control • theo raeken [1]

eighteen. status asthmaticus

third person.

MASON RUNS OUT AS soon as the elevators in the closed unit of the hospital open.  His arms are full with supplies to help Melissa try to save Hayden.  Liam was no where around, but Mason shrugged it off as him trying to cope with his dying girlfriend.

"Over here, yeah," Melissa says as soon as she sees Mason.  She was busy hooking Hayden up to the heart monitor and other medical equipment.  Mason dumps the load onto the table between Hayden's feet.

"Shouldn't we be talking to one of the doctors?" Mason asks, watching Melissa do what she can.

"I've been wrestling with that for hours.  Do we bring them in and watch them treat her as a normal patient, while we stand here knowing that's not going to work?"  As she's speaking, she preps the supplies Mason brought in.  Mason stares worriedly up at Hayden as she explains her reasoning.  "Or do we keep trying everything medically possible to save her, while her body does things that shouldn't be medically possible?"

Mason follows Melissa's movement up towards the mercury filled girl's head, "Is she dying?"

"With the amount of mercury in her body right now, she shouldn't even be alive."

Some time passes and Melissa checks Hayden's pulse at her wrist.  She gasps and mumbles under her breath the word no over and over again.  She moves her index and middle finger to the dying girl's neck to check the pulse there.  Hayden lays on the table perfectly still, and Mason on the other side of the table.

"I think you better get Liam," she tells him.

Mason looks between her and Hayden, "What about Scott?"

"He's not answering.  And if Liam wants to be with her, he needs to get here now.  Because she is dying, and I don't know what else to do."  She takes a deep breath, holding her emotions at bay because she can't help save the girl.  "Go.  I will text you if anything changes.  Just get him here, Mason."  He pauses at the door and stares at Melissa in helplessness.  "Go."

And he takes off.

Meanwhile, at the library, Scott pushes against the supernatural barrier.  The moon is bright through the wall sized window.  It shines on his back as he steps away from the mountain ash to catch his breath.

"Come on," he encourages himself.  "You've done this before, you can do it again."  He pats his chest, feeling the pain of the lack of oxygen, and takes a hit of his inhaler.  Now, he prepares himself for another try against the barrier and runs towards it.  As soon as he makes contact, he's flung back across the closest table and onto the floor.  He lands hard on his back, making him groan at impact.  When he sits up, he sees a utility closet and gets up to check it out.  Opening the door, there's a ladder leading up to the roof and he begins climbing it.

In his mind, he thinks there should be a way over the supernatural fence.  But when he puts his hand out at the edge of the roof, he's met with the same stinging pain.  This only angers him and results in him punching the barrier.  He starts to wheeze again and grabs for his inhaler, but it's empty.  He tries a few more times with no success.  It only angers him more, and he crushes the inhaler in his hands.  A purple mist rises from the smashed container.

"Wolfsbane."  Scott thinks back to who had given him the inhaler and remembers Theo tossing it to him the night before in the animal clinic.  He didn't remember giving Theo his inhaler before, so he'd must've switched them.  Scott stumbles to stand up and glances around the roof before noticing the other person on the roof with him.  Liam is wolfed out: glowing yellow eyes, claws, fangs, and the extra hair on his sideburns.  "Did Theo let you in?"