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Post by Caleith Vryre on Jun 20, 2008 22:31:41 GMT -5
"Just a water," he replied simply, with a smile, one might add.
It was a good thing he took out the Bible first, otherwise he would've made himself a little obvious by taking notes on the man directly after sitting down. Caleith thought he'd save that for when Nia settled down.
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Post by Nia on Jun 20, 2008 22:36:27 GMT -5
Nia disappears for a moment and returns with a bottle and a cup full of ice, "I didn't know what you would like...." She gives a nervous smile. "Here you go." She sets the items upon the side table and, pauses, but quickly leaves as another call light goes off down the hall. "I'll be at the station." Her last words trail behind as she leaves for the other room.
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Post by Caleith Vryre on Jun 20, 2008 22:56:42 GMT -5
Caleith smiled for as long as Nia was in the room. As she left, he immediately whipped out a pocket notebook and a pen, and began taking notes of the man, as well as quick sketches.
Hmmm... It would appear he's been bitten by a vampire. Those bite marks are hard to mistake for anything else. Fangs, for sure. Someone who was in desperate need of feeding too, it would seem. For him to lose well over a pint of blood, that's definitely odd. A pint IS a pint, no matter what it is. This one was hungry... I wonder if it's characteristic of all the vampires around here... Perhaps this city's gonna take more effort to save than I previously calculated. What a mess...
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Post by Nia on Jun 20, 2008 23:06:22 GMT -5
Nia heads to the nurses' station when Amy, the ward clerk appears from the room that had set off the call. "Is everything okay? Nia asks.
"Yes, ma'am. She just needed help going to the restroom..." Amy looks towards Mr. Seward's room. "Was that Father Altaire you were speaking to?"
Nia nods, "Yes, he's looking over Mr. Seward. Please do not bother him, Amy." Nia looks over her shoulder towards the room as well. It's best if the Father sits with him.....Something is not quite right here....
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Post by Caleith Vryre on Jun 21, 2008 22:14:11 GMT -5
Nia would be right on that. Something was definitely not right with the man. Just as soon as Caleith would reach out to gently touch the bite marks, Mr. Seward's eyes would shoot open. He quickly retrieved his hand, but not before getting noticed. Mr. Seward seemed rather angry upon his awakening. Especially angry as his machines met the wall behind Caleith, triggering another of the call lights.
"Damn! This ain't good..."
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Post by Nia on Jun 21, 2008 22:19:06 GMT -5
Nia's head jerks at the sound of the call light and the shout. "What in the world?" She looks towards Amy, "Get me security, tell them that it's urgent, Father Altaire's in the room."
Amy nods and picks up a phone.
Nia rushes into the room, "Father?! Mr. Seward?! What happened?"
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Post by Caleith Vryre on Jun 21, 2008 22:25:55 GMT -5
"Nia, while I'm absolutely sure I can take care of this myself, I figured I might let you have a look-see before I do anything TOO drastic," said the good Father as Mr. Seward rose to his feet. There was no reason why he should've been on his feet, and it was totally unprecedented that he would be sprinting across the short width of the room to attack the Father.
Acting solely in self-defense, and without giving himself away, he merely stepped to the side, and laid into the man's gut with a lightly charged fist. As the patient doubled over, Caleith dropped an straight into his back, dropping him to the floor for the time being.
"Really, I'd like an opinion before he gets back up!"
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Post by Nia on Jun 21, 2008 22:38:57 GMT -5
Before Nia has the chance to say anything two large orderlies, and a security guard arrive. Within moments they have Mr. Seward back upon the bed and restrained.
"Mr. Seward?" Nia looks over the man, silently noting the punctures on his neck were red and enlarged,"I'm going to give you a sedative...." She pulls a needle from her pocket and sends the medicine through his veins. "Father...." She pauses waving the three men out of the room, "I think we need to speak in private... Please follow to my office." Nia then looks to the Guard, "Please stay in here... The sedative I gave him should keep him out for sometime....But, at the first sign of anything please come find me...." The guard nods. "Father, If you would?"
She leads him to a small office, it is rather bare except for a picture frame that contains a picture of her and her husband on their wedding day, a medium sized medical bag, a desk, two chairs and a book shelf. "I think we are both sensing the same problems here. What is your veiw?"
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Post by Caleith Vryre on Jun 21, 2008 22:43:14 GMT -5
"That depends. He's obviously been bitten, but..." He paused.
"But, I don't wanna say this... But do YOU subscribe to vampires and other creatures of the night? Because to me, this has all the classic signs of being victimized by a vampire, or something of vampiric nature," explained Father Calvin, trying to remain as such. He wasn't sure how well he was pulling it off at the given time, though.
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Post by Nia on Jun 21, 2008 22:59:48 GMT -5
Nia sits behind her desk and motions for him to take a seat also. She sighs, "Yes, actually I do...... For you see, when I was younger my doctors wondered the same thing because of my condition." She pauses here, thinks a moment and begins again. "I had hoped to never actually come into contact with a true victim of a vampire... But it seems fate has planned something else for me." She sighs and reaches over to her bookshelf, "Ah, here it is...." She pulls a book from the shelf, it's visibly old and looks as if it would fall apart. "Here, I began reading this when Mr. Seward first came in.... It holds all his sypmtoms and tells us more....."
Stage One: Infection. Within hours of being bitten, the victim develops a headache, fever, chills and other flu-like symptoms as the body tries to fight off the infection. These symptoms can be easily confused with more common viral infections, although the presence of bite marks on the body are usually enough to confirm the diagnosis. This stage generally lasts between six and twelve hours. Stage Two: Vampiric Coma. Within 24 hours of being bitten, the victim will slip into a vampiric coma. During this phase, the pulse slows, breathing is shallow and the pupils are dilated. The large numbers of people mistakenly buried alive while in vampiric comas gave rise to the myth that vampires sleep in coffins. While it is commonly thought that anyone infected with HVV turns into a vampire, in fact only a small percentage of people survive vampiric comas. Generally, the young, the old and the feeble never come out of their vampiric comas and eventually die. The vast majority of people who survive vampiric comas are males between the ages of 18 to 35. Vampiric comas last about a day; the victim usually comes out of the coma three nights after its onset. Stage Three: Transformation. A bite victim who survives the coma will awaken fully transformed into a vampire. An acclimation period follows, characterized by confusion, despondency and paranoia. Most vampires begin to hunt within 24 hours of transformation.
Nia points to the last sentence, "Father, I think we have a problem...."
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Post by Caleith Vryre on Jun 22, 2008 16:05:55 GMT -5
"I'd say so... I left my stakes at home," he said jokingly. "In all seriousness, we need to isolate this man. From what I know of this town, we're short-handed on vampire hunters. Maybe some of the demon hunters might take care of vamps on the side. Who knows? In any case, we might be looking at a serious outbreak. If the media gets word of this, the whole nation will be driven back into the 1600s. With the witch hunts and what-not... Let's just say it's a new strain of West Nile Virus, for media's sake," said Calvin, shaking his head.
Too bad for Severance. We might really be facing some serious crap, here. I can only do so much on my own.
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Post by Nia on Jun 22, 2008 21:57:20 GMT -5
Nia nods and hits a small button on her desk. "Amy, please make arrangements to have Mr. Seward taken to---"
A scream rings out in the hall.
Nia lets a small growl erupt from her throat. "It seems we are too late....." She stands and grabs her bag then runs out the door.
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Post by Caleith Vryre on Jun 22, 2008 22:28:43 GMT -5
"Damn!"
Calvin rushed out the door behind her, only to witness Mr. Seward going to town on one of the night shift caretakers. Initially, he winced, but quickly took charge.
"Nia, you wouldn't happen to have campers in the building would ya? I'm sure they wouldn't mind to collapse their tent for a stake," he said, sprinting toward his target with two fists brightly charged. He forgot who he was around, and thus dropped his cover, as one of the intensely glowing fists met the patient's stomach, burning with holy energy. The pressure would send Mr. Seward sailing down the length of the hall, crashing into a cart holding the dirty dishes of the patients.
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Post by Nia on Jun 22, 2008 22:57:14 GMT -5
"Father! A stake through the heart is only a myth! You must behead him to stop him.... And then we'll put his body into the incenerator." She pauses her looking at the collateral damage, Amy and the three men from earlier are laying on the floor. It was appearent there had been a struggle though it was a one-sided fight. Damnit, I shouldn't have left them alone.... I knew there was something wrong with him... Oh God, please help us. She is still beating herself up on the inside when she picks up the phone and calls for reenforcements. Unknowing on how Calvin is fairng in his ,she calls her husband, "Am, honey? Yeah, no, we have a problem, It's Mr. Seward, he's...he's *she begins crying* What we were talking about after you noticed the marks, Yes, it was the coma, he came out of it last night...... I understand *she chokes bakc more tears*.... Okay....Bye, I love you too." She turns to see multiple men enter the doors, Severance's Branch of The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency, she merely points the way to where she saw Calvin and Seward and begins her work on the fallen.
She goes to the broken form of Amy, amd places her hands over her body, Nia's eyelids begin to flutter as her magic surges through Amy, rebuilding the crushed and fixing the damaged. Nia feels a heartbeat and turns to work on the other men..... She is too late.... They have fallen victims to a fledgling's first attack......
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Post by Caleith Vryre on Jun 23, 2008 22:49:23 GMT -5
As Nia appeared to be occupied at the moment, Caleith thought it to be the perfect time to let loose on the creature, as part of his duty. Mr. Seward was scrambling to his feet as Caleith took a few steps back, letting some of the holy energy build in his right hand. The patient was on his feet when Caleith's blaze orange eyes flashed yellow. Mr. Seward, was obviously half out of his mind when he decided to charge Caleith, and would soon find himself FULLY detached.
Wings of light energy burst from Caleith's backside, and he flapped the enormous wings just once to just some clearance below to let the man pass under. He then turned around and let the energy loose from his outstretched hand, in a means of flying guillotine. The searing holy power effortlessly decapitated the patient, his body running a few more steps as the head rolled to the floor. Just before the first of the special task force arrived, he gave the wings one more good flap to send him sailing down the hallway and around the corner, to avoid being immediately detected. Cal would hide out in an open closet for a moment as his energy levels simmered down.
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