"HENRIK!"
"Tabby wait! No don't!"
*Screech*
*Slam*
"Henrik!"
"Tabitha what the bloody hell do you think you're doing?"
"Don't you dare leave this hospital!"
"Get out of the way."
"No!"
"GET OFF MY CAR!"
"Not until you park back up and get your pompous, Swedish, stuck up arse back into that building!"
(12 hours earlier)
"Mm, Henrik?" She spoke groggily, sitting up, "Henrik?"
She wandered into the living room, "Henrik?"
She knocked on the bathroom door, "Henrik?" Then noticed it was open, "Henrik?" She asked looking around.
She peaked into Erin's room, "Henrik, it's 6:30, I'm not awake yet and I'm not in the mood."
She then shuffled into the kitchen, "Henrik!" Her shoulders drooped, it was empty, "Oh that twat. Of course he's got his car this time so he can just bugger off." She then spotted something wrapped in clingfilm on the kitchen counter. As she wandered over to it she found it was a sandwich and there was a note: Tabitha, my apologies for leaving so early, I was called in for an emergency. Here's a little something for lunch, with love, HH.
She smiled to herself then headed for the bathroom to shower and get ready for the day.
"Morning Serena, I know this is going to sound odd but can we coffee later on, I need to talk to you about something?... No probs, ok, thanks, see you." She hung up and pressed the button for the lift.
"Morning." Came a familiar voice from beside her.
"Good morning, Jac, what's happened to you?" She smirked.
"What do you mean?"
"Doors opening, lift going up."
She stepped in, "Well, you normally approach me with some dig about how I look or what I've done, even my future sometimes but today has just been a polite greeting, what's with that?"
"Ok, you've got me; I've got nothing to dig at." She sipped her coffee.
"I see. Well that's good I suppose."
"But you do have a certain glow about you this morning." Jac looked her over.
"Do I?" Tabby stared straight ahead.
"How did sushi go?"
"Delicious." She whispered huskily.
"Doors opening, lift going up."
"Right, get out." Jac playfully pushed Tabby out of the lift.
Tabby giggled and headed to her office.
She jumped as she strolled past Henrik's office and the door suddenly opened, "Shit Henrik, don't do that to me." She held her hand to her chest.
"I'm sorry would you like a warning before I open my door, perhaps a flashing light and sirens? Actually I have something for you." He retreated back into his office and soon returned with a brown envelope, "Your mail always comes to me oddly." He handed it to her.
"Thank you. Oh and thanks for the sandwich." She smiled tapping her bag.
"You're very welcome." He winked then left to wherever he was headed.
Tabitha sat in her office and opened the envelope, "Oh, excellent, it's normal."
*Knock knock*
"Come in. Hey Serena." She replaced the sheet in the envelope and turned to the consultant.
"You're looking happy, good news?" She referred to the envelope.
"Yes, my smear, it's come back normal." She explained looking pleased.
"So coffee then, I have an hour to spare right now if you want to?"
"Of course." Tabby grabbed her purse and they headed downstairs.
"So what is it you needed to talk about?" Serena sat forward interested.
"Well I take it you've heard rumours."
"About you and Henrik? Yes, Tabby, I think the whole hospital has heard rumours-"
"Ye, well it's true." She stared at her coffee.
"What? You and Hanssen?"
"Yes, I mean, we've had sex, twice…" She paused at Serena's look of surprise, "…and I lost my virginity to him, he probably knows more about me than anyone else and just yesterday he confessed to me." She stroked the side of her cup.
"He what?" She stared flabbergasted.
"Ye, that was my reaction." She chuckled.
"Well what did you say?"
"Nothing, I had to go and do some translation work for a very nice older lady from Patagonia who only spoke Welsh or Spanish, but it seemed like I didn't need to say anything because…" She looked up distracted, "Who's that?" She furrowed her brow.
Serena turned to see the man impatiently pressing the button for the lift.
He looked weirdly shifty, a black KooGa cagoule, black Adidas baseball cap and dark grey Lonsdale tracksuit bottoms, he carried a Nike sports bag and kept checking around him suspiciously.
"Serena, get on his tail, I'll warn security and take the stairs; he looks like trouble."
Serena nodded and got up from the table heading for the lift. Tabby watched intently but inconspicuously.
"Hold the lift." Serena called and the kid held his hand to stop the doors for her.
Tabby waited, poised, and as the doors shut she immediately got up and headed to the security bloke. She explained some things quickly before she ran in the direction of the stairs.
Serena looked the boy over, "Been training?" She asked.
"Er, yeah." He replied looking slightly sheepish.
"Track and field sports or football? You look like a footballer, am I right, football practice?"
He chuckled nervously and nodded.
"See, a woman's intuition." She tapped her nose, "We can just tell. So are you here to visit a relative?"
"Um, ye." He kept his head down.
"Do you know what ward he's on? Maybe I can help you find him."
"Um, I think he's on Keller? Is that it?"
"Ah, general surgery eh? Quiet ward that one. What's wrong with him if you don't mind me asking?"
"Um, tummy problems." He muttered.
"Ah, I see. Oh well here we are."
"Doors opening, lift going up."
Serena let the boy go first then she followed on but suddenly he spun round and grabbed her hair, roughly pushing her against the wall, he checked the area as he whipped a knife out from his pocket and held it to her neck, "Right, now, you show me to the drugs cupboard and you do not make a scene, alright?"
"Yes ok." She nodded briskly, gulping.
He let her go and they headed in the direction of the drugs cupboard.
Tabby ran onto AAU, "Gemma, have you seen Serena?"
Gemma paused, "Er, she left the ward about 20 minutes ago, why is it an emergency?"
"Um, kind of, listen if you see her tell her to call me." She shouted over the chaos before turning around and heading through door held open by another doctor.
She then entered Keller ward. She swiftly made her way over to nurse Lane who was with a patient at the time, "Chantelle, have you seen Serena in the past 5 minutes?" She asked hushed.
"No I haven't, why do you need her for something?"
"Kind of, if you see her can you tell her to ring me immediately, please?"
"Will do." She smiled then got back on with her patient.
Tabby burst through the doors and straight into Ric, "Mr Griffin, you haven't happened to see Serena just now have you?"
"Nope, sorry."
"Ok." She sighed and growled, heading for the lift.
Serena was taking out a set of keys but her stance was odd, she arched her back weirdly. Pressing into her lower back was the silver glint of something sharp.
"Right, I want 5 packs of morphine, 2 gabapentin, 7 diphenhydramine and 10 alcoholic sanitizers." He ordered.
Serena hurriedly fumbled through the cupboard looking for what the man asked for.
"Hurry up!" He dug the knife further into her back, puncturing the skin slightly.
Tabby stumbled out of the lift scanning around the corridors.
"Lost something?" Jac flicked her stethoscope over her head.
"Ms Campbell, where is she?" Tabby asked slightly breathless.
"How should I know?" Jac frowned.
"Of course how should you know, if you see her, get her to phone me." Tabby then jogged down the corridor.
She peaked into each door that she ran past, "Serena?" And when she was only half-way down the fire alarm began to sound. She stopped mid track, rolling her eyes, "Bloody typical." She then turned and jogged back towards Darwin.
"What's that?" The boy suddenly looked around panicked.
"That's the fire alarm we need to evacuate." Serena explained as calmly as she could as she felt the knife push further into her back with the boy's fluster.
"Fuck this shit I'm gettin' out of here." As he began to run away he accidently swiped his knife across Serena's back causing her to gasp in pain.
The boy hadn't noticed though and he carried on running through the doors and down the corridor.
Serena pressed her hand to her back then brought it round to see it; her hand was covered in bright red liquid. She felt a bit faint so she pressed her hand against the wall to support herself, but the acute pain pin pointed on the small slash on her back took over her, she felt her shirt and the top of her trousers becoming wet. The siren was becoming distant and echoey and her vision blurry. Her sight showed her the floor, the door then the ceiling and she hit the floor with a thud. The bright corridor light filled her vision before her eye lids shielded it, then… nothing.
"Right those of you who can walk can you go with Chantelle please, otherwise wait patiently and a porter will be with you soon." Malick shouted over the sound of the sirens.
"Right do you lot want to come with me? No running, no pushing and take the stairs NOT the lift." Chantelle took control and guided people out of the ward towards the staircase.
The boy ran down the staircase distracted and ran smack into a young blonde in turquois scrubs.
"Ow! Watch where you're going." She then tilted her head in thought as she watched the man, he was breathless, sweating and he looked terrified, "Are you alright? Listen it's just the fire alarm, here I'll show you the way down." She tried to be helpful.
The young man suddenly thought he'd been busted and in a blind panic he took his knife and plunged it straight into Gemma's stomach.
As he pulled it out she bent double in pain and cried out.
As he witnessed her pain he shortly realised what he had done, and quickly fled the scene, leaving Gemma on the landing, lying on her side, clutching her abdomen, sobbing.
"Here take over for me." Mo shoved the red bib into Tabby's hands then returned to the ward.
Tabby furrowed her brow but complied and put it on. She was shortly greeted by small group of people, "Ok, few ground rules, listen carefully, no pushing, no running, and you stick close to me even at the assembly point ok? Now we're taking the stairs not the lift so everyone follow me then please." She headed towards the staircase with the group close in tow.
"We haven't been told about a drill but we should treat every alarm as the real thing." She walked backwards straight into something warm, "Oh, sorry." She turned around and her face dropped slightly.
"You should be looking where you're going I think Miss Rees." Came the slightly snarky remark.
They walked through the doors together and both lead the group down the stairs, "Do we know what caused this alarm?"
"What? You don't know?"
"I haven't had a report yet but it's not a drill or a test." As he spoke his phone began to ring, "Henrik Hanssen… I see, has a fire been detected anywhere?... Ok, well we'll assemble for the meantime, call me back when you're certain." He ended the call, "The emergency door near radiology has been opened and that's what activated the alarm but no fire has been detected anywhere."
"Hang on, who's that?" Tabitha pointed down at the landing, "That's Dr Wilde isn't it?" She suddenly ran past Henrik and knelt down beside the young blonde, "Gemma, Gemma can you hear me? Gemma!" She placed her fingers on Gemma's neck as Henrik kneeled on the other side, "I have a pulse, it's weak but it's there."
"It looks as though we have a stab wound. Ok we need to stem the bleed." Hanssen said as he firmly held his hands over the bleeding wound.
"Here, use this." Tabby unwound the scarf from her neck and handed it to him.
"Ta." He used it to hold over the wound.
"Is everything alright?" Ric asked as they descended the stairs.
"Gemma?" Michael asked tilting his head.
"She's been stabbed." Tabby informed.
"Ok, we'll take over, Tabby carry on as warden." Ric took over with Tabby.
"Right, my group, don't worry this is under control let's carry on, just one more flight, peoples." She motioned for them to carry on.
As they reached the car park they found their assembly point and Tabby took a quick roll call.
"Hanssen… there definitely isn't. ... alright, I'm a bit busy right now, can you phone my PA please, Tabitha Rees?... thank you." Henrik hung up, "Right on my count, ready? 1, 2, 3."
They moved Gemma carefully onto the stretcher.
"Right we'll get her onto AAU; you get down to the car park and sort everybody out. 1, 2, 3." Michael ordered picking up the stretcher with Ric.
"So we can send everyone back in?... Ok, thank you." She held up her hand to get peoples' attention, "Right everybody, false alarm so can everybody please make your way back in, same rules: no running and no pushing but the lift is available this time." Tabitha shouted to everyone who began to make their way back indoors.
"Have you got the message?" Came the deep, sexy call from behind her.
"Yep, how's Gemma?" She turned around to him.
"I'm not sure; Mr Spence and Mr Griffin have taken her to AAU." He looked over the bib she was wearing, "Well done for taking over by the way. You did a good job." He complimented.
She just gave him a disapproving look before turning and heading towards the main entrance, taking out her phone, "Serena, it's me again, pick up the bloody phone you fool, I just said stay on his tail not follow then disappear. Call me when you get this."