A/n: I know, I know, it's late. (Don't throw anything at me, please :P) But it's up!
Heart of Fire - Chapter 6"So, is everybody clear about what we're doing? Even with Drago acting as strange as he is, I don't think it's a wise idea to make him angry…" Finn trailed off pointedly.
"Yeah, we know what to do," Chow said, smiling wickedly in the dim half-light of the hallway.
"They won't even know what hit 'em," Ratso agreed, grinning.
Finn gave his comrades a wink before slithering off downstairs, Ratso and Chow heading for the opposite direction.
Nurse Simone was just about to take her lunch break after a long, grueling morning. One of the patients had an odd wound that wasn't taking to stitches very well. The patient refused to tell what had caused it. Another's seemed to bleed profusely no matter what kind of bandaging was used on it. And one of her youngest patients had bronchitis that simply refused to go away, no matter what the young nurse prescribed for it. On top of all that, someone was trying to sue the hospital after an overnight treatment in Simone's ward. Or course, the head doctor blamed it on her.
"That's right. I've got to report to Dr. Thind about the progress of that one girl..." Simone said to herself. She let her hand hover over her office phone before deciding against it. It was her lunch break, for heaven's sake. She could very well call Dr. Thind after her thirty-five minutes of peace.
She was just thinking this when the phone rang. Looking at the little window that displayed caller ID, Simone scowled. It read '402'. Dr Thind's room.
"What?" She asked into the receiver, trying to keep the irritation out of her voice, and failing.
"Listen, Simone, I know you've had a hard morning, but I need you to take over for Blakely at the security booth," Thind answered. "I don't know where she went, but she's not responding to any of my calls. Check it out for me, will ya? Stay there until her usual post would end, and if you see her, tell her to report to me immediately and not to slack off anymore!"
Simone could tell that it was an order. "Will do," she replied, hanging up before the doctor could reply. She walked out of her office, heading downstairs to wing C, where the security room was supposed to be located. Simone couldn't be sure… she didn't trust the maps in the hospital. They were almost fifteen years old, and several renovations of the hospital had happened since the maps had been published. She didn't get why Thind couldn't just get some new ones made.
Thinking of Thind, Simone's train of thought was redirected. The nurse knew that it was odd for Blakely to leave her post in the middle of the day. She was risking being fired. That was unlike her. Perhaps that was what had the head doctor so worried, but then again, maybe he was just trying to get under Simone's skin. That was always a possibility.
Realizing that she would have to spend the duration of her lunch in a cramped room waiting for Blakely to come back, Simone scowled. The nurse then remembered that she didn't have a clue what security people did. "I guess I'll just keep an eye on the cameras…" She absently thought out loud.
Halting in front of the door, Simone swiped her access card. "Confirmed," the computer beeped at her.
She twisted the knob and pushed, expecting to see a small, dark room with only one chair facing a bunch of screens. But she was wrong.
Since most of the rooms of the hospital were devoted to patent's rooms and offices for the workers, there was hardly space for anything else. So, all of the extra junk was put into this room. Simone saw boxes and boxes of rubber gloves, masks, surgery tools, spare scrubs, and lots of cleaning and disinfectant supplies crammed into one corner. There were even some extra computers in another. The main power generator and backup were set against one wall. And on top of all that, it was well lit.
"Well, this place is certainly not my idea of a 'security room'," Simone said to herself after a few minutes of staring.
She plopped down in a cushy armchair facing a live feed of all the cameras throughout the hospital, figuring this was probably what Blakely did most of the day. What a boring job, Simone thought to herself. Interrupted by her growling stomach, she remembered it was her lunchtime.
Washing her hands thoroughly up to her elbows in a nearby sink, the nurse was just removing her sandwich from a plastic baggie when she heard something. It sounded… raspy. Like sandpaper rubbing over concrete. But as soon as she identified it, it stopped. So suddenly, that she thought she might have imagined it.
"Odd…," She said to herself, turning around. She wasn't expecting a reply.
"If you think that's odd, check this out!" A male voice declared.
Knitting her eyebrows together, the nurse got out of her chair, just in time to see the electricity generator short circuit.
"Nighty night," the said voice cut through the air, which seemed to grow thicker by the second with darkness. Simone was willing to bet that it would be lighter if she closed her eyelids.
Suddenly, a… fireball? No, it couldn't be… but that's exactly what it looked like, Simone decided. If it really was, the nurse was in trouble. She nearly bent in two to get out of the way, feeling the air warm as the… substance crossed right over her nose.
"Darn it," The person fumed, "Why can't you guys just play along? It'd be oh so much easier."
"..Huh?" The nurse was flabbergasted. "Blakely, if this is a joke, it's a really poor one.."
"Lady, this is no joke."
The next thing Simone knew, something heavy and hard collided with her head. She only had a few seconds to spare, temples screaming, before she passed out.
Simone – say: sum-OWN
A/n: A thing about the pronouncing thing, since I believe that it's the first time I've included one, the capitalized syllable is stressed. The syllables are separated by hyphens.
Wow… the Enforcers actually had an idea! -legasp- Lol!
-frowns- I know, It's short, and I know its been a while since my last update, but I'll make it up to you.. hehe! –passes out cookies– and if you don't like cookies… have a doughnut! XD
Yeahyeah, this didn't have and Jade or Drago in it. Boo hoo. :P I'll get to them soon enough! Also, I really will be quicker with my next update. –grins–
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