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&039;So how much of it have you worked out then?&039; Patrick asks We&039;re both upstairs in as probably destined to be thewith our backs to the recently plastered wall The sky has cleared now and the h the grille over theI&039;m tired and I don&039;t want to talk but I can&039;t avoid answering his question

&039;Haven&039;t got a bloody clue what&039;s going on,&039; I answer honestly &039;This is as close as I&039;ve et,&039; I say as I take the folded-up booklet froht of his torch and smiles wryly to hihs sarcastically

&039;Took it from a house I hid in,&039; I tell him &039;Doesn&039;t sayfroovernment that did?&039;

He shuts the booklet and throws it down onto the bare floorboards

&039;It&039;s not like there&039;s anyone you can ask about it, is there?&039; I say &039;I still don&039;t know if anyone really knohat&039;s happening&039;

&039;Someone knows,&039; he mutters, &039;they must do You can bet that froovern up people like you andup people?&039;

&039;I&039;,&039; he continues, &039;but you knohat I&039;, don&039;t you? They&039;ll have had a tea out what&039;s happened to us They&039;ll be working on a cure&039;

&039;You reckon?&039;

He shrugs his shoulders

&039;Maybe Whatever happens they&039;ll be trying to find a way of stopping us doing e do&039;

I know he&039;s right We&039;re a threat to theht have battled with previously

&039;I don&039;t want to be cured,&039; I say, surprising even myself with my admission &039;I want to stay like this I don&039;t want to go back to being one of them&039;

Patrick nods and switches off his torch In the darkness I find ain I know that it&039;s only a es if she hasn&039;t already I&039;ve tried to convinceas she&039;s with the others she&039;s in danger The hardest thing to co I&039;ve lost - is the fact that Lizzie, the person who carried irl and who has provided her with more safety and security than anyone else, is now the one who poses the biggest threat to her The pain I feel when I think about Ellis tonight is indescribable Maybe I should try and get to her now Poor little thing doesn&039;t knohat&039;s going to happen She hasn&039;t got a clue

&039;Don&039;t say a lot, do you?&039; Patrick pushes He&039;s beginning to get on my nerves but I sense that he has a need to talk He&039;s as nervous, scared and confused as I am so I don&039;t retaliate

&039;Not runt back

&039;So who are you thinking about?&039;

Very perceptive I pause but then decide to answer hiirl She&039;s like us&039;

&039;Why isn&039;t she with you?&039;

&039;Because of her mother I was in the house with the whole family when it happened I knew that Ellis was like et her but&039;

&039;But what?&039;

&039;Lizzie got to her before me S I knew she&039;d gone and taken all the kids with her&039;

Patrick shakes his head

&039;Too bad,&039; he mumbles &039;Hurts when you lose them, doesn&039;t it?&039;

I nod, but I don&039;t know if he notices my response

&039;What about you?&039; I ask &039;You said so earlier about your partner&039;

He doesn&039;t answer for a few long seconds

&039;Like I said, I et back home after it happened You know aled, don&039;t you? I did what I had to do&039;

I don&039;t knohat he means by that Did he kill her? I quickly decide that it&039;s probably not a good idea to ask For a moment I think that&039;s the end of the conversation but then Patrick speaks again

&039;Got it all wrong, didn&039;t they?&039; he says

&039;What?&039;

&039;The papers and the TV and all that,&039; he explains, &039;made us out to be the villains of the piece, didn&039;t they?&039;

&039;To them we are&039;