Belated Bloom - Lay (EXOxLay)

Damage & Distress

A/N: 'nnn' - thoughts "nnn" - dialogue, Korean "nnnn" - dialouge, Japanese

Sirens blare loudly down into the E.R as an ambulance pulls up into the hospital drive, 'never a moment too dull around here' Mori Eiko couldn't help but think as nurses and doctors hurried past her station to receive the new incoming patient.

It wasn't anything new really, St. Luke's International Hospital was a hub of activity everyday- and in general, hospitals were the place to go for emergencies. So the loud sounds, and bustling activity of the staff around her didn't really faze her anymore. Glancing to the side she took a glimpse at the incoming patient, registering the gunshot wound to the leg, before focusing ahead at the EMT approaching her with a shaking young girl under her arm.

'Time for work'

"Hello, I'm nurse Mori," she gave her most comforting smile to the duo as she rounded the counter to meet them, "Is she a family member of the emergency patient?"

The EMT gave her a curt nod, gently handing the shaking female over to her "Her name is Ito Hinako, 24, she's in shock- she witnessed the whole shooting event so she needs to wait here for an officer to give her statement to the police before she can be taken anywhere else." With that said the EMT swiftly turned and headed back down the hall towards the E.R entrance.

Eiko could feel the young woman shivering in her embrace so she quickly steered her to a chair just beside the nurses' station, grabbing a shock blanket out of the cabinet she wrapped the poor girl up.

"Stay here okay, I'll be right back - you're safe now okay?" Eiko waited until she saw the girl's subtle nod before moving once more behind her station, deftly dialing the hospital's number for the police management on site. "Hello, this is nurse Mori Eiko at E.R station 1, I have a witness to a shooting waiting to be questio-"

"Thank you ma'am, we will be there shortly." the man on the other end had quickly cut in before swiftly hanging up.

'Well...I guess I can't be angry if it gets them here faster' Eiko shrugged her shoulders and sighed, looking over to check on the young woman, 'shivering like a wet dog, but safe all the same'.

Assured that the woman wouldn't get up and wander away, Eiko began to write up the details she had seen and been given, calling out every now and then to the young woman for her companion's information.

'And done!' just as she pressed the 'Enter' key two police officers arrived- quietly and gently leading the girl away into a secluded room off to the side of the main E.R hallway.

Looking at the time she saw it was already 11:30 AM, 'maybe I should just take an early lunch, I bet I could convince Mao to fill in fo-' her train of thought was completely interrupted by a very strange scent.

'What is that?' looking to her left she only saw the empty waiting room, 'Where is it-ohh...' once she looked forward she realized exactly what the scent was.

Still a few feet down the hallway, she could clearly see a poor omega struggling to stand- even from this distance she could tell he had been beaten or possibly something even worse by the smell of him. Under the pained grimace and light bruising on the man's face she could tell he was quite handsome, if not somehow familiar...

Quickly shoving her thoughts away, she rushed forward pressing the assistance button as she rounded the corner of her station. The omega's eyes were glazed and his stance shaky as she approached, but in seconds he dropped to the ground, eyes shut tight in obvious pain.