Mated by fate

y's

ended, and begin packing up my things before I

ards the changing room. Dread spreads through my body on hearing

crossing my fingers behind my

ed you to stay behind for another shift,"

hat I thought an

as I move my head slowly from side to side, trying to reason with her. Altho

ve to be put on hold," she replies, her lip

r something, maybe she'd have agreed. I don't ha

" I ask her, hoping she wo

t anyone else but you to

ause it means I don't get my sleep time. "Thanks, ma'am, but I really don't thi

the next words that come out of her mouth makes me stop and rethink my wanting to leave. "If

sistant head nurse. if just looking after this patient can get me ther

ed tonight and he has been showing strange symptoms. He was diagnosed with a mild case of fever, but his reactions say otherwise. I j

e the one staying just to look over a patient with just a mild fever

I have to explain anything more to y

myself. luckily, she doesn't hear, or m

e and pats my arm softly, befo

e goes my sl

is what I went to school for, and I doubt I would be able to be as good in another job

the job, I love and appreciate the paycheck. Being in a pos

s totally normal, and it looks like he's sound asleep, a huge contradiction to what was described t

safe. We've had cases of some weird and disturbed people entering patients' rooms thro

t and then walk

enough inspectio

ion when I hear noises coming from the ro

lk back towards the patient

totally confused and wondering if I w

here. But right now, everything looks totally no

oks still. Susp

losely. On touching his head, a coldness shoots

o. It ca

chest, I check for a pul

it is the first time I've ha

ves, I pick up my phone and place a call to the reception

phone, I'm left questioni

ad closed earli

ings have to happen to me?'

ain, looking outside for

e outside, or inside either - other than the dead man. Shaking off the feeling, I turn to close the window and walk away,

urning bright as a flame captured in a glass. I will myself to look away,

inally, it moves away, enveloping itself in a shadow of the darkness. Only then