Things only got stranger the next day.856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbaBZ5Lf6mc
"Please, lady, they're eating me! They'll kill me if you don't make them go away!" a female patient pleaded. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHZV77O1wq
"Shh. It's alright. We'll make them go away," Julia reassured her patient soothingly, despite the fact nothing was on her. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj9cbHSnikK
"I'll get her a tranquilizer," one of the other interns said. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtpaIfzwW8
"That would probably be best," Julia replied. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXxSXReg1V
"Will it make these things get off me?!" the patient asked frantically. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Zh9DVW7gu
"Yes, it will," Julia reassured again. "They'll be gone soon. Now I want you to look at me, nothing else. I'm right here." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAz8ZyAvQB
The patient quieted down eventually, but she kept looking frantically around her cell, from side to side, until finally the tranquilizer did what it was supposed to, and her eyes slowly closed. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ346fFWfdla
"Something's wrong," Julia said, shaking her head. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPA1Ne3Y5Mq
"We all know that," a male doctor in the group, named Dave, said. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOKixQfNx5
"I'm going to try again," Julia said. "Maybe I can get Crane to change their prescriptions." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrmASaksqI
"I think you should wait until break time to do that," he cautioned. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20HnBk5H1l
"Well, this is kind of important," she said. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5xzPv7hTQ
But when she hurried up to his office, he didn't answer her knocks on the door. Maybe he's finally off doing something about these recent events, Julia thought, but something prevented her from turning away and re-joining her co-workers. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweJWq793xl
She looked both ways, and when she saw the hallway was clear except for her, she silently opened the door and stepped into the empty and surprisingly cozy office, complete with a velvet rug, an organized desk and a shelf full of books. The books were mainly works by Edgar Allan Poe, plus a few by Shakespeare--not as many psychological non-fiction books as she'd expected to see, though there were some on the bottom shelf. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSgVN2c36h
Now I'M the one acting twelve. I should really be helping those people, Julia thought as she moved on to his desk. Harleen was wrong, though; she didn't "like" him, she just wanted to know more about him, things that she could never ask him herself but things she had to know, like why he was so into fear but yet had such a calm demeanor about him. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GhwELCJUJ
Something suddenly caught her eye when she looked down at his briefcase under the desk. She bent down to touch the odd material sticking out of the closed briefcase, and saw it was what looked like worn burlap. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqi4T1ZCPe7
No, Julia, no... But yet she still stubbornly unlatched the briefcase to find it was some kind of...856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8boCk2jomp
But she didn't have a chance to finish her thought about what it could possibly be. "Can I help you?" 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzl7HtlqJek
Blood rushed to her face, and she made herself get up and turn around to face him. "I can explain this," she said, while trying to make her heart slow down to its normal pace. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmIE5VKoI4
"Oh, well, please do then," Dr. Crane said, eyebrows raised. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hlVQf4Tk8
"I'm...I'm..." Oh, real smooth, Madison. "I know I shouldn't be in here, but..." Suddenly, a good answer came to her, even if it was a lie. Right now her job could be on the line. "I thought one of your books might have some advice to help our patients," she said quickly. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5iEeFgKvO
"And you thought my briefcase might have something as well?" 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygXfqPrF1r
"Oh...well, when I looked away from the bookshelf I couldn't help but notice some material sticking out of there and..." The back of her head and the palms of her hands tingled furiously. "Please don't fire me," she said in a near whisper. "I'm sorry." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUlwkzxbFd
"Curiosity is a normal thing," he replied, going around his desk and closing the briefcase back; she noticed how he was extra careful this time to make sure the rough cloth didn't stick out. "And you may have a slight neurotic problem yourself," he added with a small laugh. "I won't fire you." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MqlRswLjE
She couldn't have been more relieved. "Thank you...I promise I'll never do it again." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXpfywRwVo
Dr. Crane smiled. "I know you won't."856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0v3q0daQNY
Even as she hopped from patient to patient after catching up with her peers (and Harleen asking her with a smirk why her visit to the office took so long), desperately trying to calm each of their patients down and assure them that the things they saw weren't real, she kept thinking to herself, Why did I have to be so stupid? I really got off lucky this time. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfoIGY7N5B6
Her stomach fluttered even more during break when she got to the table where she and the others usually sat, and she saw a note waiting for her. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9ZJzZ4shX
Ms. Madison, 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnThTyNOCz
Meet me at the coffee shop when your shift ends, and I'll tell you everything you need to know. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhP8aHRvJjF
-Crane856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtb90b7rLJD
Julia knew there were tons of coffee shops in Gotham City, but knew which one he was talking about. Many times she'd driven past the one nearest to Arkham where employees often liked to go after work for one more burst of energy when they weren't quite ready to turn in for the night. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2t0m8t9brt
She quickly pocketed the note, thinking she was still alone, but Dave and Velonda, a friend of hers at Arkham, saw anyway. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8IBrf9Ezp
"What was that?" Velonda asked. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuMpZTk4QY
"Please don't let Harleen see," Julia said with a half-hearted smile. "Just because I went to the library last night to ask Crane about the patients' behavior, she now thinks we're lovebirds." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpE3lY9uYSB
Velonda just laughed, but Dave shuddered. "Well I'm glad you're not, because sometimes I don't know about him." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWiXznRrKR
"I'm sure he's a good person," Julia said, waving away his worries. "I mean, I think they check people's backgrounds and records before letting them become chief administrator of a place like this." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡirRjDnMbJc
"But what did that note say? I mean, if you don't mind telling us," Velonda said carefully. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoydJlHaYoO
"Oh, he just wanted to meet me at the coffee shop tonight after work." She wouldn't bother telling them about her little adventure inside the office or what she saw in there. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnd6SiytXh2
Velonda and Dave shared glances. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyfkxXKUp8
Julia sighed. "Please, not you too. I assure you it's a business meeting, not a date." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVm35a1ChV
Harleen waltzed in not long after Julia had said that, and she put a quick finger to the lips to signal her friends to say no more on the matter. 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRDxkR8YKl
But still, Dave whispered across the table, "I'd take a weapon of some sort just in case. Something about this just doesn't seem right." 856Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFWOT4nP7W
He sounded just like her father, but then again, Dave's words were none too comforting to think about. Maybe she would, maybe she wouldn't.
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