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She nodded o to the But…" She hesitated

"But what?" asked Becks "I’m sorry, Doc, you can’t just show up here with your corpses and your conspiracy and your craziness and not give us at least a place to start"

Kelly wiped her eyes,herwasn’t really there for researching the reservoir conditions My tea on a shoestring budget Our interns kept getting reassigned, our lab spaces… anyway That doesn’t one into the private sector to pursue their own research I have a list"

"Thank you, God," said Dave, rolling his eyes theatrically toward the ceiling

"Dave, cut it out" I focused on Kelly She was holding it together better than I would have expected Pure researchers don’t usually do hen suddenly hurled out of their labs and into the real world "Is that everything, Doc?"

Kelly took a deep breath, and said, "No one outside the CDC knehat ulfed the roo and Becks and I just stared There was a moment where I wasn’t sure I’d be able to controltoo many in the "Why didn’t you say that first?" column Was it her fault? No But it was suddenly our proble

"Says you," I snapped Kelly blinked, looking to Becks, who shook her head My tea to thee Thankfully

It’s not her fault

"I know" I whirled around and punched the wall Kelly ju, even as it made me feel worse about the whole situation Like she wasn’t scared enough already? "Sorry, Doc I’m just… I’m sorry I was a little surprised, is all"

"It’s okay," she said It wasn’t--not according to the look in her eyes--but it was going to have to do

I shookthe implications of Kelly’s words We’d always known somebody inside the CDC was involved with Governor Tate’s dooh the use of weaponized Kellis-Amberlee; Kelly’s information just confirmed it What we’d never had was the proof necessary to anizations in the world "Get me facts and I’ll convince the president," that’s what Rick had said But the facts had been awfully slow in cole-handedly, if that hat it took Mahir and Alaric talked soe back If anted the pple responsible for her death punished, we needed to be sloe needed to be careful, and we needed to nail thee any of that, and at the sa, because it meant the conspiracy was still alive and well If someone inside the CDC decided that the study needed to stop, then so the death rates a individuals with reservoir conditions