Chapter4: Treating the sickness.
Payne, Steven, Rebecca and the four officers were now on one of the wards without any patients in them. Plus the nurses that were in the hospital had bailed at some point one of them must have heard Payne talking about shutting down the hospital and they all must have left in a hurry trying to escape before the quarantine.
"So what your saying is you think this disease or whatever it is, is transferred in a bite from one of the infected" Phillip said. He was the sergeant of the group and was a big man he looked; as though he could push a car by himself he was that muscular. He looked quite young as well for a sergeant.
"Yes I believe so," Payne agreed
"Do you know if there's a way to cure this?" Phillip asked again.
"I couldn't possibly say. I'm a doctor not a researcher." Payne replied. He looked at his watch it was now 5:30. The sun would be starting to rise and the city seemed unusually quiet for the time of night.
"Okay, Well our priority is to protect the civilians here who are sick." Phillip said.
"What about the people who have already been bitten." asked another officer. His name was Daniel he was the youngest of the officers and apparently had only become an officer last week. He seemed intelligent and calm considering the situation and seemed to agree with everything Phillip said, but that didn't bother Payne he liked Phillip and he seemed like a very level headed guy and valued other peoples opinions.
"We've secured them in different rooms and they've either changed into one of those things-"
"Zombies" Phillip corrected "Might as well get used to calling them by their proper names"
"Zombies then, or they are on their way to becoming one."
"Okay, Well we'll check them out in a moment, but I'm sorry I know it'll go against your hippo oath or something like that but we'll have to put them out of their misery." Phillip said
"It's Hippocratic oath, and I don't mind as far as I can see these people are dead any way, there's no crime for shooting a dead body."
"Ah man! We're gonna have to kill 'em" said Seth, another youngster that seemed overly excited about the whole situation and seemed to be enjoying it way too much.
"Yes Seth we will" Phillip said
"Better then them eating us." Marcus agreed. He was the quiet one out of the group and had said little since he'd arrived but he seemed nice enough. It seemed to Payne he was having a hard time dealing with the whole thing.
"Okay this is the plan then." Phillip began. "Doctor."
"Please call me Quinn, it's my first name and I don't want you all calling me by my last name." Payne interrupted
"Okay Quinn" Phillip continued. " Quinn and myself. We're going to check on the patients who have been bitten. Marcus, Seth, Steven and Daniel will make sure everything is fine downstairs and make sure none of the zombies can get in. Miss?"
Rebecca was sat on a bed distanced from the group very quiet. Ben had almost forgotten she was there.
"Yes" she said looking up.
Quinn couldn't think of any reason why she'd be extremely sad. He couldn't think of any one she'd be missing outside she wasn't married and didn't have any kids but he assumed she was just scared.
Ben couldn't deny that he was scared he'd seen all the zombie movies where nations had been ruined and only small bands of survivors were left trailing the country always on the move raiding places for supplies. Every one he'd seen he'd never believed it could happen he though even his own country America would be able to sort this kind of mess out but in the short space of a few hours the city he was in had been crippled and he doubted any one would be alive outside.
It was then he remembered his wife in New York. She was probably still asleep that slight smile on her face that he come to love. He realized how much he wanted to see her again to make things try and work again.
"Are you okay?" Phillip asked.
"Yes I'm fine, what do you want me to do?" She said standing up of the bed
"Do you know if their are any weapons in this hospital?" Phillip asked
Quinn began to shake his head appalled at the fact that someone thought that any one would keep guns in a hospital.
"The manager is a complete gun nut if there are any here they'll be in his officer." Rebecca replied.
"Okay where is it?"
"It's on the top floor, it's the only office up there and it's a grand place deep red carpet, leather chairs, hand carved tables. The manger was arrogant and had lots of money a bad combination if you ask me."
"Will you be okay to check that yourself."
"Yes I'll be fine"
"Good, Right let's move to it then." Phillip said.