James!
Suddenly, Elmer spotted what he hoped was the solution to his problems. "Carrie! Carrie, wait!" He called as he spotted the nurse at the far end of the hall.
"What do you need, Elmer?" Carrie rolled her eyes as she heard the young man calling her name and turned, heading back in his direction. She liked Elmer but she was definitely more than a bit annoyed still over the head incident.
"I need you to help me with something. Come on." Elmer was afraid
to actually tell Carrie about the cameras. He was pretty sure that
although the showers were officially for the doctors only, there were a
group of nurses that used them as well. He didn't even want to think about
how Carrie would take it if she found out she might have been on camera
naked. Could Otto tape those things or something? Elmer definitely hoped
that he couldn't. It would really be a shame to see the ladies kill him,
after all.
A couple of minutes later, they were in front of the showers,
Carrie looking at Elmer like he had definitely lost it. "Let me get this
straight. You want me to go in there and tell Lona that you have an
emergency and need to talk to her but she can't go into the locker room to
get dressed? Elmer, what are you up to? You know that Lona's going to
kill you if you pull anymore jokes on her, right?" What was it going to
take for Elmer to finally get a clue?
"I'm not joking! Look, Carrie, it's really, really important for me to talk to Lona right away so I just need you to go in there and take her her clothes and tell her to come out here, okay? It's very important that you take her her clothes. Don't let her go into the locker area to get dressed." Okay, this definitely wasn't looking like the best solution to his problems but what else could he do? He had to get to Lona before she wandered into the locker area naked and he certainly wasn't going to be able to go in there himself. He had no desire for Lona to kill him before he had the chance to warn her of the problem. "Carrie, please! How long has it been since I asked you for a favor?"
"I don't know but just so you know, the next time you ask for one,
I'm saying NO after that stupid stunt you pulled with the head." Carrie
said with a frown. She supposed after a moment that she could do what
Elmer was asking of her though. Better that she went in than for Elmer to
decide to take it upon himself to enter. "Okay, I'll go get Lona. You
stay RIGHT here!"
"Lona?" Carrie called as she entered the shower. "Lona, I don't know what Elmer's up to this time but he asked me to come in here and get you. He's obviously not learned his lesson from the head stunt, is all that I can figure!" Maybe they really should have done something to Elmer to pay him back for that stupid stunt since he obviously hadn't learned a thing from it.
"Lona?" Carrie stopped suddenly as she heard a voice, what sounded like a child, singing softly. What would a child be doing down there though?
"Is someone in here? Little girl?" she called out as she headed further into the showers.
Suddenly Carrie felt a tug on her pants and looked down to find a little girl standing there, the saddest expression in her eyes that Carrie could imagine. "How did you get down here? What's wrong, honey?" she asked gently.
"Will you please help Dr. Lona? She's hurt really bad." Mary said, having to fight back tears as she spoke. She took Carrie's hand and led her forward a bit, waving so that she could see Lona floating face down in the hot tub, a skim of ice now covering the water.
"Lona?" Carrie gasped as she saw her friend. Help, she knew she had to get help right away but.... Before she could move, though, a wave of dizziness suddenly washed over her as she felt the ground rising up to meet her.
Mary started to sob as she saw Carrie faint. This wasn't good at all! Dr. Lona was going to die and.... "Help! Someone please help!"