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Oh, no Rebecca felt a welling rush of sadness inside as she stared after Steve, John and David both grim and silent beside her The blank shock on Steve&039;s face before he&039;d turned away told them what must have happened

Poor Karen And Steve, what must it have been like

They&039;d found the lab too late She glanced down at the key card slot next to the door as she stepped into the double seal, feeling a horrible sense of futility at the pointlessness of it all They&039;d come to find infor- et infected and then to turn against Steve even as they&039;d reached the one chance they ht have had to cure her

but Kinneson Thur The laboratory was huge, counters lined with equip- h with stacks of paper, but it was the open hatch across froaze ilass set into the thick door It was an airlock, the inner door standing open And behind the second sealed door, past a rate, the dark waters of the ocean swirled past, bubbles spinning by The laboratory was underwater The second thing she noticed was the blood, a thick trail of cri across the concrete floor in splatters and pools, but ending in a sliding smear

Steve must have moved a body -

-so much! God, not Karen&039;s

Steve had walked to the airlock and turned, see for them to cross the rooht with syht behind her, quiet, looking around the vast rooe sla there, holding a tiny se it at them with no expression on his face

"Drop your weapons"

The low, quiet voice was Steve&039;s Rebecca turned again, confused and saw Steve pointing his Beretta at them, his face as blank as Kinneson&039;s Now that she was close enough to the airlock, she saw the body on the grated floor It was Karen, her white face streaked with blood, a gaping blackness where her left eye had been

Oh,on

David stepped toward hi his Beretta loosely, confusion and disbelief in his voice "Steve, what are you doing? What&039;s happened?"

"Drop your weapons," Steve said again His voice had no emotion at all

"What did you do to him?!"

John screa neatly through his left te Boo John in the lower back Blood gushed froered halfway around, Rebecca saw the dark fluid trickling from his mouth, the dazed disbe- lief in his eyesand John crashed to the ce once before he lay motionless It had all happened in the space of a few seconds "Drop your weapons," Steve said calmly He pointed his se at all She stared at Steve in horror, felt tears slipping down her frozen cheeks, unable to comprehend what had hap- pened "Disarers and clatter to the floor Rebecca dropped the Beretta, the heavy weapon falling froers "Back up," Steve said, still ai at her chest "Do as he says," David said, his voice trehtly They stepped back slowly, Rebecca unable to take her eyes frorown to care about Noas only a mask, worn by a