Resident Black

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There was something kind of beautiful about the way things were moving in the hospital.

As Meredith, April, Jackson, Karev, and Arizona stood around the main lobby desk watching as patients came in and patients came out, watching the once white floors and walls transition from blue to red to purple to pink to green and then back to blue, watching the looks on one another's faces, they all shared one collective thought.

"This is weird." Jackson said what they were all thinking. Their attention turned to him and even he had to admit he seemed a little pale.

"Are you sick?" Arizona asked.

"God I hope not..." He turned to grab a clip board and walked away.

"He's probably just..." Dr. Karev began.

"Missing Sloan." April finished his statement for him in a very crass manner, insulting a mans death should be a crime in the afterlife. Those monsters have no law.

The two of them walked off following their friend leaving Arizona and Meredith alone.

"Do those three seem different to you?" Meredith felt like she was walking alone in a first person shooter game. As if every moment a blood sucking, green, ugly sore infested, alien of sorts would come bursting out of someones skull.

"Everything's different." Answered Arizona. "Callie's really bringing this place into the twenty first century..." She walked away knowing deep down that she was wrong. She was trying to convince herself everything was fine but even she knew something was wrong.

"Step one..." Christina said to Callie.

The two of them stood in front of their collected brains. "Distractions." They had collected three. Each one labeled with the name of the resident it came from. Alex, April, and Jackson. "We change up the atmosphere... get them excited about new age technology and moving forward in the world."

"Which we've successfully done. What's next." Callie was excited but still extremely nervous. She had only two days left to collect two more brains for her employers.

"Step two..." Christina moved across the room towards the entrance to the room. "Unfinished business." With a flick of a switch an ultraviolet strip of light illuminated around the frame. "We keep the spirits out of our way. This will come in handy if any of them try to work against us."

Callie's eyes lit up. "That's cool..." Her mouth spreading in a thin smile.

"Now all that's left is step three... harvest." Christina dropped a binder down on the flat surface of the desk in front of Dr. Torres opening it to the fourth page. "With this plan, you can not only supply them the rest of the brains they've asked for but we could become world wide in our supply. People from all over the world will come to us for what we can do... you and I could change the world together. With your bone building and my heart creating there isn't anything we can't do." She clicked a pin and held it out for Calliope to take. "All you have to do is sign on the dotted line."

Callie rested down the ball point tip on the thin, crisp, warm, surface of the freshly printed page, pulling it ever so gently across. The moment her full name was spelled out she looked up at the dark empty hallway outside and felt the earth shake. At first she thought it was her conscious but one of the glasses behind them fell. April Kepner's brain busting out onto the tile with shards of glass through the tissue.

"Ahh..." The spirit fell onto the ground.

Karev and Jackson had been pacing the small office in which they haunted. Worry spread all over their faces as they attempted to really grasp eternity. Dr. Avery was on his knees in an instant to make sure she was okay.

Looking down Dr. Kepner watched wide eyed as her body began to flicker in an out like a light in the ceiling. "What's happening to me?"

"You don't have anything keeping you here." Alex said staring out the glass. "You need to feed on something or you'll vanish."

He reached over and unlocked the door just as two new interns busted through liplocked and ripping at each other's clothes like hungry savages.

"Dr. Avery why don't you asses the situation." Alex said mockingly.

The plastics attending stormed out into the hallway feeling sick.

Alex knelt down on the ground next to April. "Let's have a little fun baby." He bit his lip as he pulled her up from the ground.

The police report will say 'The interns went mad.' killing each other just to climax.

But there was no police report. The souls vanished and unfortunately due to blunt force trauma the brains were unsalvageable. Just a waist. Naked bodies removed from they eye of the public before they ever woke up.

Alex and April walking down the hallway looking incredible after devouring the souls of two people who just took their own lives.

The city of the dead is full of vile things but no worse then happen in your own homes. The trick is to be the biggest ego in the room. If you look in the mirror and the person looking back isn't the main character in your life story then there must be a problem.

"I like the schedule you're on." Christina said as she moved over to check Kevin's vitals. "It makes it a lot easier on me."

"Did you know that between the hours of three and four AM it's known as the witching hour." He said as he pulled himself into a seated position. "Not because of the witchcraft but because it's the time where all the magic in the world seems to fade as man looses himself in his vices to become a savage beast in the hands of those with control."

Christina eyed him for a moment with her arms crossed. "How fascinating... any way your scheduled for your transplant tomorrow night at midnight."

"That soon?"

"I'm good at what I do... Hearts is what I do. This is the first time I've ever made a human heart, let alone for a child, but I think I've outdone myself." She gave a sheepish half grin.

"You're not evil..." Kevin looked into her eyes. "I see devotion. It's honorable. You'd do anything to achieve greatness. I admire that."

"Th- Thank you." Her cheeks flashed a pale pink as she turned on her heel and walked out of the room. It isn't every day that someone understands why you are the way you are, let a lone a child. She had to wonder... was this for the kid or was this for her employer. Either way, she had to admit, this was going to be defining moment in life. Everything had been leading up to this.