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Tweak says, "I promise."

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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mungos_miri
2009-10-08 01:51 am UTC (link)

The Janus Thickey Ward was right over the lab. Miriam had her shoulder under Alice Longbottom's arm, walking her back to her bed while she tried to give her candy wrappers. When the floor caved in, Miriam felt gravity tug her down and screamed in shock. Alice didn't make a sound.

The next thing she remembered was seeing a broken light flicker and spark overhead. Miriam tried to see through the haze of sheetrock dust. She felt hot, wet blood dripping across her face. She couldn't move. There was something on her body and her left side felt numb.

She lay there, coughing from all of the dust, wondering if Alice was okay. She couldn't see the woman anywhere.

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onthesofa
2009-10-08 03:29 am UTC (link)

One minute she had been speaking to a patient and then Audrey was suddenly on the floor with people screaming and crying around her. She couldn't remember how she ended up on the floor. She didn't recall the explosion.

All she knew is she was hurting, badly. Her head was pounding and Audrey felt pain shooting up and down her leg. She tried to call out, but inhaled a large gulp of dust and started coughing profusely.

Audrey pulled herself up as best as she could, groaning in pain when she put weight on her left leg. "Who's there? What happened?"

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	mungos_miri 2009-10-08 03:32 am UTC (link)
	Miriam heard Audrey's voice. She cough, trying to be heard. She couldn't get much air to project for very long. "I can't move," she called. Miriam picked up a small piece of debris and threw it, hoping someone might see it and see where she was. It was her own, pathetic distress beacon. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

onthesofa
2009-10-08 08:12 pm UTC (link)

A bit of rubble landed in front of Audrey and she looked towards the direction it came from. Grunting with each step, she hobble over to Miriam and looked down. "Dear Merlin," she whispered softly.

If she knelt down, Audrey knew she wasn't going to be able to pull herself up again. "Hold on," she said and fumbled around for her wand. Pulling it from her robes, Audrey lifted the lab table that had fallen on top of Miriam. Carefully moving it to the side, Audrey checked and double checked that it wouldn't land on anyone else.

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	mungos_miri 2009-10-09 12:46 am UTC (link)
	"Oh...." she looked down at her side. There was a gash in her shirt, straight through her skin, and she was laying in a pool of her own, almost black, blood. "Is that all mine?" (Reply to this) (Parent)

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