Rooms anonymous (roomsanon) wrote in rooms, @ 2014-04-10 20:44:00 |
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Entry tags: | !marvel comics, *news |
[marvel: update]
[In the wake of the pulse, a few patients go missing from the hospitals where they were accepted.
No one notices.]
[They disappear in the chaos following the incident. There was no time to do the appropriate intake paperwork for most of the patients, so on paper they were never there. Witnesses generally remember seeing those missing with a doctor or nurses before they disappeared. One claims to have heard they were being transferred to another hospital due to overflow. The hospital staff have nothing to say. They did move patients to the less busy hospitals by the end of the night, and almost all of those patients arrived safe and sound. As for the missing, maybe they checked themselves out. But no one can quite remember sending a doctor or a nurse to see them.
The security tapes, if checked, prove spotty and unreliable. The security guards cite the chaos - the video room was running on a skeleton crew when the rush hit, and someone must have bumped something. An eagle eye might spot nondescript vans and trucks all leaving a back alley behind the hospital around the same time, but they swiftly disappear down streets without cameras, and the plates prove untraceable.
Many people, as with any tragedy, are still unaccounted for. Plenty of them were never seen at the hospital at all, and their families are worried sick. In contrast, those who were spotted at the hospital even have the courtesy of texting their most recent contacts so they won't worry. Fine. Going home to rest.
Then the sim cards in those phones are snapped in half and disposed of immediately after the texts are sent. If the patients were ever there, there is no record of them. It's as if they never left the incident scene. They might as well be ghosts. No one reports them, not right away, at least. By the time anyone realizes, all that will be left is a few uncorroborated sightings, some baffled conversation, and a cluster of benign looking cars caught by a red light camera disappearing around a streetcorner.]