Finals: The Dolbin School Book 4--Chapter 10 You Are Replaceable

 Finals: The Dolbin School Book 4

I am serializing my next book here first before it is available anywhere else.  It is still in the formatting stage at the moment.  I have serialized the other three books here on Steemit in the past year.  Here are the first chapters from where I serialized each book.
Dolbin School for the Extraordinary

The Dark Cloud Rises

The Return of the Professor

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And Now this book is available for preorder on Amazon.  Click here to have it delivered to your Kindle when it is released.

Hope you follow along!  Click here for Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9

Chapter 10 You Are Replaceable 

After finishing  his dinner in the dining hall, Brad walked across the Quad.  Brad didn’t seem to notice the warm weather.  Students jogged, threw Dolbin balls, ate ice cream, and enjoyed the warm sunny weather. Brad, though, walked with purpose towards the medical building.

He walked into the building and went past the secretaries, got into the elevator and headed to O’Grady’s floor.  The elevator’s doors opened, and the room was busy with activity.  Students in white lab coats stood over tables with clipboards.  Some wore goggles, others looked into microscopes, some looked at large display screens with numbers and images of various atoms and molecules.

Brad ignored the activity, and kept silent, as he headed for his usual room.  He opened the door and sat down on the edge of the bed and waited.  O’Grady opened the door and walked in.

“Good evening,” said O’Grady and he patted Brad on the shoulder.

Brad put out his right arm for O’Grady  to take.  “I’m fine,” Brad replied.

O’Grady inserted an IV into Brad’s arm.  Brad laid down on the bed.  O’Grady turned on the screen on the wall.  Brad’s body  temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, other vital information appeared on the screen.  

“That all looks good,” said O’Grady to no one in particular.  The screen then switched to showing an image of Brad’s insides, his skeleton appeared on the screen, his muscles appeared slightly transparent over his bones.  Blood was visible traveling through his veins and arteries.

Brad took his eyes off the screen and gazed up at the ceiling.

The room was silent for a few moments.  O’Grady stood next to the bed, Brad continued to stare at the ceiling.

“Banner messaged me,” O’Grady broke the silence.  

Brad let out a breath, and made a sound showing his disgust at Banner.

O’Grady continued, “I’m glad he contacted me.  We need to know how these treatments are affecting you.”

“They’re affecting me by allowing me to get stronger,” Brad’s voice got louder.

“Yes, true.  But if you can’t control your temper and emotions, people will notice.  People that we don’t want noticing.  We don’t want people digging into why you are arguing with your classmates again.”  

Brad shifted on the table.  “They’re jerks.”

O’Grady turned his attention from the screen to Brad, his face more stern.  “We cannot have you messing up our plans because you are irritated by your classmates!”  He leaned into Brad’s face, “Keep yourself under control.”  He put a freckled index finger to Brad’s face, “You are replaceable.  Remember that.  Are you so arrogant as to think that you are the only one we can use?  Mr. Cushing, it doesn’t matter how much money your parents have, you, sir, are replaceable.”  He removed his finger from Brad’s face and stood up.  O’Grady spoke softly, “I recommend behaving in a way that keeps us from having to replace you.”

O’Grady turned back to the screen and watched the liquid from the IV course through Brad’s veins and muscles.  Brad groaned as his body clenched and tightened as the medicine worked its way through his body.