IDrakula - Bekka Black [8]
Abe
From: Abraham Van Helsing
To: Mina Murray
Subject: Re: Delicate question
Sent: June 20 7:29 PM
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Hello Mina,
I would have called had I your number. Lucy’s condition is critical.
Her family is at her bedside. I do not believe that she will last the night. We are at Lenox Hill Hospital Manhattan. Please come at once.
I am truly sorry to be the bearer of such sad tidings.
Abe
Text message from Jonathan Harker to Mina Murray
From: Mina Murray
To: Jonathan Harker
Subject: Lucy just died
Sent: June 21 7:29 AM
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J,
Lucy just died. I’m crying so hard I can barely type. I would call you, but I don’t want to talk to you. I can’t believe that you slept with her. And that you had to tell me while she was dying.
I told her doctors about how you and Lucy have the same weird disease and about you and her. They said they would look into it.
Her father gave me that stuffed kitten she used to sleep with. Remember Mr. Bubbles? I’m going to put him in her coffin. I can’t bear to think of her all alone in that box.
I’m going home to bed. Please don’t call me. I don’t want to talk to you.
M
From: Andrew Peterson
To: Abraham Van Helsing
Subject: A break?
Sent: June 24 8:18 AM
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Abe,
This is a difficult email for me to write.
You have been a great asset during your time here, and I appreciate your hard work. You’ve been hit hard by the death of the woman you were seeing and understandably so, but your behavior has become inexcusably erratic. You must stay away from Randolph Renfield. Your presence agitates him, and your questioning him about his psychosis as if it were real is not helping him any. I have warned you several times, but I keep hearing that you are in his room on all of your breaks.
Remember that your girlfriend’s death was not your fault. Nor was it Randolph Renfield’s. Her condition was untreatable and fast advancing. No one could have helped her. When you become a doctor, you will have to deal with this kind of situation far too often.
Please consider taking some time off. We will be assigning your duties to another volunteer for a few weeks.
Things don’t always happen for a reason. Sometimes they just happen.
If you ever need someone to listen, I’m here for you. Heck, I’m even trained for it.
Stop by my office when you get this so we can discuss. Please.
Andy
From: Mina Murray
To: Abraham Van Helsing
Subject: Can we meet?
Sent: June 24 8:25 AM
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Abe,
Thank you for the things you said about Lucy. I think you understood her essence—generous, loving, and full of life— better than many who knew her longer.
I hate to ask this, but could we meet? Jonathan, my boyfriend, is ill, with acute idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia: same as what killed Lucy. No one knows how they got it: environmental, close contact, or a giant coincidence. The day that she died, Jonathan confessed to me that he and Lucy slept together (not since your relationship with her started but well after ours did). If the disease is sexually transmitted, I worry that you and I might have been exposed. Is there a way to test for it? I told Lucy’s doctors, but they didn’t take me seriously.
I’m sorry to give you more bad news, but I thought you’d want to know. Jonathan is slowly recovering, so I guess the splenectomy was a better cure than the steroids they gave Lucy. As tragic as it is, that knowledge may end up saving our lives if we do catch what they had.
Please call me as soon as you can.
Mina
From: Mina Murray
To: info@nybloodcenter.org
Subject: Problem with my blood
Sent: June 24 9:30 AM
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Hello,
The blood I donated at the charity ball in Manhattan on June 16 may be tainted. I just found out that I may have been exposed to a fatal blood-borne disease that presented itself as acute idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia. I called and spoke to a Dr. Seward about it, and I am sending this email as a follow-up. If you still have my blood, please destroy it. If you have transfused it into someone else, please refer them to Dr. Seward.
Thank you,