Rex jerked out of sleep as he heard a crash in the doctor's room. He had been told to go to his own room and go to bed by Six and Callan about four times each. Now he was glad that he didn't. He jumped up and started banging on the door.
"Doc? Are you okay?" He waited for an answer but nothing but silence came back to him. He tried to open the door- but remembered Holiday had locked the door before she started crying. He looked at the security override. He didn't know the code- why would he. He started to panic. SIX! HE turned around and started banging with both fists on the agent's door. Six opened the door and grabbed Rex's hands to keep him from continuing to bang on him.
"Please-tell-me-you-know-the-docs-door-code!" Rex spat out his sentences in one breath earning a furrowed brown from Six. Six looked up over the teen at Holiday's door.
"No. What's wrong?" Rex grabbed the agent's arm and attempted to pull him out of the room. When it didn't work, Rex looked up at Six with fear covering his face.
"SOMETHINGS WRONG, SIX!" Six looked at Rex. He narrowed his eyes- Rex couldn't see it but they were narrowed none the less. A katana appeared in his hand and before Rex could react the blade was imbedded deep into the electronic keypad.
"Rex. Open it." Six ordered. Rex scrambled over to the door and ripped it open. He was trying to figure out why he hadn't thought of that before. Six ran past him in a green blur. Rex's eyes darted around the room then finally settled on Holiday's body on the floor.
"DOC!" Rex said running to her side. Six brought his arm up stopping Rex. Rex looked down at the doctor, she was pale, there was blood dripping down her face. Six has his hand on her neck counting her pulse.
"Rex. Move." The agent ordered. She had a pulse a faint one, but it was there. Six carefully rolled her onto her back and picked her up. Rex moved out of the way as Six took off toward the medical bay. Rex followed him. What was going on? He was panicking. The doc had stormed through the compound, kicked Six's door and cried her self silent. He had sat beside her door- he couldn't even remember slipping off to sleep. Six was shouting orders as he slowed down entering the exam room. Rex didn't understand half of what the Agent was saying. Six turned at looked at Rex as he set Holiday down on the bed. Rex shook his head and looked at Six- he hadn't heard the last thing he said.
"What?" He blinked at the agent.
"Go get a cold pack." Six said again. He looked back down to Holiday. The nurses came over and started setting up IVs.
"What happened?" The smallest nurse ask. Six frowned.
"I don't know. I'm going to go check out her room." The nurse nodded.
"I'm going to start running diagnostics." He nodded and walked out of the examining room. He snorted and started towards the private sector. He hoped that the vial he had tried to take away from her wasn't what he thought it was. He walked through the rubble that was left of the doctor's door. He looked around slowly. The table in the corner was turned over, as were the chairs. He walked into her room. There was a blood pool on the floor where she had been laying and another dried spot a few feet over. He took a deep breath and started his search. Her bed was still made- she hadn't slept in it. He walked over to the far side of her room- switching the lights fully on. He looked at the floor and cringed inwardly. He walked over to the floor and picked up a small syringe. He looked at it. He picked up the vial next. He shook his head.
"Dammit Holiday."He said standing up. He put the vial in his pocket and started to leave the room- a sickening revelation of what the doctor had done curling in his gut. He stopped as he felt something drag on his feet. He looked down and his nose curled. He bent down and picked up a piece of the shredded teddy. He gripped the fabric. What did she want him to do? He refused to think about it. He hadn't slept at all that night. He shook the thought from his mind as he started back towards the medical bay. The more he thought about her condition the faster his pace became. The drug that she forced into her body was a highly experimental and highly volatile concoction. There were only a total of five successful tests and all of those had been on pure nanties- there hadn't been any biological hindrances in those tests. He was sprinting by the time he reached the medical ward. He almost flattened Rex as he came around the corner.
"Six!" Rex jumped out of the way. Six looked at the doctor- her face was placid. She had been intubated. The head nurse ran over to him panic fogging her eyes like tears.
"Agent, please tell me you found something. All of her tests are coming back normal….except one." Six shook his head.
"She took an entire vial of hyposeptatrophamine." He said. Rex looked between the agent and the nurse. The nurse looked as confused as he did.
"I'm not familiar with that drug, agent." The nurse said in a small voice. Six pulled the vial out and looked at it. His frown deepened as his grip tightened on the glass tube.
"No one should be. It was purely experimental. There isn't even a reversing agent for it." H said. Rex's eyes grew wide as he watched the agent's knuckles turn white shortly before the vial shattered in his grip. Rex grabbed Six's arm and looked up at him.
"What's wrong with Dr. Holiday?" Six shook his head.
"Her nanites are unstable. She tried to prevent herself from going EVO." Six snarled and pulled his arm away from Rex. He turned, his entire body rigid. He dropped the shards of glass in the trash as he left the infirmary. "She might have killed herself in the process." Rex's body went cold as the agent left. He turned to look back at the doctor. He walked over to her side, his mind turning. He brought his hand up and looked at his hand then to the doctor. If he could…just.. He reached his hand out but the nurse grabbed him before he could touch her.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you do that." Rex stared at her.
"But…I can help her." Her eyes dropped and she shook her head.
"I'm sorry but I can't. Protocol demands that if an employee's nanites begin acting abnormally the reports are supposed to be sent to the White Knight stat." Rex's hand clenched into a fist.
"What does that mean?" She looked to the floor refusing to meet his eyes. She turned her head and looked back at the doctor.
"As soon as her reports came back I sent them on to the White Knight." Rex shook his head for umpteenth time. He either wasn't understanding or he wasn't wanting too.
" If I'm not allowed to help her what can we do?" He said looking at the doctor. The nurse hesitated. Rex turned and grabbed the nurse by the shoulders. His brown eyes looked deep into hers. "Please, tell me."
"By protocol all we can do is keep her from dying until the Knight decides what actions to take. Once she starts breathing on her own….if she starts breathing on her own…. I can take the tube out." She said trying to make a bad situation better. Rex's eyes dropped to the floor as he let go of the nurse. He looked over at the doctor.
"Don't let her hurt." Rex ordered. He walked over to the doctor and bent down next to the bed. He closed his eyes and rested his head against her arm. "Don't you give up. We'll fix this." He stood up and rested his hand on her arm. "I'm gonna go find Six and we'll fix this." He repeated. He was tempted to talk to her nanites then and there but the nurse's hand was on his shoulder before he could make up his mind. Rex stood up and he hesitantly left. Where would Six have gone? Rex started walking down the hall. Not knowing where he was going. He saw Callan and his team coming down the hall.
"Captain Callan, I'm looking for Six."
"Haven't seen him, son. Is it true? About Dr. Holiday?" Callan ask- his blue eyes taking on a large amount of concern. Rex blinked at him.
"News travels fast." Rex said tilting his head in concern. Callan nodded and looked to the ground.
"Well then we better get to our post."
"What?"
"Orders are orders, kid. We're on standby to guard the medic ward and if …god-forbid it…if the worst were to happen we are to take any means necessary to ….rectify the situation." Callan said as he started past Rex. "I'm sorry, Rex." Rex shook his head. No. White wouldn't order the termination of Providence's top scientist. He would be able to cure her if she went full EVO. As intelligent as the doctor was, she probably wouldn't go animalistic EVO. He needed to find Six. Six would stop any thing stupid.
"Rex?" Rex turned and looked back at Callan as the captain came walking back to him. "Son, I know this isn't gonna be pretty. And White's probably going to have my ass for even sayin this- but you need to be in the ward with the doctor. She needs some comforting words right now and in all honesty if she does go EVO, I want you havin the first shot at her. She's…to valuable to waste." Callan said and turned leaving him with that thought. Rex looked back down the hall then looked to the floor. HE turned and started back to the medical ward.
