Epilogue
Thursday
The room is bright white and hurts his eyes, he brings his arm up to shield them and this pulls something in his right side. A voice says,
‘Oh look now silly you have pulled your stitches again, listen will you, stay still I have to suture them again now’
A female voice, caring and forceful, the kind that won’t listen to nonsense, it must be a nurse, with experience too, still it’s painful to open his eyes, as he falls back to sleep the nurse finishes the stitches.
The next time the light is easier on the eyes, its dusk and the light is fading, now his right arm is hold in position, a drip leading out of his left arm and around him machines whirl away, checking heart rate, blood flow and god knows what else. He has to move, his back feels like he has been there for weeks and he wants to move. Two old hands push down on his chest, carefully on the left side as Mathis says;
‘You better rest James; you took quite a beating out there’
‘How long have I been here?’
‘Two days’
‘Really feels like weeks’
‘Here James drink this, I almost forgot too, you have been contacted by the makers of that boat, you pushed it to 293 miles per hour and they want to congratulate you’
Falling to sleep again, Bond lays there until morning when he is woken by the female voice again, checking on her stitching and the health of her patient. He looks at her figure, in the harsh uniform she looks healthy, young like the girls he remembers, the nurse’s uniform smoothly round her breasts, he looks at her lightly tanned skin leading to the striking red hair, Bond looks into her dark green eyes, proud and caring; he takes in her hair, red hair and green eyes, James smiles.
‘And just what you are smiling at Mr Bond?’
‘I know a great little restaurant just down the coast from here.’
‘You presume I’m that kind of girl’ she winks and adds
‘I get off at 8 and the name is Luciana then she leaves without another word
Another voice cuts in; the voice has authority and reminds Bond of his past.
‘Bond I’m M’
‘M’s dead’ as the turns over to see the speaker, a tall strong man, much like M he remembers almost looking like a bear in stature. He says again ‘Bond I’m M, I was sworn into the office today’
‘And just as quickly the past is swept away is that right?’
‘No, I have long studied my predecessor’s actions and tactics and I intend to follow his steps, and it is with that I’m commanding you the station here in Geneva’
‘You want me to be an ambassador?
‘No MI6 and the Deuxième are running a joint venture and you are to be the commanding officer alongside Mathis, the purpose of this cooperation is the hunting of Berkut’s employers’
‘I thought it was the triads out of Hong Kong?’
‘True but we have reason for suspect another organisation, I believe Stanislav referred of their existence to you, this group knew highly sensitive information about M and yourself, we can only speculate how high their information and infiltration goes. That is why you and Mathis will be based in a neutral location.’
‘Do I have a choice here?’
‘Of course you could return to spending your time in hotel casino’s thinking about the past, I want you to have purpose again remember James, Death waits for no man, don’t you wait for him either.’
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