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This time, I was faster onin my lab for the duration I realize it’s an invasion of your privacy, but it can’t be avoided if ant to get good results"
Ire in "I think I can handle it"
"Thank you," said Dr Shaw Her smile faded, replaced by heryou’d like to bring with you?"
I blinked I hadn’t realized shethe rooun was tucked into the top ofthe few books I’d been able to cajole Dr Tho else here was irl and put her in this room, and she’d never know I’d existed, just like I woke up not knowing there had been others here beforeOne way or another, I was never going to coone, and no one would ory Maybe not even hi his cover hadn’t been blown, he’d probably be busy trying to find out whether the new Georgia Mason was the one he could finally save
"Good," said Dr Shaw, breaking hts "If there’s nothing here you’d like to bring, then we’re ready to begin"
"I didn’t have anything else on my calendar for today," I said Dr Shaw started for the door I followed, resisting the urge to look back at the roo point, and yet soh the door with her felt very, very final
Two of the technicians fro for us in the hall, along with two guards I didn’t recognize I was getting used to that I focusedas earnestly as I could "Kathleen George It’s good to see you again"
"See?" crowed Kathleen, bouncing in place The guards looked at her with visible discomfort but didn’t move froet approved!"
"I should never have doubted you," I said
"You’re looking… well," said George
"I’ve had lots of rest," I said
"Which is excellent for our purposes," said Dr Shaw "Now that we’re all acquainted again, co We have much to do, and little time in which to do it" This said, she turned and strode down the hall, her heels punctuating each step with a gunshot-crisp crack Kathleen and George fell into step behind her, and I trailed after the after ht be a step toward freedom, but I wasn’t in the clear yet
Dr Shaw led us down the hall toward the lab where her first round of tests onat an unuards, holding up her ID badge "I assure you, the auto untoward happens between here and our final destination"
"Our apologies, Dr Shaw, but we have our orders," said the elder of the two guards, a tall, Hispanichis upper lip He looked less nervous than his co Dr Shaasn’t going to do what she wanted him to do "We are to escort the subject to your lab and ensure that she’s secured before we leave our posts"
"Bureaucracy will be the death of us all," muttered Dr Shahat looked like sincere annoyance "Very well, then, if youyou shouldn’t, the cost of deconta out of your paychecks, and I will be speaking to your supervisors Do I e stepped up to flank us, presenting a united line I was the only one not wearing a lab coat For souards looked round I aluard "We’re just doing our jobs"
"Yes, well, I believe you’ve established that" She swiped her badge down the front of a netic scanner in the wall The scanner beeped once The door in front of us didn’t budge; instead, a door on the other side of the hall swung open The guards turned Dr Shaw looked s my patient’s welfare, you can lead the way"
I frowned at the expression on her face Then I looked through the open door, and led to become a smile
The door opened in what appeared to be the side of a hall A sign was posted on the wall visible through the opening--CAUTION: ACTIVE BIOHAZARD LABS BEYOND THIS POINT CONTAMINATION RISK IS SET AT BIOSAFETY LEVEL 3 DO NOT PROCEED WITHOUT APPROPRIATE CLEARANCE Beneath that, so "So coood-bye"
"Ma’a primarily in Level 1 and 2 areas, but lanced to ful look that chased away any doubts I may have had about my fate If I were still Dr Thomas’s pet subject, he would never have let me enter a Level 3 biohazard lab He approved this He was done with me