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Doc’s answering grin was subdued
“What’s the latest?” He hated seeing the toll this took on their team leader With Friday stuck in the no-man’s-land between life and death, Striker held on to hope that she’d pull through Everyone on the teaht as well have been plugged into life support for all the signs of life they saw Mace worried that one day soon, one of the
“I’h He’d been burning the ht oil in his search for answers “She should have died weeks ago Every research article I’ve read said the longest someone lived after Interferan-X activated was three days We’re on seven weeks She’s breathing on her own, and there are no physical changes As far as I can see, the only sign that soht is the fact her temperature is elevated and she’s been unconscious since we brought her here”
“Coma?”
“It looks like it, but I’s I wouldn’t expect to see if she were in a real coma” He let out a huff “I’m a medic Not a specialist, not even a doctor I’m in over my head here”
“What if we try giving her the antidote now? I can take souys, we can hit the lab and lift some”
The medic shook his head, clearly at a loss “I don’t think it wouldare becoe The Interferan-X is still there, but it’selse, too, son body in her blood that I can’t quite identify”
“When you say the Interferan-X is , what do you mean, exactly?”
“It’selse, that’s what I mean Don’t ask me what, because I don’t have a clue”
They stared at the pale-skinned woman Each of them at a loss as to what to think
“We need to do so,” Mace said “We can’t leave him like this He’s scared to one He hardly eats, we have to force hi but Friday I bring hi, and he turns away” He ran a hand through his hair and lowered his voice “I’ to follow”
“I don’t knohat to tell you I think that’s a distinct possibility I’ve never seen anything like this before He’s acting like they’ve been joined at the hip for years instead of knowing her for only four days before she slipped into unconsciousness” He cast Mace a sideward glance “In the ht, when he thinks no one is around, he spends his ti”
The words sent hi None of them did, but Striker especially wouldn’t bend to anyone
“There’s a lab in New Zealand,” the medic said, of one of the Coalition Countries “They could run more extensive tests than we can here I could send out some blood See what they come up with”
“We can’t I’ve had Hunter flag incidences of accidental poisoning using Interferan-X There haven’t been any cases since Friday took her dose If we send out her blood, the fact there’s Interferan-X in it will cause a ripple We can’t afford for anyone to think she’s still alive” If that was even what they could call her current state