Chapter 2
Dr. Ezekiel Skrooner did not like the case at all anymore. At first it had been the opportunity of a lifetime with a complex intriguing situation involving cutting edge technology and an immensely important client richer than a god.
Now he felt more like a first year medical student, or a back alley dark-ages hack, out of his depth, rather than a top leader in his field.
He was going to be one of those who would most likely take the blame for the loss of the founder and lead contributor of his hospital's parent company The Maria Stark Medical Foundation.
Professional and moral suicide. That is if he even survived this meeting...
The tall strawberry-blonde red-head alone was more than capable of scaring the hell out of him. The three, well muscled, stony-faced men standing sentry at her back just made it a million times worse.
" We've been collaborating with other experts from top places all over the globe," Strangely enough the staffs of the Lillian Luthor Memorial affiliates had been particularly quick to jump on due, for some unknown reason, to some pretty strong orders to assist from up top. " But really, in all honesty, the patient shouldn't even have feasibly been able to survive as long as he already has...." He winced even as the words were coming out of his mouth. Patients' families never liked hearing hard truths and movers and shakers of the world tended to react badly to negative answers.
He held his breath wondering how close he was to being murdered with one of Ms. Potts billion dollar high-heeled shoes that his wife so obsessed over.
" But he did. Tony's beaten the odds before." The military man, Rhodes, made the statement a challenge. As though any indication that the patient was not doing so was evidence that the doctors weren't doing their jobs.
One of the two bland nondescript bodyguards twitched and suddenly they were no longer background menace even though they hadn't changed their positions.
The entire thing was completely unfair. Mr. Stark's medical file read like some kind of science fiction novel. Over half the things made no sense and the rest were either preposterous or insane! Laws of physics and the human body just could and didn't work like that....
And as if the situation hadn't already been bad enough a woman's scream sharp and piercing suddenly echoed in from the hallway making him jump nearly out of his skin with surprise.