Chapter 2: six
Part 7: the truth about VII
"I'll start with her name, VII, its spelt V double I because it's roman numerals for 7." He paused, looking up at the doctor. "7. So she's one of the numbers. Is she here to kill you?" holiday asked bluntly, there was no reason to be delicate around six.
"She was never interested in the numbers. She was a con artist, a thief, and she never does anything unless there's something in it for her. She became one of us a year before the nanite event, One met her on a job, she was stealing from the man he was killing. When she saw him she assumed he was another thief and tried to kill him. One thought she was dangerous and after explaining who he was, he brought her back to the island, called a meeting and made her one of us."
They were silent for a while, until the doctor broke the silence "so she isn't here to kill you. Why did you tell me this six?" Agent six remained silent for a minute before replying "I told you that she didn't care about her ranking, I think she is here to kill me. I don't know why yet but as long as I'm useful to her she won't kill me. The last time I saw her was 3 years ago she was eight back then, and she made it very clear to me that if I stopped being useful I was dead. At the time I didn't take her seriously, but now she's seven, that makes her a lot more dangerous than she was last time and I'm not so sure she was joking. I told you this to keep you safe. Rex is safest when he doesn't know what's happening, he'll slip up if he knows too much, but you're safe if you know what's going on." He stopped talking and let the realisation of what he just said sink in.
Holiday opened her mouth, then closed it again. She did this a few more times then she finally managed to say "she's here to kill you." Dr Holiday took a deep breath and paused before saying "what should we do? Should we tell white?" she looked at the monitor, white was only the push of a button away. "No. if she knows that we know she'll kill all of us, even Rex. The best thing we can do is play along." The agent turned and started walking towards the door "goodnight doctor, we can talk about this in the morning." He heard the door hiss shut behind him.
So now we know who VII is. I don't know if you noticed but this chapter explains the VII means seven and this is part 7 of chapter 2, it's part 7: the truth about 7. It happened completely by accident, I think it's funny but you probably don't. I'm gonna stop talking now.