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Then he stepped out of the elevator, leaving the five of us--my team, plus Steve--behind I looked at the others "Did that creep anybody else out, just a little bit? Or was it justthe weird ‘and then they found out he was dead all along’ vibe?"
"This isn’t good," said Becks
"No, and it isn’t getting any less creepy while we stand in this elevator arguing about it" George stepped briskly out to the hallhere she stopped, turned, and looked at the rest of us "Well? Are you coet the scoop of the century bythe dead girl make me look like a wimp," declared Becks, and shoved her way past Alaric to exit the elevator She stopped next to George, folding her arirls are hanging out in the scary hall? You are now officially wi"
"We can’t have that" I put a hand on Alaric’s shoulder, propelling hi with me as I stepped out of the elevator to join them Steve was close behind me The elevator doors slid shut as soon as he was clear, and the light above the slowly I whipped around, hand going for a gun that wasn’t there, and foundinto the face of a man I hadn’t seen in the flesh for over a year--not since George’s funeral, which he made by the skin of his teeth The others turned withfor weapons they didn’t have, others just staring
It was George who h to break the silence first I guess after co to see
"Hello, Mr President," she said
President Peter Ryia"
Maggie’s parents have arrived, or so I’m told--I haven’t been allowed to see her since their plane landed, and for all I know, they’ve co me to settle an utterly astronoe Washing dishes should have us paid off in, oh, three or four hundred years Give or take a decade or two Nan will shout when she finds out I’ve become an indentured servant in A so da her alone
Dr Abbey sent an e- her lab on another mission She wouldn’t say where, andEither she’s blocked ed addresses Either e’re cut off for the nonce, because none oftheir e-ht I was done being the one who stayed behind to write the story down Bloody journalists
May they all co of Mahir Gowda, August 6, 2041 Unpublished
Michael and Alisa are at the gift shop near the front gate, getting her some clean T-shirts We’ve been at Cliff’s Amusement Park in New Mexico for two days now, and we’re all starting to run out of clothes It should be safe to head back to Berkeley soon Right now, it’s alike everything is nors, thank God It probably helps that after Florida, nothing looks dangerous to her
She’s a good kid Even after everything she’s been through, she’s a good kid Shaun and Georgia… they were good kids, too Even after everything we put theood people I don’t kno that happened I guess that makes sense, because I never really knew them I never wanted to I suppose that one--gone for good, in Georgia’s case--I’m proud of them
I wish I’d been a better mother when I had the chance
--Froust 6, 2041 Unpublished
GEORGIA: Thirty-five
President Ry with a nize, but whose CDC-issue lab coat ied to hold ia Mason--the original--would never show fear in the face of a un to her head, andto deal with these people, I had to do it the way she would have done it Nothing else was going to work
"You don’t seeh to be sure lasses would entirely blockof ia, and Georgia’s eyes didn’t look like mine
"That’s because I’m not," he said He looked tired None of his Secret Serviceuards was Steve, and Steve would probably have a job until everyone who’d been on the ca to be said for loyalty like his
Shaun took a step forward, planting hilared at President Ry shit, too, and you didn’t tell ht have been a good idea?"