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I glanced back at Max, disturbed and confused to find that he liked this man I really wanted to punch the doctor, but I probably shouldn’t do that in front of Max He’d seen enough death and violence

“How did you get in here?” Daniels asked, and he relaxed a bit after Max made our introductions He even let the door shut behind hied “What the hell are you doing here? What are you doing to my little brother?”

“You’re aware of his condition?” Daniels tilted his head uncertainly at me

“I know he’s not sick,” I said carefully “He’s the opposite of sick, but he looks very ill What are you doing tothe world!” Max protested

“You don’t need to help the world! You need to be a little kid,” I told hiently “You need to leave with me”

“Max, wait!” Daniels held up his hand, but Max hadn’t o anywhere “All the people in the world are very, very sick You’ve seen what it does to people, haven’t you? Like your parents? You can stop that You can save them Your blood is the cure”

“This isn’t his responsibility!” I stepped in front of Max, blocking him from Daniels “And you don’t know that! There isn’t a cure yet! You ht not hold the answer!”

“But he could! He does!” Daniels insisted

“I don’t care!” I snapped “You’rehim sick! He wasn’t this bad before When they did tests on him in the old quarantine, he never looked like this!”

“They weren’t going fast enough,” Daniels said “By the time they found a cure, everyone would be dead He could save the entire human race!”

“How can he save the world if he’s dead?” I looked back at Max His eyes ide and glassy, and I’m not sure how much of the conversation he followed

“If we don’t find the cure soon, there won’t be a world left to save,” Daniels said “The zoether and tracking hu before they find a way to kill everyone”

“So your solution is to kill the only kid with a cure?” I asked skeptically

“We’re not trying to, but we need to get everything now,” Daniels explained as reasonably as he could “We’re getting all this geneticto happen? You’re planning on it?” I actually started shaking with rage and clenchedhim, and they knew it, and they didn’t care

“Do you think that everyone in the whole world should die so one kid doesn’t suffer?” Daniels looked at u his IV “He can’t live like this I won’t let him”

“You can’t take hi for help

I kneas right No matter how badly I wanted to, I couldn’t just takeNot onet you out of here”

“But if I can save people, I should,” Max said