The Hospital is the first chapter of Blood is Mine. It is also the basis for the fully illustrated re-imagining, Blood is Drawn. It follows Jane Doe shortly after she wakes up bloodied and bandaged in a hospital room with no idea of how she got there. Following the standard format, the events that transpired were dictated by reader input.
This chapter is 114 pages long and began on July 18th, 2017. The final page was posted on August 1st, 2017. It introduces the characters Jane Doe, Michelle, Dr. Finch, and Mr. Vasquez.
The first page of Chapter 1, "Wake up", posted on July 18th, 2017.
Plot Synopsis
| Editor's Note Putting the entire chapter down in writing made me realize two things. One, Jane Doe is really weird. And two, this stuff gets pretty freaking buck wild when it's all laid out like this, so hold on to your butts. This is just the first chapter! -- Mochi (Lostgubbins) |
A young, unidentified woman wakes up in a hospital room holding a syringe to something banging on the door. She makes a quick decision to hide in a nearby cabinet among some towels. Shortly after she does, she hears something break down the door of her room, shuffle around, and shriek loudly before leaving once again. Once she is sure the coast is clear, she emerges from the cabinet bearing the scent of fresh linens. She gathers up some of the cleaner towels and cautiously makes her way into the hallway of the hospital.
Bandages aren't supposed to do that.
Her ability to investigate the hallway is hindered by several things. Firstly, the lights on the left side of the hall are out, meaning she cannot see much further than a reception desk. To the right, the way forward is blocked by a massive obelisk made up of organs, bones, and various other grisly pieces. Upon inspecting it, it is revealed that it occasionally breathes, and has eyes, though they don't seem to be able to actually see. Her immediate reaction is one of disgust, and she finds herself unwilling to get close enough to it to take a sample of blood from it. It is at this point that her bandages animate and take the sample for her, much to her confusion and surprise. Instead of dwelling on this, however, she elects to move away from the meat wall and investigate the desk. She sits down in the chair and goes through the desk, finding several items including hand sanitizer, a bottle of painkillers, a magazine about cats, and a severed hand. She spends some time reading the cat magazine in an attempt to distract herself from her current predicament of being trapped in "some kind of body horror nightmare hospital situation".
Hello... fffffriend?
After this, she takes a moment to use one of her clean towels and the hand sanitizer to clean off the severed hand she found in the desk drawer, then rolls the hand up in one of her towels to carry it with her and uses her other towels to clean herself up a bit. It is at this point that a lout noise from the ceiling causes her to turn around, where, she notices a trail of blood seeping down the wall, and a human head with spider appendages now sitting on the desk. She slowly stands up and moves away from the head-spider, but it lunges at her. She instinctively uses her bandages to defend herself, and they end up stabbing the head-spider in the eye with the syringe of monster blood, blinding it in one eye. She then proceeds to blind it's other eye, throw a towel over it, and then pick up the desk chair and slam it over the creature's head, finally killing it. Once she is certain it is, in fact, dead, she moves on to investigate a room down the hall from the desk.