DEATH WISH

A classroom is full of 8th graders. The teacher is handing out test booklets. A girl and her friend are talking.

"Did you study for the test?" Girl one asks.

Girl two, "I totally spaced, dammit. I'm so screwed."

Girl one, "I'll help you cheat..."

Girl two, "I'm definitely screwed...I'd rather be dead than take this test."

Girl two suddenly slams her head on the desk.

Girl one giggling, "You're funny, no need to worry...Okay, its not that funny, get up..."

Girl two starts bleeding out from her mouth. Girl one screams.

Kaitlyn arrives on scene at the school which is connected to Matt's school section.

She flips her badge, entering the classroom, "What do we got?"

A detective greets her and points over to the girl, still at her desk, coroners moving her into a body bag, "Girl dropped dead around 1:41pm, just before taking a test."

Kaitlyn quickly reviews the girl's medical file from the school nurse, "Not on meds, never used drugs, no medical problems, what happened?"

Kate looks in the hallway, seeing officers questioning a girl. She walks over, the cops leave.

Kate asks, "What happened?"

The girl tells her how they were going to take a test. Then the girl said she'd rather be dead than take the test and then she just dropped dead. Kaitlyn watches the coroners roll the body bag on a stretcher down the hall. Kate goes to Matt's classroom and makes sure he is okay then she leaves. Then she hears a code call over the police radio.

"Holy shit..." Kaitlyn rushes to the Arlington Psychiatric Center.

On scene there are multiple fire trucks, rescue trucks, ambulances, coroner's vans, police and FBI agents. She gets out of her car and starts walking toward the building and a FBI agent tries turning her back. "You can't come in here, lock down situation."

Kate shows her NSA badge. The agent repeats.

Kate, "What part of N-S-A don't you understand? Na-tion-al Se-cur-ity..."

Kate rolls her eyes and turns around. Several CDC trucks pull up to the building. She runs over to the trucks, shows her badge and requests a bio-suit. She gets one and goes in the building. She enters the lobby where there are already ten bodies laid out on the floor in body bags. "She-it."

Kate continues down the hallways of the ward looking in each room. Body after body, room by room. She sees what looks like a lead agent in a bio suit.

Kate goes up to her, "Agent Perry, National Security. What happened here?"

The lead agent replies, "I need to see some identification."

Kaitlyn looks down at herself, wearing a bio suit and mock-clears her throat.

The lead agent, "Never mind. We received a call about several patients here found dead. By the time police arrived, at least 40 more died. At this point we estimate most of the heavy depression and risk-to-self patients are dead, which should make a total of about 100."

"Mass suicide?" Kate asks.

"If they did, its something like never seen before. No sign of suicide. Its why we think there may be an infection in the ward." She responds.

Kaitlyn asks if any of the staff are infected.

"It only seems that the depression and suicide watch patients died here." The lead agent answers.

Kate leaves and calls Willow. She asks Willow to check for spirit demons that kill depressed people. Willow says she'll call later when she finds something. Now the middle of the night, Kaitlyn sneaks into the Psych ward which is now empty and locked down. With an EMF reader, Kate enters the ward and walks the hallways. She looks around with a flashlight. The reader detects an EMF level of one out of ten which is normal for non-haunted places. After a while of looking around, Kate remembers how the girl from the school said right after saying she'd rather be dead than take a test Kate gets an idea. She puts on her sunglasses which have a tiny switch on the side of each lens. When switched, it activates a digital view which can detect many different things. She switches them on and looks around. Nothing.

Loudly, "I wish..." The reader goes up to 4 of 10. "I wish I would just..."

The reader beeps at 7 of 10. Kate looks around and sees an energy mass growing beside her. Kate slides down her sunglasses. Nothing there.

Puts them back on. "Hello..."

Her eyes switch to bright orange and then to neon purple. The force slams her back. Kaitlyn flies back about 25 feet.

"Sorry but I didn't wish for that." She gets up and points at the mist.

The walls explode out at it. The mist shoots at her. Kate dives down as it gusts by. Kate turns around and points again, blowing out the walls, floor and ceiling down at the mist. A gas line in the ceiling sprays down. Kate gets up and runs and points back. The line explodes and blows up. But then the whole gas line ignites, pipe section by pipe section it explodes down the hall toward Kaitlyn. "Not cool..."

She sprints down the hall and runs around a corner. She continues down another hall, the explosions following her. Then the demonic mist appears in real view, also fleeing the explosions. She runs out the front doors as the main line ruptures. Kaitlyn dives down to the parking lot as the front doors fling out over her. The windows explode and the mist burns up with a demonic scream.

Willow calls, "I found out what's happening!"

Kate, "Oh really?"

Willow, "Yea, it's a genie that was cursed by a person that didn't like the result of the wish it granted. The genie grants wishes to those that want to die. But because its angry, it kills anyone that says they want to die whether or not they actually want to."

Kaitlyn, "Huh..."

Willow, "Oh, one last thing. Its flammable. I don't know why but don't use fire to kill it." Kaitlyn hangs up.