Outbreak at the ER

Caitlyn sipped on her coffee while the emergency room buzzed around her. Despite being the middle of the night, people were alive and working in the hospital. It had been an unusually busy night: a broken collar bone, fractured wrist, a concussion, along with the usual **** poisoning suffered by those going a little too hard on Saturday night. Caitlyn needed this break, although the coffee tasted cheap and metallic. The night shift always took it out of her, her body unable to adapt to the irregular sleeping schedule.

Caitlyn was debating buying a candy bar from the vending machine, when Drew, an ambulance tech, walked up to the counter. “Hey can you go help Sydney with a patient, I gotta go get Doctor Lawson, something’s seriously wrong with this one. We picked them up outside a bar, throwing up this silver fluid. We parked in bay five.” Caitlyn didn’t have time to respond before Drew dashed off towards the ICU. Chugging down the rest of her coffee, Caitlyn got up and headed down towards the ambulance parking on the floor below.

The cold air but at her face as she stepped out into the night. The ambulance was still running, its headlights illuminating Caitlyn as she approached it. She called out for Sydney, but the other ambulance tech didn’t respond. Sighing, Caitlyn made her way around to the back of the ambulance, its doors still closed. Just as she went to grasp the handle, Sydney pushed the doors to the ambulance open and started unloading a stretched with the patient on it.

Drew was right, the woman looked horrible. Her eyes were glassy and she was covered in a shiny silver fluid around her mouth and down her neck to her shirt. “What’s the fluid?” Caitlyn went to ask before the patient suddenly retched and threw up more of the silver over her shirt. “What the hell?” Caitlyn said shocked. “I don’t know, she’s been throwing it up since we picked her up, might be some kind of new ****,” said Sydney pushing the stretcher into the hospital. The woman started thrashing as they psuhed her into the elevator, which was when Caitlyn noticed she was strapped down to the gurney. Sydney explained it was because she had tried to **** her and Drew when they put her in the ambulance. The elevator reached the second floor and Caitlyn took over the gurney as she pushed the patient towards an empty room to examine them.