A Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Chapter 1

Dean walked down the dimly lit hallway towards the nurses station. It was all complete bullshit if you asked him. Reckless driving? Please. He was just taking his baby out for a spin. But, what's done is done, and now here he is, stuck at some loony bin for a month in order to redeem himself by earning volunteer hours.

There were two nurses working at the counter. The one in the back was tall with dirty blonde hair tied back in a loose pony tail. She seemed to be sorting out a wide array of colorful pills. The other nurse was a grumpy looking, slightly obese woman with her dark hair slightly graying and tied up in a bun.

The nurse sorting the pills noticed Dean first. "Looks like our new volunteer is here." She said to no one in particular.

The other nurse looked up at him with disapproval written all over her face. Without saying anything she got up and walked over to the cupboard in the corner of the room and pulled out a pair of dingy white scrubs. She walked back over to where Dean stood and pushed them into his hands. "You're going to have to change."

Dean looked down at his black concert T-shirt that read AC/DC across it in bold green letters. He was also wearing a pair of worn-out jeans that he could admit were not entirely appropriate for trying to make a good impression.

Dean sighed, "Volunteers have to wear scrubs too?"

The nurse smiled crookedly. "Of course. We want everyone here to look professional."

Dean rolled his eyes and walked towards the nearest washroom. He entered without knocking which he regretted as soon as he saw what was in there.

A beautiful blue-eyed man with messy brown hair and a bit of scruff in place of a beard. The man was wearing a blue hospital gown and was clearly a patient. He was smearing red paint all over the bathroom walls. Dean couldn't make out exactly what the man was writing but it seemed to be strange symbols and definitely wasn't English.

And wait a minute.

That wasn't red paint.

It was then that Dean noticed the long gash in the man's arm.

"Uh..." Dean said, stepping back, unsure of what to do next.

The heavier nurse jumped up as she noticed Dean's hesitation and what was causing it. She paged for an orderly to come for assistance with a patient.

Both nurses and two orderlies were by Dean's side in a matter of seconds.

"Cas! Stop it! How did you get in here?" The blonde nurse was shouting.

Dean watched in utter shock as one of the orderlies came and injected something into the man's arm. As the man fell limp they dragged him out of the bathroom and lifted him onto a gurney.

Dean watched them roll him down the hallway and didn't notice a third nurse with short black hair come up behind him.

He turned around and was presented with some rags and a bottle of cleaning spray.

"You're first job here." The grumpy nurse said.

The three walked away laughing to each other.

Dean sighed as he looked at all the blood on the walls.

"This is going to be a long month."