Insanity, p.34
Insanity,
p.34
His eyebrows shot up, and he quickly took off the lab coat and checked it. He looked back at the nurse to see several other nurses and one of the orderlies walking toward him, all with the same look on their faces. “I didn’t change my lab coat,” he said in disbelief. “You saw me. I’ve been here the whole time.”
She nodded. “I know, and that’s the problem. It was bloody after she grabbed it. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know how it happened, but somehow all that blood … disappeared. And honestly … there ain’t nothing good about that at all. Something spooky about that damn girl in the first place,” she said, shaking her head. “But right now, that lab coat is seriously … wrong.”
He laid his coat over the back of his chair, wondering just what was going on. Could they have been mistaken? Maybe the woman had only reached for him? No. He remembered the tug, as she’d grabbed on. He couldn’t imagine that none of that blood had transferred. More than a little unnerved, he headed back to write up notes on the case and quickly phoned Radiology to ensure all was well with her scans.
The head of the department, in a testy voice, said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I haven’t done any scans in the last hour. … More like two hours.”
“I sent a young woman up for a CT scan.”
“Well, I haven’t seen her yet.” And hung up on him.
Cameron went to Radiology himself to see the CT results firsthand. Yet, when he got up there, he found the place empty. He wandered around and then went in search of the one orderly he’d seen take the stretcher here.
When he finally met up with him, the guy nodded and said, “I took her there, then was called away. Why? Is something wrong?”
“Yes, according to Radiology, they haven’t seen her.” At that, Cameron summoned security, and they did a sweep, clearing room by room, searching the small hospital. Thirty minutes later, when everybody reported back to Cameron, he had to admit one truth that he was still struggling to realize: the woman was gone.
There was no trace of her. A bed was found in the hallway, but no blood was on the sheets. So, if this had been her bed, there was no easy way to prove it. But Cameron couldn’t stop staring at the clean sheets, remembering his lab coat …
The same nurse who had commented on his lab coat spoke up in an eerie tone. “I tell you that girl’s nothing but trouble. I don’t know who she is, where she came from, but the last thing we need is a ghost around this place.”
Startled, he turned and looked at her, and she nodded.
“I know you haven’t been here long, Doc, but I’ve been here since time began, and it’s because of incidents like this that I rarely work Halloween night. Something like this has happened before. Almost exactly like this.”
Cameron shook his head. “What are you talking about?”
“It started quite a few years ago,” she admitted in a low voice. “I would have to look up just how long ago. We had the same case of a young woman coming in, completely bloodstained, and she disappeared from the hospital. She had no visible wounds, also was covered in blood. She was sent for all the same tests, but she disappeared, and nobody ever saw her again.”
At that, several of the other staff members spoke up.
“I heard about that.”
“Yeah, I did too.”
“Do you really think that’s the same person. Or ghost rather?”
At the word ghost, silence fell around Cameron, as the staff all turned toward him, as if they expected him to have answers.
He was still wrapping his head around the fact that they were missing a patient. “I don’t know what is going on now,” Cameron said, his hands on his hips, “but I know I was treating a flesh-and-blood woman.”
“Sure,” the nurse said, looking at him pointedly. “A flesh-and-blood woman who didn’t leave any bloodstains on your lab coat.”
The other nurse looked at him and whispered, “So what the hell does that mean?”
Cameron had no answers. Who could? All he knew was that the young injured woman had asked for his help, and, before he could do much, she’d disappeared.
He had to find her.
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