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I was sitting in the room with Keith. I was falling asleep because I had been there all day. I started to dream about the cops catching Danny and Keith and I having dates and romance, when I felt a hard jab in my shoulder.
I woke up instantly to see Keith staring at me on his bed. I jerked my body up off the chair. I turned around and fell up against the bed. The room was pitch black except for the faded light coming under the door from the hospital hallway. My vision was starting to get hazy but I could make out Danny scrambling to pick up the syringe that just shattered against the ground.
I looked back at Keith and his eyes stared right into mine. His eyes seemed to be alert but he couldn't move. He had a small drop of blood forming around a puncture in his neck. His eyes darted past my shoulder and I followed them to see Danny coming toward me.
I pushed off of the bed and staggered forward. I fell to the ground a little but managed to get back into balance as i adjusted to the swaying in my head. My vision started to blur at the edges as I looked at Danny adjust to my outburst. It was clear to me then that he drugged me and Keith.
I looked around the room causing the room to spin around me a couple of times. The drugs were starting to really get me and knew I only had a little bit of time to do anything. Who knows what Danny wanted.
"This doesn't have to be so hard Kat," Danny's words echoed around in my head as he started approaching me.
I backed up slowly and hit up against a metal tray that rattled the instruments scattered on top. I slapped at the tray and found the edge of a scalpel. I drew it up viscously as his image in my vision bounced back and forth. He started to back away slowly as if to wait me out while the drugs fully kicked in.
I tried to lunge forward to move him in a circle. He kept backing up as his image lingered in my vision. I looked past his shoulder and he was almost at the wall Keith's bed was up against. I saw the round button next to Keith's headboard for calling the nurse. I made a final jab at Danny so he would bump up against the wall. He bumped into the call nurse button and I saw the little nurse symbol click on with light. Danny hadn't noticed.
We stayed frozen there for a second while he tried to size me up. He swayed in small motions. I tried to steady myself by holding the scalpel with both hands. Suddenly he made a grab for my legs but I staggered back. My head was rushing in circles and I felt the ground fall into my back.
Danny crawled over and put his knees on my chest and spread my arms out to either side of my body. He twisted the scalpel out of my hand as I struggled to push him off of me. His weight was crushing my chest making my breathing harder. The whirling in my head was swirling into darkness. I focused my sight on the thin strip of light coming in from the hallway.
He started running his hands over my body. Feeling my face. I had stopped fighting as I tried to focus my strength on my labored breaths. The light of the door flashing as people walked by. Finally the nurse entered the door and light flooded my vision.
The nurse took in the scene at once and screamed. She turned around to motion to people at the end of the hall. Danny was startled and rolled off my chest. The darkening edges of my sight cleared up.
Danny pulled himself off the ground and looked around the room hurriedly. He knew he only had a few seconds to make a move. He looked at Keith and then back and me. His eyes were crazed. He looked like a dog choosing between two bones. He finally made a motion toward Keith. I rolled over and grabbed the scalpel that was resting at my side. l lunged toward Danny and sliced him in the bottom of the heel. He yelped in pain as he tried to use his foot to support his balance. He stumbled backwards into the wall. He slid to the ground as bodies burst in from the hole of light coming through the door.
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