A/N: sorry for the late update everyone. Anyway, I'm deciding that this is the chapter where I stop bullying Homura, and start degrading some of the other character's mental states.
Disclaimer: I don't own Madoka Magica
Warnings: Attempted suicide, blood, insanity and sadness. You have been warned
Pairings: We'll get there in the end :D
Madoka marched grouchily up the hallway on the third floor of the institute. Her face was still flushed from her earlier argument with Sayaka.
"How dare she? She doesn't know anything about how it is. She has no right to-"
Madoka stopped, puzzled. This was usually the time of night that the nurse chose to do her rounds on this part of the building, so where on earth was she. As she rounded the next corner, she noticed that several lights along this corridor were clacked out. Specifically, the ones around Homura's door.
Madoka broke into a run to clear the remaining distance between her and the door. As soon as she reached it, she forced it open. Her eyes shot wide, and she barely contained a scream.
Homura was sitting against the wall, both wrists cut, blood pouring everywhere.
"Homura!" Madoka immediately ran to the first aid kit on the wall, praying to god that she wasn't too late. She wrenched the door open with such force that it snapped off its hinges.
Ignoring this, she pulled out as many bandages as she could find. She grabbed a bottle of alcohol to clean the wound, and ran to Homura's side. She shed her nurse's coat, and whipped it around in front of her, pressing it to Homura's wounds in an effort to stem the flow of blood.
"M-Mado…ka-"
"Shh. Don't talk. Save your strength. Oh god Homura, what did you do?"
Madoka unbundled the bandages, and first tied one close to Homura's elbows to slow the blood-flow. She cautiously removed the coat from its place. The bleeding started up again, but nowhere near as bad.
Madoka poured a little of the alcohol from the bottle onto each of the wounds, drying it with an antiseptic wipe from her purse. She then set about bandaging the wounds as fast as she could.
"She should be okay. But I need to get her help. She'll need a blood transfusion and everything."
"Madoka…" Homura's voice was so weak right now.
"Cont talk Homura-chan. I need to call an ambulance, and you need to conserve your strength."
Madoka whipped out her phone, and punched in the number of the local hospital.
"Hello, Mitakihara General Hospital, how may I assist you?"
"Hello. I'm at the MICI on the third floor, and I have a patient who's suffered from extreme blood loss."
"Understood, what is the nature of the patient's wounds?"
"Both wrists cut. I've bandaged the wound, but I'm not sure how long it'll last."
"Right. We'll dispatch an emergency unit immediately." The attendant left the phone for a moment, and Madoka heard her call something out to who Madoka would assume are her bosses.
"We have a unit on route."
"Thank god."
"Do you have the patient's details? Depending on the severity of the blood loss, the paramedics may have to perform an emergency transfusion, and they'll need to know her blood type."
"Of course. I have everything here with me."
"Excellent."
"Madoka…"
Madoka turned back to Homura, and leaned closer to the girl. She wrapped her arms around her frail body.
"It's okay Homura-chan. You don't have to speak, everything will be fine."
"Madoka… I-"
"Hush."
But Homura payed her no heed. "I'm so… so sorry."
"What do you mean Homura-chan. You've got nothing to apologise for."
"I- I couldn't help… I couldn't save him."
"Homura… what do you-" But Madoka stopped. For the first time, she noticed the pungent smell that filled the room.
She slowly turned her head, dreading what she might see. It was so much worse than she's imagined.
Yuko's corpse lay on the floor, his face upturned with a look of pure terror on his face. Behind him, the body of Mikasa, the patient from level four, a mad smile on her face, and a kitchen knife sticking out of her stomach.
"Ma'am, I'm going to need you to tell me the ward number. The paramedics have arrived on scene, but they have no idea where you are."
Madoka screamed.
"Hey Oriko." Kirika stepped through the door of her partner's temporary office.
Oriko looked up from her book. "You have news."
"Nothing unexpected. It looks like there were two more killings at the institute."
Oriko placed a bookmark between the pages of her book, and set it down. "Is it connected?"
"Undoubtedly. The bodies were discovered in the Akemi girl's room."
"Indeed."
"So are we going over?"
Oriko closed her eyes for a few seconds, breathing deeply before answering Kirika's question with one of her own.
"Is Madoka Kaname involved?"
"She was supposedly the first one on the scene."
Oriko's eyes snapped open.
"She's vulnerable. We need to get over there."
Orko stood, and grabbed her coat from the back of her chair.
"It would do us well if we were able to locate the witch that is causing all of this. Have you made any progress?"
"The last real leap we made on that front was identifying that the Institute is where it's currently holed up."
"It must have some ability to mask its presence, if even our soul gems can't identify the location of its grief seed."
"Well that much is obvious." Kirika held the door of the police station open for Oriko.
"Either way, for now our primary objective is to prevent the Kaname girl from contracting. Eliminating the witch is a secondary concern."
"And if we fail to prevent the contract?"
"Then we will have no choice but to kill her."
Kirika grinned at this.
"Don't take it so lightly Kirika. With her raw potential alone, I shudder to think what the results of any contest with her would be."
"Yeah yeah." The grin did not leave Kirika's face. This whole situation was just starting to get really exciting.
She opened the passenger side door, and allowed Oriko to take her seat, before moving around to the driver side. As she settled herself behind the wheel, her grin widened. She relished a challenge, and this investigation was turning into quite an interesting one.
A/N: I feel like at this point, if I try and fit too much in one chapter I'll burn out again. Sorry once again for the late update, I got a bit lazy in the first week of holidays (plus I got Fate/Zero and Steins;Gate on disc, so I've been marathoning those).
Anyways, because I feel like getting back into the mindless fluff-zone ASAP, I'm gonna get a few depressing chapters and tidbits out of the way ASAP.