The Jailbird - S01 E90

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The Jailbird - S01 E90

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 90

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THE BAYOU*

Igor finished removing the bullet and stitching Madden up not long ago, and he’s currently resting on a couch while the others walked around the room.

“When is he waking up?” Jinx asked.

“Maybe in five months? Ten months? A year? He’s not waking up soon” Igor replied tiredly.

“But you said the bullet didn’t hit any vital organ! Jinx snapped.

“Yes but he’s not willing to wake up!” Igor snapped back, spranging up.

“What do you mean?” Loud replied.

“For patients like him, it doesn’t only take the doctor’s efforts, but also the patient’s willpower. If he’s willing to wake, he should wake up in like three days, but his unwillingness is obvious with the faint beating of his heart. He wants to die so bad” Igor replied.

“Shit” Sin muttered.

“I don’t care if it takes ten years before he wakes” Maya said, stepping in with Ksenia.

Everyone faced them cos they’re not alone.

They came in with the body of a guy on Ksenia’s shoulders.

Ksenia dropped the body on the ground, then she flexed her shoulders.

“He’s heavy” she muttered.

“What’s this?” Andrei asked.

“I stole his body from the square. He’s the most pitiful of all the people Madden killed. He was a cobbler, and he’s luckily handsome… His name was Vernon Petrova” Maya replied.

“It’s not what I’m thinking, is it? Cos trust me I’m not trying facial reconstructive surgery again” Igor said bluntly.

“Sweetheart you’ll try it. When Madden finally wakes, he’d have to live his life in hiding cos of the politicians he killed, but with a different face, that’d change. Perform the surgery, change his face” Maya said.

“I said no! Do you know what happened to the first person I tried facial reconstructive surgery on? He died on the table! I can’t do it!” Igor insisted.

“But you have your nurses, and if I’d have to kidnap two more plastic surgeons to join you, then I’d do it” Jinx said.

“We’ll do it… We’ll get two more surgeons to join you” Sin said.

“It’s still a big no!” Igor snarled and went inside.

“Igor!” Maya went after him, but he shut the door on her face.

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COLORADO, APEX SYNDICATE HOSPITALS*

The calculated beeping rhythm of the monitor woke Trixie up, and her eyes opened with a white blur at first.

She tried turning her bandaged head, but she felt pains, so she stayed still with a groan, but then she felt a sting in her leg, and the memories rushed back.

Adeline getting bombed and herself getting hit by a car.

Her eyes widened at once, and she sat up quickly.

She’s in an hospital ward__a private ward, and she’s the only one.

“Adeline…. Adeline” she muttered with her heart in her throat, removing the Pipes on her wrist and pushing the IV stand away before getting down from the bed.

Her right leg is bandaged, and she felt the sharp cutting pain in the leg again, but that didn’t stop her.

She began limping out of the ward, meeting two nurses at the door.

“Miss! You can’t be out of bed yet!” They held her back.

“Where’s my sister? Where’s Adeline?” She asked breathlessly.

“Go back to bed, Miss Trixie” the nurses instructed, but she pushed them away.

“Get out!! Adeline!!” She limped out of the ward, looking so pitiful as she held the wall down the place, crying.

She was peeping at each ward till she entered another hallway where she found a different room with so many people inside.

She pushed herself into the room, the smell of burns and antiseptic choking her cruelly.

There are four burnt human bodies on stretchers inside the room, bodies of the people who were also beside the car before it was bombed.

When Trixie saw them, she cried more.

“Adeline!!!”

She started checking the bodies out one by one, but how would she even recognize Adeline when they’re all burnt?

“Trixie?” A voice called by the door, and she turned to see a tall guy who’s obviously a doctor, but he looks dangerous with tattoos inking his forearms.

He’s chewing gum nonchalantly, so his jaws were contracting hard.

“Follow me” he ducked his head and left. Trixie quickly followed him, and he took her down that same hall to a different room.

Inside the room, there’s a another body.

There are several burn scars on the arms and legs, but the face is badly scarred with burns.

“A… Adeline” Trixie covered her mouth in shock, crying out.

“Adeline!!! What’s gonna happen to her?” She faced the guy.

“Please save my sister… Please save her!!” She went on her knees, but he quickly pulled her up.

“Her saving grace was that she already took a step away from the car before it blasted, so she got less injuries than the others, and that’s why she’s still breathing unconsciously” he said.

Trixie nodded.

“It’s all-over the news that you were running from The Bratva in Russia before the bombing, so I reported her death to the reporters already, for her own good. Right now everyone thinks she’s dead” he further explained.

Trixie nodded again.

“Her condition has a solution, but we’re talking about billions of dollars. We’ll have to carry out skin graft on her body, then facial…

“Facial reconstructive surgery on her face” Trixie interrupted.

“Yeah” he shrugged.

“But she’d need the face of a dead person. How am I gonna find a new face for her and how am I gonna find money? I don’t know” Trixie sobbed, and he smiled.

“I can help”

“How?” She blinked.

“I lost my wife last month, and her body is still at the morgue. I’m willing to give her the face of my wife, and I’m willing to get professional surgeons to carry out the surgery, but on one condition” he said.

“What condition?” She blinked.

Without answering, he left the room.

Trixie took another look at Adeline before limping after him.

He took her to his office where she sat in front of him, and he set a paperwork agreement in front of her.

She took it and read…

“AFTER THE SURGERY, ADELINE WILSON WILL TAKE OVER THE ROLE OF TESSA AS DOMINIC’S WIFE. ADELINE AND TRIXIE WILL LIVE ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF THE DOUGLAS FAMILY”

After reading, she slowly looked up to meet his eyes.

“You’re… Dominic Douglas? Only son of Apex drug syndicate kingpin? You’re the son of Baron Douglas?” She muttered in shock.

“Obviously” Dominic rested back on his chair with a scoff, rolling his bubble gum on his visible tongue ring.

Trixie swallowed immediately.

“Are you saving your sister or not?” Dominic asked.

Trixie swallowed again and picked the pen with shaky hands, signing for her and Adeline.

Right now, she’s not even thinking about how he found out her name and Adeline’s name at all.

All that matters is saving Adeline.

“You’re a good sister, Trixie” Dominic stood, taking the document.

“I’ll gather the surgeons. Stay here and someone will bring you something to eat” he said, walking out of the office.

As he strode down the hallway, he dialled his father’s number on his phone, smiling dangerously as it rang.

He bit his lip slightly when Baron finally picked.

“Hello, son?” Baron’s voice came.

“I just found a way to start seeing my wife again. I’m gonna give her face to another woman” He said, smiling again.

“I’ll be waiting to see how it goes. An addition to the empire” Baron replied, and Dominic hung up.

Gathering the surgeons wasn’t hard.

His father’s empire owns this hospital anyways, so it was fast.

That same night, Adeline was pushed into the VIP theatre with ten surgeons in total.

Trixie stayed by the door, watching them file inside. Dominic was the last in line.

“Trust us, your sister will come out alive, and her new face will be prettier” he said.

“Thank you” Trixie smiled nervously, and he nodded once before joining the others inside the theater.

Trixie couldn’t even sit again.

She faced the wall and rested her forehead on it, praying silently.

*

RUSSIA, BAYOU~NEXT DAY*

It’s 5pm.

The population of the mobsters grew so much, and they’re currently 70+ in the mini manor right now.

The clan has been burnt to the ground, so everyone had to hide somewhere, and the mobsters are definitely scattered around Russia right now.

There won’t be a reunion till the cops calm down.

Sin sat on the couch, staring at the pictures of Trixie and him when Loud settled beside him.

“You’re missing her already?” He said.

“A lot. And the fact that she was even mad at me before leaving, and now she’s…” Sin sighed with deep melancholy, and Loud patted him.

“Pretty sure you miss Adeline too” Sin faced him.

“I’m even scared to miss her despite the fact Madden is currently unconscious ” Loud replied, and Sin chuckled dryly.

Malik joined then shortly.

“I just want all this to get over soon” he groaned.

That instant, Andrei and Jinx came into the manor, holding two surgeons as hostages.

Their faces are blindfolded.

Everyone gathered around immediately they were pushed down.

“We got them from Vladimir hospitals” Jinx said.

“Good, but Igor is still not coming out” Malik said.

Andrei went to Igor’s door, meeting Ksenia and Maya there.

They’ve been begging since daybreak.

“Are you really gonna keep this up, Igor?” Andrei hit the door.

“He won’t come out till we break this door” Ksenia said.

“Then get an axe or something” Maya replied.

Andrei turned around to go get it, but then the door opened, and Igor stepped out.

“If he dies during the surgery, the fault is not mine” he said.

“He won’t die” Maya assured.

“I need food” he replied.

Jinx immediately brought food for him, and he ate together with the kidnapped surgeons who were forced to eat too with guns to their heads.

A part of the living room was demarcated, set apart and covered with curtains.

From the ambulance outside, the various equipments and tools were carried in by the mobsters, all new.

The preparatory set-up took more than four hours, and when everything was eventually set, Igor looked back at Maya.

“This place will never be found out by the cops, right?” He asked.

“Trust me… Why do you think this place has it’s own network? It’s a safehouse so chill and start” Maya replied.

“Leave” Igor said, and Maya slowly looked at the dead guy, then she turned her eyes to Madden.

“Please… Don’t leave me alone” she muttered, finding it hard to leave.

It was Andrei who finally pulled her out, and Igor wore his surgical gloves, mask, gown and cap smoothly.

The others dressed up at the same time, standing in the right positions.

“Time is 10:30. The FR surgery for Madden Smirnov shall now start” he announced as the surgical lamps came on brightly.

TBC.