Click,
Click,
Click
Chloe closed her eyes and waited for the noise to stop. For the past 3 hours the same sound would come up, Chloe had timed it. 7 minutes on the dot and all you would here was: Click, Click, Click, it was driving her insane.
She had been sitting in her room for the past 4 hours because there was nothing to do and she didn't really want to be around people. Usually when this happened she would go and either hang out with Matt, or go talk to Eli about the ship, or something interesting. But it this wasn't the case anymore. Eli had lost all respect for her since she had helped Doctor Rush divide the ship, leaving the military personnel on one side and all the civilians on the other, and Matt was felt so betrayed that he hadn't talked much to her since the incident, excluding the four weeks they had spent on the alien planet of course. Chloe missed the planet, there was so much life there, it was green, Matt and here were talking and working things out, and for once since the time they had been on the Destiny, she wasn't scared. Not even when T.J. had told her she was pregnant.
However since they had been back on the Destiny, the only good thing that had happened was she had gained a friend, T.J. And as good of a thing that that was, she wanted more. She wanted to be back in Matt's strong arms, to be able to talk to her best friend again, and not feel like everywhere she went people were looking at her thinking oh is she going to turn on us. The worst was though, when people asked her if she had an implant that she was not telling the rest of the ship about. Like she would put them in that kind of danger, she wasn't heartless. In fact at times, it felt like she had the biggest hart here and that was sad.
Chloe continued to sit there twiddling her thumbs, watching her clock waiting for another seven minutes to pass.
Click,
Click,
Click,
Right on schedule, she thought. However all of the sudden this time she started to hear a hissing sound. A little bit worried that something might be wrong with the ship, she started searching for the sound, feeling the walls and putting her ear up against it. It turned out that the hissing was coming from the vent above her bead.
Click,
Click,
Click
What do you know, She thought. It took her 7 minutes to find where the sound was coming from.
All of the sudden there was a big Creak and the hissing became even louder, when Chloe looked down the vent she saw a white gas rushing out from a small crack in the vent. When Chloe breathed in she felt it burn all the way down and started hacking and coughing. Dropping to her knees and then lying on her side for a good 30 seconds doing nothing but trying to gag up whatever was burning her throat and lungs, she tried breathing in again, but only feeling more of the toxic fumes run down her throat.
Great, it's spreading, were the words that ran through her mind before she ran out the door as fast as he body would allow her to warn someone.
The coughing wasn't helping her run at all and she had tripped before she got to the first door. She stood up urgently and knocked as fast and hard as she could, trying to get the attention of the person inside.
Joey, One of the cooks of the ship opened up the door but before he had the chance to say anything Chloe interrupted, "There is some kind of gas leaking from the ship." talking a mile a minute. "I don't know what it is, but it's not healthy. We have to get everyone out of this section and go" She coughed a bit more, but continued, "let someone know!"
"Okay" he said, knowing the urgency. "I'll run and tell someone, you get everyone out."
Chloe ran door, to door, warning everyone and telling them to get out. However by the time she reached the end of the hallway, she was coughing so hard she could barely walk, let alone talk. And then she just collapsed.