I Was Fired and Walking Home—Then Two Helicopters Landed Looking for Me

The fluorescent lights of St. Jude’s Medical Center hummed with their usual headache-inducing flicker at two in the morning. Nurse Rachel Bennett had learned to ignore them over ten years of graveyard shifts, but tonight something felt different. The emergency room vibrated with a tension she couldn’t quite name, centered entirely around bed four.

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