Excerpt from Beyond Olympus, “The Flight”

Mac shouted, “It’s all over. Everyone sit down and strap in, right now! We have wounded to attend to…”
Suddenly, the rocket boosters kicked in and Mac lost his balance. Several other passengers, who hadn’t strapped back in, were thrown around as well. More screams. The ship accelerated toward orbital velocity while Mac hung onto the
injured young woman. Even as the boosters fired, he managed to pull up
her blouse to look at the wounds. There appeared to be three deep stab wounds, bleeding freely. He applied direct pressure to try to partially stem the flow.
A few minutes later, though it seemed like hours, the boosters shut off . They were now weightless. Great. Michael and Marcus’s bodies floated freely as did the corpse of Gerard. The unrestrained passengers struggled back into their seats with the help of their fellow passengers. Mac hung onto the base of a seat with one hand, while he tried to hold Olivia down and maintain pressure to her injuries with the other. This wasn’t
working.
“Dr. Fitzpatrick!” Mac shouted, “I need your help right now!”
The old man got up immediately, and began making his way awkwardly back towards them, using the built-in handholds on the seats. “Mac, I need an emergency medikit, right away, but first we’ve got to get her to Jonathan’s office where I can have room to work on her. We can strap her to the sofa.”
“Right doctor,” the big man replied, though he was at a complete loss at how he could manage to maneuver the injured young woman in zero gee. Well, he would just have to get it done, somehow. Mac grabbed a seat handhold with one hand, and gently put an arm around her waist with another.
Olivia was very cold now, and that frightened him. It also filled him
with determination. A fine mist of blood floated around them. He pushed with all his strength against the handhold up and back, propelling them both toward the rear cabin door. He missed badly, and they bounced off of the ceiling. He pushed again, and managed to grab the top edge of the door with his one free hand. That gave him purchase to push off toward the sofa. This was like a bad dream. They floated past the sofa, but he managed to grab the leg of a small conference table bolted down just a few feet past. His heart was racing. One more push and he grabbed a handhold on the sofa, rolling her as gently as he could onto it…

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