Prologue – A Different Kind of Guardian Angel
Every person has a reason for being a doctor. To save lives, because they’ve witnessed suffering, or maybe because it pays well. Morgan is a doctor because she wanted to fight against death itself. Because of how medical technology was slowly advancing, she thought that if she could keep her patients alive for long enough then they would be alive when the time came when the cure to most major diseases would be discovered. This was wishful thinking indeed as this never happened nor did a hint of it ever exist. Morgan just kept it to herself and only told it to her friend Matthew when they were out drinking, so if he heard it, he would think it was just her acting drunk. The two have been friends since Morgan’s college years, but Matthew became a security guard while Morgan became a doctor.
When they both moved to Hillside City, they experienced suffering never seen before in a city notorious for craziness. Morgan quickly became one of the best doctors because of her skills and dedication in fighting against the fading of life. She became friends with Harley, the chief of police, along with several other police officers who taught her how to defend herself. They would take her out on assignments as a field medic and again, she gained prestige for her skills. She gained dozens of awards, but she never accomplished her true goal. People still died around her and in her care. Matthew’s always been there for her, but she’s never been able to tell him her true feelings. She thinks to herself that he wouldn’t like to be with her since she’s ten years older than him with her being thirty-five years old and him being twenty-five. Besides that, she also has a condition that she keeps secret from everyone she knows. A condition that’s not uncommon for people who are stressed out as she is.
Even though she lives by herself on a doctor’s salary, she lives in a moderate apartment not too far from the hospital she works at. The hospital managers offered her a high-end apartment room only a block away from it, but she refused it after trying it out for a week. While she lived there, she swore she could hear groaning and the screams of pain from the patients in the hospital. Of course, she didn’t tell the hospital managers that this was the reason why and just said she liked to live humbler, which is partially true. As she gets ready for the day, an odd noise catches her attention though she ignores it at first.
“It’s probably the sound of the morning rush hour,” she thinks to herself.
Once she exits her room, the noise gets louder and slanted.
“Ha, maybe it’s the neighbors having fun in the morning,” she jokes to herself.
But something about the noise disturbs her. Morgan leaves her apartment building in time to see an ambulance pass by it. People around her talk about how there was a shooting in the area and that nobody on either side survived. They talk about how it would’ve ended differently if a doctor had been there to save them. For some reason, Morgan feels guilty and can almost hear the Angel of Death laughing at her. This kicks her into high gear and she’s at the hospital just in time to see the place littered with injured patients who appear to be on the verge of death. The hospital walls are covered with smears of blood. There are family members who are crying over the bodies of the people who they lost.
Matthew catches her attention and says, “Morgan, we need your help now!”
Morgan gets to an operating room in time to save a patient, but then two other ones die in the meantime.
“You could’ve saved them!” Morgan screams at the two doctors who turn to look at her.
Both of them look exactly like her and they say, “I’m sorry…I’m so sorry,” while crying.
“They didn’t have enough time to save them, Morgan! Don’t chastise them for something they couldn’t do and help these other people!” another doctor says.
Morgan goes over to a woman who is giving birth to a child. The woman is crying out in agony and has to be strapped to the gurney because of how she’s spazzing out. The fetus then births itself by carving its way out of its mother’s chest.
It says to Morgan, “You couldn’t save either of us and you expect to save people like us?”
The fetus then turns into maggots that fill the room. A doctor moves Morgan to help other patients, but the maggots eat them alive. A dark angel claims the lives of other patients while the maggots form one singular snake-like being. Morgan tries to stop the dark angel, but her body grows old until she can no longer walk. She lies on the ground unable to move as death and decay claim the lives of other patients until they claim hers.
She then wakes up at her desk in her office.
A doctor walks in and says, “You ready for another big day?”
Morgan pops a few headache pills then says, “I’m ready.”
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