Chapter Ten

Trying to look as normal as possible, Kori walked into the supply closet and locked herself in, her blood-ridden clothing rubbing crimson over every surface she touched.

Her heartbeat quickened, she could feel her blood clotting from the transfusion not being stabilised. Looking around she could see little vials but none of them were in 'dumb', they were in their correct names and she didn't know which was the one she needed.

Grabbing an empty needle – sterilised – and a little vial off the first tray, she pulled a small amount into the barrel and took off the material, ready to inject herself.

But just as the needle was about to pierce the skin, the door she was perched against opened – apparently the door wasn't locked – and a nurse walked in. Obviously, she spotted Kori and her blood-covered body and screamed, seeing the needle in her hand.

Kori covered her mouth and put the needle at her neck, stopping her screaming.

"Shut up, just shut up!" She hissed, pressing the needle to her neck.

The nurse froze up and only fought minutely, though it did a lot considering Kori's weakened state.

"I..." She trailed off, shaking the dizziness from her head, "I need stabiliser for a blood transfusion." She said, showing the woman her pouch of blood. "Which one is it?" She asked.

The nurse stayed still, not answering the bloodied girl who was loosening her death-grip on her – she knew that the girl wouldn't last long if she was giving herself an unsanitary blood transfusion.

"Answer me, or I'll kill you." Kori said, pulling out her blaster and placing it to the nurse's temple. The nurse shook but didn't give into her demands, Kori was losing her temper, "Look, if you don't answer me, I'll die." Kori said, rubbing blood from her eyes, "Which means you could be up for murder, or...if I see myself dying anyway...I'll just shoot you in the head." She threatened, "As you can see, I'm not a very patient woman..." She looked at the nametag, "Mary, so tell me." She snarled.

Mary hesitated but moved swiftly when she heard Kori press the trigger slightly on her blaster. The nurse dove for the one with the longest name and handed it to Kori.

"Xergyeineathol?" Kori snickered. "Do you think I'm stupid?" She hissed, "I know a fucking poison when I see it!" She snarled, running into Mary and wrapping her hand around her throat and squeezing tightly. "Do you know...how many people I've killed, Mary?" She asked light-heartedly.

Mary shook her head violently, her breathing ragged as she prayed for her life to be spared.

"Three." Kori whispered. "I've killed three children." She told her, gritting her teeth, "I've killed three children, how many people have you killed Mary? How many people have you ended with your bare hands?" She asked in a mentally-insane tone, it scared her slightly but she persisted, the pressure and pain was getting to her.

"N-No one." The woman shook, her voice was a raspy whisper as she spoke through Kori's death-grip on her throat.

"And yet you tried to kill me!" Kori called out loudly, "You tried to kill me, you knew that the second it entered my blood stream that I'd be dead." She hissed, "You knew that you'd be able to watch the light leave my eyes, you knew you hear my last breath..." She laughed with no humour, "You knew you'd just let me die, and then you'd become a hero for something that I could do now..." She said, flexing her grip, "Yet you know nothing." She snapped, throwing her into the door. "YOU KNOW NOTHING!" Kori screamed, holding up her blaster.

The door then crashed open and their conversation was on show for the whole ward, doctors and nurses watched as Kori looked around frantically and Mary fell out of the store room.

As if in slow motion, like time had been freeze-framed, Kori watched several things happen. The panic button was pressed, that meant the Titans were coming, all of the patients were rushed into their rooms to keep them safe and all of the staff said their prayers.

"They're on their way, aren't they?" Kori called out as she took a step, everyone jumping away.

Kori then looked at the blaster and dropped it, shocked at how out of control she'd gotten.

"She's mentally unstable; get someone from psychiatrics up here!" She heard a woman call.

"I'M NOT CRAZY!" Kori called out, tears forming in her eyes, "I'M NOT!" She snapped.

All of the staff froze, wondering what the girl – who was obviously not alright – was going to do next. Their breath was held as she turned back to the store room and picked up several vials.

"Which one stabilises a blood transfusion?" She called out, her hands shaking as she went through the different vials in her hands.

Seeing the blaster she picked it up and placed it back into her pants, calming herself enough to not cry anymore, but the tracks were still visible.

"WHICH ONE?" She screamed, throwing a few at the doctor closest to her, they were moving in to try and contain her. "BACK THE FUCK OFF!" She snarled, holding the blaster up by his face, "Or I swear to God, I'll shoot your fucking head off." She warned.

"You don't want to do that." The doctor said, stepping back with his hands raised.

"I don't, I really don't." She nodded, "I want to be well again, but she tried to kill me!" She hissed at Mary.

No one believed her, obviously. They took one look at who had the blaster and thought they knew; they also looked at her physical injuries and clothing and figured she was in some sort of gang that had guns and knives.

"No one is trying to kill you." He told her, keeping his distance.

"She did." Kori sobbed, pointing the gun at Mary in the back, "She told me that the stabiliser was Xergyeineathol, she was trying to get me to inject myself with it!" She cried, a tear leaving her eye as she started to break down.

"That is stabiliser, do you need some?" The doctor asked.

Kori looked back at him, her face perplexed. He was young, he was tall and looked gentle but firm, he didn't have the badge of a psychiatric doctor, he was just a GP.

"What the fuck do you know?" She hissed, running a hand through her hair and breathing heavily as more tears fell.

"Why didn't you just ask for help? We would have helped you." The doctor said, taking a small step forwards. "There's no need for this." He said, indicating to her hand holding the gun.

"You wouldn't have helped me..." She muttered, "You would have called the Titans; they warned you about me, I know they did." She whispered quickly.

"You're the one?" The doctor asked, his voice a whisper.

"They did this to me; they did this so that they could catch me!" She told him, her throat tight.

The doctor looked at her neck, seeing the blood dripping from her slowly, and then he looked down at her leg where she'd tried to treat herself. It seemed she was barbaric with the needles; they'd done more damage than use.

"They want me dead." She told the doctor. "They've wanted me dead since the accident, I didn't mean it!" She cried, her eyes spilling more tears.

"What happened? What didn't you mean?" He asked her.

"I didn't mean for it to happen, but they thought I did..." She said, breaking eye contact and looking at the floor intently – lost in a memory. "They d-didn't let me explain..." She said, more tears were coming, running down her chin.

"What did you do?" She heard from her side.

Immediately her eyes shot up to see Sofia in the hallway. She was clutching a teddy, a little brown teddy that hung from its tattered arm in her hand. Her eyes filled with more tears as she looked at the little girl she'd bonded with, she was staring with her wide azure eyes at the gun in her hand.

"Kori...what are you doing?" She asked, stepping backward a little. "Why have you got a gun?" She asked.

"I-I..." Kori couldn't answer, she just looked at the gun and then to the floor again.

Kori could hear her heart beating a mile a minute in her chest, trying to push round the too-thick, clotted blood. She'd run out of time.

"The clock is chiming..." She sang quietly, her legs giving out as she slowly fell to the floor, "...Your time is up..." She sang, her final words witnessed by the Titans who came crashing through the doors, armed.

Hopefully that was insane enough for you, but not to the point of no return – oh, I've said too much!

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