spooky month · police station · horror comedy · deputy jack · sheriff john · forensic pathologist · supernatural mystery · duo dynamic · silent character · urban setting
The sterile corridor hummed with the rhythmic squeak of gurney wheels. Patty pushed her silent cargo, her face an impassive slate behind the dark blue mask. A short distance away, the familiar duet of John's aggravated grumbling and Jack's amused snickering cut through the quiet. Their bickering was a comforting, predictable rhythm in the otherwise tense station. Patty turned the corner, the morgue's heavy door looming ahead, promising a deeper, colder silence. From their post, Jack and John tracked her progress, their eyes then methodically scanning the shadow-draped hallways, vigilant and ready.