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Tweak says, "Can I have a bite of that?"

wands_mod (wands_mod) wrote in my_rpg,
@ 2009-10-07 19:22:00

WHO: Everyone
WHAT: A catastrophe
WHERE: St. Mungo's
WHEN: Thursday Afternoon, around 4:45p

The bottle had been swapped the night before. The intern, a young wizard named Julius Young, was not supposed to be using Draco's ingredients, but he'd run out of his own and didn't want to wait till tomorrow. He was almost done, fifteen minutes before his shift was over. Arsenius had gone home. Draco was on break. He charmed the lock open, took out the bottle, and went back to his work station.

It was one of the most common potions the hospital used, but one of the ingredients, if mixed with Salamander Blood, was horribly explosive. The night before someone had sneaked in to the lab and swapped the bottle with salamander blood, dissolved in water with green dye. When the fake ingredient hit the half-finished potion, there was a shower of sparks, and then--as it mixed in-- a big bang.

The hospital shook, the blast set off a chain reaction of other, less stable ingredients in the lab. The floor above caved into the lab below. The lab sank into the floor below. Clocks fell off the wall, bottles rattled off the edges of tables.

The hospital broke into a state of panic.

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ex_flitterbl615
2009-10-08 01:18 am UTC (link)

Leanne was on her way back into her office after walking with one of her patients downstairs and out of the hospital. She customarily walked people down and out, as she felt it was the most courteous thing to do. It'd been a very long day for Leanne, as she was called in around twelve hours ago to work a domestic violence case that came in over the night.

She rubbed the back of her neck as she reached her office door--but was called back into the hall by someone. She didn't know who that someone was, because the instant after she heard her name there was a deafening CRASH, followed by explosions. The world shook, and Leanne was thrown back off her feet away from her door. Good thing, too, as the ceiling in her office caved in, sending dust and debris everywhere.

Leanne had the wind knocked out of her. She was disoriented, and slowly lifted her head, starting to cough.

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nurse_emma
2009-10-08 01:20 am UTC (link)

Emma had been going to see Tim when it happened. She wanted to tell him that she'd found some fun decorations for the party; basically she just wanted an excuse to see him. Ever since they'd started planning the party, she thought about him a lot. That wasn't like her - but it was a nice change of pace from worrying about her mother all the time.

She'd entered the spell damage ward when the rumbling started. The floor was shaking violently when she looked up and saw him heading toward her. Everyone around them was screaming and running, but time felt like it was standing still as the floor bagan to visibly crack...

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blenkinsop
2009-10-08 01:23 am UTC (link)

Tim was a little panicked. He'd just been called to a case, and was headed in the direction of the room to which he'd been called when there were huge booms, walls shaking, and people screaming. He saw Emma and stopped in his tracks. The hall was directly above an office downstairs. The crack traveled quickly along the wall, then the floor shook and tilted, dumping Tim, Emma, and a spare gourney down into the office below.

Tim had given a very un-manly yelp as the floor below him gave way, and he landed with a pretty nasty sounding crunch on the desk in the office below.

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nurse_emma
2009-10-08 01:26 am UTC (link)

Emma was going to run, but there was no where to run to. Everything was collapsing around them and then suddenly the whole floor collapsed and she screamed as she fell through to the floor below her. While the lab itself had continued to fall away, they were another wing over, not above the lab but above an office that didn't collapse.

Emma landed in a painful heap, covering her head as debris fell around her. She heard the gurney smash overhead and she screamed again, hearing it crack, hoping that Tim hadn't been in the way of it. Dust and papers flew everywhere, she could still hear the rumbling and then everything was eerily silent.

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blenkinsop
2009-10-08 02:10 am UTC (link)

Tim's lungs wanted him to cough, but his chest muscles were on fire. Maybe he cracked a rib in his fall. He turned to climb off the desk once everything was starting to settle, and fell off the desk with a yelp of pain onto the floor. Definitely a broken rib. He lifted his head to look around the room, though it was hard to see past all the dust, papers and debris in the air.

Had Emma fallen in the room with him? She was the last thing he saw in the hall before he'd fallen. "Are you there?"

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	nurse_emma 2009-10-08 02:13 am UTC (link)
	Emma lifted her head a little, wincing when she heard something fall in the distance. She lifted her hands from her head and looked over her shoulder - just barely able to see Tim. "Tim? I'm..." she coughed, shifting as she slid out from under the gurney. "I'm over here... are you OK?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blenkinsop 2009-10-08 02:18 am UTC (link)
	"I'm okay." He called back. He wasn't really sure. He was doing a mental survey of his limbs. Everything seemed surprisingly all right, save his chest. Definitely broken rib. At least one. "Are you all right?" He asked, slowly pulling himself up to his feet to survey the room and move to her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nurse_emma
2009-10-08 02:23 am UTC (link)

"I think so," she called back, lifting her body to sit up among the debris. "Oh... oh, Merlin the entire floor caved... we must be on the floor below ours?" she assumed, looking up at the gaping hole where a ceiling should have been. They were so far down - seeing as an entire floor was missing - that climbing back out wasn't an option.

She rose to shaky feet and crawled over the desk, slowly, and sank down beside him. "There's blood... is it yours?" she asked, gesturing toward the desk where there was a stain. Emma checked herself, noting scratches on her arms where her robes were torn and could feel that her cheek was starting to swell.