'That must have been a wild night last night…'

Brittany McColl, the night nurse, awoke to find her cheek stuck to the floor. She felt dizzy and her tongue felt as rough and dry as the carpet she was lying on.

As she blinked her eyes Brittany realised two things. Firstly that she didn't have the usual pounding headache which tended to follow a night out on the town and secondly she appeared to be lying in a hospital corridor outside the janitor's closet with a tangle of ropes around her.

'How the hell did I get here?'

Brittany sat up slowly, her head still felt woozy. It was more like she was still drunk rather than suffering the effects the morning after.

'What's the last thing I remember?'

'That cute nurse!'

And boy, was that new nurse cute. She hadn't seen him before, she would have remembered. Super cute, with his dark hair and a cherubic smile, and yet he had those dangerous eyes that Brittany always found irresistible. He had come to move Mrs Fielding to another ward only he didn't have the right paper work. Brittany had jumped at the chance to help him! He hung out and they chatted while she tried to ring through and sort out the mix up. Chandler ward apparently were not aware of Mrs Fielding's move either. There had clearly been a mix up and sadly that was getting more common these days now staffing was stretched to its limits. Not the best first impression for the new guy.

He'd got her a coffee while she tried to reach Dr Prentiss to get official confirmation for the move. Only the coffee had tasted weird…

'I've been drugged! That cute nurse drugged me!'

Feeling alarmed by the realisation, Brittany struggled to her feet. She could hear shouting, that must have been what woke her up, but the noise hurt her ears so she staggered along the opposite corridor away from the sound. It was a struggle as the floor seemed to undulate beneath her feet and she wished the corridor would stop twisting in such a disturbing way and those blobs of colour would stop following her about...

'This is quite a trip…'

Brittany began to recognise where she was now, she was walking towards the stairwell that would take her all the way down to hospital lobby and then it was just a few steps to outside. That is what she needed, to be out under the wide, black, infinite, star-filled, sky, not some claustrophobic, wobbling corridor.

'Infinite stars…'

Brittany pulled the door handle. It didn't open. Brittany looked down to discover half a dozen multi-coloured cable-ties fixed to the door handles.

She bushed her fingers over the colourful tails sticking out from the ties.

'I'm trapped by a pretty rainbow...'

Brittany tried to pull the door again in case something had changed while she was distracted by the colours. It hadn't. She hung her head and ran her fingers through the rainbow again; she didn't want to go back to the loud shouty noise.

Then Brittany became aware that someone was watching her. She could see a pair of blue eyes staring at her through the narrow window of the door. It was a man wearing a strange black mushroom shaped hat on his head.

The mushroom man had his fingers in his lips asking for silence. Brittany thoroughly approved. Silence was good.

The man then made another action with his other hand, snipping his two front fingers together and glancing down at the cable-ties.

Brittany nodded in understanding.

"Scissors… I need to find some scissors to let the mushroom man in!"

Brittany stumbled towards the doctor's lounge to search…

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