Phantomhawk Memorial Hospital, Parrodipolis.
Wednesday night, sometime after 8 p.m.
The Intensive Care Unit, Room 7-G.
Not more then 30 seconds to a Minute ago did the man inside the room, Ronald Arnold Gerrimoto Beeslyhuxtoy, flat lined. Doctors', Nurses' & other medical practitioners had moved in & were moving in frantic choreographed motion trying to resuscitate him. Standing outside looking in were Ronnie's ex-girlfriend, Jane Tarzania. She was crying & held in the arm of a mysterious man known only to her as "Mr. Spooky".
Then, inside the room the movement stopped: They had life. The signs were weak but there. The gaggle of people begin to file out. They make there way back down the hallway. They soon part down the middle as a stunned looking woman stumbles down the hallway towards Jane & the mystery man.
"chad." the woman mumbles.
Jane turns around at the mention of the name. She see Catherine standing, she's covered in bits of JELL-O.
"Catherine?" Jane asks. "Are you alright?"
"chad."
"What about him?"
"he's... he's..."
"What?"
"dead."
"What?" Jane said shocked.
"we were just sitting in the Cafeteria talking, having something to eat. Then, his eyes rolled back up into his head & he fell forward, hitting the tray of food. Pelting me with food. I ran around the table to help him but he was gone."
Jane let out an audible gasp. Mr. Spooky did nothing, he just stood there stoicly.
That was when Catherine noticed him. "Hey! Your that guy, aren't ya?"
"I am many things." Mr. Spooky said defiantly.
"Your that guy who helped me when I was attacked by that crazed evil clone of Chad. Sure I had him mostly finished off when you showed up. But, you showed up which was nice."
"He may of been crazed but he was not an evil clone. He was merely a version of Mister Swiss from alternate universe. Plus, you might of not known this but he had a knife that a took from him."
"No. No I did not know this but Evil Clone, Version from a Alternate Dimension: same thing." Catherine said with a nonchalant wave of her right hand.
She then looked down at grey sweatshirt & the bits of JELL-O stuck to it. She then shaked back & forth a few times. "You what they look like? Jiggly bits of Kryptonite."
"Yeah, sure. whatever. Getting back to Chad." Jane said changing the topics. "Are you sure he's dead?"
"Yeah, sadly. I've seen a lot of dead people in my life time, so I should know. But, then I see them a while after they have past from this mortal coil & are off somewhere tripping the light fantastic."
"You see dead people?" Jane asked.
"Yeah. But not in a creepy Sixth Sense sort of way." Catherine said offhandedly. She then saw the almost blank & somewhat scared look on Jane's face.
"Oh, you don't know what I do, do you?" Catherine said with a small laugh.
"No." Jane said scared.
"I work part-time for the City of Goth Haven in the Morgue. I basically get paid to sit on my butt & make sure no one illegally takes any of our stiffs." Catherine said with a smile.
"ok." Jane said, now a little less scared but now perplexed a bit.
"Plus, the Morgue has great acoustics. I can get a lot of practice on my axe." Catherine said with a giggle.
"Do you have a hand in the Autopsy process?" Jane asked.
"Nope. Not even a finger, never been asked. Seen a few since the Autopsy people are my same sub-floor. We're in the basement so I guess no one accidently wanders in & sees a guy getting cut open or something. I've have had a few people wander into the Morgue looking for the Bathroom, which is odd since we don't even have one on our floor, I have to go up a floor or two to use one. That kind of sucks since I've been doing the night shift & City Hall is creepy at 2 am." Catherine rambled.
"oh. ok." Jane said.
Catherine turned & saw Ronnie. "How is he?"
Before Jane could answer, Mr. Spooky interjected. "He'll live. He's fated to."
"And you know this how? Did you look into the future via some sort of pretentious time portal?" Catherine shot back.
"Something like that." He replied.
"He flat lined a few minutes ago. They got him back." Jane said.
The three of them stood there in silence. It was broken when a Man in scrubs & a white lab coat walked up. "Did one of you bring in the guy from the Cafeteria?"
Catherine turned around & replied. "I did."
"I see." The Doctor said looking at Catherine's JELL-O covered sweatshirt. "He's going to be fine. He has an extreme case of, what we can only guess at the moment was Exhaustion. We're getting him something eat & with some rest he should be fine."
Catherine said thanks & the Doctor walked away.
"He was also fated to survive." Mr. Spooky said.
"You could of told me?" Catherine said.
"That question was never broached. You just made the assumption."
"And when you assume, you make an Ass out of U & Me, right?" Catherine said sarcastically.
"all right." Mr. Spooky said.
The three of them returned to silence & stood there in the hallway looking in on Ronnie.
"I know I said this before but does Ronnie's 'fro look... darker to you?" Catherine said breaking the silence.
"What?" Jane asked.
"It normally has this brightness to it but it's lost that. It's even looks darker then when I last looked at it."
"I don't know." Jane said.
Then was no reply from Mr. Spooky. Catherine noticed that, turned & asked "Any comment, Master Creepy?"
"It's Mister Spooky & no. The color of Mister Beeslyhuxtoy's hair hold no relevance to the future."
"You like the future, do ya?" Catherine said kiddingly.
"Yes."
"Do you wanna Marry it? I'm sure that's legal somewhere, like Massachusetts, Outer Mongolia, Mars or somewhere like that."
"No, it's not. Even given my best laid plans."
Catherine wasn't sure how to respond to that so she turned back to the window. The three of them stood there in the silence of the hallway, waiting for something to happen.
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TO BE CONTINUED!
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