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“What was the test supposed to be?”
“H…He…Healing.”
My body is trembling with overwhelming rage. “Healing from what, exactly?”
Micah answers for her. “He's got internal bleeding. We need to get him out of here, but he's not walking out.”
Not able to contain it any longer, my fist flies out and catches the nurse across the face. The force of the impact makes her hit the wall behind her and fall to the floor.
“Is there a wheelchair or a gurney nearby?” Luis asks the nurse, ignoring my outburst.
“Next door,” she whimpers pathetically, holding her rapidly swelling cheek.
Without waiting for confirmation, I walk out of the room and into the next lab. I spot the gurney in the middle of the room and pull it back. Luis grabs it and pulls it closer to Micah, keeping his gun trained on the nurse.
Just outside the door, I pause a moment, an eerie chill tingling down my spine. The room that we passed earlier is right across the hall, the open door beckoning me.
My feet take me there before I decide to move, as if pulled by an invisible tether.
The room is mostly dark, lit by the glow of a wall of screens. Each screen is monitoring vitals or measurements that I don't understand. Who are they monitoring, though? We thought Bennet was the only “patient” here.
Stepping into the room, my steps slow. I can just barely make out a figure laying on a hospital bed toward the back of the room. My heart thunders as I creep quietly through the room.
“Six, get out of there, go back to the others.” Lukas' voice crackles over my ear piece.
He keeps talking, but my brain shuts him out, and finally I just take the earpiece out altogether. My focus is on the figure of the person laying less than five feet away from me.
Covered only in a sheet, with more tubes and wires coming off her than I can count, is…me. An exact replica of myself, her head completely shaved with leads and wires attached to her scalp, lying unconscious and unmoving. Her body is nearly skeletal, with little to no muscle tone that I can see. The thin sheet isn't enough to hide all the sharp angles of her body, nor is it enough to hide the slight swell of her stomach.
I take multiple long moments to process what I'm seeing, and moments longer for my brain to catch up to my body. And then I'm gasping for breath, unaware I'd been holding it. Nausea chokes me. My knees buckle, and I fall to the floor, my eyes never leaving the poor soul in front of me.
Red lights flash and an alarm blares as I register the presence behind me.
“She's a lot less trouble than you are.”
My wig is ripped off of my head, and something sharp is held against my neck.
Jackson
I'm focused on helping Micah get Bennet on the gurney when Lukas starts shouting at Six.
“I have no eyes in that room and she's either not listening or she's taken her earpiece out.”
Tony cuts in. “We've got trouble. Adley is on the move with four armed guards. He's headed toward your current location.”
“Shit. Six!” Luis calls.
He calls out to her two more times before he moves towards the door, taking his eyes off the nurse. This gives her enough time to lower her arms and slam a red button on the wall. Immediately an alarm blares and the lights cut off, replaced by flashing red lights.
Discharging my weapon, I shoot the nurse in the thigh. She screams and falls to the ground, crying. She doesn't seem the type to cause any more issues with a bullet wound. With her incapacitated, we can focus on the problem at hand.
Our cover is blown. The entire building will lock down now and whatever security there is on site will come running.
We're fucked.
None of us is going to go out without a fight though.
Micah has control of Bennet, securing him to the gurney. He's stripped the bulletproof vest from the dead guard and is covering Bennet's head and chest as best he can. Once he's got him settled, he looks up at me with a quick nod.
