Tomorrow Never Dies (Moonlight 3)

Chapter 17-Emergency

When we arrived, the emergency ward was packed with people. I knew behind those walls dozens of beds were filled with our classmates and I could hear the doctor's yells from behind the door. As I looked around the waiting room there were so many students still dressed in their dance outfits. Some just looked as though they were waiting for friends to be let inside but a few had small injuries, clutching possibly broken arms and minor bruises and scrapes. It was a strange sight and one that I knew would forever haunt me.

I kept looking at my phone waiting for Kaylee to text back, but she still hadn't. I knew she was somewhere among these people. I just hoped that she was going to be okay.

Calum lead the way, marching up to the information desk Ashton, Michael, Lauchie and I following him.

"Can you let us in please?" Calum asked, sitting in the seat across from the tired looking man behind the counter. "We're looking for a girl named Kaylee."

The man looked up at the five of us sceptically. "You boys from the animal attack at the high school?"

Calum nodded at the man.

The man frowned, "It's already too crowded in there from visitors, you'll need to wait outside like everyone else."

Calum looked behind us at all the people we'd already passed. He shook his head.

"You need our help though." Calum spoke calmly but firmly. "What just attacked those people was a creature known as a werewolf. The five of us we're kind of experts, we can help."

The man raised a sceptical eyebrow. I frowned he wasn't going to believe us. "Werewolves huh? Someone mentioned that was what happened, but I didn't believe them. What are your qualifications, kid?"

A smug grin appeared on Calum's face, "Well except for the werewolf hunter with us," Calum gestured to Lauchie. "The rest of us are werewolves."

The man's eyes widened. For a moment I thought he was going to call a hospital line to have us taken out of there. His eyes scanned amongst us.

"A group of werewolves and a werewolf hunter huh?" His eyes entertained the possibility, his eyes fell to Lauchie who quickly reached into his pocket. A moment later he had pulled something out that almost looked like a police ID card but just for hunters.

"Here's my ID card if you don't believe them." Lauchie said, sliding the card over to him. "They mean what they say about being here to help. They aren't the ones who caused this."

"Okay, I'll get you guys a nurse to talk to." He spoke, quickly disappearing into another room. I was impressed that had been all we needed to change his mind. We would've never gotten in without Lauchie's help.

Calum slumped back into the chair, before grinning back at Lauchie, "Nice one."

The man returned with one of the nurses a few moments later. Calum launched into a quick explanation of what had happened and what he intended for us to do. The woman was in stunned shock by the end of it. Though she nodded taking down notes as he talked.

"Alright I'll let you guys in, but as your helping us I'll need you to wear these." She nodded asking for each of our names and writing them on visitor name tags and passing them over to us.

The man opened the door for us and we walked around through to the other side. As we entered the large emergency ward the smell of blood quickly entered my nose. We met with the nurse on the other side, she started pointing out patients they were concerned about now that they knew about the bites. I only half listened, my eyes scanning the room and the boards for Kaylee's name, but none of them seemed to have been updated yet.