On the Job

[Rachel Hymer]

Rachel was folding up clean towels and setting them on the shelf while she was working in the hospital wing, one day. She didn't dare try any of the family curses, incase they didn't work or something, but really wanted to.
The Hospital wasn't too empty, there were a few empty beds.
She had spent most of the morning healing cuts from a mishap in Animal Care. She went into the store to get some medicine for a girl she was helping. When the girl had left, Rachel saw that she had left her hair band in the store, when she had fixed her hair while getting the medicine. She went in, got it, and came back out to find that someone was sitting up.
She walked over and realsied that it was her head, Will, who was awake. She went over and smiled. "Hey. When did you get up?"

[Will Wright]

"Hey. When did you get up?"
Will turned her head ever so painfully to look at the girl who had greeted and asked her a question.
"Hmm, I don't..." she winced, "I don't know. Who are you?" she was in so much pain that she closed her eyes again and tried to figure out what her premonition had meant. Her head felt like it was going to split in two.

[Rachel Hymer]

Rachel blinked at her. "I'm Rachel....Rachel Hymer. We met at the assembly..I'm a Carer..." She sighed and sat down on the empty bed beside her. "I don't know, you probably don't remember me..I'm not that rememberble. But it's okay. So..are you feeling any better?" She asked. She looked up at the celing.
She thought she could feel the spirits pricking at her. She twiched, and felt unfortable.

[Will Wright]

"Oh yeah, I remember you now. Sorry!" Will kept her eyes close but she thought she heard and saw Rachel's shadow move.
"No, I'm sore all over," Will started to cough uncontrollably.

[Rachel Hymer]

"Yeah..sorry, I can't really do anthing about that... Ah well, atleast you're not dead."
That would always be her advice to patients. She gazed out the window and saw a flock of birds fly past. It wasn't a very good day, it was raining heavily, and she could see students running back into the school to escape being wet.
"So, how'd it happen?" She asked.

[Will Wright]

"How did what happen?" Will was confused, "Oh this? I was learning how to use our powers to defend or attack against the war....then I don't know," she stared out fo the window too. It seemed the weather was just as bad as Will felt. How could she help Macy?
"Here could you do me a favour, and find Anton Gordon and tell him to take over my position for a while at least until I get better?" she closed her eyes and she felt a sharppain in her stomach.
"Argh," she bent over in pain.

[Rachel Hymer]

"Anton Gordon ((is that spelt right...))...okay, will do." She walked out into the hall, looked round to see if anyone was watching, stopped time and ran off, looking for him. She finally found him, started time again, told him and went back to the hosptial. "Okay, he said he'd do it." She sat back on the empty bed and looked round her at the clean walls and thought. "Hey, arn't you frinds with that girl who got taken? Just because, I think I can help..." She didn't know what Will's reaction would be, but before she could shout at her, she tried to explain herself. "You see, I can minipulate time...and we could possibly go back to when she got taken and see who did it..."

[Erin Rakal]

Erin opened the door to the hospital.
"Halloooo?" she called in a quiet and strange voice. For some reason she could never pronounce the word 'hello' right. Her hands were slightly clammy as she slowly opened the door, but didn't come completely in.
Hospitals had always freaked her out. It wasn't how clean they were - it was simply...the tools that the doctors sometimes used.
She could almost see herself lying in the small, white bed. With a huge machine that looked like some super-powered laser looming on the ceiling.

Another reason why her voice might have sounded distorted was the large metal pot she was currently wearing on her head.
She could still see, and it provided some comfort against the painfully bright heat, as well as her blindfold.
She felt very small in the room, as if she were a stain against the white walls. She shuddered, trying to shake away her uneasy feeling.
Erin couldn't remember the name of that girl, but she'd put two and two together.
{She did say that she was a carer...and there are nurses that CARE for you in a hospital...I just hope I'm right!} she thought to herself...

[Will Wright]

"Thanks Rachel. Yeah I'm friendly enough with Madeleine alright but I haven't had the chance to talk to Kira yet." Will thought about what she had just said.
"Actually that could be a great thing. If Madeleine and Kira come in here sometime to see me then I will talk to them about it. Are you in here everyday or just some days?" at that moment the door opened and a strange distorted voice said,
"Halloooo?"
A girl came in with a pot over her head and a blindfold on. She looked odd.

[Rachel Hymer]

"I'm in here every other day. I think yous are in the room beside me..I'm in room 17. I've seen some of yous walking round together, but I never talked to yous..."
Rachel didn't really have a lot of friends, but would usually just be by herself, but she didn't really care anymore. But it did get to her sometimes. She heard someone come in, and she thought that it was Professor Truman, who would come in about this time to check on all the patients and workers, but it wasn't. She realised that it was the girl that she had help in the forest a few days before.
"Oh my goodness! It's the girl..." She didn't really know now to describe her... "So, you decided to take up my offer on visiting the school. How have you been?" She shuffled over on the bed, to make room for the girl.

[Erin Rakal]

She jumped slightly at the sound of one...no, two voices.
"ACK!" she yelped, jumping back. Then she peeked her head in the room again only to find that one of them was the girl who had healed her.
She came in, grumbling when Rachel said something about school.
"Yeah, yeah. I decided to come, as much as I don't want an education. I guess I'm fine, apart from my aching muscles and my stomach," she said as she lumbered in, her stomach voicing its severe hunger with a growl. Surprisingly she didn't bump into anything as she walked over to Rachel.
"Who'r you?" she asked Will, pointing to her. She'd only worn the pot to get past groups of people; they shined like suns.
She picked the pot off of her head and set it on the nearest bed before sitting down.
She looked around, particularly scanning the room for any menacing machines, but found none. Maybe they didn't need those big ones.
"So....uh....you guys live in a ...hospital?" she asked, slightly squeaking the last word.

[Rachel Hymer]

Rachel laughed. "No, we don't live in the Hosptial. I work here, and Will...well she fainted, or something. I think you'll probably have to stay here for a day or two, until you get better." She said to Will. She turned back to the girl. "No, we live in the school, though. In dorms. It's a boarding school. Oh, and what's your name? I don't think I caught it before..."

[Erin Rakal]

"I never liked most hospitals, but I guess this one's okay," she said, shrugging slightly.
"This whole big castle is a school?!" Erin said. But then she realized that was a stupid thing to say. What else would the entire thing be?
She shook her head to change the subject to the next question Rachel asked her. "My name?" she said. Then she bowed dramatically while saying, "I am Erin Rakal, one who hates my last name." At the end of her sentence her head was almost touching the floor, and she looked up at Rachel before giving another smile; everyone who talked about her - if anyone ever did - would say that she'd stolen the Chesire Cat's grin along with other things.
She rose, the smile slowly melting away as she turned to Will.
"Fainted, you say? Well, that isn't good! What, did something scare you? Did you get too hot?" she asked, not knowing that Will possessed powers as well as everyone else at the school.

[Will Wright]

"Eh, no. I was learning how to use our powers to defend or attack against the war....then I don't know," Will answered Erin's question, then she turned to Rachel, "Agh, you don't think Madam Gornray would be able to fix me now, it's not that I don't like hospitals I just hate the beds!" she shifted a bit and winced. She looked at Erin who looked slightly uncomfortable.
"So where do you come from?" she said trying to make conversation.

[Erin Rakal]

Erin merely stared at Will, shocked by what she said.
"You mean you have powers, too?" she asked.
"And what's this about a war? You didn't say anything about a war," she said, pointing an accusing finger at Rachel.
Part of her wanted to stay away. I mean, she wasn't simply going to jump in on the fact that she might be killed! As much as she disliked her life she still wanted to live.
And then there was that other part.
The part of her mind that'd been altered by the chemicals to make her left side of the brain more like a primitive animal more than a human being. The part of her that made her occasionally crave blood and kill people.
The dangerous side of her.
That part of her wanted to jump right in, to feel the intoxicating adrenaline pump through her veins. She knew from the first time she'd tasted blood that she'd never stop fighting. It chilled her to think that she actually wanted to join just for the battles, but she also knew that she'd never be able to stop craving that strange kind of adrenaline.
She shuddered, thankful that Will asked her a question.
"Oh...uhh....I'm..." she paused, thinking of what to say as an answer. Should she tell her everything? The spill, her parent's fear? "uhhhh......" Her mind began filling up with rushing thoughts.
She silenced all of them by giving a slightly mysterious smile before saying, "I'm from the nearby town."