Chapter 10

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A nearby receptionist sees the breaking and slams the alarm button, loud blaring echoing through the premises. 

Laurie's head snaps towards the ceiling at the blaring of the alarm, her scared eyes watching the doctors and security run by in a hurry. She sits forward and throws her leg over the side of the bed with a huff of exertion. Her socked feet step on the ground and lift her to her uncertain legs, using her IV tower as a walker to make it to her doorway, listening to the reasoning behind the alarm, fearing the worst. 

Michael uses his new weapon to brutally kill anyone who tries to get in his way. He stabs the nurses, watching as their guts spill out onto the floor. He slams security guards against the wall, crushing their skull. Soon, the hospital is covered in blood, guts, and bodies. Screams are coming from every direction. Michael continues the search for his sister. 

Laurie listens to the distant screams and knows it's time to leave, her feet shuffling weakly across the white floors; tugging the IV out of her arm gently and leaving it behind. Her shaky hands press the release on the emergency fire escape door, the highest squealing as she enters the stairway and begins her slow descent down; counting the floors as she goes and cursing the hospital for being so large. After two flights of stairs she has to sit and rest, chest heaving and hair matted to her forehead. Her earlier bloodloss and subsequent IV drip making her feel drowsy and uncoordinated. Her consciousness blinks out and she slumps to the side, asleep. 

Michael walks ominously through the halls until he hears something coming from the staircase. He kicks down the emergency escape door and begins to climb the steep stairs. There. There she is... asleep. He walks quietly over to her and kneels down next to her, staring at her sleeping face before raising the weapon and-

There's a surprising grip on Michael's jumpsuit, yanking him backwards and causing him to tumble backwards down the stairs. Loomis's hands grasping Laurie and pulling her back to the nearest floor of the hospital and helping her run down the hall. 

Laurie jerks awake and looks down at Michael as she's pulled along, feet uneven and head lolling around sleepily.

"W.. What?" She asks. 

Michael tumbles down the stairs, rolling down them like a barrel. He hits his head against one of the concrete steps fairly hard, and he lays motionless at the bottom of the staircase. 

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