Harry Potter in an Undead World
Chapter 3: Museum and Hospitals
August 26, 2012; 10:30 a.m.
"Sorry to keep you waiting. I'm Director Jones. I was told you have a small meteorite that you would like me to look at, and possibly purchase for the museum." Mr. Jones said as he extended his hand for Charlie to shake. Charlie slowly took his hand and gave it a quick shake. He had been feeling tired the more he sat there waiting for someone. He was sweaty, even though the air was on in the museum. "Must be coming down with something" he thought and he got to his feet shakily.
"Yes, that's right. Me and my buddy found it las night. Thought you folks would want it." he said.
"Oh, my yes. We have quite a collection of them here. One more would be wonderful." Mr. Jones said.
"Good, let's take a look then," Charlie said as he started to shuffle over to the information counter. Once they reached the counter Mr. Jones took the glass container with the rock, and turned to look at Charlie.
"So..this is it? Hmmm...Looks alright. I'll just have to run a few tests on it and then we can discuss payment. Do you want to come with me?"
"Yes. I'll just le me friend know where I'll be going. Be right back." he said as he ambled off to where he let Hank.
Once he reached Hank he looked at his friend. He was paler than when they first got there, and he was very sweaty. "Are you alright?" he asked.
"Don't feel good." he rasped back.
"Oh, Hank. I'm sorry about that. The director wants to test the rock and then we can get to the hospital. Ok"
"Ok, but hurry up. I just want to lay down for a bit." Hank said and then proceeded to lie down on the floor or a nap.
Charlie turned and went back to the counterand waved Director Jones to proceed with the testing. He followed the Director for about ten minutes until the reached a lab door. Once it was opened he saw all sorts of scientific equipment. He scratched his head and then went to a corner to sit, and be out of the way.
"Ok, Charlie is it?...It will only be a few minutes for thew testing then I'll get your money."
"Fine by me' just hurry. Me buddy is in the lobby and he isn't feeling too good. Need to get to the doctor." he replied.
"Ok, just give me about fifteen minutes for the verification."
Fifteen minutes later...
"All done. Well Charlie, looks like this is a real meteorite. How about 50,000 pounds? I don't think I can go higher than that without authorization." Mr. Jones said.
"That will be fine. Just want to get out of here."
Ok, Let me get the money." and with that said he disappeared out the door. He soon returned with an envelope filled with cash and handed it to Charlie.
"Here you are. Have a good day." he said and dismissed him. Charlie walked back to the recepionist counter to say goodbye and then headed off get Hank to the hospital. As he approached, he noticed that he was even paler than before and his skin was slightly tinged grey. He bent over to help Hank up when he rolled over. His face was starting to get sunken in, and dark black circles were starting to appear under his evyes. His eyes we glassy like he was running a fever, and he was shivering.
"Glad you finaly made it back. I really need to get to the doctor." Hank said.
"Here, let me help you up and we can get going."
"You don't look good neither."
"Starting to feel pretty bad meself." Charlie said.
Charlie strained to pick Hank up, and after ten minutes they we off to the hospital. Hopefully the doctors could halp him, Charlie thought. He just didn't know that they would be just as stumped as him. He couldn't remember the last time Hank and he we sick. Even though they lived in the park, they were really careful with what they did, so they didn't get sick or hurt. They helped everyone who was living in the park, just so they wouldn't have to go to the hospital. He just didn't understand what was happening, and he never would.
August 26, 2012 12:30 p.m.
Local Hospital Emergency room:
Hank and Charlie had made it to the hospital not too long after they left the museum, but hospitals being hospitals, they had been waiting for a long time. Hank was looking worse the longer he sat there and the nurses kept telling them that a doctor would see them soon.
"Don't know what your deffinition of soon is lady, but soon means soon, not an hour and a half later." Charlie told the nurse as she gave him the standard reply.
She just rolled her eyes at him and went back to her paperwork. Shortly after 12:30 p.m. some of heir friends from the park started to come in.
"Hey, what are you blokes doing here?" he asked them.
"don't feel good. The lot of us been feeling sick all morning, decided to get a check up. Probbly nothin, but better safe you know." one of the men answered as he pointed to the three others behind him.
"Where is everybody else?" Charlie asked.
"don't rightly know. Couldn't find anyone else. The rest is just gone. Probably out looking for supplies, be my guess."
"Probably right. Hank and me been here a long time." he said.
He was suddenly interrupted by the nurse, "Follow me sir, the doctor is ready to see you two now."
"Gotta go boys, see you soon." he said and followed the nurse down the hall pushing Hank in the wheelchair since he was so ill.
She led them down a small hall and into a room. She told them the doctor would be with them shortly and left the room. Five minutes later the doctor came in. He took one look at Hank and immediately called the nurse back in.
"Nurse! We need to get these two into ICU, now. Couldn't you see how bad they are? This one looks like he has pnemonia, and a really bad case too." he said.
"Sorry doctor, he didn't look that bad when he came in. Neither did, I'll call for help." she said and then got on the phone. Soon there were about five orderlies in the room and had Hank and Charlie up on gurneies headed for the ICU.
The doctor looked at teh nurse and told her to check the rest of the people waiting in the ER, "If you see anyone else that looks bad send them up too. We don't want an epidemic on our hands." The nurse went back out to the waiting room and gathered all of Charlie's friends and had orderlies user them into the ICU. Once everyone was in the ICU, several doctors came in and started doing the exams starting with Hank.
"When did you first start feeling ill?" the doctor asked.
"This morning. I was really tired, and didn't have much energy. Then as we were walking.. I kept getting worse. My chest and head hurts, and I feel like I haven't eaten in days." he said.
"What about everyone else?" he said looking at the rest. They all shook their heads yes.
"I feel like I have a fever, but nobody has been sick in a long time. Me an Hank is always taking care of everyone so nobody needs comin here." Charlie said.
"Strange that all of you are sick at the same time. Ok, I'll get some bloodwork going and in the meantime, I'll put you all on antibiotics. Hopefully that will help with bringing some relief." he said as he had several nurses take blood.
"Send the samples to the lab, and have them do the tests ASAP." he told the head nurse who left without saying anything. "Any of you hungry?" he asked.
"I am." several of them said and he ordered small meals for them all.
"Ok, gents just rest and we will get you fixed up in no time." he said and then left the room.
"Do you suppose we all got some kind of bug at the same time?"
"Not sure...maybe it is something in the water" Charlie said.
"well, at least we will be warm and have food tonight." Robert said with a smile on his face.
"Yeah, been a while since any of us had a real bed." Mark said.
"Settle down boys, we are just going to see what happens." he said looking at Hank who looked the worst. "Hope the doc can help Hank, been my friend for years. Love the bloke."
"Me too." they all chorused.
August 26, 2012; 2:00 p.m.
Museum lab
Dr. Jones had been doing some test on the rock, and had discovered that it was a meteorite, but that it had some strange elements to it. It looked like it could have some hollows in in, so he put it in the ex-ray machine. He went out and took several exrays, and discovered that it had several pockets that looked like they had some kind of liquid in them. He went back to the lab, and grabbed a small drill, placed the rock into a vise, and started to drill into the rock. It was slow going but he finally made it to the center where the bigest pocket was and then drained the liquid into a dish. He took a small sample and place it onto a slide and put it under a microscope. He adjusted the eyepiece until it became in clear.
What he saw made him smile. Life...organisms from space, and he had found them. He wa sso excited that he wasn't paying attention to what he was doing and cracked the slide. Forgetting to put on gloves, he reached for the slide and cut his finger on the broken glass. Being human and prone to mistakes, the first thing he did was put his finger into his mouth to clean it. Once he realized what he did he immediately disinfected his hand and rinsed his mouth. He hoped that everything would be ok, it was just a small cut. Little did he know, that the damage was already done, and that he would soon be helping to spread one of the most deadly plagues to ever hit the earth.
He took several notes and the organism and put the rest of the liquid sample into the biohzard refrigerator. He left the lab and went back up to the information desk.
"good night, Valerie. I'm off, have to celebrate. Huge discovery today. Need a drink." he said as he headed for the door.
"Good night sir." she said.
Dr. Jones in his haste to celebrate did not notify anyone of his discovery, nor did he find out what happened to Charlie or Hank. He just went on his merry way, without a care in the world.
he just went to his favorite pub, had a few beers and went home to his wife. It would be almost a week before anyone checked in with Dr. Jones at his home.
August 26,2012; 2:30 p.m.
Location: London, a park
Stumbling aroud the park, several of Charlie's and Hank's friends, looked like they were drunk. They ran into trees, and benches, all the while holding their heads. Some of them were pasty white, and some kind of grey. One or twwo managed to get out of the park and were stubling down the street. A couple of them ran into garbage cans, others parked cars. One ran into a short woman and threw up on her. She immediately got on her phone and called an amulance. When it got there, they placed the man onto the gurney and headed for the hospital. She didn't think anything of it, and went home to change. slowly the hobos were making their way out of the park. some would never make it to the hospital.
August 26, 2012; 2:30 p.m.
Loction: Museum Lab
Valerie snuck down into the lab. She had hacked into Dr. Jones' computer and retieved all the data he had, and they proceded to take several samples of the meteorite, and some of the slides. She they noticed a slide with some blood on it and took that one too. she put them all into a biohazard container that she had brought with her. On the side of the container was a weird symbol that looked like an umbrella, with an address label that read, Dr. Weskler, Racoon City, USA. She then wiped her fingerprints down, and locked the lab, then headed back up to the information desk. She grabbed her cell phone and placed a call.
"report." a man said.
"I have the meteorite fragments, and all biological data and samples. They are ready for pick up." she said.
"Stay at your post, someone will be there shortly to acquire the container." he said.
"Copy that. What is the eta?"
"ETA 15 minutes. Operative is on route." he said and hung up the phone.
Valerie placed the container on the floor by her feet and proceeded to wipe all data and video of her access from the computer. She then made herself presentable and settled back into her role of greeting visitors.
End of Chapter 3
AN: Next chaper more on Harry and friends, Hermione will meet them at the movies and what happens with the sick hobos and umbrella. Please read and review. I will try to upload the next chapter by next Sunday, remember I am doing this on my android tablet, and I have a 4 year old that wants my constant attention.
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