Author's Notes: I did my research since it's been a while that I've played the game. I worked carefully with a map of Brookhaven to make this as accurate as possible. Whenever I introduce a new monster I like to carefully handpick them and do extensive research to give you guys the best possible story that I can. Enjoy!
Chapter 4: The Hospital
'Brookhaven Hospital' the sign above the door says. In front of the door, the beast whines at me. "Are you sure about this place? I said hospital but... This place is just creepy." The dog scratches the door and I know its' sure. "Okay..." I say as I open the door and follow the beast inside.
We wander inside a poorly lit hallway with a light flickering on and off down the hallway. My eyes adjust to the darker room as I glance around. The first thing I notice is how rusted and cluttered the place is. Papers strewn about, wheelchairs and stretchers overturned, and what appears to be a person standing a ways down the hall.
I wave to the person and they lumber towards me. I smile. "At least we aren't alone. Maybe they can help us. What do you think?" I glance down at the beast who stares at the figure that lumbers towards us and growls. "You don't trust them? I can't see them clearly..." I tell the dog. I peer into the darkness past the flickering light. "What is that they're carrying?" I ask the creature that just continues to growl by my right side.
"Hey! Do you have anything that can help us? I need something to remove a bullet and sanitize wounds!" I call down to the figure. They speed up and seem to run-twitch towards me. As they become illuminated by the flickering light, I notice that the figure is that of a woman and she wears a nurse uniform. "A nurse! What luck!" The excitement grows in my voice as segue nears closer. She holds a pipe.
The beast's growls growl louder the closer she gets. "Why do you growl like that? She works here and maybe she knows-" I stop when she gets close enough to see her face, or rather, what SHOULD be her face.
Dirty bandages with who-knows-what covers her face. The pipe she carries is coated in rust. Her uniform appears to be blood stained and her once-white stockings are torn in places. The skin on her arms and chest is grey and deathly. Her dirty white gloves raise the pipe as she nears closer.
"Don't hurt us... I'm just trying to help this dog." I plead as she continues lumbering towards us, ignoring me. "Please... There must have been a reason you became a nurse. Don't forsake your patients..." The dog beside me snaps in her direction as she continues towards us. If she had eyes, I know she'd be looking right at me. My heart begins racing as fear of being hit with that pipe starts to sink in.
"She is without compassion... She'll kill us both. What the hell kind of nurse is this?!" I look around before trying the door we just came trough. The lock is jammed. "We're trapped with this crazy person!" I look back to the dog, who hasn't moved a muscle. It has held the ground. The nurse stops about fifteen feet away and her head turns down before tilting to the side at the sight of the dog. She lowers the pipe before turning and walking down a halfway to the left.
I breath a sigh of relief as her footsteps fade away. "Let... Let's find something to treat that before she comes back." I say as I try the door closest to the one we came through and hold back a curse as the lock is hopelessly jammed.
The dog quiets and follows me closely, both of us aware of the faint footsteps of the nurse wandering through the halls. We walk past a door with a sign saying 'Kitchen' and then another saying 'Cafeteria'. We both look down the hall the nurse went down, tensing as the footsteps grow louder then quieter again. "Let's hurry." I whisper. The unspoken message between us is definitely 'Not going down that hall.'
We pass a women's bathroom and an unmarked door across from a door labeled 'Doctors' Lounge'. "That's just a break room. No reason for anything important to be in there." I state quietly. We continue walking down the hall past a men's bathroom, meeting room, and director's room before being forced to turn left due to the end of the hall we walked down. I glance right to see another exit and sigh with the relief of no longer being trapped. I quickly walk to the door and test it to make sure it isn't jammed. It opens just fine. "There's our exit in case we need to leave in a hurry." I answer to the dog's questioning look.
I glance left to see a room marked 'Reception'. "Let's see if we can find a map of some kind so we can find our way around this place." We enter the dimly lit reception area and I immediately go behind the desk and search through the many papers. I look over to see the Document Room and quickly run inside while the dog sniffs around for anything useful. I look through countless patient files and realize that this is a mental hospital in the town of Silent Hill. Silent Hill sounds so familiar... but where have I heard that name before?
A soft pained whine catches my attention as I quickly look through box after box before coming across a map of the hospital. "Yes! Hun, I found a map!" I call to the dog as I run out the room to its' side. "There's a pharmacy just down the hall. It should have the medicine we need. Next to the pharmacy is a store room and hopefully it will have something to remove the bullet."