A Blossom in the desert

The Trouble Invades

[Disclaimer : If you haven't read the previous chapter 'Knock ,Knock..Who?Trouble!...then please do read it before treading into this jungle of words..as it would be easier to understand what's happening here : Your well wisher 🙃]

P.s And sorry for being such a klutz 🙈
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It was Férid's third cigarette since he had been standing on the terrace of Al Firdous hospital past one hour. In his career of being a ward attendant, Férid had never felt this excitement yet nervousness conquer his entire entity as he felt standing on the terrace being designated with an highly crucial task .He had never felt such a sense of importance as he felt in those passing moments . Puffing out the smoke ,he noticed the sudden change of weather with soft dainty golden sunrays almost captured in the dull ,grey tapestry woven by the graphite coloured clouds, making it seem like the hours of pre dawn while the wind blew with harrowing chillness and denseness as if shrieking about the storm that not only the city was going to experience but Al Firdous too.

Férid clutched his jacket nearer to himself as a gush of wind pass by him and puffed out another cloud of smoke when his eyes fell on an eagle valiantly soaring in the sky when every other creature had seeked shelter in fear of upcoming storm . Indulged in following its movement which seemed to Férid, a show of valour and defiance as the wings of eagle slashed its way through the menacing strokes of winds . But when the eagle glided down towards the road diverging into the undergrowth ,it is then Férid noticed that a series of police cars had started emerging from undergrowth, alarming his every frozen muscles and bone with haunting fear.

He quickly stubbed out his cigrette and took out the pager and hurriedly following the process Khaled had taught him, send the message to everyone down .Heaving a shaky sigh ,he again looked back at the series of cars approaching Al Firdous causing his stomach churn with innumerable fears  . But looking back at the soaring eagle  ,he exhaled hard and ran downstairs to make sure that he had performed his assigned task accurately and aid out any help needed downstairs ...as he knew it was not the time to find shelter but be at forefront in the  battle as Khaled had told them earlier and war with the upcoming storm like the eagle in the sky.

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Khaled jogged down the stairs of Al Firdous mosque with quick steps after properly checking that casualties were comfortably settled there along with some of their family members. As he reached downstairs ,he saw Hamza with other few doctors and staff walking inside with more casualty patients  .Quickly pacing towards them ,he helped them with the casualties while asking Hamza,

"How many more are left ?"

"Alhamdulillah ..this is the last of them".

Khaled only nodded when Hamza's pager beeped making all of them gulp hard .Knowing what it would contain yet Hamza took out the pager to see the message from Férid ,

COMING

Hamza looked up from his pager and nodded making everyone intake a breath before nodding their heads back at him. Quickly seeing that casualties were settled comfortably & leaving few staff to manage any problems with the casualties ,Khaled , Hamza and remaining staff members jogged outside the mosque towards the hospital when Hamza asked ,

" Khaled are you sure they won't check the mosque?".

Khaled gulped hard as this was the question that had been consistently woodpecking his mind .At the meeting he had suggested the solution of transferring of all the casualty patients to Al Firdous mosque as there was less probability of cops searching the mosque and it seemed the only doable option with the limited time they had and with majority of doctors and staff agreeing to this idea ,they had decided to implement it, which had began with creating different set of teams for making the shifting of casualty patients quick and with each team alloted with atleast two pagers so that each team could connect quickly with one another. Khaled had hurriedly taught Férid about the mechanism of pager and giving him his pager, he had send him to terrace for signalling as soon as he saw the cop's cars approaching towards Al Firdous and sending message to every pager so that each team could be alerted. They had decided to shift casualties that could walk to the top floor of mosque while casualties with difficulty to walk were to be settled on the ground floor . But despite being it all his idea ,Khaled felt more skeptical about it than anyone else because the stake of idea involved lives of innocent people and chances of failure was to yield a catastrophe that he didn't even wanted to imagine . Blowing out a long breath as he marched towards the entrance door of hospital ,Khaled said,