Haunting Past

Chapter 2

I woke up to the ear piercing sound of my alarm. It's 4:30 A.M. I regret going to sleep so late last night. Somehow I get out of bed and start to get ready for work. I work as the head nurse of the Gotham city Hospital. I put on music to wake myself up a little while I drive to work. I stoped at a nearby fast food reastaurants drive trough to get a coffee. While I was waiting I got a text, it was from my work bestie Dominika. She told me in her text that she finnished her night shift, and that the hospital is fully stuffed, because The Joker blowed some biuldings up on the other side of the city over night. Thousand of people are injured. This is the sixth crisis situation he caused at the hospitals in two monts. What a monster...I wonder how the Batman did not manage to catch him yet...But if I think more of it...even when he did, that mad man escaped.

 "Here's your coffee ma'am". "Thank you" I say as I pay. Looks like I'm really gonna need it today.

I arrived to the hospitals parking lot at 5:45 A.M. I still had time and realised my favourite song is on at the moment so I turned the volume a little bit up, and just enjoyed the moment. By that time the hospitals director also have arrived and parked next to me. We got out of our cars at the same time. He was looking at me with a piercing gaze. He looked a bit paler than usual.

"Good morning doctor." "You're the new head nurse aren't you? What was your name again?" He asks with an empthy expression. " My name is Theresa Glenn" "Nurse Glenn is it then. I don't think your music taste suits a head nurse though." his gaze is burning my eyes out at this point. Damn I feel like a kid who just did something mishievous and got caught. "Sir, I don't think my music taste is your busyness, as it doesn't  infuence my work." Then he just nodded and his facial expression sent the message that he noted that. 

When I entered the hospitals reception, I met my friend Jonathon Crane. He was checking out of his shift. "Going to Arkham?" I asked. "Hello Tess. Yeah,  you guessed it right." He said with a big smile. "Its good to see you smiling! Working in two hospitals must be exhausting." "I can handle it. After all I'm just a psychiatrist" He winked at me. "That's also tiring" I said. "Oh by the way I'll be back here at luch break. Wanna have luch together?" He asked. After a few seconds of thinking about it I answered. "Why not? I'm in!" "Nice see you then." And with that he left.

Todays shift is crazy. I have a lot of paper work to do and on top of that the there are too many patients and not enough nurses. There is total chaos on all of the nursing units, thanks to that mad man who just casually blows buildings up. 

Luckily things calmed down by time. With the help of other nurses and doctors, we managed to arrenge things and take care of patients. There was only that big pile of paper work left. Then finally the bells rang an it was time for lunch break. I was very hungry and thirsty so I decided to leave the rest of the work for after the break.

I went down to the cafeteria with my lunch. Dr.Crane was already there. He waved to me motioning to go take a sit next to him, so thats what I did. "How's your day going Dr.Crane?" I asked on a playful tone. We've been friends even before I left Gotham. He helped me a lot when I moved back to the city. I guees he was happy to see me in gotham again. I was also happy to see him. "Well I'm finally done for today. I have no more therapy sessions scheduled for today. So after lunch I can go home finally."He announced with a sigh. "Good for you. You really deserve a good rest after these shifts, you worked a lot. How are you still on you feet?" He laughed a bit at that. " Well thats my super power I guess" Another wink. I don't know what exactly, but there is something about his winks that could send butterlfies to anyones stomach. "Oh by the way...I saw you talking with the director of the hospital when I looked out the window earlier today. He seemed grumpy. Is something wrong?" He asked with a worried face. "Oh nothing too serious. He just doesn't like my music taste" I laughed at how unserious that is. Jonathon just looked at me confused, but after a few seconds he chuckled at it too. "Seriously?? Is he really  that nosy and upleasant as they say?" He asked in disbelief. I just nodded as we both laughed. "Why, what were you listening to? Heavy metal?" "Yeah you guessed it right!" "Yeah, I guess its safe to say I know you quite well" He smiled at me. "Yeah, you do." I said as I returned the smile. 

Then he asked something I wasnt expecting.