Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 04:20:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Thomas Gaige <togaige@yahoo.com>
Subject: Brothers, Friends, & Lovers - Chapter 16
DISCLAIMER: The following story is FICTIONAL. It contains descriptions
of sexual activities between men, teenage boys, and between men and
teenage boys. If you are not over 18 years of age, or if you find this
type of story offensive, or viewing this material is illegal where you
are, then please DO NOT READ IT! If you choose to read it, then - I hope
you enjoy it!
Brothers, Friends, & Lovers
Chapter 16
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Luke slept peacefully in his brother's safe embrace, the rest of the
night before his surgery.
Jason didn't sleep as well though, waking a couple times with a start, as
he dreamt about Luke's surgery the next day.
The feeling of Luke's warm body, sleeping peacefully, snuggled in his
arms calmed him immediately though. He lay then for a few minutes before
falling asleep again, enjoying the intimacy of Luke's naked body laying
in his arms, and the feeling of the boy's warm breath as it caressed his
skin, riffling his chest hairs, each time he exhaled.
At one point, as Luke lay straddling his thigh, Jason also felt his
brother's erection pressing into him. This brought a smile to Jason's
face, as he realized his brother was having a good dream. It also caused
him to pop a boner as well. Had it not been the night before Luke's
surgery, Jason might have woken him, so they could help each other out!
He longed to reach down with his free hand, and dip his finger between
Luke's buttocks and gently tickle his pucker, but he didn't. He realized
that Luke needed his sleep, and didn't disturb him. There would be other
nights they could spend together, after Luke's surgery... at least he
hoped there would be.
"Please God!" Jason prayed silently, as a feeling of dread suddenly swept
over him. "Let Luke come through his surgery OK, and be OK afterward!"
Then, softly, so as not to wake him, Jason kissed Luke's forehead.
Eventually, after laying quietly for a while, Jason too dozed off again.
* * *
Jason and Luke woke in the morning at the same time, to Mrs. Anderson
urgently shaking them to wake them up.
Marge had run upstairs to wake her sons, as neither responded when she
called up the stairs to them. She looked first in Luke's room, the door
of which was open. Finding it empty, and nobody in the bathroom, she
checked Jason's room.
"Oh how sweet!" She thought, smiling to herself, when she discovered her
sons sleeping snuggled together in Jason's bed.
Marge stood and watched her boys sleeping peacefully together for a
moment. Then, remembering the time, she leaned over and shook both of
them to wake them.
"Time to rise sleepyheads. We have a big day ahead of us. Hurry up
now!" she said, shaking their shoulders some more.
"Wha-?" Jason asked, groggily.
"Too early!" Luke moaned, nuzzling deeper into the crook of Jason's arm.
"You have to get up guys. We have to leave soon," Mrs. Anderson said.
"Alright, in a minute," Jason said.
"I'm sorry, but you can't eat this morning Luke," Mrs. Anderson said.
"What would you like to eat Jason?"
"If Lukey can't eat, I'm not going to either," Jason declared, rubbing
his eyes.
"You have to. You need your strength!" Mrs. Anderson said.
"I'll be fine. I'll get a bagel and some coffee at the hospital," Jason
said.
"Well... whatever," Mrs. Anderson said. "You both have to get showered
and dressed though!"
"OK," Jason groaned, stretching.
Mrs. Anderson bustled out of the room, and back down the stairs then.
"Why is she always so perky in the morning?" Luke yawned.
Both boys chuckled then.
"We gotta get moving," Jason said.
"In a minute," Luke said, wrapping his arms around his brother a little
tighter.
Jason grinned and hugged Luke tightly. Both boys relaxed their grips
after a moment and just laid quietly with each other.
After a minute, Luke, whose face was resting in the crook of Jason's
arms, leaned in and nibbled Jason's nipple.
"Oh!" Jason said, surprised.
As Luke sucked on Jason's nipple for a moment, Jason's penis immediately
began to stiffen. He reached around Luke's torso and tweaked Luke's
nipple a little. Luke's dick was hard soon too, pressing against Jason's
thigh.
Luke spit out Jason's nipple after a while, smiled, and looked up at
Jason.
"Wanna shower with me?" Luke asked, waggling his brows at Jason.
Jason grinned.
"Sure," he said.
The boys pushed the blankets and sheet back then, and got up. Quickly,
with their hardons bobbing in front of them, they dashed across the
hallway, and into the bathroom.
* * *
After using the toilet, shaving, and brushing their teeth, the brothers
got into the shower together. Jason turned on the water and adjusted the
temperature, so a nice warm spray washed over them.
Luke started to soap himself up, but Jason stopped him and said, "here,
let me do that for you!"
Luke grinned as Jason took the soap away from him and started lathering
him up with it. He giggled a couple times as Jason's hands tickled him
as they slid all over his body, soaping him all over. He was especially
ticklish in his armpits. Jason was enjoying himself, running his soappy
fingers through the tufts of hair in Luke's pits, letting just his
fingertips rub lightly against Luke's skin. It didn't take long before
Luke was giggling uncontrollably. Jason stopped then, so their parents
didn't hear.
"Turn around and let me do your back," Jason said.
"No way! You just want to tickle be from behind!" Luke said.
"Well... I want to do SOMETHING to you from behind, but that's not it!"
Jason said, grinning evily.
Luke didn't know if he should be scared or turned on, but warily he
turned around and held onto the safety bar, as Jason began running the
bar of soap up and down his back.
As Jason's hands began washing his butt, Luke spread his feet a little
further apart, hoping that Jason would pay some attention to the area
between his cheeks too.
Jason didn't disappoint Luke. Noticing that Luke spread his feet apart,
Jason pushed the bar of soap down to the top of Luke's ass crack. Then,
pressing forward and downward at the same time, the bar of soap slid
downward between Luke's cheeks.
"Mmmmm!" Luke exclaimed, as the bar of soap slid over his anus.
Jason rubbed the wet bar of soap up and down a few times, through Luke's
ass crack. Then he pulled the soap away and set it in the soap dish. He
cupped Luke's ass with his hands and gave them a little squeeze, before
letting the fingers of his right hand slide inward, between Luke's
buttocks.
"Ohhh!!!" Luke gasped as Jason's fingertips began massaging his pucker.
Reaching around in front of Luke with his left hand, Jason grasped his
hard penis with his soapy hand and began to slowly masturbate him,
sliding his hand sensually up and down Luke's shaft. At the same time,
Jason fingered his brother's hole with his soap fingers. Within seconds,
Luke was softly moaning with pleasure.
Jason massaged Luke's hole and jerked him off for a minute or so, but
then stopped. He directed the spray of the shower on Luke and started
rinsing him off.
"That's all?" Luke asked, unable to hide his disappointment.
Jason smiled and said, "Of course not silly! Just stand still!"
Not knowing exactly what Jason had in mind, but figuring it would
probably feel great, Luke grinned and let Jason rinse him off.
Once Luke was rinsed clean, Jason quickly dropped to a squatting position
behind him, and parted Luke's ass cheeks.
"Oh Fuck!" Luke gasped, as Jason spread his cheeks, leaned in, and began
rimming him.
Luke pushed his hips back so that his butt was easier for Jason to work
on. He loved the feeling of his brother's tongue washing his hole!
As he rimmed Luke, he reached up between his legs and began masturbating
him as well. Luke was in heaven. He clung to the safety bar, moaning
lowly as his brother pleasured both his cock and his asshole.
After a while, Jason began pressing against Luke's hole with his tongue.
It didn't take long for it to relax, so that he was able to push the tip
of his tongue through Luke's sphincter, into his rectum.
"Fuck!" Luke gasped, as he felt his brother's tongue invading his most
private inner sanctum.
He began moaning again, as Jason began fucking his asshole with his
tongue. Soon he could feel his orgasm beginning to build.
Shortly, Jason realized that Luke seemed to be getting more excited and
tense. He stopped jacking him off and pulled his tongue from his
asshole.
"Spin around and let me finish you off now," Jason said.
A look of bliss on his face, Luke rotated on his feet to face Jason, who
immediately swallowed his entire 7-1/2" dick, and pushed a finger between
his ass cheeks in order to massage his hole some more!
"Awwwww...." Luke exlaimed, tilting his head back passionately, and
grabbing onto Jason's head to help steady himself.
It only took Jason a few strokes up and down Luke's dick with his hot,
wet mouth before he realized Luke was about to climax. Swiftly, but
gently Jason shoved his index finger through Luke's sphincter and up
inside him, illiciting a moan of pleasure from him. Jason pushed inward
until he located Luke's prostate, which he quickly began massage.
"Fuuuuccckkk!!!" Luke gasped suddenly, as his asshole clamped around his
brother's finger, and he shot his first load of cum into Jason's mouth.
Jason quickly savored the flavor of his brother's semen, before he
swallowed it, anticipating Luke's next blast.
Luke flooded Jason's mouth another five or six times, before his orgasm
ended. Once Luke stopped spasming, Jason sucked him clean and dry, and
pulled his finger out of his ass.
Standing up, he said, "How was that?"
Luke grinned at him and said, "Fucking fantastic!"
Jason grinned at him.
Luke rested a couple minutes, while Jason quickly washed himself.
"I was gonna wash you," Luke said, as he stood recovering from his
orgasm.
"You can do the important parts if you want," Jason said, grinning at
him.
Luke smiled then and took the bar of soap from Jason. Then, he proceeded
to work Jason over in exactly the same way, Jason had just pleasured
him. When he was finished, Jason was standing, hanging from the safety
bar, completely spent, as Luke savored the tangy, salty aftertaste of his
brothers cum.
Once Jason had recovered, he said, "We gotta get finished up, before Mom
comes looking for us!"
"I know," Luke said, sounding a little disappointed.
* * *
The two boys quickly shampooed and rinsed their hair, then got out of the
shower and dried off, and blew dry their hair. Then they each went to
their rooms and got dressed.
Together they walked downstairs, just as their mother was about to call
up to them that they needed to hurry up.
"Oh good! You're both ready!" she said, glancing up and down them
nervously.
"Got your bag?" Herb called from the kitchen.
"Yup, all set!" Luke replied.
"OK, let's go then," Mr. Anderson said.
They left then, and drove in relative silence to the hospital in
Burlington, each of them lost in their own thoughts and worries.
* * *
At the hospital, once Luke was admitted, he was taken to a semi-private
room, where he was expected to stay for several days following his
surgery. He was given a hospital gown to put on, and told that another
nurse would be in to shave his head.
"My whole head?" Luke asked.
"Yeah, sorry," the nurse said.
"Great!" Luke said, dolefully.
"Don't worry, we won't call you Baldy!" Jason said.
"Gee thanks!" Luke said, sounding depressed.
* * *
When the nurse arrived to shave him, Luke surprised everyone when he
asked if he could shave his head himself. The nurse thought it was an
odd request, but said that he could start, and she'd check how well he
did, in case there were any spots she had to finish up for him. She left
then, saying she'd be back in a while.
"Why didn't you want her to do it?" Jason asked.
"Last time when they operated on me, it hurt like hell when they shaved
my head!" he said. "Would you help me Jase?"
Jason chuckled and said, "sure!"
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson left too then, saying they'd go try to find the
doctor and talk with him while Jason helped Luke shave.
As Mr. and Mrs. Anderson walked out of the room, Jason saw a look of
dread and fear cross Luke's face.
"You OK?" he asked, sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at his
brother.
Luke looked up at him, and Jason could see that he had tears in his eyes,
and he looked terrified suddenly.
"I'm scared Jase," Luke said, sniffling a little. "What if it doesn't
work?"
Jason looked at Luke a minute, then said, "Don't have the surgery then!"
"I have to!" Luke said. "I can't live wondering if I'll burst that blood
vessel and die at any moment! I don't know what to do!"
Jason contemplated his brother for a moment, then said, "You need to have
the surgery Luke. If I was in your shoes, it's what I'd do. Cause there
is no way you can live with the constant uncertainty!"
"I know," Luke said, rubbing his eyes. "You better get shaving me then!"
Jason got up, and gave Luke a hug.
"It'll be OK Bro," Jason said. "I have a good feeling about this. It's
all gonna work out fine!"
"Really?" Luke asked, looking up at Jason.
"Yup," Jason said, hoping God wouldn't punish him too much for lying to
his brother.
The truth was, Jason was terrified for Luke, but was doing his best to
put up a good front for him.
"Come sit in this chair, and I'll shave your head now," Jason said,
breaking their hug.
Luke got up and walked over to the chair Jason had indicated. His butt
peeked out through the crack in the back of his hospital gown.
"Man, we gotta get you pants to go with that gown," Jason said,
laughing.
"I thought I felt a draft," Luke said, smiling ruefully.
Luke wrapped his gown around himself the best he could and sat down.
Jason stood in front of Luke trying to figure out the best way to attack
his brother's hair.
Luke grinned and said, "last time they just started in front and shaved
back over the top of my head. They started in the middle. Looked freaky
when they did that."
"Or, I could give you a mohawk for a few minutes!" Jason said.
"OH COOL! Do that!" Luke said, grinning.
Jason stepped over to his brother and turned on the electric razor.
Carefully, starting with the sideburn area in front of his ear, Jason
shaved upward, till almost the middle of Luke's head.
"Not so hard. You OK?" Jason asked.
"Fine. Just keep going," Luke said.
Jason shaved a swath over Luke's ear then, holding his ear folded down,
so he didn't hurt Luke. Then he quickly, but carefully shaved off the
rest of the hair on that side of Luke's head. When he'd finished, he did
the other side the same way. When he was done, Luke had a swath of dark
hair going from the front of his head to his nape, about an inch and a
half wide. Jason used the scissors to crop it down a little, leaving
Luke with a perfect Mohawk!
"Cool!" Luke said, looking in the mirror. "But ugly as hell too!"
He and Jason were laughing, and Luke was still admiring his new hairstyle
when the Andersons walked back in.
"OH MY GOD!" Herb exclaimed.
"Oh dear!" Marge said.
"They said I could leave it this way! What do you think?" Luke said,
teasing his parents!
"I THINK NOT!" Herb said loudly.
"Oh Herb, they're just goofing around," Mrs. Anderson said.
As Jason and Luke laughed, Herb turned pink and sheepishly said, "Oh."
The nurse came in then and complimented Luke on his Mohawk, but said
unfortunately it too had to go.
"I know!" Luke said. "Finish it off Jase."
Jason quickly shaved Luke's Mohawk off then, leaving him completely bald.
"You're good! You could be a barber!" the nurse said, taking the razor
from Jason and inspecting Luke's scalp. "No need for me to do a thing!"
She left then saying she'd send housekeeping up with a vaccuum cleaner to
suck up Luke's hair.
Jason bent down and picked up a handful of it.
"You sure do have nice hair," he said.
"Did have, you mean!" Luke said.
"It'll grow back!" Mrs. Anderson said.
Just then, the anesthesiologist poked his head in the door and asked to
speak with Mr. and Mrs. Anderson. They joined him in the hallway.
"What're you doing?" Luke asked, as Jason took a bit of Luke's hair he'd
picked up off the floor and wrapped it around another shock of his hair.
"I'm gonna save this piece of your hair. Then I'll have a bit of you
with me while you're in surgery," Jason said, tying a knot in the hair
he'd wrapped around the larger chunk.
As Jason dropped the hunk of Luke's hair into his pocket, Luke looked at
his brother, and his eyes watered.
"Hey," Jason said, looking at Luke. "It's gonna be fine!
Luke rubbed his eyes and said, "I know."
The two sat looking at one another a moment. Jason stepped over to Luke
then and squatted down and hugged him.
As Luke and Jason hugged each other, a young man appeared in the
doorway. Jason was facing away from the door and didn't see him. When
Luke saw him, his face lit up in a smile.
Realizing he was interrupting a special moment between the brothers, the
man smiled back and mouthed "I'll be back!"
Luke nodded in return and mouthed the words "thank you". The man winked
and smiled again, then left.
"I love you Jase!" Luke said, as Jason continued hugging him.
"I love you too Lukey!" Jason said, squeezing Jason a little harder.
* * *
Jason and Luke were still holding each other when Brian and his mother
walked into the room.
"Oh! Sorry!" Mrs. Abbott said, and started to pull Brian out of the
room.
"No! Stay!" Luke said, breaking the hug he was sharing with Jason.
"If you're sure," Mrs. Abbott said.
"I'm sure," Luke said.
"Man you look funny bald," Brian said, smirking.
"BRIAN!" Mrs. Abott admonished.
"It's OK, I expected some kind of comment from him," Luke said, grinning.
"Sorry," Brian said. "I was just picking on you."
"I know," Luke said.
"Can me and Luke talk alone a few minutes," Brian asked, suddenly looking
a little agitated.
"Sure," Jason said, smiling at him.
"We'll be down the hall in the lounge I guess," Mrs. Abbott said. "Good
luck Luke!"
"Thanks Mrs. Abbott," Luke said.
Jason and Mrs. Abbott left then, leaving Luke and Brian alone.
* * *
"I am sorry about the bald comment. I really was only trying to be
funny," Brian said.
"I know," Luke said, smiling.
"Luke, I gotta say this. I know you don't want me to, but I got to,"
Brian said. "I know you always say it's not my fault you got hurt. I
know though that it is. And I just want you to know that I'm more sorry
for that than I can ever tell you! If I could, I'd change places with
you! I'm just so sorry!"
Brian's eyes filled with tears then.
"Not this shit again," Luke said. "Bri. We've been through this over
and over. It's my fault, not your's! You have nothing to be sorry
about!"
"I'm the one who was driving drunk! You were only riding," Brian said.
"I was drunk too. If I hadn't been, I wouldn't have ridden in back like
I did. So it's my fault!" Luke said.
The two sat looking at each other.
"I love you Brian!" Luke said, finally. "It wasn't your fault. But even
if it was, I'd forgive you, because I know you never would've meant for
me to be hurt. So regardless, it was just an accident! I don't hold you
responsible. And I meant it when I said I love you!"
Sniffling, Brian wrapped his arms around Luke and said "I love you too
Luke! And I always will!"
"Me too," Luke said, hugging Brian back.
* * *
The two boys had just released each other and were wiping their eyes when
the Andersons and Mrs. Abbott returned.
"Are you boys alright?" Mrs. Anderson asked.
"Yeah," Brian said, snuffling and trying to smile.
"Of course Mom," Luke said, smiling as best he could.
The nurse came in right behind them and said it was time to take Luke to
the Operating Room then.
Brian and Mrs. Abbott wished Luke good luck, and said they'd see him
later. Then they left to go sit in the lobby.
Mr. & Mrs. Anderson and Jason walked alongside Luke's gurney, as far as
they could, toward the Operating Room then. Luke's parents hugged him
and kissed him and told them they loved him.
After his parents stepped back, Luke grasped Jason's hand and pulled him
down close to him.
"If I don't make it," he whispered, "promise me you'll take care of
Brian! He'll need you!"
Gulping, and feeling his eyes starting to burn, Jason whispered "Don't
worry about that. You'll be fine."
"Please Jase. Just promise me!" Luke insisted.
"Fine! You know I would anyway!" Jason said.
"Thanks!" Luke said, smiling faintly up at Jason.
Jason squeezed Luke's hand and kissed him on the forhead and whispered,
"I love you bro!"
"I love you too Jase!" Luke replied.
The brothers let go of each other then. Just as the orderly was about to
wheel Luke through the double sliding doors into the wing of Operating
Rooms, Jason saw him pull a small envelope out from under the blanket.
He wondered what it was, but didn't have time to find out. The orderly
quickly pushed Luke's gurney through the doors. The Andersons watched,
as Luke was wheeled down the inner hallway. As the Gurney turned left
into an operating room, Luke looked back at his family and waved to
them. They all waved back. Then, he was gone.
* * *
Mrs. Anderson burst into tears as soon as Luke was out of sight, and ran
off down the hallway.
Jason and his father looked at each other helplessly.
"You'd better go after her," Jason said.
"Yeah," Mr. Anderson said. "See you in the lobby later."
"'K," Jason answered.
Mr. Anderson hurried off after his wife then, leaving Jason standing
alone in the hallway.
Not knowing exactly what to do, Jason headed back to Luke's room to
retrieve the book he'd brought to read while Luke was in surgery.
When he got to Luke's room, a housekeeper was just walking out the door
with a broom and dust pan. When he entered the room, Jason saw that the
wastebasket was filled with Luke's hair.
Tears began to flood Jason's eyes, as a feeling of despair swept over
him. Feeling sorry for himself, and terrified for his brother, he
crawled up onto Luke's bed, which was still warm from Luke's body heat.
He took the lock of Luke's hair he'd put in his pocket out and looked at
it. Sniffing it, he could still smell Luke's scent. Unable to control
his emotions any longer, tears suddenly began streaming down his face,
and he curled up into a fetal position and gave into his weeping.
* * *
"They say it's best if y'all keep a positive outlook," Jason heard a
familiar voice say behind him a couple minutes later.
He whirled around.
"DAN?" he croaked, incredulously.
Dan was standing in the doorway, smiling wrly at Jason. He walked over
to the bed, and wrapped his arms around Jason. Jason broke down and
began weeping again, letting Dan hold him, and comfort him.
After a minute or so, Jason calmed down.
"Where did you come from? Why are you here?" Jason asked.
Smiling, Dan said, "That's some little brother y'all have! He called me
last night and told me what was goin' on. He thought maybe y'all might
need to have me around. So I came up. I flew into Burlington and rented
a car. Just got here."
"I can't believe it! Thanks so much for coming!" Jason said.
The two talked for a few minutes, then decided to go to the lobby to wait
with everyone else.
* * *
The doctor entered the operating room a few minutes after Luke was rolled
in, and transferred from the gurney to the operating table. He walked
over to the operating table and asked Luke how he was feeling. Luke told
him he was feeling fine, then held out his hand with the envelope in it.
"If something happens and I'm going to end up being a vegetable, I want
you to let me die," he said.
The nurses and doctors all suddenly stopped working and back away from
Luke and the surgeon, to give them some privacy.
"Luke, you need to have a positive outlook. The surgery will go fine!"
Dr. Grayson said.
"You said there's only a 50% chance of that. And the other 50% chance is
that I'll die or end up as a vegetable. I don't want to live like that!
This note will prove to anyone who asks, that it's what I want!"
The doctor contemplated Luke for a moment, then opened the envelope and
read the note Luke had written the night before.
He tried again to convince Luke he'd be alright. Luke insisted though
that he promise him that he won't let him be a vegetable.
Finally, Doctor Grayson said, "OK Luke. If you're sure that's what you
want."
"It is," luke said.
"You'll have to sign a form. I'll put your note with the form," the
doctor said.
"Fine," Luke said.
A few minutes later, a nurse had Luke sign a form stating his wishes.
The doctor returned, holding his sterile hands up in the air, and another
nurse quickly pulled long latex gloves over them.
"All set?" Dr. Grayson asked.
"Let's do it!" Luke said, soberly.
"We'll talk after surgery," the doctor said, smiling.
Luke breathed in deeply and said, "OK."
"I'm going to inject a drug into your IV," the anesthesiologist said to
Luke. "Start counting backward from 100."
He injected a syringeful of medicine into the IV in Luke's arm.
"100, 99, 98...97...9..." Luke said, and he was asleep.
"OK, as the patient said," Dr. Grayson said, "Let's do it!"
* * *
About three hours later, a nurse appeared in the lobby and told the
Andersons, Dan, Brian, and Mrs. Abbott that they'd completed harvesting
the vein from Luke's leg that they would use to bypass the bad one in his
brain. She said they were beginning the actual brain surgery, and it
would be a while yet, but that everything was going fine so far.
A few minutes later, Mr. Abbott arrived to take Mrs. Abbott to an
appointment. She said they'd be back as soon as possible, and left.
Jason, Dan, and Brian were all getting hungry then, so they went off in
search of food. They asked Mr. and Mrs. Anderson if they could bring
them anything, but neither was hungry.
They returned a half hour later, having each had a sandwich, and having
stopped in the gift shop and picked up a deck of playing cards and some
sodas. They settled in then to play a little poker while they waited.
* * *
In the operating room, things were going OK. The doctor had removed a
small circular piece of Luke's skull and using lasers and a microscope
had exposed the bad vein in Luke's brain. He was just finishing exposing
more of the vein, that he would graft the new piece to, when Luke
suddenly went into a seizure. The laser slipped and sliced the vein
open, causing blood to spray everywhere. It also bore a hole into Luke's
brain.
"Son of a Bitch!" the doctor exclaimed, trying frantically to control the
bleeding.
He couldn't stop it though.
"Blood pressure's dropping!" The anesthesiologist said.
"I can't get a clamp on the vessel!" the doctor cried. "I haven't
exposed enough of the good part of the vessel yet. The old part keeps
collapsing! Pump more blood into him!"
The doctors and nurses worked together for the next 15 minutes, trying at
the same time to frantically to stop the bleeding, and control the
seizure Luke was having.
Eventually the seizure ended. With Luke held steady, the doctor was able
to plug the ends of the blood vessel.
"Suction!" he said.
A nurse suctioned the blood from Luke's open brain.
"Aw Shit!" the doctor said, looking through the scope into Luke's brain.
"Fucking son of a bitch!" he yelled, as the nurses and other doctors all
looked worriedly at him.
Suddenly, the anesthesiologist said, "his pulse is dropping!"
Everyone looked at Doctor Grayson. He sat staring back at them emptily.
The alarm on the cardiac monitor suddenly started blaring.
"Code Blue!" a nurse yelled, grabbing for a crash cart behind her.
Immediately another nurse started chest compressions. The assisting
surgeon grabbed the paddles of the defibrulator and was about to apply
them to Luke's torso.
"NO!" Dr. Grayson commanded, suddenly. "Let him go!"
"What? Why?" the anesthisologist asked.
"He signed an order not to let him live if during the operation it was
determined he'd end up a vegetable. When he had the seizure, and the
laser slipped, it cut through the gross motor portion of the cerebellum.
The part of his brain that governs movement is destroyed. If he were to
live through the rest of the procedure, he'd be vegetative, or comatose.
Besides, there's no way to complete the surgery without him bleeding
out. It's over." the doctor said.
The anesthesiologist swallowed, and just looked at Dr. Grayson, as the
cardiac monitor blared.
Dr. Grayson reached over and shut off the sound on the monitor. He
watched the other monitors, as the indicators all slowed. Finally, all
the monitors showed only flat lines. He turned them all off.
Looking at the clock, Dr. Grayson said thickly, "Time of death, 2:09.
I'll go tell the family. Someone make him presentable in case they want
to see him."
Defeated, Dr. Grayson pulled off his surgical gloves and smock, and
deposited them in the garbage bins on his way out of the operating room.
* * *
"Herb! It's the doctor... it's too early for it to be over!" Marge said,
staring at Dr. Grayson as he walked toward them.
Everyone stood up and stared at Dr. Grayson as he moved slowly, and
somberly toward them.
Marge's eyes filled with tears, as he stopped in front of them.
"I'm so very sorry," he said...
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