Nightshift 45: M-B Block Hallway

[tyki_pon]

[From here]Place was pretty quiet, Tyki noticed. He casually swept the beam of his flashlight around the hallway, but there really was noone in sight. No monster, no patients, nothing. Huh. At this rate, he was going to think he was breaking his personal record of being early or something

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[usoppsenchou]

[from here]

Although imagination was pretty powerful, and the actual comments about monsters (and that weird laugh from overhead) had been disturbing, Usopp had to admit to himself that he hadn't personally seen anything bad yet. Unless he counted some of the weird people he'd seen as the Sun Room got crowded, but that would make sense even if it were an insane asylum

[usoppsenchou]

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[doneinthree]

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Bill was at the end of the hall before he remembered Aidan's warning, telling him to hold on wait for him after night fell. He recalled that Aidan's room was a lower number than his, probably in a different block. Or... had he just hallucinated being told the number? Had Aidan ever actually told him where he was roomed during the day? Bill squeezed his eyes shut for a second, like he expected a headache to come around the corner and jump him.

No such thing happened. Unfortunately. Even a headache would be too normal at this point - a headache would suggest that he had a legitimate reason to think that something was wrong with his head.

As Bill approached the main corridor, he reached out for the frame of the wide doorway, and felt it solid and cold under his bare hand. In his other hand was the flashlight, warm now from nervous sweat. It felt real. All of it felt real... which meant he was crazy again.

Well, fine. If that was so, he wasn't just going to hang around.

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[byname_bynature]

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"Besides," Sean continued, looking around in the darkness for a nurse. He didn't seen anybody. Though whatever that smell was, he had to assume someone was going to come by to take care of it. "If anyone so much as looks at you funny, I'll protect you," he promised with a smile. "I may not look it, but I'm fightin' Irish. I'll send the bad guys running, don't you worry."

[faithful_frost]

Chris nodded, following along just behind his friend. "I trust you." He did, completly. It was really the only reason he hadn't fled back to their room to hide under the covers of his bed.

"If we can't find anyone, can we just go back?"

[byname_bynature]

"Sure," Sean reassured Chris. "I mean, if we can't find anyone, there's really no point in hanging around," he said, punctuating the statement with a yawn. He really was tired. "It's been a long day, we both could use some rest."

He tugged on Haku's hand again, hoping that he sounded braver than he felt. Even if they were made-up, Artemis' stories of what happened here at night were still etched in his mind: full of blood and monsters and screaming and hysterical crying. Like a horror movie that kept him awake at night whenever he remembered the scarier scenes. Venturing out into the dark wasn't something he really wanted to do. But, for the sake of finding out what was going on, he'd have to.

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[unheroed]

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With no one else in the hallway except for a couple of kids who were far too young, Harvey didn't see any reason to slow down. It did occur to him that the supposed partner of Batman's that he and Jason might be hunting could easily be as young as that pair, and he tried not to think too hard about it.

It wasn't like he had anything personal against the kid. How could he? He had never even met him. But if he could nab them Batman somehow, then it was worth traumatizing him a bit.

Or that's what he'd like to think. He could already tell that this was something the coin might have to decide, depending on how they went about it.

Just a means to an end. That's all the kid was. Letting out a breath, Harvey moved through the far door and into the hallway.

[unheroed]

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[wantsyourzex]

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There were other people walking around, so it looked like it wasn't just his room that was open. Just like when ZEX had been wandering around... things were getting really weird.

That didn't mean that the monsters or anything else was real though. Max tried to keep that in mind. Now that the hallways were dark, it was easier than ever to keep mistaking long shadows for other things. Whatever it was he was seeing, it was really coming out in force now. Shouldn't this sort of thing have lessened in time?

He had to find someplace where more people were, or where people would be more likely to congregate... maybe the front halls? That could work. He could still remember where they were...

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