It'll pay well, they said. It's night and weekend and pick up and float pay, and it's all time and a half because it's Saturday night and you're going into overtime. It'll only be four hours, they said, and just that's worth pretty much an entire shift's pay. You've only been here four hours, they said, so it's not a huge deal. We really need you, they said. We swear someone called out sick and we weren't just trying to skeleton staff the ED on a full moon. Really. Everyone will appreciate it, they said.
Dory, it must be said, is very helpful as a person and also terrible at saying no. Honestly, she shouldn't have picked up that three to seven, but it was her own unit, and urgent (someone did get sick mid-shift), and she lives closest and is one of like two weekday nurses on her unit who doesn't 'forget' where she put her phone on the weekend. The other person claimed to be in Hawai'i.
Dory really should've left her manager on read.
But, whatever. That's seven-hours-ago her's bad decisions.
Current her is also suffering the bad decisions of five-minutes-ago her. Namely, that she didn't pretend to be busy somewhere else when the "security alert, potential situation" got called and someone asked if she could help with a dude they were trying to get some good ol' haldol into.
The tinny echo of "security alert, emergent situation" is filtering past the noise as she stares at the dude they'd all thought was just kinda crazy, who has moved from cussing at them to glowing red - brightest at his eyes and around his hands, like he's from some kind of special-effects-obsessed superhero movie. Probably she should be ducking for cover, but in her defense it's been like ten seconds since his eyes started sparking. He's rapidly going from 'sparky' to 'floaty.' Probably they're a few seconds from the ominous chanting.
Her brain finally gets past the 'What the actual fuck' in time for this to totally not matter - she tries to get behind a conveniently nearby desk, and learns that freezing like a deer in the headlights was actually the smart thing when the glowing asshole shouts something, and gestures, and a fucking glowy sparky circle of assholery appears beneath her feet - and disappears the floor.
Dory has learned a lot of curse words in her time as a nurse, and she puts them all to good use as she falls.