There were sounds. Heavy breathing, shouting, clanging metal, shoes squeaking on smooth surfaces, phones rigning, sirens wailing.
It was dark. There was pain. Someone spoke. It sounded like it was directed at Shawn but could not be understood. Then the pace of the noise quickened yet at the same time faded.
Silence. Confusion. A bright light. Objects slowly came into focus, the light seemed to dim a bit.
Shawn sat up quickly and looked around. There was an empty hospital hallway. A few papers scattered here and there around the smooth teal tile floor, some scraps of trash around the bases of the bins. Everything looked perfectly normal, everything in perfect order except it was all deserted.
Shawn stood up and took a step or two away from the gurney and slowly began to look around. He caught sight of his atire and remembered his shoulder. Quickly he grabbed at the fabric and pulled it away to reveal unmarked skin.
'What was going on? Why would I be in a hospital if I have no injuries? What happened to me back at the station?'
Shawn searched the whole floor of the building, opened every unlocked door he could find. He found nothing, or rather very little. The search--for what he did not know--had turned up something for the young lieutenant to wear, the blue-green scrubs of an unknown doctor were better than an open backed surgical gown.
There were a few oddities about this place though was that the lift cabels had been cut, the doors to the shafts somehow jammed open whith nothing but a bit of caution tape traversing the void and a small sign with the words "Out of Order" placed in front of the fatal plunges. The emergency exits would not open, their handles had been smashed from the inside of the buidling but most displayed some denting from blows to the exterior, one even had bullet holes from both sides. Even the stairways had some wood boards nailed to the walls with more wood and nails lying on the platforms between floors.
Shawn did find one hammer with which he could pry loose the wood barricade, and though the business end was covered in dry blood and other soft tissues, there was no body nearby. 'What had happened here?'