Chapter 15

                                    

                                          

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"How are you today?" Law asked his patient, sliding the curtain aside for entering the space and sliding it back behind him. He took the chart that hung from the bed and went through the specifics.
"It itches and there was some pain but other than that, nothing." The woman answered eyeing Law. "How long do I have to stay here again?"
"Until I discharge you." The doctor answered and went over the stitching in the woman's said leg. "Try moving your toes."
"They moved yesterday." The woman said concentrating on moving her toes. They twitched and Law immediately noted that.
"So nerve connection is ok." He muttered to himself, noting down every movement of the toes the woman was able to make. "Do you want to try walking, see how much weight the muscles can take?"
"Can it wait until the stitches are removed?" 
"That's your call." Law said noting 'anxiety about stitches' in his chart. "I can remove the stitches in a few days though, the skins are almost healed."
"Ok."
"Keep concentrating on moving your toes and foot until the stitches are out then."
"Ok." The woman said and Law left it at that. His next patient wasn't conscious yet so there was no point in conversation. Law quickly checked his chart and how the stitching of the arm was holding, finding it satisfactory, he went to his computer and began typing his notes.
This was Law's personal research. He transplanted and attached dead organs and limbs to people in need and revived them. His current patients were a woman in her thirties that had lost her leg to a car accident, Law had found her having a breakdown in the park and offered her the procedure, his other patient was a small boy that had lost his arm to an infection, he found the boy in an alley, begging for change and food, Law proposed the surgery to him and the boy thought he had nothing to lose so he agreed.
The question that raised from this explanation was, where did Mr. Trafalgar Law get the limbs and organs he attached back from? The answer was, the morgue. It was his shopping plaza. So many organs and so many bodies to choose from. He accessed the morgue at the Flevance General, the security was pretty shitty and there never was any staff or cameras operating in the place. Free bodies. He knew it was wrong to mutilate dead bodies and he would soon come into notice but he picked carefully from the bodies that had been autopsied. He edited notes on the bodies when he took obvious parts. The hospital was very careless. Other than the free market of Flevance General, Law went after criminals, no one would certainly miss them.
His research included revival of dead and wasted organs and limbs, sometimes transplanted, sometimes the original ones, sometimes successful, sometimes not. His patients were made aware in the very beginning that this was something he was doing illegally and that it could go either way but his patients were always people too desperate to care so Law was safe. As another safety measure, Law had developed a serum to make people forget about him whenever they were discharged.
He operated from a safe house not far from the apartment building the Hearts owned. He chose a nearby place so he could rush there if one of his patients developed a problem. He had cameras installed and had the video being played in the office attached to his room. Whenever Law had to leave for a few days or more than a few, he hired help and injected them with tracking chips to make sure they never made any unauthorized moves.
None of his friends knew about this. Of course they didn't. They would go apeshit if they ever found out. What Law was doing was not only illegal but amoral to some degree. He was only an oath away from being a doctor and here he was using his skills on cutting people up, sometimes dead, sometimes alive. On his worse days, it haunted Law, the things he was doing but on his worst days, he didn't care and that scared him on his good days but thankfully they were scarce and short lived.