Redcoats

Chapter 11

Tiff had been waiting with Dave's Mom for a few minutes alone before she began to worry. She excused herself and walked into the hallway to look for Simon. When she reached the vending machine and he wasn't there, she walked over to the security station.

The guard was away from the desk but he had left the screen with cameras on. She looked in one of the boxes on the screen and saw Billy staring up into the camera. She looked up and it said Floor 2 East Wing. She thought maybe Billy would know where Simon was so she ran over to the elevator.

She stepped inside and pressed the button for the second floor. As the doors closed she saw Jasmine and Sarah approaching. She tried to hold the door when they saw her but the door just continued to close as the girls ran to catch up with her.

"Billy upstairs, I'm going to find him." She yelled out as the doors shut separating her from the other two girls.

Jasmine and Sarah exchanged a glance and then pressed the button to call the elevator back.

"Why would he be upstairs?" Sarak asked as they waited.

Jasmine shrugged, "Maybe Julia was feeling ill, they saw what happened to Brandon, that could've messed with her."

Sarah nodded in agreement and stepped into the elevator as the doors opened. They looked at the buttons, while they knew Tiff had gone upstairs she didn't say which floor, and there were four floors in this hospital. Jasmine pushed the number two and glanced at Sarah who just nodded.

When the doors opened they found themselves stepping into an empty hallway. There was a large sign giving various directions. The east wing held surgery suites and the west wing were patient rooms. They started walking down towards the patient rooms never giving the surgery wing a second thought.

As they rounded the corner they found a nurses station and asked if the nurse had seen their friend.

"No one's come past her the past few minutes and we haven't added any new patients all night." The nurse said.

Sarah looked behind her, "You don't think Tiff went the wrong way do you?"

Jasmine nodded, "There's only one way to find out."

They started running back towards the elevator and then through the doors to the east wing. They rounded the corner and saw Tiff at the other end of the hall. They couldn't make out what they were saying but she was trying to talk to someone it seemed. They ran to catch up to her as she entered a room at the far end of the hall.

"Tiff" Sarah called out as they ran toward her.

Tiff stopped and looked back seeing them she waved for them to hurry and pointed into the room.

"Something's up with Billy he keeps walking away from me like he's trying to get me to go somewhere," she called back.

She started into the room and the girls caught up to her. It was a large operating room with several machines and cabinets along the wall. A tray of tools sat next to the table in the center of the room. On the other side of the room, a curtain was pulled closed and a lamp on the other side projected the shadow of a man onto it.

They called out to Billy a couple of times as they approached but the figure didn't move. Tiff gripped the curtain slowly and looked back at Sarah and Jasmine. She jerked the curtain aside to reveal the remaining of the empty operation room.

"What. The. Fuck?" Jasmine said shocked to see the shadowy figure gone.

Tiff began looking around the room, "No I swear Billy just walked in here."

There no other doors to the room and the door they came through had been behind them the entire time. Sarah started backing away from the table towards the door looking around to make sure she wasn't about to be attacked. Jasmine and Tiff turned to follow her when they saw a figure in the doorway.

"Sarah behind you." Tiff gasped.

The figure started out looking like Billy but slowly his features changed. His clothes began to look aged and tattered. His skin slowly darkened and began to sink in as if his muscles were gone, the eyes became hollow black orbs and there was no nose only an opening where it should be.

The figure's face shifted into a sickly grin and its head tilted mockingly as the door slammed shut. The girls all slowly approached the door when they began to hear a hissing sound coming from the wall. They looked over to see the O2 valves opening by themselves and suddenly one of the tools came to life rattling on the metal tray and throwing off sparks. The realization that once the room filled with enough gas a single spark would burn them alive wash over them.

They rushed to the door and tried to open it but it was locked. Sarah tried pulling with all her might but it wouldn't budge. Jasmine and Tiff tried helping her and still no effect. They began searching for a way to save themselves.

Tiff began trying to catch the device on the tool tray while Sarah attempted to close the valves that were allowing gas to fill the room. Jasmine grabbed an IV stand and started trying to pry the door open.

Sarah shut off the device but sparks started coming from the outlet it was plugged into. Tiff turned the valve but the gass kept flowing. They ran back to the door and tried to help Jasmine. The force they put on the stand caused it to snap in two. Left without options they began pounding on the door and screaming for help.