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Hell Rising / Re: [Story] - Wasteland Nurse
« on: 03:14:03 PM 04/12/16 »Ep 3. Medical Roots
The usual rain pelted Cairath’s body, her makeup smeared into a depressing mask of different colours, her lab coat sticking to her, the woman following the lonely path past corpses and garbage. Before her stood a tall building, an old and broken sign uttering ‘Martin Hospital.” She went to enter the hospital, a lightning strike flashing before her and nearly blinding the woman.
What was a destroyed gate was now a shining steel, clearly recently painted. The dark and clouded sky was now a shining bright azure with the sun granting a warm spotlight on the world. Baffled by this, Cairath looked down upon herself. The bloodied lab coat was now clearly new, her fingernails having their manicure recently done. The overture of gunshots, shallow moans and screams now changed to the chirp of birds and the chatter of people. She looked to her side and saw a few people walk past by her, entering the hospital. She entered the hospital as well, amazed at the high quality of the doors.
A calm woman sat at secretary desk, granting Cairath a swift and welcoming nod, reality striking as the secretary flashed to nothing but a skeleton for a second. Cairath shook her head and nodded back to the woman, walking down the busy hallway and eyeing the patients and staff of the hospital. They all seemed alive and clean, something that in Serling became nothing more than a beautiful dream. Some stopped and greeted her with muffled voices, all addressing her as ‘doctor’.
An office presented itself at the corner of the hallway, a familiar one. It was but a small room with a desk and a few pieces of furniture, Cairath sitting on the side of the desk and picking up a wooden frame. It presented a young beautiful woman, someone she respected, someone she used to know, her thumb running against the glass pane over the photo. That was an old memory, someone who died a long time ago. “You were a fair benevolent saint…” Placing the frame back on the clean, mahogany desk, she stood up
Something drew her towards the cut off section of the hospital, the woman walking through the rubbish and past the patients, shoving a ‘staff only’ door aside and entering a morgue soon enough. The scent of death was evident, as was that of embalming fluid, a few morgue technicians walking about the place and each taking care of certain things, pushing corpses about the place and arranging the morgue.
Before Cairath stood a handsome young man in doctor’s garb, smiling at her “Darling, come join me.” He asked, tilting his head and holding his hand out. Cairath took a few steps, her eyes flashing once more to reality, the handsome man now a defiled vampire wearing bloodied clothing. He had an open maw and gave out a maniacal cackle, holding a syringe. “Don’t be afraid, we’ll be together, like we always wanted.” Despite his terrifying look, his voice was still smooth and calming, Cairath closing her eyes as she approached him.
“That’s right, out there is a cold place, come, let’s finally be together.” He said reaching towards her as well, the two embracing in a hug. It was a strange scene, the truth being that this was a decrepit place closed off to house quite a lot of monstrosities, blood drooling creatures with maws agape screeching around them.
“I’m sorry Daniel.” She said, holding on tightly to the monstrosity, a loud blast heard as she blew a hole right into the defiled surgeon, making him slump down to the ground. Cairath’s monotonous and somewhat arrogant tone was a broken, crackling voice now. “I’m sorry…” Shooting once more in the creature’s head. This did not go unnoticed by the other monsters that rushed Cairath. She shot quite a few of them, all before tossing the shotgun aside and using her bladed weapon to hack and slash through them.
By the end of it, she looked more like a monster than they did, the woman taking out a picture and setting it on the corpse of the monstrous surgeon. The picture displayed the staff of a certain hospital, all smiling, she was one of them. “Goodnight, sweet prince, your princess will forever long for another lover like you.” Were her departing words.