Infected 00.5 - Infected: Paris by Andrea Speed

Author:Andrea Speed [Speed, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

8

Dumb Luck

TO TRY and make up for spending all that time with Paris, Roan did some more work on Tucker and Nathan but didn’t get any further. He couldn’t get past the secretaries with Tucker, and no one else was willing to admit being Nathan’s friend. Not that he could blame them.

Any further thoughts about Paris were shoved aside when he got a call from Gordo. There was a cat loose in the ER at Saint Joe’s, and they were hoping Roan could beat them there. Local cops were trying to lock the area down, but it was difficult, as one might imagine. Emergency rooms were chaotic at the best of times. (Also, Roan found himself wondering how long the guy had been waiting if he’d had time to change shape. And why did no one notice?)

By the time he got there, the beat cops had managed to evacuate most of the ER, but that only meant the anarchy had relocated to the parking lot. He looked around for someone who might be able to give him a sitrep and was immediately drawn to a woman who looked like she might be the head nurse; at least she barked out orders like one. Roan went up to her and introduced himself as being from the SPD cat unit, which she didn’t seem to believe at first, so he showed her his employee ID. She looked him up and down with such obvious disdain that he almost felt like he was back in grade school again. But finally she either accepted his explanation or decided she was too busy and just didn’t care. She told him that the last anyone knew, the cat had been trapped in a storage room off the main ER, but the door wasn’t locked, and she had no idea how long it would hold. She personally hadn’t seen the cat, but witnesses said it was a reasonably large panther. He asked her for a hypodermic full of any kind of tranquilizer in a large enough dose to put down a cat, and that’s when her professional—but slightly pissy—facade broke. “If you’re cat squad, shouldn’t you have a drug gun?”

“I was sent ahead of the others in hopes I could settle the scene. So I don’t have any of the kit.”

The look she gave him could have boiled coffee. “You intend to go after the cat unarmed?”

“No, that’s why I’m asking for the hypo full of fentanyl.”

She continued glaring at him like he was the stupidest person she’d ever met. And considering she was a nurse, that was saying something. (They had to deal with a lot of stupid and crazy in a day. They had nothing but his sympathy.) Finally, she snorted in disgust and turned to get him a needle of something. They had to negotiate, but finally he got a hypo full of enough phenobarbital to put down a cranky hippo. It would probably be enough, or at least he hoped it would be. As he headed off toward the hospital, she said, “You have to get in close to use it.

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