PsyCop 5 - Camp Hell by Jordan Castillo Price

Author:Jordan Castillo Price [Price, Jordan Castillo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-05-23T02:10:33+00:00

I tried to remember how big the security guards were. Once in a while, you come across a security guard who flunked out of the Police Academy, and he’d take extra care to be a complete and utter dick where authority overlapped. “I guess not. Once we get better badges.” Something tugged at my conscience as we walked out of the ER, though, and I couldn’t ignore it. That thing, that supernatural whatever-it-was following the patient…what was I supposed to do about that?

Not that it was my problem. But it wasn’t as if anyone else could help her out with it.

The paramedic who’d been talking to the doctor—before she went off on Zigler—was signing some paperwork at the intake desk. “Um, ‘scuse me.” I tried to look as unintimidating as I could, since Zigler’s tough-cop act had put everyone off. Which meant that I slouched a little, and didn’t make assertive eye-contact. And that all came naturally to me, anyway. “Y’know that patient, the woman you just brought in…is she gonna be okay?” The paramedic was a forty-something Latino with a shaved head, fairly buff.

“As much as she’s ever okay,” he said. He looked me over. I watched his shoulders relax underneath his reflective-trimmed uniform jacket. “Homeless schizo, falling-down drunk. She should probably be institutionalized. But they’ll keep her ‘til she dries out, and when she’s more or less lucid, send her on her way. Happens all the time.”

“You mean schizophrenic.”

He gave me a “duh” look.

“She’s been tested?”

“For what? Drugs?”

I ran my hand over the back of my neck. I was starting to sweat again.

Damn it. Maybe The Clinic could give me some kind of salt pill to make me stop perspiring at the first sign of anything that reminded me of Camp Hell.

“Psych tests.” I realized he might take the old meaning from that. Pre-eighties, psych only meant psychiatric. Nowadays, it could be either or, depending on the context. “Psychic,” I clarified.

The “duh” look turned to a “yeah, right” expression. “I dunno. I just bring Camp Hell

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