Basement Dwellers by Copella Holly

Author:Copella, Holly [Copella, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Copella Books
Published: 2015-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-one

Pricilla sat in the E.R. waiting room with a magazine on her lap, which she flipped through with little interest. She glanced at her watch, set the magazine aside, and looked around the waiting room. There weren’t any nurses or orderlies anywhere. Even the older nurse behind the front desk was conspicuously missing. Several emergency pages had caught the attention of the fifteen or more people still awaiting word on loved ones or treatment within the waiting room. The emergency pages had subsided nearly forty minutes ago, and they hadn’t seen anyone since. The commotion within the emergency room beyond the double doors was unusually loud, indicating they had a trauma case of some sort requiring all personnel. Oddly enough, there hadn’t been any ambulances or EMT’s floating through for nearly an hour. Pricilla finally stood, stretched her legs, and approached the front desk. She looked behind the desk, but there wasn’t anyone in the back area either. The others still within the waiting room were becoming equally restless from their unusually long wait.

Emmerich wasn’t a big city. Their hospital didn’t usually have long waits. Something seemed wrong. The sound of the double doors was finally heard opening for the first time in almost an hour. Pricilla glanced at the doors along with several others, eager to be called next. An orderly, based on his scrub uniform, stood in the partially open doorway. Since it wasn’t a nurse, nearly everyone returned to their magazines or entertainment on their cell phones. It seemed odd when one person within the waiting room suddenly let out a slight gasp and stood abruptly. The parting of air behind Pricilla caused her to turn toward the desk. Patty stood behind the front desk only a foot away from Pricilla. The flesh from the left side of her face was almost completely gone, leaving her eye dangling from the bony socket, and exposing the upper half of her jaw. She snarled with bloodstained teeth and lunged for Pricilla. Pricilla suddenly cried out. There were several screams matching hers within the waiting room. Pricilla leaped out of the lunging zombie nurse’s path. Patty struck the tall desk and narrowly missed grabbing the grandmother with her blood covered hands. Pricilla turned to run and warn the others, but it was already too late.

Alpert was within the waiting room and tore out the throat of a thrashing woman in his arms. One of the men within the waiting room punched him in the back of the head and the kidneys until he released the woman. The woman clutched her bleeding throat as blood poured past her hands and down her chest. Alpert spun to face the man with a large chunk of the woman’s throat still between his teeth. As he snarled and lunged for the man, the flesh fell from his mouth. The man appeared horrified at the grotesque image and jumped backwards, out of his path. He collided with Rose behind him, who clutched his face and shoulder while sinking her teeth into the side of his neck.

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