Winds Of The Apocalypse (23 page)

”Hey! Casey!”

“
Shhh! Do you want the whole school to hear us?” Casey hissed him as Colin finally came down the steps of the veranda, carrying in his hands a black cloth bag and a huge flashlight. “What’s in the bag?” Casey asked and Colin winked.

"Always be prepared." He said, heading off to the parking lot with the
Tepes siblings following closely behind him.

”It’s over here.” Colin pointed at the green truck t
hat stood by the main gate way.

“Do you have the keys?”

Casey whispered and Colin dug the dangling chain out of his back pocket. “Took it while he was in a meeting with Kafka, they are planning to tight up security as of tomorrow so if we are doing this…”

“We are doing this.” Casey interrupted. “Get in.” She said as C
olin opened the front sit door.

They climbed into the truck and then Colin took a deep breath and put the key into the ignition. He carefully backed the truck out of the parking lot, visibl
y tense as he never was before.

“Are you sure that you know what you are doing?” Casey asked him as the car
rolled out of the front gates.

“Yes.” Colin snarled, his hands tightening a
round the black steering wheel.

“Just don’t
distract me. Please.” He asked.

“I won’t.” Casey sat back, glancing up at the mirror to check on her brothers, they smiled back at her. They were really on their way to kidnap
someone.

She took a deep breath. ‘Just let it pass quickly.’ She thought to herself as the car got up on the highway, and as it did a dark figure that stood in the third floor window, watching their every movement smiled to
herself silently and then let the curtains drop back to their place. They had been seen.

The road was almost empty as the little gang made its way to the hospital.

Colin drove with an uncharacteristic seriousness and consecration; he didn't want the cops to catch them even before they had managed to execute their plan. actually it was his father’s reaction he was more afraid of then the police and Morgan was fairly impressed by Colin's driving skills, so impressed in fact that he had decided to get his friend to teach him how to drive just like that, ones he gets his body back, of course.

”We're here…” Colin breathed out in relive as they finally arrived at their sterile destination. Colin had turned off the tracks lights and slowly rolled the car to park behind a big break wall about twenty feet from the main entrance to the white building.

Colin turned off the engine and then the teens quickly got out of the truck.

Jon closed the back door and then he walked up to Casey, taking her right hand and looking at the hand watch that his sist
er was wearing.

“It’s five past midnight.” He looked up at the doors. “The shift change should happen at any minute now." He said to his friends as they watched the fat guard at the entrance.

”C’mon…Move already…” Casey muttered as she and her friends leaned over the corner of the wall and watched with anticipation as the gorilla like guard finished his smoke and finally left the creaking plastic chair he was sitting on.

"C'mon!" Morgan whispered as he was the first to leave the safety of the break wall and the one to lead his friends through the now openly unguarded hospital door and into the brightly lightened lobby.

"Now as of here everyone has to be quiet, you can’t draw attention to yourselves."

Morgan warned Colin and Casey seriously, his eyes specially lingering on Casey as he said it.

"What the hell are you looking at me for?!" Casey asked annoyed loudly.

"
Shhh!" Morgan put his hand over Casey’s mouth. “Do you want to the whole hospital to know that you are here?”

"Fine…Fine…" Casey frowned as she shoved Mo
rgan’s hand away from her face.

“I’ll be as quiet as a mouse.” She promised, smiling as they left the lobby to take one of the elevators to the second floor where Morgan’s body lay.

"Man that’s weird…" Morgan said as they entered the mirrored space.

"What is?" Casey asked, turning to
see what Morgan was looking at.

"No reflection.” Morgan smiled, making a face in the mirror. "It's like I'm a vampire or something." He growled
, bearing his teeth and Casey shook her head.

"Yes, yes, count
Morgula, is this really what you are going to focus on at the moment?"

She looked at Colin who stood beside her. "Are we going to plug all of the machines that are in Morgan's room into the generator?" She asked as they left the mirrored space and headed to the white door that
was at the end of the hallway.

"No." Colin said as he looked around, to make sure that no one was watching as they opened the wooden door. "Just the life support system, we don't really need the monitor, it will just consume the entire buttery. Now…"

"Now! What are you kids doing in here?!" The whole gang practically jumped in surprise as they looked up at Morgan's bed to see a tall woman in a white nurse's outfit staring at them from her place at the beeping monitor.

"Oh…We…" Colin mumbled, feeling his face redden, he wasn't so
good in dealing with pressure. 

"We came here to visit my brother!" Casey declared as she stepped forward, kind of proud of herself for his quick thought, she didn't hav
e a problem to lie on the spot.

The nurse narro
wed her eyes.

"In this time of night?!
couldn't you wait until morning?" 

The nurse scowled, putting her hands on her hips. "
We do have rules, Miss. Tepes!"

She pointed at her, clearly not impress
ed by Casey standing up to her.

"Well, I didn't want to have to meet my parents here." Casey pouted, looking at Morgan who g
ave her a thumb up to continue.

The nurse crossed her arms over her chest; she clearly wasn't going
to be an easy one to deal with.

"I don’t really care about your domestic problems young lady, this hospital have rules. Visiting hours are from eight to eight. I think that this is enough time to visit your brother. Don't think that you will get special treatment over his condition, maybe the other nurses were lenient with you but on my shift you can't just barge in here like you own the place! And another thing…"

She paused, seeing that the girl in front of her was focused on something else, a spot behind her back. She frowned and turned, her eyes suddenly widening as she looked at what Casey was staring at.

"How…?" She shuttered, her eyes zeroed directly on Morgan. And it was not the Morgan that lay in the bed that you would expect her to see in the small bedroom but the actual Morgan, his soul that now stood directly behind her.

"What…?" Morgan blinked as he realizes that she was in fact looking at his ghost and not at his body.

"You…" He glanced at Casey who s
hrugged, as confused as he was.

”You can see me?!" He asked, a little taken aback by the disturbing discovery.

The nurse's surprised gaze turned into a frown at his words.

"Of course I can see you!" She put her hands on her hips again. "You are standing right here! Are you triplets?" She asked but Morgan ignored her, turnin
g to his astonished companions.

"How the fuck can she
see me?!" He demanded. “What's going on here?! Only you guys supposed to see me! Only you could!"

“I don’t know!” Casey screeched. “I thought only we can see you!”

The nurse's frown depend, she didn't seem to get what was all the commotion about.

She looked at C
asey and then at Morgan.

"There is no need for this kind of langue! And I would appreciate if you stepped away from the patient…OH MY GOD!" She screamed as she tried to grab Morgan's hand to p
ull him away from the bed side.

But tried was the key word here as her hand went through his ghostly arm like Din's went through it on the first day he became a spirit.

It was clear at that moment to all present that the astonished nurse was seconds away from screaming her head off so Jon, who until then stood behind the curtain that surrounded Morgan's unconscious body decided to stop her from exposing their presence.

He quickly jumped from behind the curtain, coming closely behind the tall woman; it was good that he was at the same high that she was so he managed to plaster one firm hand on her mouth and one on her bar
e arm to keep her from running.

He twisted her arm back to make it impossible for her to move and thanking every god that for a boy half her age he was strong enough to hold the erratic woman.

"Please don’t scream!" He asked. "We are not going to hurt you. We didn't come here to hurt anyone; we came here for one reason…"

"How are you doing this?" Morgan asked him as Jon was trying to calm the heaving wo
man. "How are you holding her?"

"Not sure." Jon looked at his hands. "
I just wanted to stop her…Now,"

He addressed the nurse
that stood still in his grasp.

”Miss, we are not the bad guys here and not some random hooligans so just nod if you promise not to scream and I will let you go and explain everything, I promise."

The nurse took a deep breath through her nose and nodded slowly, Jon smiled and removed his hands, letting her step forward and turn to face him.

"How many of you are there?" She asked, frightened, seeing for the first time that there are tree almost cloned boys and a relatively identical girl in the room with her and another boy that looked at the same age as the four others but d
id not look anything like them.

"What do you want? What are you here for?" She asked them, seeing that she will not get an answer to her first question and noticing that the other boy was stepping up to the bed and as he did that, he had pulled the covers up, to cover the unconscious boy's face and then proceeded to the life support machines with a clear intend
to unplug them.

"We are here for him." Colin told her, pointing at Morgan that lay on the bad and looking for the plug for the pump that was
working none stop beside them.

"Are you here to
kill him?" The nurse shuddered.

"NO!" Casey almost screamed, making her jump
in fear and stumble backwards.

"We are here to save him!" She declared. "My parents and the doctors in this stupid hospital are up for the killing and we are not going to let this happen, we are taking him away with us." She informed her in a very passionate, none compromised manner.

"No! You can't do that!" The nurse half begged, half attempted to sound like the older authority. "I won't allow…"

"We can!" Casey interrupted her declaration. "And we will! So don't you even think about trying to stop
us!"

"But you don’t have any medical training!" The nurse attempted to reason with the teens in front of her." You don't know how to handle a comatose patient!"

"Oh, don't worry." Colin said from his place at the generator. "I read lots of papers on the internet regarding the subject." He assured her, getting up and looking for the correct plug behind Morgan's head board.

"That's not enough!" The nurse protested, taking a step forward. "You are going to get the poor child killed!" She said desperate, seeing that Colin was already prepared to unplug the life support system after he found the right plug.

"You don't get it do you?" Casey stepped in front of the bed, denying the nurse's access to Colin. "He will be killed if he stays here!" Casey said, frowning at her. "And not just by my parents or the doctors!"

The nurse shook her head; sh
e didn't seem to understand it.

"What do you mean?" She asked, seemingly trying to stall until the security guard made hi
s check round around the floor.

Casey rubbed her temples; the annoying woman was giving her a head
ache with all of her questions.

"The things that did this to him might come here soon
enough to finish the job so the

'Poor child' here won't have to wait for my mother to let him 'Die in fucking peace' the monsters will do the job for her! Get it?" She growled and the nu
rse looked at a loss for words.

The dark haired teen in front of her just looked demanded; there was no telling to what she was capable of in her believes that seemed to motivate the
others to follow her lead.

"So you know who did this?" The nur
se tried to change the subject.

"You have to tell the police…"

"Trust me." Casey laughed. "The police won't be able to do anything about them."

"Then…" The nurse gulped. "Then maybe you should listen to your mother…She's an adult, she must know
what is best for your brother…"