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"Coffee’s on the stove," said Alaric, before adding quickly, "Do we have a plan, or are we just going to sit around here drinking coffee and waiting to see what happens next?"
"That depends on the Doc" I walked over to the stove A half-full pot of coffee was on the central heating plate "We knohat happened yesterday wasn’t just bad tiuess the question is, Doc, were they after us, or were they after you?"
Silence fell behindfro a slow, patient sip as I waited for soh to be scalding, and it tasted like it had been brewed just this side of Heaven I’ll drink Coke for George all day if I have to, but there’s nothing like that first cup of coffee to get thestarted
Finally, in a s to get me out before our plan could be compromised With most of my team dead, it’s not like there were thatto do with it It should have been a clean escape He did say… When I left, he said you were probably in danger anyway, because of…" She stopped A lot of people have trouble talking about what happened to George when I’m in the room I can’t decide whether it’s because they don’t want to reer, or if it’s because they can’t deal with the fact that she’s still withpunched in the face
The why doesn’t e stays dead, and no one talks about it
"You kneere in danger before you reached us?" I recognized the warning in the tone Becks was using She started as a Newsie, and she processes facts a little faster than ives her the ability to sound very reasonable, and the er you’re in "And you didn’t say anything?"
"There will be no killing the Doc," I said, walking over to the settle at the table "She’s just as screwed as we are, so play nicely, okay? This isn’t her fault"
Kelly nodded fir else "I tried to say so you for three weeks before we hit the point where I couldn’t hang around in Mee quietly
I winced
"A secure phone line would have been noticed in a facility as locked down as the CDC," Kelly continued "When Dr Wynne evacuated ed and stuffed into the back of a truck that was hauling dry goods to California I barely had a pulse for a few thousand miles I definitely wasn’t in any condition to make phone calls"
"You could still have opened the conversation with the fact that we ht want to evacuate," said Becks