Hazard Chapter 1
It was the same routine for Ethan, he would arrive at work, go to his locker, get his scrubs and get changed ready to begin his day as being Dr Ethan Hardy. His first patient of the day was 11 year old Olivia Sullivan who was admitted with abdomen pains along with vomiting, it was diagnosed as food poisoning. Ethan ran out of sick bowls so he went to the storage cupboard to get some more since he sent his nurse to go get some blood results.
While Ethan was in the surprisingly spacious storage cupboard, he heard a voice from behind.
"So you're a doctor now?" A familiar voice called from behind.
Ethan turned around.
"Dad?" Ethan asked with fear in his eyes.
"Well aren't you going to give your old man a hug?" Tim chuckled. Ethan backed away into the cupboard slowly till he found the wall behind him. "Still shy I see, cal clearly didn't do his job of toughening you up properly. He will be getting a punch for that later." Tim chuckled still.
"Why are you here?" Ethan stuttered.
"What? A father can't visit his sons? I came all this way to see you." Tim chuckled evilly.
"You've traumatised me." Was all Ethan could manage to say.
"I was teaching you how to be a man Ethan, for God sake." Tim was getting annoyed now.
"Teaching your son how to be man is learning about fishing and standing up to bullies verbally etc, not violently beating them till they were blue and purple!" Ethan bit back but soon realised what he said. He regretted it. He exhaled a breath. "I'm going to take this bowl and go back to my patient. You better leave otherwise I'm calling security." Ethan tried to walk past Tim but he was blocking Ethans exit.
"You're not going anywhere, you waste of space! You were nothing but an accident! You should of changed your surname to Knight instead of Cal! Ethan Hardy? Ha! You're as useless as your mother was. She was only good for one thing, if you know what I'm talking about."
Those words hurt Ethan especially bringing his mother into it. He punched Tim in the face. Ethan couldn't believe he did that. He tried to rush past Tim but he grabbed Ethan and banged Ethan's head against a shelf. Ethan fell to the floor. Tim was about to close the door, leaving an unconscious Ethan inside before he spotted a bottle of bleach, Tim then poured it in a bucket next to Ethan and shut the door. He walked away, smiling.
Robyn was in Olivia's cubicle, they were still waiting for Ethan. Robyn saw Lily walk past the cubicle.
"Dr Chao, you haven't seen Dr Hardy have you?" Robyn asked, concerned.
"Last I saw, he was heading to the storage cupboard. Has he not returned?" Lily answered honestly.
"No I haven't seen him in about half an hour now." Robyn was suspicious.
"Is he unreliable? Dr Hardy?" Olivia's mother asked, confused.
"No of course not! He's probably one of the greatest registrars we've got. He probably just got held up." Robyn defended Ethan then went back to thinking: "Where the hell is he?"
Charlie walked down the corridor, past the cupboard. He smelt the strong bleach fumes. He turned around and saw the storage cupboard door handle had been broken off so the door couldn't open. Charlie pushed into the door, didn't open. He pushed again with a little more force. He got the door open then coughed as he smelt the bleach. He looked down in horror at Ethan's state.
"Ethan?" Charlie asked. No answer. He then crouched down and shook Ethan gently. "Ethan!"