
Zofia: Anyway ...
Nurkanat: You're not yourself.
Zofia falls asleep in the hands of Nurkanat.
Nurkanat: In giving ...
Nurkanat puts Zofia on a bed and closes it with a blanket, like Ela. After, he leaves the medical department and goes to the kitchen.
After a couple of minutes.
Nurkanat stood at the doorway of the kitchen. In the kitchen there were Alexander, Maxim and Lera. They discussed what with a pile of vodka. Nurkanat quietly enters the kitchen, but Maxim notices him.
Maxim: Nurkanat?
Nurkanat: Yes, Maxim?
Maxim: Do not you have to be in the medical department?
Nurkanat: I must, but ...
Nurkanata interrupts Alexander.
Alexander: Sit down ...
Nurkanat takes a chair and sits down near Lera and Maxim.
Alexander: Lera, dear, will you bring a pile?
Lera: Maxim?
Maxim looks inquiringly at Lera and stands up, looking for a pile.
Lera: You can not sleep?
Nurkanat: Absolutely ...
Maxim gives Nurkanat a pile and puts another bottle of vodka on the table. Alexander takes the bottle yet not finished and pours out 4 piles. Everyone began to drink at once and at the same time.
After a couple of bottles of vodka.
The company was drunk.
Alexander: Uh ... for a long time we have not drunk so much, yes Nurkanat?
Nurkanat was surprisingly sober, unlike the others.
Nurkanat: I remember ... we drank this last time in 1995 ... in Chechnya.
Lera: So you, in Chechnya was?
Nurkanat: Contractor. I'm considered dead ...
Lera did not understand what Nurcanat was talking about.
Nurkanat: Command considers me dead ... still ...
Nurkanat drinks vodka from the pile and pours it.
Maxim: Tell me about yourself ...
Nurkanat: Why?
Lera: We still do not understand who you are ...
Nurkanat: Data from a personal file?
Lera: There everything is superficial ...
Nurkanat: Well ...
Everyone began to show interest in the story.
Nurkanat: Where do we start?
Lera, Maxim and Alexander looked at one another and said nothing.
Alexander: Your childhood and the beginning ...
Nurkanat: No ...
Lera: Then ... from how you became like that ...
Nurkanat takes vodka and pours it all.
Nurkanat: It's not a secret that it is declared wanted in all post-Soviet countries. In addition to Eastern Europe. And this became ...
Nurkanat reveals itself.
Nurkanat: ... after the December events of 1986 in Alma-Ata and Karaganda. They caught me in Karaganda in 1987. I was to be executed by court order, but I was sent to Afghanistan. Yes, the 17-year-old boy is sent to war. So ... Where did I serve that?
Lera: Stop, did you go to war at 17? And how old are you now?
Nurkanat: The current year is taken away for 1969.
Maxim: 49 years? You do not look like a 49 year old.
Nurkanat: 48. According to you, how much did you give me years?
Maxim: Not more than 40 years.
Lera: I agree with Maxim.
Alexander: Somewhere 35. But I know you ...
Nurkanat: Well, age is just a number ...
Maxim: And prison is a room ... yes, Alexander?
Alexander held hands with Lera.
Alexander: Go fuck, Maxim.
Maxim: What about Elena now?
Alexander: What about Tina?
Maxim and Alexander tried to challenge each other. Lera, like Nurkanat, did not interfere in the conversation of the defenders.
Nurkanat: Do you still need to be poured?
After another bottle of vodka.
Nurkanat was dragging three drinking companions to the second floor and residential complexes.
Lera: They ... there ...
Nurkanat drags Alexander and Maxim into their room, and Lera leans against the wall, so as not to fall.
Lera: Next, I myself ...
Nurkanat notices the unnaturally lascivious eyes of Lera.
Nurkanat: Protect yourself, Lera ...
Nurkanat leaves the room and heads to the medical department. There he notices the sleeping sisters on one bed, in each other's arms. It seemed that a little more and they would kiss. Nurkanat departs to another bed, removes sneakers, a T-shirt and goes to sleep ...