Brucie Boy part 53
Curiosity opened her eyes blearily to find herself in an ambulance lying next to a woman in a black t-shirt. She looked around; a man lay on a stretcher next to her, bandages wrapped tightly around his face. She turned her gaze lazily back to the woman next to her.
"Glad to see that you're awake. You lost a lot of blood. They're going to get you fixed up in no time. You're going to be just fine." The woman said smiling at her.
Curiosity gave her an odd look and then rolled her eyes.
"How do you know? You're GPD not a doctor."
"How did you…?" She started to ask.
"Who else would be willing to stay with me and come to the hospital in the middle of the night? Plus you're not wearing the hospital garb and you look vaguely familiar. Weren't you partners with… what's his name…? Clayface?"
"Ethan Bennett." She stated angrily.
"Whatever…" Curiosity said sleepily, "What did they give me anyway? I'm really…" Suddenly her monitor squawked noisily as they reached the hospital. She fell back on her pillow, her face ghoulishly white.
The paramedics jumped from the vehicle as quickly as they could, rushing her up to the hospital doors, shoving people aside.
"Quick! Book an OR! She's bleeding out!" A paramedic cried.
Curiosity watched as the ceiling tile blurred slightly and everything seemed quiet down, even the dull beating in her chest was soon silenced. Everything seemed to happen in slow motion. She felt powerless as the men placed a mask over her mouth and nose and held her head as they moved her onto a white table next to a variety of surgical instruments.
"I guess if you live by the sword you really do die by the sword." She thought and almost laughed. "How ironic, a bible verse as one of her last thoughts. Joker had one thing right. Life was a joke."
After a moment everything was consumed in darkness. She felt as if she were falling, she wondered briefly if she were actually dying or if it were actually the drugs. Then everything suddenly stopped, her chest throbbed as she struggled to breathe, it was as if she'd hit a brick wall and all the air had rushed out of her. She opened her eyes slowly.
Hazy outlines of a burning building formed, orange flames lapped at the doors and windows. Silent screams echoed from inside as a man and woman pleaded and cursed at her from inside, kicking at the doors and windows, no sound dropping from their dumb mouths.
A younger version of herself stared back at her from the reflection in the windows, an apathetic stare met hers. Her hair waved gently in the breeze, a soft golden brown. Her lips relaxed over normal white teeth. She turned away, tears spilling over her lashes, whether it was just the memory or herself crying she didn't know. Her feet seemed to move by themselves as she walked away from the burning building.
This was the night she had killed her foster family. The night she'd lost her innocence and forgotten her name…
Her heart sank to the floor; she was in hell… she had to be… she now found herself in a small town, her hair a fiery red. Indistinguishable voices murmured all around her as she was lead down to a small room labeled: Principal's office. A woman with graying hair sat behind a desk with a worried expression on her face and gestured for her to sit and she did. A skinny blonde sat next to her and spoke silently, showing her a police badge. The blonde started explaining something to the woman behind the desk and she thrust her chair back in outrage to something the woman had said. The blonde looked up at her and spoke slowly and began approaching her. She jumped back and bolted from the room, leaving the two behind her.
She ran down the hall and out the door. A voice finally came to her.
"Sadie? Sadie? Wake up! You're having a nightmare!" A voice called at her, jarring her awake.
Curiosity looked around wildly until her eyes found a woman with long black hair that was pulled back in a messy ponytail. She immediately calmed down and realized that she was in fact alive. She touched her arm to make sure she was actually real and sighed.
She smirked slightly, a few sharp teeth sliding past her lips.
"I'm alive…" she said to herself.
"No thanks to Joker and that girl. You were officially dead for three minutes."
Curiosity nodded solemnly and turned her attention to the room.
She was in a hospital room with faded almost baby blue wallpaper.
"Who's the Joker? And why'd you call me Sadie? My name's Haley." She said innocently.
"Who's the Joker? Are you feeling all right Sadie?" the woman asked giving her a worried look.
"Yes, and I already told you my name isn't Sadie. It's Haley." She said.
"Really… so it's just a coincidence that both you and Sadie Curio have sharp teeth, the same facial structure, and are on bad terms with the Joker?" Detective Yin said slyly.
Curiosity gave her a genuinely confused look.
"Who's Sadie Curio? And again, who's Joker?" She asked
"You're Sadie Curio and this amnesia act isn't working so drop it." The woman said simply, appearing to get annoyed with her.
"I told you. I'm not Sadie Curio. My name is Haley. Haley Riler. Where's my dad… oh." She said, remembering everything now. She looked up at the detective the innocence in her eyes gone.
"Sorry, I'm not feeling very well. What did they give me?" She asked rhetorically as she looked at the IV bag above her head. She nearly puked when she saw that there was an IV in her arm.
"Oh shit! Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!" She screamed pulling the IV out of her arm, nearly hyperventilating in the process.
The woman tried to stop her but only recoiled when she received a fist in the eye.
"What's wrong?" The woman asked fearfully.
"I can't have morphine… can't have it…" she screamed almost incomprehensively.
"What do you mean you can't have morphine?" the woman asked in a panic.
"I CAN'T HAVE MORPHINE! I'm highly allergic!" She gasped.
"Crap!" Detective Yin screamed to herself, nearly pulling her hair out. She reached for the call button and slammed the emergency button down hard.
After about a minute three doctors rushed into the room and began berating her with questions as they scooped Curiosity onto a gurney. Curiosity grabbed her throat as if she couldn't breathe when they arrived in the emergency room.
"We have to trake her! Get a tube!" When the two nurses left the room and the doctor turned to watch them leave Curiosity quickly grabbed a scalpel off of the cart next to her and raked it across the man's neck.
The man gasped and clutched at his throat in shock and Curiosity wiped the blade off on her hospital gown.
"Much better than cable." She mused, retrieving several surgical instruments from the cart and making her way down the hall, stopping to smile widely at a security camera, curtseying in her bloody gown as she pressed the elevator button.
"Sorry Brucie boy… couldn't resist. Just so you I'm feeling much better though." She said to the camera as the doors shut, blowing a kiss to it.
She was one floor away from the exit and she pressed stop, climbing on top of the elevator through the ceiling tiles. She groaned in pain as she pulled herself over the top and she puked over the side of the elevator. She walked over to the doors and began prying them open with her fingers. She gasped as she finally got them to slide open for her. She stepped out, wiping the sweat from her brow and heading for the stairs.
She stopped in her tracks as she passed room 138. Adrian sat in a hospital bed gazing pensively out the window. She rolled her eyes, kind of ironic… she was in room 138 of a hospital supposedly getting better and now Adrian was in room 138 of a hospital supposedly getting better. She laughed and began walking away.
"See you later Adrian. Got places to be, people to kill…" She laughed as Adrian looked at her fearfully.
"Well…" she stopped, rubbing her chin in thought. "Maybe I can spare a FEW minutes. I mean, what are friends for?" She chuckled darkly as she stepped into the room, closing the door behind her and locking it.
Adrian plastered herself up against the headboard of the bed as Curiosity withdrew a scalpel from the shallow pockets in her gown. Adrian reached for her remote with her emergency button on it but Curiosity was too quick for her and severed the cord to it and handed her the rest of the device.
"You wanted this?" she asked.
Adrian eyed the door worriedly, expecting Jonathan to burst in and save her again.
"Now… why don't you say we play a little game…? Ever played doctor? That's one of my favorites…" Curiosity said circling the bed and picking up the chart from the bedside table. "Let's see what your chart says today… sounds familiar doesn't it? Hmmm… you're in love with a psychopath, you have a psychopathic brother, you see to be suffering from psychosis because you honestly think someone's going to come through that door and save you, and you're… pregnant?" Curiosity stopped and read the chart over again.
She frowned. "Well, I guess a psychopathic boyfriend is better than no boyfriend and he's probably the best you can get." She said, emphasizing the YOU in insult.
She put the clipboard down and glanced at the clock. Sirens wailed in the distance.
"Since I'm running short on time and your little boyfriend is probably going to kill you any way when you tell him about your little bundle of joy. Tell him I said hello and congratulations I hope he's pleased with himself because if you do manage to have that baby you'll give birth to an orphan." She laughed hysterically as she taunted Adrian with the scalpel once more, pressing it to her cheek and then making her way to the window.
She dropped onto the windowsill below and lifted herself down and over the ledge onto the pavement, running towards "her house" near the woods.
Unfortunately, she didn't get far. Detective Yin stood outside behind her squad car door, holding a radio in her hand.
"Hands in the air!" she shouted.
Curiosity smirked. Did this woman really think she could stop her?
She ran towards the woman with her scalpel in hand but narrowly missed the woman's throat.
A man kicked her legs out from under her from behind and began handcuffing her. She bit down hard on his arm but only received a mouth full of rubber. She spat.
Who was this guy? He hoisted her up and into the squad car next to Detective Yin.
"Thanks Ethan…" She said detective Yin stated, seemingly in shock.
He nodded slightly and turned around.
"Don't mention it Yin." He said walking away solemnly.
