Notice me

Patient Trouble.

......... Ethan came out through the door with a cup of coffee in hand.

"Quickly, there's an emergency. Let's go." Ethan said stiffly and downed the rest of his coffee in two quick gulpsand added his paper cup to the growing mound in the trash can. Then he walked away, his back straight, his mind disciplined.

Catherine watched him leave and followed quickly behind with the rest of the team. She wondered why Ethan didn't rush to the scene, instead he walked gingerly rumpling his rumpled hair and cursing his time.

"Darn! I have a deadline. Why do all these patients have to stir up trouble?" He said annoyed.

'Is he kidding me?'  Catherine thought 'He's obliged to the patients, now he blames them?'

Ethan and his team arrived at the scene. A man in his late twenties wearing a hospital gown was shouting. He pushed hospital beds and threw drips at the doctors present. He held a small pocket knife which he used to threaten the other doctors.

"If you come any closer.........I, I, I'll kill myself!" He warned raising the sharp knife up to his neck. The doctors yelled, urging him to stop until he directed the knife back to them. 

"What's going on?" Catherine asked some of the doctors.

"A nurse was about to give him his medications and  then he totally went haywire" Lucas Griffin, a neurologist said.

"Where did he get the knife?" Catherine pressed.

"Don't know either. Just appeared from nowhere." Lucas combed his light brown hair backwards with both his hands. "I didn't know what was going on so I paged the psychiatrist department." 

Catherine sighed and took off her lab coat. She tied her hair to a ponytail and straightened her shirt, "I'm going to try talking to him" She said and moved closer to the patient maintaining a gap by three feet. "Hey, hey.......," She tried calling his attention and it worked. "In Cat.... I'm your friend," She said pushing her hands forward, she bent her knees and started to walk slowly around him like a vulture circling its prey.

"Why do you lie? You're not a cat!" He yelled and attempted to stab her. The crowd of doctors panicked as she dodged jolting backwards.

"No, my name is Cat. It's short for Catherine. What's your name?"

"Adrian," He said, his eyes became watery, his blue eyes darker.

"Hello, Adrian. What's wrong? You don't like it here?" Catherine spoke slowly using a call and reassuring tone.

"No, I like it a lot. I made new friends. Bobby, Madison and Buddy." 

"Well, don't you think you'll make them sad if you killed yourself?"

"Yes. They will be sad. But if don't do this my heart break will kill me!" He started to cry.

"Who broke your heart?"

"My girlfriend. She left me for some guy!"

"Why did she do that?" Catherine asked moving closer to Adrian. She saw him tense at the question and then suddenly gave her a very suspicious look.

"Who are you? Why are you interrogating me? Are you a cop? Did she send you? Did Beverley send you to check on me?" Adrian agitated towards Catherine trying to stab her. She moved back seeking protection from the other doctors.

"Take it easy now" Lucas said to him and turned to Catherine "Just stay put, you've tried your best." Lucas snapped as she nodded quickly in agreement.

"Seriously?" Ethan asked a rhetorical question and moved towards the hostile patient "Adrian?" He said soothingly. Catherine was surprised at how calm he sounded "Can you tell me what happened? I'll listen to you."