John heaved a sigh. Not five minutes into his shift and he was already bombarded with work. He took out a file from the tall stack of files piled on his desk and started to review through it.

"Hey Claudia, could you get the old files on this patient? Claudia?" Hearing no response, he turned his head back and saw the young intern passed out at her desk. He shook his head amused; he got up from his desk and went over to her.

"Claudia, wake up." He gently shook her but it was enough to wake her up with a start.

"I'M AWAKE! I'M AWAKE. I-I'm so sorry John. I d-didn't mean to sleep on the job." stuttered Claudia, her black hair slightly messy from laying her head down on her desk.

John chuckled. "It's fine Claudia. Don't worry about it. Didn't you tell me that your last final is today? You've been studying pretty hard this past week so I understand if you haven't gotten much sleep lately." He said.

"Still it's no excuse." She muttered out, still upset at being caught sleeping on the job.

John placed a hand on her shoulder and gave her a reassuring smile, "Hey no worries. Why don't you go get some coffee while I sort the files out here okay?"

Claudia nodded. "Okay. Thanks John." She got up from her desk and walked out of the office to get some much needed coffee.

John chuckled and went back to sorting the files on his patients. "The poor dear. She's been working herself to the ground these past couple of months. Hopefully she'll finally be able to take a breather once she's taken her last final for the winter." he thought.

John had met Claudia, a third-year Biology student from UCLA, in this very hospital three months ago when she had been accepted to work as an intern in the hospital. She had been assigned to shadow him over the next six months and the two managed to work in sync, him mentoring her and her observing and learning the inner workings of the field as well as helping him with a few of his patients. At first, she had been pretty shy but once she got comfortable around him, her boisterous and lively nature started to come out.

Over the next three months, they quickly formed a steadfast friendship, almost like a sister-brother bond between them, and John got to know more about his young intern. He found out that she had come from the capital city of Indonesia, halfway across the world, in order to pursue a career as a doctor here in the United States. He was pretty impressed to see a young woman chasing after her dream, even if took her far away from home.

The door opened and a nurse popped her head in. "Hey John, you got another patient coming in. He'll be here in a minute." she said.

"Okay. Let him in when he's there." John replied back.

The nurse nodded but before she could close the door, the young intern slid past her into the room, excusing herself as she did, with two cups of coffee in hand. "Hey John, I got you some coffee." said Claudia.

John gave her a thankful smile and accepted the coffee. "Thanks. I appreciate it."

"No problem. So what'd you need help in?" John pointed to the stack of files on his desk. "Well, a patient is coming in so I'm going to need your help in sorting these files out while I meet the patient. Could you do that?" he asked.

"Sure. I'll get it done." He gave her a grateful smile. "Thanks Claudia, I appreciate it."

"No problem John." She replied, a small smile on her slightly tan face. He then quickly put on his white lab coat and left the room to the consulting room down the hallway.

Time flew by in the blink of an eye and before John even realized it, it was already 8 PM. He gave a loud yawn and stretched his tired muscles, wanting to go back home soon and get some much needed sleep. Claudia had left earlier at noon to go take her final exam later in the afternoon, leaving him to work double-time.

"I'm beat. Thank goodness my shift is finally done. I wonder how Claudia did on her final today. Hopefully she did well. I'll just ask her tomorrow." He thought tiredly. He slid his chair back and got up from his desk exhausted; he took off his lab coat and shoved it into his briefcase. Shutting it close, he put on his black coat hanging on his chair and left the room after switching off the lights.

He walked out of the hospital into the cold night, making him shiver slightly. He pulled his coat tighter around him and started to walk towards the bus stop just a few blocks away. As he was walking, he heard soft, shuffling noises coming from a dark alleyway. Curious, he crept closer, the noises getting louder with each step he took.

Stopping just at the edge of the alleyway, he could now hear what sounded like loud snarls and growls coming from the alleyway. "Are there stray dogs in there?" he wondered. He jumped out of his skin when he suddenly heard gunshots followed by yelps and howls in the alleyway.

"What the hell!?" he exclaimed. His heart thudded against his chest as he heard more gunshots in the alleyway before it finally fell silent once more. The strange cries had also stopped. His curiosity overtaking his fear, John gulped and slowly sneaked a look into the dimly lit alleyway.

He saw what appeared to be dogs? No, more like wolves but they were way too big to be your average wolf and their body structures looked slightly off, laying on the ground dead, bright red blood splattered all over the ground and walls. But what was alarming was the figure standing amidst this carnage without a single scratch.

Suddenly, the figure turned and he was met with a gaze from eyes the color of ice. John froze when his eyes landed on the stranger's haunting eyes and felt sweat forming on his brow as sheer fear coursed through him. What he saw in those eyes terrified him. There was no emotion at all in them. Whoever this stranger was, she exuded danger. Heart thudding against his ribcage, he quickly got up from his hiding spot, nearly tripping over his shaking feet, and ran as if the devil was on his heels.

Martha watched as the human ran away. She could hear his heart beating rapidly away like a rabbit running for its life. She stood there, deciding whether or not she should let the human live. Usually, most humans who had witnessed her killing werewolves would be silenced permanently in order to protect her and her brethren but there was something different about this human. "His scent… it smells familiar."

She was snapped out from her thoughts when she heard a buzz coming from her ear. She picked up the call and heard a deep, regal voice through the earphone embedded in her ear. "Martha. I need you to come back to the mansion. I need to discuss something with you and it is only for your ears."

"Of course Rassilon. I'll be on my way." She cut off the call and vanished into the night, leaving behind the corpses of her latest kill.