Part 3
The time read 10:13 P.M. on her touch screen phone.
Relief.
She was on her break.
She sighed.
It been a hectic night for the woman sitting in a open dining area at the hospital.
Reiko Matsumoto.
Her table was a mess consisting of food wrappers scattered about.
She was wearing red scrubs and black sneakers,
She worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant. The core task of her job was attending patients calls, determining the best method to treat patients, checking vitals, helping patients with hygiene, transporting patients throughout the hospital and so on, but right now her attention was elsewhere.
Haruko Matsumoto.
Reiko was fidgeting with her phone.
"Why won't he pick up?"
She was trying to get in contact with the teen, she knew he was up, but he wasn't responding to her calls or texts.
She seemed to become much more annoyed by the second.
"Penny for your thoughts, Ms. Matsumoto"
A voice interrupted her thoughts causing her to look up to the source of voice.
"Lovely night is it not, do you mind if take a seat here?" A man walked up to her.
The man had had fair white skin and shiny back hair. He was wearing a light blue button-down shirt with his sleeves rolled up and a black tie. He was wearing tan pants with tan dress shoes.
On his coat was a small clip-on badge that read medical director.
Antonio Russo.
The appearance of elegance and excellence.
"Oh no, help yourself" She replied in a nervous manner. In a mad dash she scrambled to clean her trash off the table.
"Something is troubling you Ms. Matsumoto"
She frowned and placed the phone on the table.
(Maybe he could help me understand Haruko. It could be worth a shot)
She turned to him.
"It my about my nephew Haruko"
Antonio stared at Reiko"
"Haruko…..Haruko he is the one that always in and out of the hospital with injures"
"Um yes" Reiko replied as she lowered her head in shame.
There was a slight popping sound as Antonio opened his food container.
"He isn't answering the phone now I just worry about him because all the stupid and dangerous stuff he gets into"
"There could be plenty of reason as to why he not answering but you are dead set on one I believe. If you don't mind me asking what would consider "stupid and dangerous" for him.
"He goes around getting into fights under the guise of helping others. This morning you should have seen him when he came to school. He looked terrible and some small part of me knew he got into a fight. Just running around getting into fights without a care in the world"
"That was not something I was prepared to hear, while a few fist fights is troublesome no doubt it could be worse don't you think"
Reiko stared at him.
"What do you mean by worse"
"Well he could be getting into world ending events or running around with a secret child saving the world"
Reiko felt she lost a few brain cells listening to that statement and just stared at him.
She sighed.
"You read to many books"
"It a good way to past time"
"Now you're starting to sound like him"
The phone that was placed on the table began to vibrate as a call came in.
She picked up the phone and notice that it was Haruko calling her.
"I have to answer this "She turned to the man and grab her bag of trash and walk a few feet away.
"It about time you answered!" Reiko said loudly into the phone.
"H..hey Reiko, wonderful night is it not, how is everything going with you?"
It was Haruko voice.
A part inside of her calmed down.
"We sorta need your help, you still have access to one of the rooms in the hospital that in currently under renovations"
Reiko paused.
"...Why"
"I don't have time explain fully in detail be we need to, what is the word, it is on the tip of my tongue…com….commun….commandeer, that the word. We need to commadeer one of the rooms"
"What" Reiko said as she stood there "Haruko what is going on, what are talking about"
She held the phone to her ear waiting for a response.
"Promise you won't get mad" Haruko pleaded.
"Haruko" Reiko yelled out into the phone.
"Okay, okay long story really, really short. A girl landed on my balcony and some guy was chasing, yada yada some magic was involved yada yada and I manage to save her, but she is in really bad shape. I was hoping to com….oh crap what was the word again, take, borrow I don't fucking know the word I could give two shits about the word now"
"Those rooms are off limit, if she injured just take bring to the emergency entrance. We can take her from there and get her treated.
"No, no that is not possible, this whole plan to save her relies on the fact that no one knows that she here.
Reiko paused as she heard that the statement. It had sounded like Haruko got himself something big.
"What did you get our self into?"
"It's a long story I can tell you later, but I need to get her help and time is not her side."
Reiko stood there.
An ambulance started its siren behind Reiko as it left the parking lot of the hospital. Reiko paused when she heard that very same sire on the opposite end of the phone.
"Haruko where are you" she asked looking around the courtyard..
"You know the alley between the pharmacy and the part of the hospital has scaffolding on it, that where we are at"
She turned her head to the right and saw the pharmacy.
Reiko hung up the phone and began walking towards the pharmacy. Antonio watched as she left the courtyard.
As she walked into the alleyway the first person that came into her view was Alexis.
"H-hey Reiko" Her voice was shaking as she weakly wave at her.
"Alexis what are you doing here and where is your brother"
"Right here and she decided to tag along, and I really couldn't leave her at the house" Haruko voice came from down further in the alley behind a metal trash bin.
Reiko slowly walked to where she thought she heard Haruko voice.
The was a flickering light nearby on a wall.
She walked down the alley and saw that he was kneeling over a girl that was slumped over the wall unconscious.
She noticed that Haruko was covered in blood and dirt holding the girl front and back mid-section. There was blood seeping through his fingers.
The girl was in bad shape.
In an instant that she could not tell if it was instinct or not, she immediately rushed and knelt down near the girl. She placed her fingers to her neck checking for a pulse.
"She alive, just taken a few bad hits, lost a lot of blood and has a really bad wound"
Reiko removed her fingers from her neck and grabbed her black walkie-talkie hanging off her right pocket.
"Hold on, I can call someone and have them bring a stretcher here and-"
"Wait don't'' Haruko shouted to her as he couldn't move he move his hands from her midsection. "No one can know that she here".
Reiko looked at Haruko right hand that was on the girl midsection, she saw that blood was pouring past his hands.
"Haruko she is losing blood rapidly; she will go into shock if he isn't treated regardless of what your reason may be"
Haruko paused.
"The reason no one can know that she is here is because people are after her, someone chasing after attacked me and her at the house. If other people found out about her, there is no telling who would come after her next"
Reiko looked at Haruko and then turned to Aoi, she didn't have the strength or time to question his story. She turned back to Haruko.
"Haruko she is bleeding out; how do you expect to have her treated if you don't want anyone to know about her?"
"She said that she could heal herself"
"And you believed her" Reiko shouted to him.
"I don't know what to believe right now, an hour ago I just woke up from a nap ready to eat my burritos and the next thing I know she fell out of the sky and some guy was chasing her. None of this seem real to me, but it doesn't change the fact that it happened and that she needs help now"
Haruko turned to her with pleading eyes.
"Please I really need your help"
Reiko looked at Haruko.
She didn't know what was going on right now, but she didn't have time to understand and neither did the girl bleeding out slumped over on the wall. She could not leave her out her like this, it was her duty to help
Reiko exhaled and stood up. The girl was not going to get help like this with them arguing outside.
"Fine, there are a few unused rooms that she can use, but you better hope that you know what you are doing"
Reiko took off her badge and placed on a scanner nearby wall.
There was silence followed by two beeps and the sound of an electronic door unlocking. Reiko turned the knob and opened the door.
"This way and hurry before anyone see you"
Haruko picked up Aoi in a bridal carry and began walking towards the door, Alexis following behind him.
"Just hold on Aoi"
The door behind the closed silently shutting them out to the outside world.
A sigh broke outside as the the door closed coming from the edge of the roof a couple of blocks away, coming from the medical director watching the previous event unfold, his lab coat flapping in the wind.
"It seems my night is going to be a little more hectic"