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I posted chapter 5 only two days ago and there are already more reviews than I asked for! So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank youuuuuuuu! I love you guys for this so much, and for all the great things you've been saying about this story.

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—katiebear95 ;)

CHAPTER VI

It wasn't just any body—

It was Bex.

And then red lights were flashing as the words 'CODE BLACK' reverberated through the walls.

Hell had broken loose.

If Cammie hadn't known any better she would have said the earth had just stopped spinning, because, if only for a moment, everything was deathly silent. But then the world came rushing back to her and the shrieks of the alarms sounded.

"CODE BLACK, CODE BLACK, CODE BLACK," they went on.

Cammie couldn't resist clamping her hands over her ears, and her vision went red. But she couldn't see anything; hear anything, other than the sound of the alarms that meant something—although she couldn't for the life of her remember what.

All that registered in her mind was the cold seeping into her body as she stared down at it—at her best friend's lifeless body.

Then her world went black.

Zach felt rather than saw Cammie slump over, her hands pressing over her ears. He grabbed her and held her close, even as his vision blurred and he felt himself slipping into oblivion as well.

It was too much—just too much… for any of them. It was as if, in a minute—just one minute— everything had changed. The whole dynamic of everything they that had thought had shifted off its axis and now it was catapulting into a black hole.

They just couldn't take it.

Out of the corner of his eye Zach watched as Gallagher went into lock down. Metal barriers covered doors, lights flashed, artifacts spun; and through it all the shrieking wouldn't stop.

'CODE BLACK, CODE BLACK, CODE BLACK!'

What did it mean? There was something, but he couldn't remember as his focus shattered. All that mattered was that moment— not who, or why, or how.

He buried his head deep in Cammie's hair, her head resting on his chest as he folded his body over hers. He tried to block it all out. The shock and the pain, but he couldn't stop himself from staring at Bex. Bex... There was no way that was her. How could it have been Bex? Nothing worked. It didn't compute.

But then he felt himself slipping.

And in the last seconds before he too fell prey to the dark, he thought of the faint pulse on her neck he was surely imagining.

The world was spinning. That's what each of the boys felt as vibrations shook the floorboards. They toppled into one another as the world started to shift under their feet.

Cammie's eyes were shut.

She was almost certain she had fainted... but do you hear things when you faint? It was almost as if she was hearing everything that was happening in the real world through a closed door; like she was watching everything through a thick pane of glass.

And then the door opened and the glass shattered and the world went silent.

I know this is the shortest chapter in the entire story, except for maybe the prologue, but just go with it. I promise the next chapter will be a lot longer. I just felt like I needed to describe the confusion in what was happening right where last chapter left off, and I thought this was a pretty good way to do it. Also, the confusing parts will hopefully be explained in the next chapter.

I'm aiming for 73 reviews. What do you think? Hope you liked this one alright

—katiebear95 ;)