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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 171917" data-attributes="member: 67">27 April, 2002 Session.  Part 1It is a sunny day in February.In the emergency waiting room of Berea Hospital, four acquaintances wait anxiously on news of their friend, Rune.  Rune is in surgery again.  He has been allowed no visitors since his induction into the hospital a month before.  Rune’s twin brother, Kelly, is here.  So, too, are his friends Anthony and Michael, a recent graduate of Berea College—a psychology major.  With them is a woman named Jude, a religion major whose interest in going into the ministry is no doubt influenced by her intense interest in the occult and humanity’s failings.  She is the last person anyone would expect to choose a career in the clergy.They wait.The waiting room is filled with a number of patients waiting to be seen, with loved ones in tow.  The sense of pain and suffering that comes from both are as omnipresent as the faint scent of antiseptics that permeate the building.Still, they wait.Is the clock on the wall getting louder as it ticks the day away?The waiting room door opens.Are you Rune’s brother?"Yes."A nurse stands in the doorway, enchanting Kelly with an indefinable magnetism.I have some bad news.  Your brother has a rare genetic defect.  If you have this same defect, as is likely, you may not have long to live.  We will need to take a sample of your blood.Kelly, unable to stop himself, walks with her through the waiting room door.  It all seems so reasonable.  His acquaintances do nothing to stop him.When he returns, he is told that he will have to wait for an hour for the test results.The wait.The paging system clicks on.  Paging Dr. Hobbes.  You’re needed in ICU.  Paging Dr. Hobbes.  You’re needed in ICU.Dr. Hobbes?  He’s the incompetent doctor from College Health Services.  What could he possibly be needed for in ICU?The waiting room door opens again.  It is the nurse.I’m sorry, sir.  You do have the disease.  We will need to operate immediately.This time, she does not sound nearly so reasonable.  When Kelly will not go with her, she sighs in resignation and returns through the door whence she came, on a mission to find a doctor to convince the student what is best for him.The intercom clicks on, once again.  Attention, all physicians.  Code blue in ICU.  Code blue in ICU.This is followed by a frantic scramble of doctors through the hallways and a quick rush toward the emergency entrance doors, which are locked and sealed.  Something is wrong.The patients are on their feet, milling about in a state of shock.  Their movements are jerky.  Their bodies are pale and almost lifeless.  Their faces are blank.Within moments, they have all crowed around the thick glass doors, their injured bodies forming a half-living wall of flesh as bloody fingers leave streaks of red grime on the glass, tinting the room red as the sun shines through.Again, the paging system springs to life.  Cancel code blue in ICU.  Cancel code blue in ICU.But the doors are not being unlocked.</blockquote>

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