Doctors Mark Thompson and Lisa Mueller were part of Dr. Swanson’s team. They were in charge of contagion pathology and mutation anticipation. Both were startled when the warning alarm sounded. Instantly the door to the corridor locked and the ventilation system shut down. The indicator light above the door changed from greed to red indicated that the corridor was a hot zone. Mark could see a few people trapped in the hallway. Lisa rushed to the door to let them in, but Mark stopped her and quickly closed the blind on the window overlooking the corridor.
Stunned, Lisa exclaimed, “Mark, what are you doing! That was Dr. Chambers, and God knows who else. We have to let them in!”
Coldly, Mark snapped at her “Lisa, if we open that door we’ll contaminate this room. We don’t know what bio-agent or how much was released."
Pleading, “We can purge the room, the system stores enough clean compressed air to do that! As the air is being cycled out we bring them in.”
“Lisa, be reasonable, what if it all isn’t purged? What if this is a 2-4-5 Trioxin or VX gas release….they’re already dead if that’s the case, and I for one will not be joining them. We just have to wait and be patient, the emergency kit has enough food and water for 48 hours and we have our contamination suits if we have to try and leave the facility ourselves.”
Their conversation was interrupted by a sudden tapping at the window; followed by a screeching sound as if something was bring dragged across the glass. Apprehensively Lisa approached the blinds. If Mark’s fears were correct and this was a Triox release God knows that terrible gore she would be faced with when she peaked through the blinds. More importantly, she would have alerted any of her infected coworkers to their presence. Lisa pressed her face close to the blinds and parted two of them with her pointer and middle finger. She sighed with relief and turned to Mark, but the room was empty.
“Mark?”
Slowly Mark’s head popped up from behind the desk on the far side of the room. “So much for your dangerous Triox leak hero!” Lisa let out an uncontrolled laugh as she yanked on the chord retracting the blinds. A woman was topless and pressing her ample tits against the glass.
Still chuckling, “Judging by Dr. Chambers I’d say it was Cassandra that was out in the wild.”
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