I Must Not Play at God!

I Must Not Play at God!



“Dr. Calibak?”

I looked over to see a nurse peeking into the on call room, blonde hair, blue eyes, nice rack hopefully she was looking for a quickie, I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and sat up, “What is it Meg?”

Her brow wrinkled, she couldn’t hide the look of concern on her face. “Are you all right?”

“Fine, it’s just been a long day.”

“Sorry, your mom is asking for you.”

“Of course she is!” I rolled my eyes, stood up, stretched and followed Meg out of the room. My mom’s room was at the end of the hall, and I had to pull a lot of strings to get her there, but it beat hiring a full time nurse to take care of her. It had only been a month since my mother had her stroke, it left her whole left side paralyzed, she couldn’t talk right, couldn’t walk, couldn’t even shit without someone’s help.

I walked into the room, and the smell hit me like walking into a wall, “MOM! If you had to go to the bathroom why didn’t you call a nurse?”

My mother was eighty-three years old, the vibrancy that I used to see in her face was gone, her hair had turned grey about twenty years ago and since her stroke it was falling out in clumps. She gave me a look of embarrassment and shame, “I’m sorry Mom, but you have to understand it’s just me here with three nurses, their job is to take care of you, mine is emergencies. Why didn’t you at least have one of them change you?”

“We tried,” Alex had walked into the room, a short brunette woman about fifty pounds overweight, “she refused to let us touch her, we all tried in fact she bit Alec.” Alec was the third nurse working with me tonight; despite her name she was very womanly.

I looked at my mother dumbfounded, “What the Hell is wrong with you? Forget it I don’t want to know. I’ll be back to clean you up in a minute.”

I walked back to the on call room and sat on the bed. Alec followed behind me and sat with me, “I’m okay!” She put her right arm around me and showed me the bite mark on her left, “It only bled for a minute.”

I stood up, “She drew blood?” I paced back and forth shaking my head, “After my mom had a stroke, and we found out that she would need long term care, the first thing that my sister said was, ‘Thank goodness we have a doctor in the family.” They haven’t even called to check on her.”

Alec put her hand on my shoulder, causing me to jump, “Sorry I didn’t mean to frighten you.”

“You didn’t, I just didn’t hear you get up. I also had to agree to this shift, just so that I could keep her here.”

Alec rubbed my shoulder, “You poor dear.” She leaned in close to my ear and whispered, “If you can’t handle it there is something that you can do about it.”

I jumped away from her, gave her an incredulous look and ran out of the room. What was she suggesting? I ran back to my mother’s room, all three girls were standing at the nurse’s station, I did a double take, I swear I just left Alec in the on call room. The girls looked at me and started laughing. I entered my mother’s room and the smell made me retch, it had gotten worse since I had left. I looked at her pleading face, a tear rolled down moistening the pillow underneath her. She disgusted me, my whole body filled with rage, rage at my family for leaving me to take care of her, and rage at her for not being able to take care of herself. I went to the machines beside her bed and set them so that the nurses wouldn’t be alerted, grabbed the pillow from underneath her head and put it over her mouth. It was surprising how easy it was, it only took a couple minutes and she had stopped struggling. I checked her pulse to make sure, but I knew she was dead.

I walked out of the room calmly and nodded at the nurses, giving Meg a wink. When I got back to the on call room I turned off the light, laid down and went to sleep as comfortable as can be.

“I shall do no harm!”

I sat up in bed, trying to make out shapes in what little moonlight was coming in through the window, “Is someone there?”

“I shall do no harm!”

A cold sweat broke out all over my body, “Hello? This isn’t funny!”

“I shall do no harm!” Now there was a chorus of voices saying it. Meg stepped through the door. She had a long snake wrapped around her waist, and blood was dripping from her eyes.

“I shall do no harm!” I turned and saw Alec and Alex each come out of the shadows, on opposite sides of the room, each had snakes around them and each was crying blood.

I was surrounded, there was no way out, the girls put the snakes down on the floor, and they immediately came at me biting at my feet and ankles. I fell onto the bed trying to protect myself from the snakes, and saw the girls begin to unbutton there blouses, the blood covered most of their faces now. They took off the uniform and there body morphed into the body of some kind of large dog, and large bat wings sprouted from their back, they were all standing over me now.

“I shall do no harm!” Was the last thing I heard before there claws ripped into my stomach and they fed on my intestines.

The End