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Everything was in position; this installation was home to hundreds upon thousands of souls that were still in hibernation waiting for a host. The building used to be a hospital a place of healing and was now used as a breeding ground for parasites. All of them were waiting for human hosts, most of the hosts couldn't be old enough to take a drivers test. Well today due to a misfile of paperwork those bodies were now on their way to an abandoned warehouse 50 miles away into the arms of a local underground resistance.
Less casualties this way and the facility would be disorganized from the confusion, not to mention that seekers were here to help sort out the mess and try to find the bodies a nice bonus for me. Most of the worms outside were seekers interviewing a few medical personel to try and figure out what had happened to the bodies.
My sniper rifle was ready and men were ready to open fire on the building as soon as they were given the signal. The only reason the building wasn't full of holes and dead souls was because I was waiting for something specific to arrive. Speak of the devil here it came, a truck with something very important inside it well two important things the first being medical supplies and a few sleeping souls that my dad needed for tests. The second of course was the driver of the vehicle, I recognized him as one of the four that got away, before I couldn't run him down but now I was faster and stronger than before; he wasn't going to get away this time.
I was just about to give the signal a series of detonators that I had placed on the second fifth and ninth floors. This would be the moment to strike everything was perfect exactly where it should be. But of course that was when I had to recognize one face out of the entire crowd of souls when she just happened to walk through the lens of my rifle. I couldn't believe it when I saw her I mean it was at least four hundred miles away from my hometown where I had last seen her but there she was as beautiful as ever. She was talking to another healer another girl with blonde hair.
It was Gabrielle the only friend I had ever had and the only girl I had ever loved. Instantly my mind went back to my childhood of the days were I was picked on for my prosthetic eye and she came in to defend me, other days were we would play at her house she loved to play house and tea party's. She loved to play pretty much every girly game there ever was and I happily played along.
Her hair was jet black almost always tied off into a ponytail her face was flawless and she had an adorable pointed chin, her body was small but not weak and her legs were long and gorgeous, She had the most brilliant green eyes.
They were silver now.
I had to kill her she was the enemy she was a soul. But of course that was the computer in me talking, the coldly logical part of me that made the most sense and was always right. I'm still human I still had emotions even though I didn't want to, I didn't want to feel the denial that it was her or the sadness that I would now be killing or the hope that maybe I could save her. I really didn't want to have the hope cause I might actually try something extremely stupid and pointless and possibly suicidal. I may be strong but I'm not invincible I can still be killed Might not be an easy thing but it was doable.
There where a few things that could take me down for good and other things that could take me down just long enough. Still I didn't see any weaponry down there that could be harmful to me most of the seekers down there only had .32's and those weren't nearly enough to damage me I might be able to go down grab her, blow up the building, and take the truck without much difficulty or danger. The only question was why should I.
There was no practical reason to retrieve her. The girl I knew was gone and this thing was only using her corpse like I would use a car. That was logical it was practical.
and I was packing up the rifle and making my way down to get her.
Damn these emotions damn them to the lowest bowels of hell. I quietly made my way through the crowd careful not to attract attention to myself, my eyes had already changed their pigments so I looked like them but the paranoia was still there. I was in the middle of a crowd of freakin parasites not to mention the snipers might accidentally fire on me by accident even though they knew what I looked like they might just go nuts on the whole crowd. they weren't exactly trained marksman they were thugs that wanted something to vent out their frustration on. I crept around her as she was talking to another soul a girl I think she looked sort of manly up close but oddly feminine.
I maneuvered myself around her until I was between her and the building which in a few seconds was going to a barbeque with fried bugs as its main dish. I slipped the detonator into my hand careful to keep it hidden under the sleeve of my cloak and pressed the button and boy was it loud. I nearly dropped the case with the rifle in it feeling some concrete and glass hit against my back ruining my cloak but otherwise not harmful to me.
It was when the flames hit me that i started to feel the pain, I was ready for that but it still stung. Fire was one of the few things that could still hurt me after all I was fire resistant not fire proof, and I didn't like it, fire was painful more painful then anything else I had ever felt. I immediately grabbed her hand and rushed through the crowd towing her along. If this went well I might take her without any struggle or hassle involved, except I still had to kill that one insect in the car which I don't think she would keep quiet about.
Seems I forgot the most important rule of kidnapping, always have a clean getaway.
This day was gonna really suck.
What had just happened?
Where was this man taking me?
I didn't understand I had just come to the hospital today to help with the host mixup and now the building was on fire and people around her were falling down with what looked like gunshot wounds. There was so much blood that the smell was making her want to throw up but she had to keep running to avoid the same fate.
I looked at the man that was dragging me forward but there was an odd sense of familiarity to him, like I knew him from somewhere. Besides that though his entire body was covered in a long black cloak although when I tried to look at the cloak it was like, like I don't know how to describe it. It was like I knew that he was there I just didn't want to know.
Other than that he looked to be only a few inches taller than she was not that this was a difficult feat the body she was in was about 5'2 at best. Suddenly he moved and covered her with his body and she could have sworn that she heard a whistling sound accompanied by a thunk of impact. Abruptly he started to move her again and she noticed that his back covered with burns and she was amazed that he was able to keep moving.
He pushed his way through crowd with ease which must mean that he was very scared of what was happening because he was pushing people down as he went, and not apologizing for it. He seemed to be making his way to a truck, there was a seeker looking around wildly trying to figure out the source of the gunshots his pistol out and his eyes wide. He grabbed the seeker and with great strength threw him into the front seat of the truck rather roughly.
He helped me into the back doing it much more gently than he had done with the seeker although not without haste and when he did she noticed that his hands were also gloved, effectively covering his entire body. How did he have all that clothing on in this weather?
After he helped her up to the back he closed the doors and ran around to the front to the driver's seat and started racing away from the chaos. She had to sit down to catch up to what was going on. The entire hospital had simply exploded before her eyes and she remembered with a sudden sadness that there were souls in hibernation. They had just came in yesterday and they were planning to do a massive insertion today which is why all of the healers were present.
The entire building was filled with souls. Healers, patients, souls in hibernation and it was a very large hospital complex. Enough to cover two city blocks and tens of thousands of souls in it perhaps even hundreds of thousands and now so many were gone just gone. Never to see the light of day again never to feel or to love again.
So she cried it was all she could do, at least she was alive she would have to go back to help the wounded there would be so many. That man had saved her she would have to thank him maybe that familiarity had been recognition of an old friend. Perhaps when this body wasn't hers. There were several blank spots in her memory specifically portions of her childhood even though she remembered everything else, there seemed to be a veil around certain events were clouded and when she tried to remember all that would come to mind was ashadows.
He saved her yet she couldn't shake the feeling that he wasn't exactly what he seemed to be.
hmmm, i don't think that was very good. its difficult to tell a story from gabrielle's perspective.
