Operation Chaos

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Author: Richter Watkins
Tags: Military Science Fiction and Fantasy
strong, probably very handsome face nearly obliterated. A large, once cognitively strong brain torn and damaged.
    They were trying to bring a dead man back to life, and when it happened, that fantastic moment when he became conscious and was there, really there, focused, nothing for Rainee Hall could compare. How he would deal with what had happened on a psychological level convinced her that they had to work with the whole patient, not just the physical damage.
    She remembered that moment, for it was indelibly imprinted, locked: “If you hear and understand me, blink twice.”
    He did. He was finally conscious and he had a functional brain, at least to that level.
    But the shock of him speaking, something she didn’t expect given the damaged larynx, was even more incredible. And it also became his signature tone.
    “My men . . .” his lips asked. “My men . . ?”
    That’s how they were. It was all about their team.
    She told him the truth. “Four, counting you, survived.”
    It took him time to digest, to come to grips with the extent of the disaster. She saw the depth of the shock. But you don’t lie to soldiers like him.
    Only then, after taking it in, processing it however he could, did he turn to himself.
    “I can’t feel my legs. Do I have legs?”
    “Yes. They are intact. You will feel them once the drugs wear off.”
    Then, in something she could never forget, that she’d joked about for years, he said, “ Penis and testicles? I can’t feel them.”
    “Believe me, you have them.”
    The muscles on his shattered face were still able to smile. It was a M*A*S*H moment, both darkly funny and very tragic.
    “I’m going to live?” His voice was like a broken exhaust on a motorcycle.
    “Yes. It appears that you will. You’ve had multiple operations. We kept you under for fifty hours. Shortly, we’ll move you to Germany. Then the States. There’s an unreasonable chance you will make it.”
    She remembered having squeezed his arm. She knew the shape of his skull like the back of her hand. Being one of the top neurosurgeons in the combat zone, the challenges just got more intense, but no more so than Johnny Cash.
    Two years later, she returned to the States to run one of the most sophisticated programs for traumatic brain injury. She inquired about him but was unable to learn anything.
    Dealing with TBI became her life’s work.
    And now, all these years later, Johnny Cash had surfaced and he was operational in a whole new, enhanced way. She wanted to know what kind of work had been done on him and what he was doing and for whom and what had happened to her missing patients.
    She’d been kidnapped and interrogated about those missing men. And was told they needed her. What did that mean?
    He knew what happened to her soldiers. They were her family. More, in some respects, than her actual family.
    Yet that wasn’t strong enough to relax her. The one thing she had in her favor was that she was important. He kidnapped her because somebody in some big, dark, military program needed her.
    And I need to convince him I’m the reason he’s still on this earth.
    Rainee Hall knew she had to dig down in and get to him. He’d been one of her greatest saves. A relationship that would last both of their lives. He just needed to remember. If, that is, he and his associates worked out their issue.
    Then the door opened and she knew it was time to get through to this guy.
     

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    When her kidnapper returned, closing the door with his left hand, his right hooked into his cargo pants, he had a hard look on his face from whatever had transpired in the other room.
    Immediately he glanced at his backpack and nodded, as if seeing the evidence of her attempt.
    She braced herself and said, “You remember. You know that name we gave you. You’re Johnny Cash.”
    He stopped. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, Doc. Look, I have some questions—”
    “I know you,” Rainee said. “And you know me.”
    He
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