Post by wolflegend on Dec 31, 2009 1:56:59 GMT -5
This is just what I have so far, please feel free to make critiques on it if you feel you want to. I don't take things to heart to easily. Thanks!
Wolfy
I saw a flash of bright, blinding light. It was the colors of red and orange. The light appeared in my peripheral vision. The only sound I could hear was the beating of my own heart. I knew exactly what the light was: an explosion. An explosion rigged to set off if a trip-wire was loosened or broken. With just my luck, I tripped over it. I landed with my arm flat and twisted at an angle I thought impossible. The last thing I saw was the burning crates on top of me and my abdomen burning like heck.
When I awoke, I was in a white room with a white bed, a white sink, a white cart, and to no surprise, a white small couch and chair set. People with white uniforms and white hats with red X’s went in and out of the room. That’s when I realized where I was. I was at a hospital. Which hospital I didn’t have a clue of. Every person who walked in with a red X on their hat went out suddenly and another one came in, this time a skinny pale woman. “Do you know where you are?” She asked me as she came over to the side of my bed. I tried to shake me head but I couldn’t manage even a simple of task as that. She looked at me, a hint of concern in her eyes as they twinkled in the white light above. “You’re at Blues Burrow Hospital. Do you remember your name?” She asked after she told me where I was. I racked my brain for the little information she was asking me for. She could see I was struggling and she put me pain at rest. “Your name is Katelyn Bentley Claire,” she told me.
I tried to remember my past, but it didn’t come. I looked at the doctor and then I stared at the foot of my bed. “Do you know what year it is?” The doctor asked me. I couldn’t find my voice to reply. My throat felt like Antarctica. Yes, my throat felt cold. Usually people would describe it as sand paper, or the desert, but my mouth doesn’t feel like that. It just feels cold. Like something was tugging on my insides. The doctor handed me a pad of paper and a ball pointed pen. I wrote what I thought was the only logical answer. I held the pad up and turned it around to the doctor and waited to see if I was correct. The pad of paper had the year 2006 on it. The doctor looked at the pad of paper and then to me. I met her eyes and saw the concern and fear in them. “Today’s date is December 24th, 2010.” She said as I met her eyes again. “I’m sorry to say, but, Katelyn, you are suffering from memory loss and Amnesia. We can’t let you go until you remember a few crucial points in your past.” She continued on, “you also have a few people who need to ask you some questions…. I don’t approve of it, seeing that you just woke up, but they insisted it was urgent….” She started to say more but then the door opened and three people dressed in work clothes and long detective styled coats. They looked like Sherlock Holmes almost. Just, they didn’t have the weird looking hat or the pipe out of the side of their mouth.
“Katelyn, if it’s alright with you, we’d like to ask you a couple of questions,” the woman in the middle said as she took of her jacket and set it on the chair next to the door. One of them stepped out. He stood at the door to make sure no one was over hearing the conversation. Who are these people? I thought out of curiosity. I couldn’t remember doing anything wrong, but then again, I couldn’t remember anything at all. I still couldn’t seem to find my voice but I sat up right in my bed and nodded my head. “Nurse could we get something for her to write on, please?” The woman asked the doctor that was at my bed side. The doctor nodded and, gave me a look of concern, then turned and left the room closing it behind her.
A few minutes later, the other person stepped back inside still standing at the door. The same question pondered on my brain: Who where these people? I studied them for a few moments, my eyes flickering over every inch of their stuff, their clothes, and their hands and feet.
“Katelyn, we need to ask you some questions,” the woman, who stepped in first, said. The woman was tall, slender and muscular. She had brown hair and dimples when she smiled. She had smile wrinkles in the corners of her eyes so I was guessing that she smiled a lot. She had a belt of and a bulge in her coat stuck out like a bump on a log. She had a gun on her and so did the others.
I looked at the other’s faces. The one that had stepped back in had an I-am-a-PC cap on that was black as were the rest of his clothes. He was obviously a computer geek where they worked and was very intelligent. Then I looked at the other guy that had the same cap on as the woman and the other man, but with different text on it as the other man, but the same as the woman’s. The man and the woman’s cap said, NEE. Nee? What is Nee? I asked myself.
My thoughts and inspection was interrupted by six eyes staring at me. The woman walked over to my bed and sat on a stool as did the man that came in second. The one that came in last remained at the door as if blocking an exit.
“Katelyn, what do you remember of the night the explosives went off?” She asked me. I didn’t know if I could trust these people or not. I shook my head, still unable to find my voice. I couldn’t remember a thing. The woman looked back and forth between my eyes and decided that I was telling the truth.
“Do you remember who was chasing you?” She asked
I shook my head again, a little confused now.
“You told the doctor that someone was chasing you when they found you and brought you here, you were mumbling about finding someone. Do you remember who?” She asked again.
I was now even more confused. I felt light headed and I couldn’t remember anything. Finally the doctor interrupted my thoughts again. She came through the door as the man in front of it stepped aside to let her in. “Here you go, Miss Katelyn.” The doctor said to me. I felt even more light headed then I had ever felt in my whole entire life, or well, what I could remember of it at least. I felt like passing out now. In fact I couldn’t concentrate anymore. I looked straight ahead straining to hear what they were saying. All that I hear was the woman beside me asking me a question and holding the board out and put it on my lap. “You don’t remember a thing? Are you sure?” The woman said looking at me. I closed my eyes and shook my head no. I started to feel dizzy and nauseas after shaking my head. I felt like I was about to be sick. I took the board in my hand and took a marker that was attached to the edge. I wrote three words on there: get the doctor. The woman took the board from me and looked at what I wrote then looked at me. After that, I don’t remember much. I started to tip backwards and I remember my head hitting something hard; a bed rail maybe, but I wasn’t quite so sure. I remembered the woman beside me getting up and running to the door calling for a nurse or doctor. I felt like I was slipping away, like my life was over. I felt something touching my arm when I felt more awake. It only seemed like minutes had passed.
I moaned then slowly fluttered my eyes open. I was in the same room I had been in and the same doctor was by my side, sitting on a stool holding my hand. I tried to sit up but the doctor put her hand on my shoulder and said, “take it easy; you need to rest.” Then she sat back down on the stool beside my bed. “Do you remember where you are, Katelyn?” She asked me with concern gleaming in her eyes. I looked around the room and nodded my head yes. I was at Blues Burrow Hospital still, in the same white room with the same doctor. I studied the room, then I studied the doctor. My eyes wondered over towards that thermometer on the screen beside my bed. The screen said that I was currently at one hundred two degrees and stable. “Do you want a drink of water?” The doctor asked me. I nodded my head. I still couldn’t speak. How odd.
The doctor walked to a cart and got a cup that was lying on the top and poured it half way with cool clear liquid. “Here you go,” she said as she handed me the paper cup which held the liquid inside its enclosure.
I took the cup as she held it out for me to take. I put the cup to my lips and drank all of the water in it. I felt my throat burn as the cool liquid slid down it and deeper in my body. It almost felt like acid was in it.
There was a knock at the door and I saw the woman that was here earlier with the other two men. “Excuse me,” the doctor said to me as she went to the door and stepped outside. Luckily the doctor kept the door cracked so I was still able to hear everything.
“Has she remembered anything?”
“No. She hasn’t spoken since she arrived here.”
“May I talk to her again?” the woman asked.
The doctor hesitated then stepped aside from the door and let her in. I quickly averted my eyes so they weren’t on the door ass she came in. I looked out the window that was large enough to see the trees blowing in the wind and the rain hitting the wall that enclosed a balcony from an office near my room. I just stared outside keeping my gaze off of the other woman now in the room. “I can give you ten minutes at most. Just make it hasty.” The doctor said as she closed the door behind her and headed down the hall.
The door was a sliding glass door that you could see the lobby in. I must have been in one of the top floors, because when I looked out of the window to my left, I could see the street going to other buildings.
I was lying in my bed flat with only my head turned towards the window. “Katelyn?” I heard the woman ask. I turned my head towards her and looked at her. She was dressed in the same outfit as earlier. She sat on the same stool that the doctor sat on at my bed side. “We need to know who you were being chased by. Do you think you can try to remember for me?” She had a soft tone to her voice and it sounded more sympathetic then professional. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, trying to remember what had happened before the explosion. Nothing came to mind at the time. A few minutes later I opened my eyes again and shook my head. I felt tired and turned my head back to the window and stared out.
“Okay, well, here’s my card if you do remember anything that might be essential to our investigation….” I saw her lay a card on the table at my bed side in my peripheral vision. The woman then exited the room and the doctor came back in. “I’m sorry about all this in convenience, Miss Katelyn, but they said they need to catch the person who was chasing you….” She wanted to say more, but she stopped herself.
I kept my eyes trained on the window and the trees blowing in the wind. I felt depressed. I woke up after an explosion in the hospital, unable to remember who I was, what had happened, or what was going on.
***
After the nurse left my room I hadn’t noticed that I dozed off to sleep. It was like I was in the same situation that I Was in before I woke up in the hospital: running when an explosion set off. I saw my self running though; it wasn’t like I was seeing from my own viewpoint, but someone else’s. Someone whom was watching the whole thing like a show or a parade on the streets. I saw myself trip over the wire set at my feet. I watched the explosions set off and I saw myself fall with burning crates and long poles of wood on top of me. Then I heard the ambulance pull up then saw it blocking the exit to the alley I was in. Several people got out of the flashing truck and ran over to me. I saw someone run out of the alleyway, looking back and laughing as they rushed to my aid. The dark and tall figure left out of the alleyway while everyone from the ambulance tried to lift the burning debris off of me. I saw them rush me to the truck with flashing lights on the front after clearing the burning logs away from my body. I looked like I was dead.
My visions went black.
I came to a different scene now. I was in the back of the ambulance with shouting people saying they needed help or that I was going into shock. I heard one say that I was losing oxygen and wasn’t breathing, but that was before he preformed CPR on me. It was about three minutes later, everyone waited in silence as the doctor counted to five then breathed into my mouth again after plugging my nose. He banged on my chest then breathed again. I felt like I was watching a very sad movie. I could even hear the slow music in my head. That’s when I noticed that everything was going in slow motion. He did the mouth to mouth again and banged on my chest. Suddenly it went back to normal speed. I gasped and my eyes opened to the blinding lights of the back of the ambulance.
I shut my eyes again but the lights seemed to seep through even with them shut. I looked around in panic. I started to struggle against the straps that held me down to the platform I was lying on. I saw my self screaming but then the girl strapped to the table stopped and saw that it was worthless and she started to go to sleep again. The one that had preformed CPR shook me and said, “you have to stay awake. It will just be a little while longer I promise.” He held his hand on my shoulders to stop my struggling as I saw a woman come over that was holding a needle. I tried to squirm even more and shouted, “get away from me! Let me go! Where’s my mom?” I kept screaming but they seemed to be ignoring me. The woman came closer to me with the long sharp needle. I buried my face in the arm of the ME that was holding me down at my shoulders; the one who said he promised it wouldn’t be much longer. I felt the needle go into my own arm and started to scream as it felt like a million pounds of pressure on my one arm. The girl lying on the table started to quiet down, but the pain kept increasing on my arm. The more pain the other me felt, the less I felt; the more pain I felt, the less she felt.
It went black again and my pain dissolved to nothing but what felt like a prick. My eyes burst open and I saw the same white room I had been in when I fell asleep. The doctor was by my side sticking me with what looked like the same needle that was used in the ambulance, but it had a blue and silver ring round the base of it. I still couldn’t talk and I was wondering if I couldn’t talk in my past. Everything confused me when I thought more and more the past I couldn’t remember.
“You were asleep for a while, how do you feel?” the doctor asked me as she felt my forehead with the back of her palm. Then she lifted my hand and put two fingers on the edge of my wrist and looked at her wrist watch. “Your pulse is fine, your temperature is still high, but at least it’s not rising. Do you need anything?” She asked me as she put my wrist down. I shook my head. The doctor walked out of the room and left me alone. I flexed my muscle that she put the shot in. It started to hurt, but that was nothing to the pain I felt just a few moments ago. I turned my feet so they hung off the bed. They felt as heavy as led just like my eyelids did. I twirled them around for a few seconds then I touched them to the cold tile floor. I thought they were perfectly fine so I put a little more weight on to them. I finally, a few moments later, got my feet used to the pressure and weight they hadn’t felt for a while. I got up, careful to hold on to the bed rail beside me.
I walked all the way to the edge of my bed railing and then felt a tug in my arm. There was an IV attached to one of my veins at my wrist. I pulled the needle out of my wrist and cringed at the sight of the needle as I pulled it out completely. I pulled the pulse tester off of my finger and I went towards the window. I felt like I was on auto-pilot now. Like I wasn’t controlling myself. Like I was sleepwalking. Then I realized, I was sleepwalking. That’s why the nurse had left me alone: because I wanted her to. That’s why I could pull the needle out and the pulse tester off without nurses running into my room. Then I blinked my eyes and I was back in the bed with the same doctor at my side. I shook my head, both, to clear my head and try to think of what just happened, and also shaking my head, saying no, that I didn’t need anything.
I closed my eyes again and opened them back up as I heard feint breathing in my room. There was a person laying on the floor, gasping. The person was a woman with three bullet-hole wounds in her chest and she was collapsed on the floor. I blinked my eyes and then I was sitting back in my bed again, the nurse was staring at me as if she knew something was wrong.
I shook my head trying to get the image out of my head. The girl that had been shot and that was lying on the floor in front of my bed was a girl I recognized. A girl I recognized only when I looked in the mirror. The girl that was wounded with the bullet holes was me.
I picked up the dry erase board and uncapped the marker again. I turned the board around to the doctor after I wrote two words. I looked ahead. Trying to sum everything up that had happened in the past, wat seemed few hours. But I was no fool; I knew it had been more then a week since I have arrived. I was in a coma, I over heard the nurse say as she told the doctor that was before me now.
I wrote two words and the doctor stared at me. Those two words summed it up all nicely: I’m Hallucinating.
Wolfy
I saw a flash of bright, blinding light. It was the colors of red and orange. The light appeared in my peripheral vision. The only sound I could hear was the beating of my own heart. I knew exactly what the light was: an explosion. An explosion rigged to set off if a trip-wire was loosened or broken. With just my luck, I tripped over it. I landed with my arm flat and twisted at an angle I thought impossible. The last thing I saw was the burning crates on top of me and my abdomen burning like heck.
When I awoke, I was in a white room with a white bed, a white sink, a white cart, and to no surprise, a white small couch and chair set. People with white uniforms and white hats with red X’s went in and out of the room. That’s when I realized where I was. I was at a hospital. Which hospital I didn’t have a clue of. Every person who walked in with a red X on their hat went out suddenly and another one came in, this time a skinny pale woman. “Do you know where you are?” She asked me as she came over to the side of my bed. I tried to shake me head but I couldn’t manage even a simple of task as that. She looked at me, a hint of concern in her eyes as they twinkled in the white light above. “You’re at Blues Burrow Hospital. Do you remember your name?” She asked after she told me where I was. I racked my brain for the little information she was asking me for. She could see I was struggling and she put me pain at rest. “Your name is Katelyn Bentley Claire,” she told me.
I tried to remember my past, but it didn’t come. I looked at the doctor and then I stared at the foot of my bed. “Do you know what year it is?” The doctor asked me. I couldn’t find my voice to reply. My throat felt like Antarctica. Yes, my throat felt cold. Usually people would describe it as sand paper, or the desert, but my mouth doesn’t feel like that. It just feels cold. Like something was tugging on my insides. The doctor handed me a pad of paper and a ball pointed pen. I wrote what I thought was the only logical answer. I held the pad up and turned it around to the doctor and waited to see if I was correct. The pad of paper had the year 2006 on it. The doctor looked at the pad of paper and then to me. I met her eyes and saw the concern and fear in them. “Today’s date is December 24th, 2010.” She said as I met her eyes again. “I’m sorry to say, but, Katelyn, you are suffering from memory loss and Amnesia. We can’t let you go until you remember a few crucial points in your past.” She continued on, “you also have a few people who need to ask you some questions…. I don’t approve of it, seeing that you just woke up, but they insisted it was urgent….” She started to say more but then the door opened and three people dressed in work clothes and long detective styled coats. They looked like Sherlock Holmes almost. Just, they didn’t have the weird looking hat or the pipe out of the side of their mouth.
“Katelyn, if it’s alright with you, we’d like to ask you a couple of questions,” the woman in the middle said as she took of her jacket and set it on the chair next to the door. One of them stepped out. He stood at the door to make sure no one was over hearing the conversation. Who are these people? I thought out of curiosity. I couldn’t remember doing anything wrong, but then again, I couldn’t remember anything at all. I still couldn’t seem to find my voice but I sat up right in my bed and nodded my head. “Nurse could we get something for her to write on, please?” The woman asked the doctor that was at my bed side. The doctor nodded and, gave me a look of concern, then turned and left the room closing it behind her.
A few minutes later, the other person stepped back inside still standing at the door. The same question pondered on my brain: Who where these people? I studied them for a few moments, my eyes flickering over every inch of their stuff, their clothes, and their hands and feet.
“Katelyn, we need to ask you some questions,” the woman, who stepped in first, said. The woman was tall, slender and muscular. She had brown hair and dimples when she smiled. She had smile wrinkles in the corners of her eyes so I was guessing that she smiled a lot. She had a belt of and a bulge in her coat stuck out like a bump on a log. She had a gun on her and so did the others.
I looked at the other’s faces. The one that had stepped back in had an I-am-a-PC cap on that was black as were the rest of his clothes. He was obviously a computer geek where they worked and was very intelligent. Then I looked at the other guy that had the same cap on as the woman and the other man, but with different text on it as the other man, but the same as the woman’s. The man and the woman’s cap said, NEE. Nee? What is Nee? I asked myself.
My thoughts and inspection was interrupted by six eyes staring at me. The woman walked over to my bed and sat on a stool as did the man that came in second. The one that came in last remained at the door as if blocking an exit.
“Katelyn, what do you remember of the night the explosives went off?” She asked me. I didn’t know if I could trust these people or not. I shook my head, still unable to find my voice. I couldn’t remember a thing. The woman looked back and forth between my eyes and decided that I was telling the truth.
“Do you remember who was chasing you?” She asked
I shook my head again, a little confused now.
“You told the doctor that someone was chasing you when they found you and brought you here, you were mumbling about finding someone. Do you remember who?” She asked again.
I was now even more confused. I felt light headed and I couldn’t remember anything. Finally the doctor interrupted my thoughts again. She came through the door as the man in front of it stepped aside to let her in. “Here you go, Miss Katelyn.” The doctor said to me. I felt even more light headed then I had ever felt in my whole entire life, or well, what I could remember of it at least. I felt like passing out now. In fact I couldn’t concentrate anymore. I looked straight ahead straining to hear what they were saying. All that I hear was the woman beside me asking me a question and holding the board out and put it on my lap. “You don’t remember a thing? Are you sure?” The woman said looking at me. I closed my eyes and shook my head no. I started to feel dizzy and nauseas after shaking my head. I felt like I was about to be sick. I took the board in my hand and took a marker that was attached to the edge. I wrote three words on there: get the doctor. The woman took the board from me and looked at what I wrote then looked at me. After that, I don’t remember much. I started to tip backwards and I remember my head hitting something hard; a bed rail maybe, but I wasn’t quite so sure. I remembered the woman beside me getting up and running to the door calling for a nurse or doctor. I felt like I was slipping away, like my life was over. I felt something touching my arm when I felt more awake. It only seemed like minutes had passed.
I moaned then slowly fluttered my eyes open. I was in the same room I had been in and the same doctor was by my side, sitting on a stool holding my hand. I tried to sit up but the doctor put her hand on my shoulder and said, “take it easy; you need to rest.” Then she sat back down on the stool beside my bed. “Do you remember where you are, Katelyn?” She asked me with concern gleaming in her eyes. I looked around the room and nodded my head yes. I was at Blues Burrow Hospital still, in the same white room with the same doctor. I studied the room, then I studied the doctor. My eyes wondered over towards that thermometer on the screen beside my bed. The screen said that I was currently at one hundred two degrees and stable. “Do you want a drink of water?” The doctor asked me. I nodded my head. I still couldn’t speak. How odd.
The doctor walked to a cart and got a cup that was lying on the top and poured it half way with cool clear liquid. “Here you go,” she said as she handed me the paper cup which held the liquid inside its enclosure.
I took the cup as she held it out for me to take. I put the cup to my lips and drank all of the water in it. I felt my throat burn as the cool liquid slid down it and deeper in my body. It almost felt like acid was in it.
There was a knock at the door and I saw the woman that was here earlier with the other two men. “Excuse me,” the doctor said to me as she went to the door and stepped outside. Luckily the doctor kept the door cracked so I was still able to hear everything.
“Has she remembered anything?”
“No. She hasn’t spoken since she arrived here.”
“May I talk to her again?” the woman asked.
The doctor hesitated then stepped aside from the door and let her in. I quickly averted my eyes so they weren’t on the door ass she came in. I looked out the window that was large enough to see the trees blowing in the wind and the rain hitting the wall that enclosed a balcony from an office near my room. I just stared outside keeping my gaze off of the other woman now in the room. “I can give you ten minutes at most. Just make it hasty.” The doctor said as she closed the door behind her and headed down the hall.
The door was a sliding glass door that you could see the lobby in. I must have been in one of the top floors, because when I looked out of the window to my left, I could see the street going to other buildings.
I was lying in my bed flat with only my head turned towards the window. “Katelyn?” I heard the woman ask. I turned my head towards her and looked at her. She was dressed in the same outfit as earlier. She sat on the same stool that the doctor sat on at my bed side. “We need to know who you were being chased by. Do you think you can try to remember for me?” She had a soft tone to her voice and it sounded more sympathetic then professional. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, trying to remember what had happened before the explosion. Nothing came to mind at the time. A few minutes later I opened my eyes again and shook my head. I felt tired and turned my head back to the window and stared out.
“Okay, well, here’s my card if you do remember anything that might be essential to our investigation….” I saw her lay a card on the table at my bed side in my peripheral vision. The woman then exited the room and the doctor came back in. “I’m sorry about all this in convenience, Miss Katelyn, but they said they need to catch the person who was chasing you….” She wanted to say more, but she stopped herself.
I kept my eyes trained on the window and the trees blowing in the wind. I felt depressed. I woke up after an explosion in the hospital, unable to remember who I was, what had happened, or what was going on.
***
After the nurse left my room I hadn’t noticed that I dozed off to sleep. It was like I was in the same situation that I Was in before I woke up in the hospital: running when an explosion set off. I saw my self running though; it wasn’t like I was seeing from my own viewpoint, but someone else’s. Someone whom was watching the whole thing like a show or a parade on the streets. I saw myself trip over the wire set at my feet. I watched the explosions set off and I saw myself fall with burning crates and long poles of wood on top of me. Then I heard the ambulance pull up then saw it blocking the exit to the alley I was in. Several people got out of the flashing truck and ran over to me. I saw someone run out of the alleyway, looking back and laughing as they rushed to my aid. The dark and tall figure left out of the alleyway while everyone from the ambulance tried to lift the burning debris off of me. I saw them rush me to the truck with flashing lights on the front after clearing the burning logs away from my body. I looked like I was dead.
My visions went black.
I came to a different scene now. I was in the back of the ambulance with shouting people saying they needed help or that I was going into shock. I heard one say that I was losing oxygen and wasn’t breathing, but that was before he preformed CPR on me. It was about three minutes later, everyone waited in silence as the doctor counted to five then breathed into my mouth again after plugging my nose. He banged on my chest then breathed again. I felt like I was watching a very sad movie. I could even hear the slow music in my head. That’s when I noticed that everything was going in slow motion. He did the mouth to mouth again and banged on my chest. Suddenly it went back to normal speed. I gasped and my eyes opened to the blinding lights of the back of the ambulance.
I shut my eyes again but the lights seemed to seep through even with them shut. I looked around in panic. I started to struggle against the straps that held me down to the platform I was lying on. I saw my self screaming but then the girl strapped to the table stopped and saw that it was worthless and she started to go to sleep again. The one that had preformed CPR shook me and said, “you have to stay awake. It will just be a little while longer I promise.” He held his hand on my shoulders to stop my struggling as I saw a woman come over that was holding a needle. I tried to squirm even more and shouted, “get away from me! Let me go! Where’s my mom?” I kept screaming but they seemed to be ignoring me. The woman came closer to me with the long sharp needle. I buried my face in the arm of the ME that was holding me down at my shoulders; the one who said he promised it wouldn’t be much longer. I felt the needle go into my own arm and started to scream as it felt like a million pounds of pressure on my one arm. The girl lying on the table started to quiet down, but the pain kept increasing on my arm. The more pain the other me felt, the less I felt; the more pain I felt, the less she felt.
It went black again and my pain dissolved to nothing but what felt like a prick. My eyes burst open and I saw the same white room I had been in when I fell asleep. The doctor was by my side sticking me with what looked like the same needle that was used in the ambulance, but it had a blue and silver ring round the base of it. I still couldn’t talk and I was wondering if I couldn’t talk in my past. Everything confused me when I thought more and more the past I couldn’t remember.
“You were asleep for a while, how do you feel?” the doctor asked me as she felt my forehead with the back of her palm. Then she lifted my hand and put two fingers on the edge of my wrist and looked at her wrist watch. “Your pulse is fine, your temperature is still high, but at least it’s not rising. Do you need anything?” She asked me as she put my wrist down. I shook my head. The doctor walked out of the room and left me alone. I flexed my muscle that she put the shot in. It started to hurt, but that was nothing to the pain I felt just a few moments ago. I turned my feet so they hung off the bed. They felt as heavy as led just like my eyelids did. I twirled them around for a few seconds then I touched them to the cold tile floor. I thought they were perfectly fine so I put a little more weight on to them. I finally, a few moments later, got my feet used to the pressure and weight they hadn’t felt for a while. I got up, careful to hold on to the bed rail beside me.
I walked all the way to the edge of my bed railing and then felt a tug in my arm. There was an IV attached to one of my veins at my wrist. I pulled the needle out of my wrist and cringed at the sight of the needle as I pulled it out completely. I pulled the pulse tester off of my finger and I went towards the window. I felt like I was on auto-pilot now. Like I wasn’t controlling myself. Like I was sleepwalking. Then I realized, I was sleepwalking. That’s why the nurse had left me alone: because I wanted her to. That’s why I could pull the needle out and the pulse tester off without nurses running into my room. Then I blinked my eyes and I was back in the bed with the same doctor at my side. I shook my head, both, to clear my head and try to think of what just happened, and also shaking my head, saying no, that I didn’t need anything.
I closed my eyes again and opened them back up as I heard feint breathing in my room. There was a person laying on the floor, gasping. The person was a woman with three bullet-hole wounds in her chest and she was collapsed on the floor. I blinked my eyes and then I was sitting back in my bed again, the nurse was staring at me as if she knew something was wrong.
I shook my head trying to get the image out of my head. The girl that had been shot and that was lying on the floor in front of my bed was a girl I recognized. A girl I recognized only when I looked in the mirror. The girl that was wounded with the bullet holes was me.
I picked up the dry erase board and uncapped the marker again. I turned the board around to the doctor after I wrote two words. I looked ahead. Trying to sum everything up that had happened in the past, wat seemed few hours. But I was no fool; I knew it had been more then a week since I have arrived. I was in a coma, I over heard the nurse say as she told the doctor that was before me now.
I wrote two words and the doctor stared at me. Those two words summed it up all nicely: I’m Hallucinating.