Jeremiah's Hospital, Earth 2025
"Food. I want food." Jeremiah slowly opens his eyes. "I'm hungry."
Jeremiah slowly sits up in his hospital bed and looks around the room as his eyes begin to unblur from being asleep for so long.
"Is this a hospital?" He says as he looks over at the heart monitor that got shut off in the pulse from his body. "Why am I in a hospital? Did I survive? That would be a miracle if I did survive that lightning strike." Jeremiah looks down at his dark skinned body with wires and tubes still connected to it.
"Damn. I've lost a lot of weight." He raises up his arm inspecting himself to make sure he is not dreaming. "How long have I been out to lose this much weight?"
"Seven years." Calls out a voice from the floor.
"Who was that?" Jeremiah looks around the room frantically for the location of the voice.
"Me." A shorter guy in a lab coat stands up from the ground and looks at Jeremiah with blonde hair and green eyes. "I'm the one who said that." He states as he brushes dust off of himself.
"And who would you be?" Jeremiah looks at the doctor seemingly coming out of nowhere.
"I am Doctor Edward."
"And I am Nurse Bella." Another softer feminine voice calls out from the floor as a nurse with dark hair and pale skin arises from it.
"Yes, that lady over there is Nurse Bella. She is my assistant for all things related to you." Points behind to the woman still trying to stand up.
She stares daggers at him with her brown eyes, "At times it feels more like he's my assistant with how much standing around he does."
"Oh hush. You're just upset that I got to the last piece of cake earlier." The doctor looks at her with a smug expression.
"Cake?" Jeremiah sat up straighter in his bed after hearing the mention of food. "I want cake, or any food for that matter." Jeremiah dreams of a nice big cake in front of him. "Wait, I shouldn't be worrying about that now. What were you two doing on the floor in a room with no lights. And more importantly how long have I been out?" Jeremiah asks again just to be sure.
"All good questions that Nurse Bella here would be happy to answer. I have other patients to attend to so I'll see you later." He attempts to make his way to the door to have his collar grabbed by Bella, and pulled back in front of Jeremiah.
"To answer your last question you've been out for seven years. The year is 2032, and we were hit by an EMP a few seconds before you woke up due to experiments in our neighboring facility. Isn't that right doctor!" She smiles devilishly at Edward as she lies about the EMP.
Edward clears his throat and begins to speak, "That's right. Our neighboring facility is notorious for not having the decency of warning that experiments might go wrong."
"And what type of hospital has such a dangerous facility so close by?" Jeremiah questions their answers with suspicion. "And what type of experiment would cause an EMP?"
"Umm, umm, um ..." Edward stutters to answers but is quickly and decisively cut off by Bella.
"It's classified information. Only the highest in the hospital truly know what goes on over there, but we'll take good care of you here." Bella answers for Edward. "Would you like for us to contact your family?"
"Now that I think about it, that would be wonderful if you could." Jeremiah states.
"Alright we'll get right on it." Bella says as she begins walking to the door dragging Edward behind her. "We'll be back as soon as possible."
They step out into the dark hallway and breathe a sigh of relief now that they have defused the situation.
"Good thinking Bella." Edward complimented her for her amazing acting skills.
"No thanks to you, but how are we going to inform the Mistress that he wiped out power to an entire hospital?" Showing Edward the long stretch of hallway with people standing around wondering what happened.
"We'll figure it out when it comes down to it." Edward says with a hopeful expression as they begin walking to his office doing their best not to run into anyone.
Back in Jeremiah's hospital room, "They never did answer why they were on the floor, or if they were bringing me cake."