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"That’s great and everything, but there are a few things to work out," said Dave He held up a finger "What do we do with Doc here?" A second finger "If we don’t knohether it’s safe to talk to the CDC, where the hell are we supposed to start?" A third finger "What are we going to say to the rest of the site? This isn’t you and a little tea a story we can’t talk about, maybe even disappear on everybody, and expect them to be cool with it"

"Call Rick, see what he says," said Becks

"I’m pretty sure we can’t call the vice president of the United States with ‘Hey, we have a dead CDC researcher who says so to suppress her research,’ " I replied "We’re going to call Rick, but we need more than we have before we do it"

Becks looked mollified Rick Cousins used to be one of our staff Newsies Now he’s helping run the country That gave us a certain degree of access to the president, but if ere going to announce that the sky was falling, we needed to have so with your third question, we’re going to tell Mahir, because he already knows, and we’re going to tell Maggie," I said "We can figure out the rest as we go"

Dave frowned "Why are we getting Maggie involved?"

"Because she’s in charge of the Fictionals If there’s any chance this is going to end up getting big enough that we have to bring the whole site in on it, I want her to have had ti to tell her people," I said

Plus, it’s the right thing to do, added George

"Well, yeah," I muttered "I knew that"

My teae Kelly hadn’t Frowning, she asked, "Are you wearing an earpiece?"

"What?" Shit "Uh… no, not exactly"

"Then who are you talking to?"

There was no way out but straight ahead Shrugging, I said, "Georgia"

Kelly hesitated, e of zo party Finally, she settled for the easiest possible answer: "I see"

The urge to get up in her face and try to start so to suppress That’s how I usually dealt with people who gavenow, that horrible o, I probably wouldn’t have been able to stopa lot less clearly Maybe I’ to be the kind of crazy that Finreful until it blows everything in its path to kingdom come

"We all cope in our oays," I said briskly "Dave, is Maggie online? We can conference her in right now"