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The door opened

My head snapped up, tensing as I waited for the gunmen to enter I wondered whether they’d send Becks to shoot ues for a long ti infected con of respect

Dr Abbey stepped into the roo wide They went even wider as Joe pushed past her, his tail wagging wildly fro to let him be in here while you put me down?" I asked "That’s cold I e, but that’s cold"

Dr Abbey smiled "Hello, Shaun" She shut the door behind herself, waiting until the locks finished hissing before she walked over to the other side of the table She was carrying a folding chair, which she set up and sank into, watching ?"

"You shouldn’t be in here," I said Joe walked around the table and shoved his enor I barely remembered the blood onhiious" She reached into the pocket of her lab coat, pulling out a can of Coke and putting it down on the table between us "Youin here for a while" I stared at her "No, really, open the can I want to see how good your , I reached out and picked up the can Its cold heaviness was soothing, even before I popped the tab, closeddrink It was the best thing I’d ever tasted, sugary syrupy sweetness and all

Dr Abbey atching , Shaun?" she asked

"A little dry I don’t understand what you’re doing--" I stopped The dryness in le that always cae’s Candyland hookers "--here," I finished, more slowly "Dr Abbey?"

"I’m here because I wanted to talk to you about your test results, Shaun" She reached into her pocket again, this ti unit Catching my surprise, she said, "Don’t worry It’s been modified so it won’t upload--it’ll think it has, but it won’t This won’t give our position away to the CDC, or to anybody else"

"I don’t understand Did so rong with your first test Now please" She gestured toward the unit "Hu sanctuary to your teaht" At least this one had lights I popped off the lid, whispering, "One," and waiting for George’s answering Two, before pressing ainst the pressure pad The needles bit in, quick and painful as always, and the lights began to flash through their coreens They flashed fast to begin with, then slowed as they settled on their final deterht to stop flashing

All five of the up at Dr Abbey Joe shoved his nose intoon her instead "Is this a side effect of blocking the transatives as positives?"

"No, Shaun I didn’t" Dr Abbey cal it back into place She watched estures, so that I wouldn’t be surprised She didn’t really need to worry I was somewhere past surprise by that point "None of the adjust as suicidal or idiotic as showing a positive result as a negative one We’d just disable the readouts, like we did with your first test Those results came to my computer, and no one else’s I was able to study your entire viral profile"