[CENTER][H3][B][COLOR=orange][hr]ANNABELLE FITZGERALD[/COLOR][/B][/H3][/CENTER][hr]

The sound of raindrops on the window had become a familiar companion - always there, always tap, tap, tapping away in the back of her mind like a count, like a rhythm, like the dead and dying, they're out there but I'm in here, I need to be out there they need me, they need me, I have to go I have to go to them, I will walk through the flame and the flood and I will be with them -

"Annabelle?" The familiar voice shook her out of her ruminations. Annabelle turned from the dark window she'd been leaning against to see Dr. Graham entering the employee lounge, his spectacles in his hands. "There you are. I've been looking all over for you."

Annabelle scrambled out of her chair in an instant. [color=orange]"Is it another patient?"[/color] she blurted.

"Ah, no," the stout, brown-skinned man answered slowly. "It's the rain, it's... well, our ambulances are having a lot of trouble. Are you feeling alright, Annabelle?"

She waved his question away. [color=orange]"What did you [i]need[/i], Dr. Graham."[/color]

The doctor extended his glasses to her, revealing a web of cracks and fractures in the left frame. "I, uh, stepped on my glasses. Could you give me a hand?" She accepted the spectacles and quickly blew onto them, not even looking as the cracks sealed filled. He took them back with a smile and placed them onto his face. "You're a lifesaver, Annabelle."

[color=orange]"I try to be,"[/color] She answered, halfway turned back to the window when one of her fellow nurses slid into the room, wild-eyed and gripping a clipboard.

"Nurse Fitzgerald! We need you in an ambulance, there's a fire in the Power District in Jethrull."

Dr. Graham furrowed his brow. "A fire, in this weather?"

The nurse shrugged. "Look, I don't know. I just work here. We don't know how big it's gotten or how many affected, but Nurse Fitzgerald is the best way of treating burns or smoke inhalation we have. We need her."

For her part, Annabelle was already throwing her rain jacket around her shoulders. [color=orange]"I'm going,"[/color] she said as she walked past the doctor.

"Absolutely not, in this weather you could - "

[color=orange]"Can't hear you over the sound of me going!"[/color] she shouted, already running down the hallway to the ER.