A dozen alarms were going off, people were either shouting from seemingly every room or had flicked the light on over their door, and nobody was around to do anything about it all! The nursing station was empty, everyone having been scattered all around the building already. Carrying a stack of bedpans in his arms, towels draped over both arms, Adrien made his way as quickly as he could to the deserted nursing station. Placing the clean bedpans on a chair, he quickly pulled a cheap notebook from his pocket and checked the alarms, turning them off as he jotted down what was needed where.<br/><br/>He was technically only a student, but most of what he already did was outside of this as the hospital was short staffed nearly one hundred percent of the time. Humming to himself, Adrien flipped his notebook pages as he gathered up the medication he needed, placing the pills in the little cups and rounding up enough clean cups for water. Tray in hand, the young student nurse made his way to each room, greeting the occupants by name and asking how they were as he administered the meds to each patient, or inquired about what others needed.<br/><br/>When he had made three trips of the floor, and everyone had quieted down and gotten what they needed, Adrien returned to the nurse station to page one of the nurses. Sitting down in one of the swivel chairs, he used his foot to push off the wall and sent the chair towards the desk.<br/><br/>"Can I get a nurse or two on floor C, please?" He asked over the intercom.<br/><br/>As he waited, Adrien leaned back, his hands behind his head as he gently spun the chair. He knew it was a rough job, and many of the nurses had been on since the night before, but did every one of them need to disappear right when things starting up? Hearing the sound of heels coming down the hall, Adrien sat up and turned towards the doorway just as a young woman appeared, dressed in the typical nurses outfit. He didn't remember seeing her before, and he thought he had known all the nurses and many of the doctors having been here for a few months now. Maybe she was new, or from one of the other floors. Either way, she was here now and that was what mattered.<br/><br/>"You paged for a nurse?" She asked. Adrien stood, picking up the bedpans he had abandoned earlier.<br/><br/>"Sure did! Everything should be good for a little while, though Emily may need a second dosage in about fifteen minutes, and Charles was complaining about his back again so you might want to check on him." Turning to leave and continue what he had been doing prior to the crisis, Adrien was stopped by the nurse's hand on his shoulder. He turned his head to look at her, eyebrow raised in question.<br/><br/>"Did I forget somethi--" He stopped what he was going to say upon seeing the nurse, or at least what had been the nurse. Where she had stood not five seconds earlier, something else now stood. This something else still had the general look of the pretty young nurse, but now her hair, which had looked fiery before, was quite literally flames burning around her face, while her legs had taken on a completely different appearance. One, that of a donkey, and the other appeared to be made out of some sort of metal. Dropping the bedpans with a clatter, Adrien rubbed his eyes, briefly wondering if he had been drugged, or if his lack of sleep the past week was finally getting to him.<br/><br/>"I...um..." Adrien wasn't usually one to stutter, but then again this wasn't a normal situation either. Scrabbling backwards, he kicked the chair and reached across the counter for anything he could use to defend himself. The woman...creature...approached him, a smile on her face revealing two sharp looking fangs.<br/><br/>"What's going on? Who are you? What are you?" Adrien asked, bringing the scalpel he had managed to grab up. He knew it wouldn't be that effective, but it was something.<br/><br/>"Silly boy, that doesn't matter." The thing laughed as it neared the student. "What matters is--" She was cut off as Adrien shoved the swivel chair at her, knocking her mismatched legs off balance. He heard her shriek but was too busy racing down the hall for the emergency alarm. He never reached it though as the creature cut him off and lunged at him. He caught her by the wrists but was knocked on his back by her momentum. Holding the creatures hands away from his throat, Adrien felt his own hands grow warm and he quickly looking to them expecting them to be bleeding or something from touching this thing's skin. To his surprise this wasn't the case at all, instead, all along the creature's skin, starting where his hands held her, large red blisters began to form. He heard her scream and try to pull away from him. Letting go, Adrien looked down at the creature before coming to his senses and dashing the remaining distance to the emergency alarm. Pulling it, he sunk down against the wall as the alarm blared and security rushed past him. Adrien was too preoccupied looking at his hands and wondering what the hell just happened.<br/><br/>When security did a sweep of the floor, having to calm a few patients down in the process, they returned to Adrien.<br/><br/>"We didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Are you alright?" Adrien looked up at them as though the man had grown a second head. Did they not see the freaking woman with the mismatched legs and fire hair who had moments ago been on the floor not ten steps from where he now sat? Meaning to point to it, Adrien stopped when he saw the spot was empty. Standing, he quickly scanned the area but saw nothing.<br/><br/>"It was right there." Two of the security men exchanged concerned looks as the young man searched the area for something.<br/><br/>"What was there?" One finally asked when Adrien returned.<br/><br/>"It was..." How crazy would it be if he told them what he had seen? "Nothing, I guess I just imagined it." He said.<br/><br/>As the two men left him, Adrien heard them mutter something about lack of staff and not getting paid enough. Looking down at the spot the creature had been, Adrien noticed a small scratch on his forearm. Running a finger over it, he wondered if he was going to get some weird disease now but was shocked  once more as the cut healed, leaving a pale pink line in its place. Standing there in the middle of the hall, staring at his arm, Adrien jumped when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning quickly, preparing for round two, he relaxed upon seeing his supervisor.<br/><br/>"Adrien, I think you should go sit down for a little while, maybe grab a quick nap." Adrien simply nodded and walked to one of the break rooms which was thankfully empty. Sinking into one of the chairs, he wondered if he was going crazy. Maybe he was getting into the wrong profession if this was what happened with only half the hours of a regular nurse.