The Love of West
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Re-Animator.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! I slammed my hand down on the alarm clock as it blared into my ears from the nightstand. "Grrr!" I huffed and rolled over ,rubbing my forhead while groggily checking the time on the clock.
"Damnit! I'm late!" I yelled and jumped out of bed and hurried into the bathroom.
I combed my black curly hair and pulled it into a loose ponytail, I threw on a Nightmare Before Christmas hoodie and black scrub bottoms and hot pink nursing clogs. I didn't understand why I hated nursing clogs. I would have much preferred to wear my neon kicks into school if it weren't for the gawking know it all. "Professor Hill.
He pays more attention to my attire than any of the other student and it makes me feel uncomfortable.
Thankfully I lived a block away from the collage, I ran feeling lighter than air for some reason, I was determined to get to my class, I didn't want to hear any crap from Prof. Hill today I thought as I ran across the lawn of the school.
"Now for a flight of stairs" I said to myself aloud just then a student looked at me like I was crazy. I just hunched my shoulders and ran up the stairs.
I finally reached to BIO-LAB 10 out of breath and I opened the door quietly and was greeted by the gawking professor know it all, Hill. "Ah Grace! I see that you remembered to join us this morning!" He said motioning for me to take a seat . "Sorry Professor." I said through gritted teeth as I sat in a chair besides my best friends Megan and Dan.
Meg smiled but Dan had a slight frown. "You didn't bring any notes with you?" And that's when it hit me. I felt lighter than air while running to school, it's because I left my bag at home. I sighed sadly "I forgot my notes, I was late for class."
"You know Hill is going to want to flunk you out of his class if you don't study hard enough." Dan said quietly.
"It's not that I haven't studied, I just left my work at home. " I said with a shrug.
After two hours seemed more like 10 class was finally over, Meg and I went to the cafeteria to eat lunch. "So when's the wedding date and can I be your bridesmaid pretty please?" I asked Meg. "Oh I don't know, we haven't talked about that in a while. Maybe things will be more certain when Dan graduates. And of course you're my first pick for a bridesmaid"She laughed and tossed her shoulder length blonde hair.
Meg ordered her food and I was next in line after her. When my time came to order I realized that everything was in my bag at home. I was uber hungry and felt embarrassed to ask to borrow any money from Meg even though I was highly capable of paying her back.
I guess my pride was a lot bigger than my stomach, I placed the tray back into the stack and dragged my feet along to the table.
I starred into the table imaging that food of my choice would appear. I was disrupted from my thoughts by the sound of Meg clearing her throat. "Grace, you didn't get anything to eat? Are you dieting again?" She asked with a quizzical look on her face.
"No, I forgot my bag everything was in it. " I said resting my head on the table. Just then my stomach growled loudly. "You know, I hate chocolate pudding, you can have mine." Meg said and slid the cup of pudding over to me before I could object.
"Thank you so much Meg! are you sure?" I asked happily.
"As sure as can be. " She said taking a bite into a sandwich.
"Meg, there's something up with Hill. He looks at me strange." you said.
"Really? I never noticed anything, maybe if you didn't aim to piss him off, he wouldn't have the hots for you." Meg stated plainly.
Making the Chocolate pudding nearly come out of my nose in disgust. "What the heck are you talking about" I asked in between laughter.
"I'm just saying that if you notice that he's watches you, maybe he's developing some sort of weird professor student crush on you." Meg said as she wrinkled her nose.
"You are sick! you know that? Hill is old enough to be my great grandfather." I said almost losing my appetite.
"Gracelyn Shay, please report to Dean Halsey's's office" a voice said over the intercom.
I looked in shock, I didn't exactly understand what was going on, I wasn't violating the dress code. "It's alright Grace, It's probably nothing but if it is I'll talk to dad later on, don't worry." Meg said and patted me on the back.
These very stairs I ran up earlier could be leading me to becoming expelled from school. I walked up the stairs calmly and made my way over to Mr. Halsey's's office.
I turned the knob and saw a well dressed man with glasses in his mid twenties with raven black hair.
"Hello, Gracelyn I have an interesting job for you today." Mr. Halsey greeted.
The well dressed man slightly looked over to me but said nothing. "Gracelyn, Have a seat will you?" Mr. Halsey asked.
I nodded curtly and sat in a chair opposite the mysterious gentleman. Dean Halsey smiled and gestured to the mysterious man.
"We have a new student freshly transferred from University of Zurich in Switzerland his name is Herbert West. He's going to be in your class and I was hoping that you could give him a tour of the campus."
"It's nice to meet you Mr. West." I smiled.
"Please, call me Herbert." The man replied.
MOMENTS LATER...
After talking for a bit and getting acquainted you both decided that it would be a good time to start the tour. Herbert stood at 5'7 he was slim built. You didn't mind much at all compared to your small 5'3 frame. You found him to be very attractive, he had dark eyes that seemed to hold a mystery about them, you were becoming more and more intrigued by him. "So Herbert, what exactly did you study while in Switzerland?" You asked as you both walked the halls.
"Death" Herbert stated simply.
"Oh, well Mr. Halsey mentioned that you worked with the famous Dr. Gruber. That must have been extraordinary. " you said leading him to the morgue door.
"Yes, it was an interesting experience, Ms. Gracelyn" Herbert said flatly, obviously not wanting to go into detail.
"Just call me Grace, everyone does." you said waving your hand slightly.
"This is the morgue dun dun dun duuuun." you joked.
Herbert smiled as you both entered the room, boy he wasn't joking around when he said he studied "death" he walked over to one of the corpses and checked the DOD tag.
"You don't happen to have anything more recent than this?" he asked.
You were freaked out by the question but you coolly played it off. "We're supposed to be getting a shipment later on today" you said.
"Oh? what time exactly?" he asked. obviously very interested in where the conversation is heading.
"I was kidding! I have no idea when they'll get new corpses in and to be honest I find death terrifying." you said.
"What about re-animation after death, does that thought frighten you? he asked you while checking more of the tags.
"Well I suppose it depends on how they come back I guess, it's a still a scary thought." you said
Just then the morgue entrance door opened and you shrieked and grabbed on to Herbert's sleeve. In came Dan pushing a gurney into the room, seeing this you turned a scarlet red and let go of Herbert's sleeve.
Quickly apologizing for your behavior and walking over to Dan. "Hey Dan! this is the new student Mr. Halsey was talking about." you said gesturing towards Herbert.
Herbert left his world hearing his name mentioned and walked over to Dan. "It's nice to meet you Mr. West" Dan said as he went to shake the short man's hand.
"Your name's?" Herbert asked ignoring the hand shake.
"Oh. My name's Dan, Dan Cain" Dan replied drawing his hand back eyeing me suspiciously.
"Mhmm well it's nice to meet you, Dan. and thank you for the lovely tour Gracelyn, It's been invigorating. Herbert smirked and walk to the morgue entrance.
"But we haven't even finished the tour." I said trying my best not to sound like whining child.
Herbert turned around slowly on his heel. "Oh, I'm afraid I have to many things I need to catch up with. I'll have to take a rain check on the tour for now, Grace." Herbert said with an unreadable expression.
"Uh.. ok then." You said, silently hating Dan for interrupting.
After Herbert exited the room, you turned to Dan. "That guy is totally cracked!" Dan said.
"He's interesting and you totally interrupted what was happening in here." you said angrily.
"What was happening in here?" Dan asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"Well, I do have a job just in case you forgot." Dan said half heartily laughing at me.
"Yeah, Mr. Halsey wanted me to give Herbert a tour of the campus and you and your corpse totally ruined it." you said laughing.
"Herbert the Pervert huh? " Dan joked.
"Oh quit it! the guy is not a pervert or at least doesn't seem to be." you said as you walked towards the morgue entrance door.
"Or at least for my sake I hope he's not into necrophilia." you said as you exited the room.
Dan laughed and shook his head. "What a weirdo that Herbert guy is." he thought to himself as he stored the corpses in the freezer.
Herbert's POV
Beautiful! Gracelyn she's breath taking, NO! I must find out when the next corpses will arrive at the morgue. With this ReAgent I'll become more famous than that Professor Hill and his tired plagiarism.
Yes! first things first and then maybe I can continue my tour with the lovely Gracelyn.
She's beautiful and intelligent like no other woman I have ever met. I have never had an interest in relationships, but this girl intrigues me.
Now... I need to find a place to board near the collage.
Author's note: I hope you guys enjoyed this story, not sure if I should continue. But reviews are welcome and recommended, please be kind lol! XOXO!