"Sit down, doll baby."  Minny's voice was stern in its quietness as she directed her patient to a chair in the common room.  The black woman was on the back end of middle-age and tolerated no nonsense from the patients.  She was the only nurse who did not elicit abnormal reactions from the blonde she was escorting.  Without a word, the thin young woman sat down obediently in the chair that faced the television.  It wasn't a comfortable chair.  In fact, it was the kind that would be most at home in the waiting room of some doctor's office.  Yet somehow Charlotte didn't look uncomfortable.  Granted, she didn't exactly look comfortable either.<br/><br/>Wide green eyes stared unseeing at the television playing a rerun of Judge Judy, the plaintiff screaming at the defendant over some ridiculous thing.  Delicate hands with long thin fingers remained folded in her lap.  Minny called her 'doll baby' because that was exactly what she resembled with her porcelain skin, big green eyes, and white blonde hair.  Hair that Minny made sure to keep brushed and cared for.  Charlotte's head tipped slightly to one side, her eyes narrowing almost imperceptibly as if she was trying to focus on something, as if she was listening to someone.<br/><br/>Minny rested a hand on the girl's shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze before heading across the room to the nurses' desk.  The other woman behind the desk hit the buzzer that unlocked the door to admit the nurse behind the safety of the thick glass that stretched from the ceiling to the countertop.  There was only a small opening that was just big enough to hand out medication to the patients as needed.<br/><br/>"I don't know why you bother with her.  You know it's only a matter of time before she attacks you.  There isn't a single staff member that she hasn't gone after," said the other woman.  Patty was exaggerating just a touch.  There were a handful of people Charlotte hadn't tried to hurt.  At least not yet.<br/><br/>"Will you just hush up?  That doll baby hasn't had an easy life and the doctors aren't making things any easier keeping her medicated into a stupor.  I've tried to tell them but nobody ever wants to listen to me." Minny huffed and pulled out a chart to make a quick notation before closing the manilla folder and setting it back in the rack on the corner of the desk.  She picked up a cup of soda and gave it a shake, the ice rattling before she took a drink from the straw.  "That new resident show up yet?"<br/><br/>"Not yet," responded Patty.  "Supposed to come in around 3 and observe meds, I think."<br/><br/>A soft peal of laughter floated across the room causing both women to look up.  Charlotte was smiling sweetly at no one in particular but other than the change in her expression, she hadn't moved an inch.