The university was completely different from when Joel and I found it a few years ago. Instead of an open gate there were sandbags blocking half of the main gate with an old wooden plank and firefly standing at the top of it. We approached her with our weapons holstered.
"Hold it," She called as she pointed her rifle our way, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
"I think you know," I replied, "Aren't you expecting someone?"
"Not two men, now if you don't tell me what you're doing here I'll blow your fucking head off."
"We're here for Robert. We just want to talk."
"Hang on a minute."
She kept an eye on us while she talked over a radio too quiet for us to hear what they were saying. Not long after she finished more Fireflies showed up next to her and along the road ahead of us as well. I put a hand in the pocket which carried my 9mm and held it tightly.
"You can come," A firefly came up to us and pointed his pistol at me, "He stays."
"Very well," Lucas said as I loosened my grip on the gun, "I'll see you when you come back I guess."
"Not like we have a choice."
"Follow me."
He lead me through a nearby door through the wall and into the main complex with a large number of fireflies around massive tents and the campus buildings. We entered one of the buildings which appeared to be former dormitories converted into a barracks.
"Why are we even letting him in?" I heard a firefly ask quietly to another, "Doesn't anyone remember what happened in Vegas?"
"He has the cure," The other replied, "Or at least he knows where it is."
Eventually the firefly I was following stood outside a guarded office. "Inside, take a seat."
I done so and the firefly stepped back outside and locked the door behind him.
"So, where's our donor?" Dad asked as the door opened again.
"She's not a donor."
"Well in the worlds eyes she is," he sat down in the chair opposite me and rested his feet on the table. "She's the cure the worlds been waiting patiently for thirty years. So, where, is, she? "
"Where she belongs, at home with her family."
"I told you to bring her to me, or we'd take her ourselves."
"Why can't you just fuck off and leave us alone?"
"This is all I've worked on for my entire life!" He yelled as if I was a child who was caught stealing from the cookie jar. "I wanted you to live in a world like the one I grew up in. I still do."
"Really? Then why threaten me, my friends and my family? They've done more for me than you ever have."
"I'm' trying to give you the life I lost all those years ago."
"Well it's too late for that know isn't it. Now get the fuck away from our dam."