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He didn’t look back as he walked out of the ently shut behind hi to the silence insideherself off behind the bathroo to happen? Really?

"I guess I can live with that," I said, to the silence

"Live hat?"

I turned to see Kelly standing in the bathroo an outfit I hadn’t seen before Shetrips with Maggie Tan slacks, a white button-down blouse, and a pair of low, black heels A starched white lab coat completed the illusion that she’d left the CDC only yesterday, notthat popped into my head: "What the hell happened to your hair?"

Kelly reached up to self-consciously touch her long blond ponytail It was the hairstyle she’d been wearing when she first arrived in Oakland, if ie found it for me at a beauty supply shop Don’t you like it?"

"Shit, Doc, anyone who sees you is going to think they’re seeing a ghost"

Very funny, said George

"That’s the idea," said Kelly, and smiled There was a bitterness in that expression I don’t think she would have been capable of before she cas she kne had broken her,my biometric infor, and these people are arrogant bastards--I know, because I’m one of them My profile will still be there We won’t have any issues with the autouards don’t really know any of the junior staff by na we do, it’s not unusual for us to disappear for weeks at a ti as we don’t wander into a spot check, we’ll be fine"

"What about the part where we’ve been hiding you all the way across the country, on account of that whole ‘faking your own death’ thing? This see to deal with anyone but security, the janitorial staff, and Dr Wynne Security won’t stop anyone the scanner says is allowed to be there, and janitorial doesn’t care We’ll get past theate" We’d gone over all of this before I was so thrown by her appearance thaton autopilot

"So we’d better hope the servers haven’t been updated" Was that doubt in her voice? It could have been It didn’t really matter either way We were miles past the point of no return, and she was as coet you across the hall to Becks If we’re going to invade the Centers for Disease Control, I want to do it while I’m at least remotely clean"

Kelly nodded and ducked back into the bathroo e of the roo cross-legged in thea sniper rifle I hadn’t even been aware she had I raised an eyebrow

Becks looked up, hands continuing their work as she glanced at Kelly and gave an encouraging nod "That’s good You look like a CDC flunky"