ICE AND FIRE - CHAPTER 73&74
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“Talk to me,what happened to my son huh?!”Mrs chul shouted, trying to stand up but the husband held her back.
“I’m sorry,but we lost him!”The doctor announced and beom-seok mom broke into laughter, which got the doctor and Mr chul exchanging looks.her laughter was short lived cos she became serious almost immediately.
“Are you kidding? What sort of prank is this? What the hell happened to my son!!”She screamed,and before she knew it,ocean of tears began trickling down her cheeks.
The look on the doctors face said it all,he wouldn’t joke with something like this! He’s serious.
“I’m really sorry ma’am”The doctor exhaled and Mrs chul couldn’t control the tears,she stood up to her feet grabbing the doctor by his collar.
“You couldn’t save him? What sort of hospital is this? You couldn’t save a boys life,why a accepting him in the first place huh? Why the f-__-k did you accept him? Do you know what I went through birthing him? The sleepless nights? The pains and all that? And now when he’s grown up,I lost him all because of this hospital careless!”She yelled madly at the doctor’s face,her tears wetting her cheeks.
Mr chul heaved deeply,then pulled Mrs chul back to himself,he’s trying his best not to break down in tears,but his wife right here is making him f-__-king emotional. He wiped the drop of tears,then turned to the doctor.
“Did you confirm him dead?”He asked slowly,the doctor made to reply when Mrs chul stood up again.
“There’s no way I’m buying the crap you’re saying. I’ve always known my son to be a fighter,do you know what he went through when he was still in my womb? But he fought,and I gave birth to him,hale and healthy,with no single scratch or deformity and now you’re saying this? I refuse to buy that”she shouted and Mr chul began feeling guilty.
How would she react once she finds out that he was never theirs? He should have told her at least,he sighed as his memories rushed back to eighteen years ago.
He shook his head, blinking back to reality,thou beom-seok was gone,one thing he wouldn’t wish for was the secret coming out, he’ll definitely be doomed cos she won’t handle it,he deceived her!!
Mrs chul dashed out from the doctors office, running to beom-seok ward, while on the other hand Mrs woo was just running madly into the hallway,Mr woo running behind her,to stop her from causing havoc and confusion in the hospital.
He could still remember Mr chul’s words,as he ran after her.
“On no account, I repeat…on no account,must your wife come back to take your son,else I’ll be ki||ing you and your entire household”
Those were Mr chul’s words that day.
“What the f-__-k!!”Mrs chul shouted angrily when she bumped into someone and that got Aerum’s attention,she was standing dejectedly on the hallway,lost In thought.
“I’m sorry!”Mrs woo apologized,but her eyes went wide when she recognized Mrs chul.
“Where is my son!”Mrs woo asked and Mrs chul wiggled her brow before trying to push her off.
“Get the f-__-k outta my way!”Mrs chul yelled, and it was that instant that Mr chul and Mr woo approached them.
“Mr chul…”
“Woo!!”
The two men called in unison.
“Oh Good,you both know each other right? I’m here to see my son, and don’t f-__-king tell me he’s dead cos you guys won’t like the outcome”She glared angrily.
“Son? Which son?”Mrs chul asked slowly.
“Beom-seok! Beom-seok is my son”She replied and the two men exchanged looks,they already knew they where doomed.
Aerum began walking to Mr chul and once she was close,she turned him to herself slowly.
“Who is dead uncle?”She asked with a breaking voice,fresh tears trickling down her cheeks.
“Aerum…we..that’s how we saw it,he couldn’t survive…”
“No!!!!!!”Aerum screamed and went down slowly,a loud thud following afterwards.
She just passed out right there.
“Doctor!!!”Ji-hoon and A-Yeong rushed to call him.
Moment later,he arrived and unconscious aerum was taken into the ward, precisely beom-seok ward.
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The two families,sat in an office waiting for the explanation of the whole thing to begin.
“Actually, eighteen years ago….”Mr chul began.
<FLASHBACK ~A HOSPITAL>
“Doctor, please do all you can to save my wife,I don’t really care about the baby cos I believe we can make more but me losing her is what I can’t handle!”Mr chul pleaded,with his both hands clasped together.
“We will do our best and leave the rest for God!”The doctor replied, taking his glasses from the table.
“She’s all I’ve got doctor!!”Mr chul muttered tearfully, flowing the doctor from behind.
They both stopped in front of the operation room,and Mr chul gave the doctor a pleading eye,he only smiled at him, before going in.
Few minutes later, two nurses rushed into the operation room, breathing heavily.
“Another emergency doctor”the first nurse breathed.
“I can’t leave this lady here,you guys can attend to them”he replied.
“It’s actually a triplets doctor and she needs an operation too,she’s lost much strength and can’t push!!”the second nurse breathed and the doctor sighed.
He took his phone and hurriedly dailed his assistant and soon,the two nurses left.
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<TWO HOUR’S LATER>
The doctor came out, looking all exhausted and Mr chul rushed to him.
“How is she? She survived right? What of the baby? He’s fine too right?”He asked rather impatiently and at the same time scared.
“Take it cool Mr chul, your wife is fine and of course she survived. And the baby,I’m…I’m..I’m..sorry,but we lost him”
Mr chul felt a sharp pain right in his chest,and he began going down slowly but the doctor caught him immediately.
“Take heart man,and be strong”he consoled and at that moment,they both heard a scream from Mrs chul ward, which got them both running inside.
“My baby!! Beom-seok!!”She was literally crying, looking around the ward.
“Who is beom-seok?”Mr chul asked with a furrowed brow.
“Where is my baby?”She asked instead and Mr chul swallowed the Lump in his throat, breaking the news to her in this state was bad and he wouldn’t wanna add to it.
“He’s fine and he’s asleep already”He lied, trying to sound bold.
“Can I see him? I have a bad feeling”She requested and the doctor exchanged a look with Mr chul,he brought out a syringe and loaded an injection in it.
“I’m sorry,but you’re still not strong. Go back to sleep”He nuttered and before Mrs chul could protest,she felt the liquid running down her system immediately,her eyes closed and she slumped back on the hospital bed.
“What should we do?”Mr chul panicked.
“Let’s go to my office first”He replied and began walking out,Mr chul followed behind immediately.
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<TWO HOUR’S LATER~MRS WOO’S WARD>
After the operation,the triplets was brought out peacefully, hale and healthy. Mrs woo was currently asleep while the husband kept staring into space,a lot of thoughts running in his mind,his thoughts was suddenly disrupted when a nurse walked in.
“The doctor wants to see you”She informed and Mr woo nodded before following her.
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“Oh jeez! Where do I get such amount from huh?”Mr woo lamented, while waling back to his wife’s ward,he just had a word with the doctor minutes ago, and he was told to pay for both surgical and delivery bill, and right now he’s completely out of cash, so where the hell was he to get such amount? To think that he has two days to pay off,drives him more crazy.
He facepalmed himself,not knowing what to do or where to start from.
“There has to be a way doctor, breaking the news to her once she’s awake isn’t nice at all,I don’t want to lose her too”Mrs woo heard a mans voice and he stopped walking,so as to be able to hear the full conversation.
“And what other way are you talking? I can’t bring the dead child back to life,so she have to deal with the truth once she’s awake!”The doctor replied.
“A dead child?”Mr woo thought and an idea struck his mind.
Walking slowly,he knocked on the door with a shaky hand, having a mixed feeling that he might turn down his offer, nevertheless he took the bold step.
“Excuse me sir!”He called the attention of the two men’s.
“Can I have a word with you?”He panicked, while pointing at Mr chul who nodded reluctantly.
After 30 minutes,they strike a deal…never to reveal the secret to anyone, not even their wives. Mr chul gave Mr woo a strict warning.
“On no account, I repeat…on no account,must your wife come back to take your son,else I’ll be ki||ing you and your entire household”He thr_@tened, thou Mr woo found it difficult to accept,but he still needed to do just that,at least to be able to pay for the hospital bills.
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<ONE HOUR LATER ~MRS WOO’S WARD>
“Can you stop with the sour face and look? Not like we lost the three babies, don’t you value this two?”Mr woo scolded and Mrs woo sniffed.
“Why should he die? They’ll could have grown up together”She muttered sadly and Mr woo took her hand.
“At least,we have this two cuties with us…do we’re okay hmmmm”he smiled and she forced a smile, staring at the two cuties, sleeping peacefully on the baby cot.
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“Awwwn,he’s so cute”Mrs chul gushed and the husband smiled, heaving a deep sigh of relief.
“I know right?”He chuckled and she nodded.
“He’s a good fighter right? He survived,no matter what”She smiled happily and Mr chul chuckled, seeing the happy smile on her face.
He vowed right there,to love and shower the boy like he is his, giving Mrs chul no reason to suspect any foul play.
END OF FLASHBACK.
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I’m…I’m..dead!!”He stuttered, burying his face on his knee, while weeping.
He was still weeping bitterly,when Aerum suddenly entered, looking around the environment which looked weird and strange.
“What are my doing here?”Aerum asked,but her eyes caught with a figure, squatting down while crying slowly.
“Huh? Who is he?”She thought and began walking to him,she approached him and placed her hand on his back and beom-seok lifted his face slowly, and turned to her.
“Aerum!!”
“Beom-seok!!”They called at once.
Beom-seok turned swiftly to hug her,but Seo-Jun came out from no where… obstructing them.
“You both can never be together”She spat bitterly.
“Yes,I second that!”Shang-hoon came out too, which got aerum and beom-seok exchanging looks.
Aerum suddenly held her head, screaming madly, blood rushing out from her nose,ears and beom-seok eye went wide immediately.
What was happening??
“I love you Ara!”
“Love you more pumpkin!!”
The second voice was hers,but who then was Ara?? She was still trying to figure out what was happening,when more voices and blurry image kept flowing in.
“You choose him over me..you don’t deserve to live”
“You choose him over me..you don’t deserve to live”
“You choose him over me..you don’t deserve to live”
“So die..you deserves to die”
“Die!!!!!”
The voice,the voice! The voice it’s back again and she can see a figure…whose figure was that? The image is blurry!!
“Should we go to a picnic tonight?”It was Seo-Jun’s voice this time.
“Arrrrgh!!!”Aerum screamed out,still holding her head tightly.
The pain she was feeling, remembering those things was excruciating.
“Oh Yes kiddo!!”
That was her own voice,she replied Seo-Jun…but why calling her kiddo? Was they related? Soon,the images began being clear,the more she heard the voices,the more the images became clearer,and her screams kept skyrocketing.
The night,it was the night Seo-Jun asked for them to go for a picnic,she clearly remembers everything,and it was shang-hoon that pushed her off the cliff….
She remembers everything,from her childhood,her real name,to her love affair with beom-seok, everything…everything was clear,down to her death.
“Beom-seok!!!”She muttered going down slowly.
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TBC….