NIGHTSHIFT 27: F-BLOCK WOMEN'S BATHROOM

[icy_pole]

[From this corridor]The bathroom was slightly colder than the hallway and Ami could make out the individual stalls and sinks. She went to the closest sink, pulled the balloons out from her roughly made satchel and began to fill them up, large enough so she could hold them in her hand, but not so much that they would burst easily. After filling and

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[robin_fox]

[From here.]

Robin shone his torch in the bathroom, pleased it was empty. He crept inside and wandered to the sink. Turning the cold tap on, he cupped his hands beneath the crystal clear water (it still amazed him, this technology), and splashed his face before holding another handful to his lips and drinking. It should wake him up a little more. He let the stray water drip down his shirt and sling to the material. Much better.

He turned and headed back out.

[endlessjune]

[from here]

With no idea where she was going, Rika could only check each room for anything interesting. The other rooms around her, she easily guessed those were the other patient rooms, and they were most likely not in there. With those out of the way, Rika decided to head to the first room she could find without a number.

It was an ordinary bathroom, it seemed... A little run down, but nothing special. Though Rika could hear the pipes groaning, and something red dripped from the sink faucet.

Something red...? Come to think of it, the metallic smell permeating the air was familiar. No, Rika knew exactly what it was.

"It's dripping blood," She muttered to herself, drawing closer and standing on her tip toes to peer into the drain. Sure enough, red sticky liquid - blood - was crusting around the drain, staining it with a crimson color.

[thehellismycar]

[ from here ]

OK. In spite of how freakin' fast the creepy meter was rising, he was in motion at last and experiencing the kind of apprehension he was trained to swallow without argument - the kind of apprehension that, after years of exposure, could warp one's perception of normalcy to the point there was no such thing. Safety existed, but its poor design was destined to fray.

The job was never over.

Back against the wall beside the entrance, he flicked the beam about the new area, an unnerving focus he liked to reserve for chicks and the regular hunt brushing odds and ends of the place. A wry smirk began at the corner of his lips. These were the showers he preferred. Maybe he'd forward a request to his nurse when it came next shower shift

[endlessjune]

It was the sudden voice that cut through the air that startled Rika, not the sight or smell of the blood. She turned around, looking up at the man who entered with wide eyes. Either he was new himself, or this sight was not a normal one during the night.

"I got lost," Rika chirped, giving the other man a nervous smile. It was true, after all, she had no idea where she was going. "I was trying to find my friends, but I found this scary place instead..."

Maybe he would be willing to help her. Rika did need to try to find Hanyuu, or Keiichi and the others, if they were even in such a place. She could only hope so, because if she wasn't there to stabilize the town...

"Actually, this is Rika's first night here. Are there always scary places like this?" She looked around the room as she made her statement. It was actually very unsettling, as it reminded her of the basement of the Sonozaki mansion.

[thehellismycar]

The small smile offered as he heard out her plight didn't quite match the melancholy glow in his eyes. This was the youngest patient he'd ever crossed paths with - basically a baby - and being aware that she was stuck here...? It jump-started an inner desire: to take some damn responsibility and save these people already! The girl's predicament spurred that heroic side of the huntsman so rarely exposed to the tedious likes of dayshift. There was a reason, apart from his own twisted gratification, that he kept with the life he'd accepted.

"Hold on, hold on," he interrupted in a hushed voice, glancing to both sides in the mean time. "So your name's Rika, you're new here. I'm Dean." He gestured to himself. "Right now, I think it'd be wise to stick together. Can't have anyone venturin' alone tonight, 'specially with the, uh," he tilted his head, nodding at the bloodied sink - "Newer chain of events." Though the truth was he knew he couldn't leave her behind.

[her_lion]

[from here.]Nodding along with the plan, he looked down through what darkness he could pierce. "Anything in my hands is better than nothing. We'll try to find a sword if we can?" He made it into a question, giving Heiji a brief smile before turning to walk out of the block, into the connecting hallway

[osakapwnzu]

He shrugged back to Edward. He'd seen kids in dangerous situations before--namely Kudo, but his case was slightly different--so he wasn't really phased by the sight of the little girl. He was, however, very interested in how Edward knew that there was blood in the room.

"Blood in the faucets? Really?" Heiji frowned and examined the sinks closer, turning on the flow and sniffing the contents, "I didn't even see that. I guess you can see better in the dark!" He smiled at Edward.

Heiji leaned back and his hand fumbled at the back of his head. He realized with a slight jerk that he didn't have his trusty hat. The one he always turned around when he was working something out. With a sigh, he realized he'd have to make do without.

"But why would there be blood in the pipes? Is this going on all over the institute or just in here? And if so, why...?"

Being a detective, Heiji was always full of questions.

[his_singer]

Oh no. The moment Bella walked into the room following Heiji and Edward, her feet stopped dead in their tracks as if they were rooted to the ground.

All at once the nausea hit, and she saw the room tip forward. Catching herself on the wall, the teenager let out a low moan. It was overpowering. The smell of the blood made her want to pass out, roll over, and die all at the same time. Needless to say, it wasn’t a happy experience, and the moment Bella could feel her feet again, she was flying out back from where they had come from.

( Running back out to here. )

[her_lion]

Her reaction was worse than he expected - she all but wheeled out of the room, falling down in a heap. He followed for a quick moment, saving his answer to Heiji's question until after he made sure she was alright. He should've warned her earlier. After murmuring a worried question, she nodded the affirmative; she'd be okay for now. It'd be easier to move through the room, grab the pipe, and get out.

Going back in the bathroom, this time he did raise a hand to cover his nose; turning on the bloodflow to full blast was not making the situation any easier. Answer muffled by his hand, he tried to smile back. "I camp a lot. It helps adjust the eyes. Would you mind turning that off?" It was hard to still be polite when he longed to take a free hand and dip it in the warm pool of blood. "We're a little bit sensitive to blood around here - and the smell is horribleMoving to the back of the room didn't help much, especially with the showerheads dyed crimson as well. The grates below them had already been stained brightly. "It's coming from

[notearthlogic]

[From here]

Haruhi didn't really see why they had made such a big deal about it. She was fine--and alive--so what was with those looks? Well, whatever, she wasn't going to think about it now, not when they were so close to their destination. Haruhi fully intended to salvage something from this bathroom to make up for the knife. She still felt a bit guilty about admitting to Utena that she had lost it. But a pipe or something would definitely make up for that!

"Here we are!" Haruhi yelled as she threw the door open. But one step into the room was enough to make her let out a grunt of disgust and hold a hand to her nose.

"Was there a fight in here?" she asked as she surveyed the room. There was blood all over the sinks and countertops of the bathroom. Blood ran down the drains in the showers. Even the showerheads themselves were dripping with blood, making it look like as if the blood was coming from the showerheads themselves. But that couldn't be right, could it?

[heartcrown]

Stopping dead in her tracks the moment she walked into the bathroom, Kairi’s felt as if she was going to be sick. The intense scent of blood made her gag, and she lifted her hands quickly to her face, covering her nose and mouth. “What happened?”

In all her days of staying in this horrid place, she had never once seen such a thing happen. Why was there blood everywhere? What happened to the water?

“What are we going to do?” Weren’t they supposed to try and collect metal? At this rate, everything would be covered with blood.

[iamyourflower]

The siezing sight and smell of blood everywhere stopped her in her tracks when she recognized it. It was like nothing she had ever seen before, and yet it was so horrifyingly familiar. It drew phantom pricks all over her skin; a heavy metallic beat to her heart. She swayed, her light trembling over the wall, to the ceiling as she backed into Utena.

She tried to make sense of it, but the only conclusion she was able to draw from her scattered thoughts was, 'But I never even bled then.'

She had spent years in constant, searing pain, but it had been the same pain day after day, year after year- predictable, expectable. Now being outside of that returned her capacity for fear of the unknown. She almost wanted the old world back.

[bara_no_shinrou]

Utena stopped in her tracks, once Haruhi had flung open the door; the sight before her made her blood run cold. So much blood... it was everywhere, on everything, on the walls and in the sink and coming out of the faucets-!

Wait, what?

It was coming out of the faucets. That... that wasn't possible. Blood does not flow from sink faucets! The surreality of the situation swept over her, causing her breathing to become a bit shallow, a bit hurried; it was as if they had stepped into another world, a world of terror and carnage. What brought her back to the real world, after a moment, was Anthy backing into her; that's right. She wouldn't be the only one disturbed by this, would she? In such an extreme situation, it was easy to forget... and, she had promised to protect Anthy. That meant her emotional well-being as well. One hand was raised to the Rose Bride's shoulder, in an attempt to steady the girl; a moment later, a reassuring squeeze was given, as well

[bond_off_lame]

[From here.]

The moment Axel walked into the bathroom the smell of blood hit him in the face like a brick, making a disgruntled sound in the process as he looked about. There didn't seem to be any monsters wandering around, save for a group of women that were also crowded near the entrance.

He managed to inch his way past them, meandering over to one of the sinks and glanced inside the bowl. Lo and behold, the thing was dripping with blood and crusting the drain with a dark amber. The sight of the contents itself was nothing foreign to him, but the location from where they ended up in certainly earned a confused glance.

However, curiosity got the better of him and he reached forward to grasp the knob, twisting it halfway and watched as blood poured out and splashed against the porcelain surface.

[angels_inflight]

Naminé wasn't too familiar with the smell of blood, but even she could identify that thick, coppery smell as soon as she walked through the door. As soon as she looked around, Naminé could tell that there was something wrong with the bathroom.

Axel confirmed it when he opened the faucet and was rewarded with a torrent of blood, gushing out of the spout and splattering all over the bottom of the sink. That sight had gotten to Naminé more than she wanted to admit and she quickly turned away, horrified.

"That's..." She didn't have to finish her sentence, but Naminé's bewildered expression probably finished her question. What was blood doing in the pipes?!

[bond_off_lame]

"It's obvious you're not supposed to take those pills with alcohol, but this is ridiculous." Axel commented with a raised eyebrow, tempted to hold his hand under the torrent but refrained from doing so. To him the imagery was more bizarre than horrific, and as much as he would've liked to study this spectacle for a while longer they were already running late.

"C'mon you, there might still be some water left in our room." He spoke to the blonde, reaching for her hand and urging her out of the bathroom with him. Only a blind person could've missed Kairi that happened to be traveling with the group of girls he'd seen earlier, and he quickly flashed her a smile before stepping back out into the hallway.

[bond_off_lame]

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