Calvado woke up the second time late at night. She tried to find her alarm clock but soon realized she wasn't even in her room. She took a quick inventory and came to the conclusion she was in a hospital. And it was dark outside. And the woman in the bed near the window snored incredibly loudly.
She tried to sit up but found she was attached to an IV bottle, so she laid back down and stared at the ceiling. She felt the pain in her right shoulder and knew someone had taken a shotgun pellet out, sewn up the wound, and slapped a bandage on it. A big bandage, it felt like. She wondered where Mack was.
She found the nurse call button and pushed. And waited. She pushed it again. The woman in the other bed stopped snoring. She coughed and spit, then went back to snoring.
Calvado pushed the nurse call button again. Three times quickly. Again the woman in the other bed stopped snoring. Calvado pushed the button. The woman got out of bed and walked over to Calvado.
"Yeah?" Not a welcome, not a curse. Somewhere in-between.
Calvado stared at her. The woman rubbed sleep from her eyes, scratched her butt, and yawned. She was missing a tooth.
"You the nurse?" Calvado asked.
"Nope. You want something or can I get back to sleep?"
"Can I get up?"
"Nope."
"I have to pee."
"You got a bedpan in there somewhere. Find it, use it." The woman turned and strolled back to the other bed. Calvado saw the holster strapped to her back.
Calvado waited. She waited until the other woman started snoring again, then she got quietly out of bed, slipped out of the room, and pulled her IV bag along the empty hospital corridor towards the public telephones.
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