Infected

Chapter one: Just Tired

He had been sitting there working for over three hours. She had been watching him from the shadows, she carefully approached him. He did not seem to notice her presence. She slowly crept up behind him.

"Hey Jess," he jumped in his chair as his paperwork fell to the floor. She backed up as she saw his facial expression.

"sorry I didn't –"

"what, what are you doing here? Im working!" she could see the bags under his eyes from not getting enough sleep.

"Jess, you need to goto bed, your exhausted. Come on you can finish this later." He turned towards her looking up from picking up the scattered papers.

"NO I CANT! I have to finish this tonight so that the double helix wont do a nose dive every time brennan pilots it" she smirked at his comment, but knew it wasn't the only reason for why he was up so late.

"Jess, don't make me go get the others. You need your rest." He shook his head at her.

"Shamlimar, im fine now please just let me get back to my "he yawns "work" she laughed at his while trying to pick up the tired man.

"wh-what are you doing shal, come on don't" once she had him over her shoulder she set out towards his room.

As she was about to open the door, brennan came running down the hallway.

"come on we got a call" lexa soon came running after him.

"you guys coming?" as they raced past, Shalimar sighed and put jesse down.

"are you sure you want to come?" he looked at her.

"im fine." He snapped back. He started to run after the others. When they reached the hanger the double helix was already fired up and brennan was eager to get going.

"Hurry up you two" unfortunetly jesse wasn't awake as much as he thought he was, this being proven by him stumbling and landing face first into lexa's boot. Shalimar looked onward in concern trying not to say anything to further upset jesse.

"nice going jess, come on get strapped in." jesse growled at brennan, he promptly took his seat. At his lexa began to speak:

"alright heres the thing, an doctor called and said that a new drug was being made and that the person behind it had to be stopped. The drug is called Benzonate Plasma Malicyte or BPM for short. We don't know exactly what the drug does to a person, all we know is that people are turning up dead. Or worse." They all questioned what was worse that death. No-one dared to ask. After a two hour trip they arrived at the mental institution where the experiments were being held. Shalimar was already on high guard from the building itself. As they approached the entrance they heard horrible screaming. They ran throught the dark hallways of the building. Until they made it to the end of the hallway. The hallways split into four directions, they turned and nodded at one another. Then they were off one in each direction. "alright people stay in contact and stay away from anything weird until we all get there. No sence in one of us dieing." Brennan laughed over his comlink, lexa always had a way of making a bad situation even better.

Meanwhile...

Shalimar was walking down the dark hallway that she had chosen to follow, until her foot hit something. A flashlight rolled across the ground. She slowly picked it up and turned it on, there standing just a few feet away were four men which seemed to be dressed as doctors. She was accidentily shining it in their eyes and they cringed away from the beams of light.

"oh im so sorry" she turned the flashlight off to see that the doctors eyes had turned a bright green in the dark.

"what the heck...whats wrong with you-"

there was a loud muffle on the comlink and then everyone heard heavy breathing.

"guys, there is something wrong." It was Shalimar, brennan was the first to reply.

"what do you mean wrong?" there was breathing again.

"lexa who contacted you exactly?" lexa pondered who it was that had contacted the dominion, all that they had said was that it was of no importance and that they were to meet the four leading doctors of the research team.

"just some random doctors... four of them, why?" there was a loud crashing sound and then more breathing.

"those doctors lexa, there chasing me and there is something terribly wrong with their eyes." Lexa stopped walking down the corridor that she was in. a sudden fear came across her mind.

"DON'T LET THEM CATCH YOU !!! RUN SHALIMAR." Jesse heard this and began to run through the walls of the building. He had to get to Shalimar. He just hoped that he wouldn't be too late. As he ran he just made a plea to anything that could possibly hear him. "hold on Shalimar."