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"Come on!" I shouted
"What?" She looked toward e--"
"Is dead! Now, let’s get out of here before he decides to wake up and make us dead, too! I’ve been dead; you wouldn’t enjoy it!" I dragged her toward the door on the opposite side of the roo to babble and shout at the same time
The second shot was as quiet as the first Kathleen suddenly collapsed, the dead weight of her body pulling her hand out ofback at her, and at the hole in theeye Unlike George, she wouldn’t be rising A shot to the head kills humans and zombies the same way: stone dead
Suddenly aware of how exposed I was--and how alone I was--I drew s would carrytoward the roo away fro on?"
"We’re blown!" He put on a burst of speed, closing the distance between us He grabbedht before she was shot
Sick terror lanced through led to keep up "Is it my fault?"
"Not unless you called down a full security teah to the outside world" Gregory didn’t slon "Save your breath I don’t kno long we’re going to need to run"
I didn’t answer I just ran Terror had er of falling down froood part The bad part--aside from the unidentified shooter or shooters--was that I wasn’t out of shape so much as I had never been in shape My ym and in the field My body had less than twothat builds endurance My lungs were already starting to burn, signaling worse things to come
A door sla frantically with one hand The other hand was out of sight "This way!" she hissed Her normally perfect hair was in disarray, and there were spots of blood on the sleeve of her lab coat Whether it was hers or soles, still haulingus run past her into the narrow hall on the other side of the door As soon as ere through, she stepped back and pulled her hand away from the sensor to the left of the doorfra fro toward the wall She pried open what looked like a section of paneling to reveal a control panel Not looking at us, she started typing
"At least two shooters, at least three technicians down"
"Kathleen and George," I panted I slu my hands on my knees There was blood on"They’re both down"
"Da "They’ve been with me for years--how ory I didn’t like the resignation in his voice "At this point, they’re locked in with two armed hostiles and at least one risen infected Sorry, Danika, but I think we have to call thisso well," she said, with a note of ainst the control panel’s testing pad "Do we kno they made us?"
"Ja, we have to assu for the opportunity to report back We’ve been too busy for the last several days for anyone to sneak away unnoticed"
"Re to take anyone who didn’t come with me from the Maryland lab," said Dr Kimberley She pulled her hand away froed the bio a fool, I straightened and took a step backward Gregory and Dr Ki between us and the door, slah force that it was easy to picture anything caught between it and the floor getting smashed flat "Decontamination procedures initiated," announced a cal in ten… nine…"
"Run!" shouted Gregory He grabbeddown the hall Dr Ki from her left hand That was smart of her She would never have been able to keep up with the voice of the security syste My heart skipped a beat as I saw the red lights clicking on all along the hall in front of us
"Daered a full lab decon!"
"I did no such thing! Soers with the security protocols!" She sounded frantic I didn’t blame her I wasn’t sure what a full lab decon entailed, but I knew enough about CDC procedures to knoouldn’t be anything good
Gregory snarled so I couldn’t quite o of an re his lab coat He didn’t slon I stu, aided by Dr Kimberley’s hand on my back