You may think you know someone when you have interacted with them for years. You gradually pick up on their behavior, their habits, their preferences; given enough time, you can even predict their unique reactions to most situations.With adequate amount of time, you think you fully know someone. From the time spent you judge their character.
By your findings you either trust or be wary of the person you know. You judge them to be courageous or be a coward. You deem them worthy of respect or belittle them in an inoffensive way or even sometimes with an offense.
Time not just shows the other person, but also you. With time you get comfortable showing your true colors as you find a person non-threatening or you pretend to show heightened respect if that person is threatening.
However, all your threat a.s.sessment can go down the drain when a living ent.i.ty does not give a d.a.m.n about the next moment.
A buffalo can rip a lion when it gives no d.a.m.n, the prey becomes the reaper.
This is how Mr. Liu felt as he saw the blood-stained Hagan, the scream of Dr. Shilong didn"t register to him, the scene was noiseless as he looked at the calm eyes that had calculatingly incapacitated Dr. Shilong.
Mr. Liu had seen many criminals, amongst criminals, there is a rare breed, the warrior. The men of this breed respect justice, but only their own. They are not crazed killers, their actions are always surgical, it is with a reason they take up the blade. They don"t follow orders, they follow the conviction, for which they are willing to die for.
"...Hagan..."
"Mr. Liu, I mean no disrespect, you are less than an ordinary man if you cannot exercise your authority. The law is dead in this hospital, I only wish to save those who still hold a breath."
"It is not in me to humiliate you with force or coercion. If you wish to report me, so be it. Law gave up on protecting my family and me, if it wants to oppress me, I have no time to care about it."
".. YOU HAVE NO TIME TO CARE?!" freaked out Dr. Cuifen petrified at the young boy who is treating blood as if its water.
"That is exactly right..."
"Dr . Cuifen, rite? Time is a priceless resource, we take it for granted till we know our time is nearing its end."
"If you are as smart as I think you are, you should have it figured it out that my end time has been set by the people who run this town."
"This squealing pig on the floor is the inside man for their dirty work, I"d have it slaughtered like the beast he is, if not for the use he has for me."
"Now..."
"Patch him up."
"You think I will take orders from a crazed freak?"
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"You committed a crime. A serious offense, your life as a free man is over!"
"You"d be lucky if you can get out of prison in ten years from now," furiously replied Dr. Cuifen as she stared daggers at Hagan.
Hagan looked at the feisty doctor, took a deep breath and looked away, as Dr. Cuifen was smirking at her victory in the stare-down.
Hagan told her in a calm voice that, "You are right, I"m a criminal as of now, I broke the law and if I get out this alive, prison life is a happy ending for my story," saying this he suddenly turned towards her and swiftly chopped the fire axe right above her head.
The cheap wall tile shattered and the metal edge of the Axe was wedged deep into the concrete that is just inches above Dr. Cuifen"s forehead.
If time is a slow process of finding oneself, death delivers immediately. We know who we are when we stare at death in the eye, the front we put up comes crashing down when you know you could possibly die.
Those who hold onto the brave front despite the gut-wrenching fear become men of valor. Those who cannot stubbornly persist become timid souls that are forever at the mercy of those stronger.
Dr. Cuifen wanted to be brave, but brave are not those who wish to be courageous, but those are ready to die for it.
Her knees buckled under the unforgiving sight of death at the metal edge of the Axe. Her bowels went limp tainting the hospital carpet with a wet patch.
Her knees still shivering as she looked up at the monster that could have murdered her.
"Doctor, don"t play dare with a dying man. When death is at the doorstep there is very little that a man will care for."
Hagan squatted down looking mocking at the good doctor, "so doctor, instead of wasting our time and letting Dr. Shilong bleed to death, why don"t you patch him up? Too many body fluids are making a nauseating mess... even for a hospital."
The sight of Hagan brought chills to not only Dr. Cuifen. Mr. Liu looked at Hagan for the first time of what the boy was made of from within.
"Even when death is marching closer, the cornered beast kills before it is dead."
"There is a mortuary at this hospital ...but ...will it be be enough?"