I'LL BE THERE…I PROMISE.

It's me again. Yes. I'm annoying.

I know that last chapter just kind of exposed the villain. It's idiotic. But then again, I thought back to Team Rocket and thought of how idiotic they were. XD

So, I'll start with this now. I don't have that much to say, anyway.

Chapter 11

Awkwardly Weird

Deep thinking has become a habit for Brendan in the past 24 hours. As he made his way to May's room, he couldn't help but notice the people talking inside her room. He stopped outside of the door again, and decided that it could be just Mayako and Nurse Ysabel. He opened the door, and his hunch was right. It was Mayako and Nurse Ysabel.

"Brendan!" Mayako uttered, forcing a smile. He already knew that she was pertaining to what he saw during his search. Brendan shook his head, and remembered the man he saw earlier.

"But I saw a man in a lit room. He said that the Hospital has scheduled power-outages or something like that. I sort of zoned out after he told me that he wasn't a doctor." Brendan added. Nurse Ysabel's head perked up as she turned her sights to Brendan. This peculiar behavior bugged Brendan, but he didn't really notice it at the time.

"Did you just say lit room?" Mayako asked, her eyes widened.

"Yeah. It was pretty odd, cause it was the only room with electricity that I saw the whole time. Have you seen anything like that?" Brendan asked. Mayako shook her head violently. "No. I didn't see anything."

"Hmmm. Well, that's weird." Brendan replied. Mayako nodded.

"But what's weirder is that I found nothing. No patients. No doctors. Nothing. Just Nurse Ysabel here…" Mayako continued. "Why do you think that's so, Nurse?"

"Well, hun, I'm not entirely sure myself. I don't get out of my stations, except today, when there was a power-outage. Wiped out the whole hospital, in my view. But it's weird that you found a lit room. The hospital's had times like these, but I never thought that a solitary room would be excluded from the black-out." Ysabel retorted, sounding innocent.

"I wonder…" Brendan uttered, his head turning to face May.


"This way!" Kaede screeched, pointing towards a room without any doors. Inside, it had an automated machine equipped with a digital clock, and a wall covered with a wooden card container. It possessed a hundred cardboard cards with tables and typewriter ink. Ivan and Kanaye followed Kaede after she had entered the room previously.

"This was what we were looking for?" Kanaye asked, glancing at the digital clock.

"Yeah. Didn't I tell you guys that we need to check for doctors whose shifts are in the morning?" Kaede asked, back-tracking.

"Oh, yeah. I didn't think that we needed to go here…" Kanaye answered, stupefied.

Kaede shook her head.

A lanky piece of paper sealed with a plastic cover was stuck to a section on the wooden card container. It read "AM SHIFT" in black ink.

She glanced downwards and pulled out a card. It was the card of a Doctor Hector D. Ross. She took a look at the most previous punch-in and noticed that Doctor Ross hasn't checked in for his shift yet. She pulled out other cards, and noticed the same thing. No check-outs or check-ins. Nothing. The most previous was the other day. Friday.

"What have you gotten there, sis?" Ivan asked, taking a look at the card from behind his little sister. Kaede turned and handed him Doctor Ross's card.

"Take a look at this card. Isn't it odd that Doctor Hector Ross hasn't checked in or checked out for his shift? He's one of the doctors in the morning." Kaede explained. Ivan took a long look at Doctor Ross's card before responding.

"Why do you think so?"

"I honestly don't know. And look at this. All of these cards are the same as Doctor Ross's. Isn't that strange?"

"I know. From the looks of these, I reckon that nobody's in this hospital right now." Ivan stated, like it was something out of a horror film. Kanaye looked below the doctors' cards and found the nurses'.

"Nurse Ysabel is still here, right?" Kanaye asked, pulling out the thick bundle of the Nurses' attendance cards.

"I think so." Ivan replied, taking a short look at the bundle of cards tucked in one of Kanaye's hands.

Kanaye shuffled the cards and looked at them one by one, slowly reading the names. Nurse Amy. Nurse Beatrice. Nurse Natalie. Nurse Massie…

But none of the cards belonged to a Nurse Ysabel.

It was then that they knew that this would be an incredibly long day.