Spooky scary skeleton time /o/ what could possibly go wrong in this chapter ufufu

Song Suggestion: All Eyes On Me Cover by OR3O, The Musical Ghost, and GenuineMusic

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"Yeah, sorry, I can't come in today," Emma says as she coughs. "I'm not feeling well." She says to her boss on the other end of the phone. she nods as she listens to the other end. "yes sir, of course... I understand" She replies before coughing again. "I'll let you know. thank you" she says before hanging up and smiling.

"It's been a while since a played Hookie," Emma says with a short chuckle as she gets ready for the day. True to his word Chris called in that he received an information drop. HQ wasn't thrilled about an anonymous tip and requested that he bring Emma in for questioning on his first day back to have her vouch for the information she found and provide a statement. She'd just finished getting ready when she heard a knock at the door.

Emma walks over and opened it to find Chris. "Ready?" He asks with an attempt at a smile, he was worried still but at least she had promised that after this she was done with snooping around. She did her part in getting this shutdown and that would be enough.

"Yep," Emma says with a nod as she heads out and locks up behind her. She walks with Chris to his car and the two make their way to the BSAA headquarters. The building was Huge but tucked far enough away and behind enough security gates that it would have been impossible to notice or find without help getting to it. suddenly she understood why she wasn't allowed to just drive there on her own so she could leave after the interview. She was a bit nervous but still determined as she looked down at the files on her lap.

Eventually, the car was parked and the two got out. "So are you excited for your first day back?" Emma asks as they walk towards the building.

"You mean, am I excited to do something other than stare at the ceiling or the back of my eyelids?" Chris asks with a slight smirk which causes Emma to chuckle. Chris leads the way as they chat. Past the receptionist desk, up the elevator, down the hall, and to the break room so the two could put their lunches away for the day.

"Well look what the cat dragged in, you brought Emma?" Canine says surprised as he walks over with NightHowl and a woman a few years older and a few inches taller than Emma whose hair was pulled back into a ponytail as the brown hair had some remains of blond dye at the ends.

"Jill?" Chris says with a mixture of happiness and surprise.

"Hey, long time no see," She says in response with a small twinge of a smile.

"Long time." he jokingly scoffs. "Yeah, try 10 years. What are you doing here? I thought you ran off to run manage your own Squad in South America." Chris asks with a surprised grin.

"HQ called me in to cover for you. something about you getting into a fistfight with a T-Type?" She says amused which causes him to laugh.

"Well, I won," He says in response which causes her to shake her head.

"From what I heard, you're lucky," She replies as her amused smile remains. "Good to see you though," Jill says before noticing that Emma had stopped alongside him. "Showing around a new recruit?" She asks curiously.

"Ah. No." Chris says as he looks to Emma. "Emma, Meet Jill. She's an old partner of mine from my S.T.A.R.S. days. Jill, this is Emma."

"Stars?" Emma asks confused, that was a new one. "I didn't think you were interested in acting..."

Hearing that causes Jill to laugh. "Which Squad are you with?"

Oh, this again... great. Luckily she knew what to say this time. "I'm a civilian," 3.2.1.

"Really? huh. And what is a civilian doing here?" Jill asks as she looks to Chris for an explanation though a hint of knowing amusement could be seen in her expression.

"She has some information regarding a recent outbreak." Chris replies as Emma nods and casually holds up the two envelopes.

"yeah, hopefully, it will help make your lives a bit easier," Emma say as Night Howl and Canine look at each other confused.

"Why does she have info on the outbreak..." Night howl asks concerned. Last he knew, Emma shouldn't know anything about well. any of this.

"...I'm really sorry, but. I think the company I work for is behind it. It's not much but I want to try and make this right," Emma says with a nod causing Jill's smile to soften.

"Well we shouldn't keep the two of you then, sounds important." Jill says with a short nod before looking to Chris "By the way, I hope you don't mind but I've been using your office for the last month. No worries though, the director had me move out on Friday to a different one." Jill says as her smile regained it's playfulness while Chris tried to keep a neutral expression. Well... shit. Did he remember to lock his de- "Thanks for leaving your desk unlocked by the way. it was very thoughtful of you."

Fjuck. "Not a problem," Chris replies while trying to maintain his neutral expression "How long are you in for?"

"Heading out on November 1st. Now that you're back they need me to Cover for another squad until they find a replacement. They do take their sweet time when it comes to training up recruits." Jill says with a shrug.

"Yeah..." right, they lost 3 men. not the worst casualty rate they've had on a mission but two were from the same squad so it was bound to take a while to completely refill that gap. "Well, see you around until then" Chris replies before motioning for Emma to follow him.

"It was nice to meet you," Emma says quickly before following Chris to the director's office. The meeting went about as well as Chris expected... The director listened. accepted the evidence and explained there wasn't much they could do with it since it didn't really provide evidence of the actual Virus coming from the company. yes, they rented the space and yes they bought cadavers to test on for some makeup division. Two damning pieces of evidence but they were missing the main connecting piece, a physical piece of evidence of the virus strain connected to the company. It mostly just confirmed what they already knew, they were barking up the right tree. if the director would have actually let them do that.

"See the virus we're working with requires a liquid and a gas in order to activate, I don't see that being connected to. what was it you said again?" the director asks while looking over the files.

"Makeup," Emma replies a bit embarrassed the way he said it made this whole thing sound ridiculous...

"I'm sorry to have wasted your time Miss Swanson but, rest assured though we'll keep this on file in case further evidence shows up to support your claims." the director says in his usual tone of talking down to a child. It honestly made her feel pretty stupid. Maybe this really was a waste of time...

"Of course, Thank you for your time," Emma says as she gets up and offers the director a hand which he shakes before she goes to walk out of the office and closes the door behind her after leaving.

"How did it go?" Chris asks and Emma frowns.

"That well?" He says as he motions for her to follow him once more.

"Pretty much," she says with a sigh and follows him into his office and taking a seat. "I guess I kinda wasted your time with this... Sorry about that. I really thought I found something useful."

that got Chris's attention as he closed the door and went over to his side of the desk to take a seat. "That was some of the more concrete evidence we've had" He replies before bobbing his head. aside from that blond chick just waltzing in and admitting that she was doing the testing but, hey surprise surprise that wasn't admirable because it wasn't recorded. the only people that knew that was the director, Veronica, and Hound Wolf Squad.

"They said it wasn't enough though. Hopefully, it at least gets you a lead. maybe talking to that mortician guy." Emma starts but stops as she notices the look Chris was giving her.

"Let me worry about that," He says and she nods before taking out her phone and poking at it. it was going to be a long 8+ hours. Meanwhile, Chris bit the bullet and opened up his desk to see if his suspicions were correct. aaand they were. Jill had been snooping around his stuff.

"Is something wrong?" Emma asks curiously as she notices Chris staring down at an open draw and not moving to grab anything.

"Yeah, Jill reorganized my desk is all..." Chris grumbles slightly as an excuse. as he reaches in to move a few things around, in particular a small strip of 3 photos that he neatly tucked to the back of the drawer where it was supposed to be.

Meanwhile, Jill was still smiling to herself while training with the Panther Hog squad. Same old Chris.

'*'*'*'*'

Bastion smiled to himself as he waits in the hallway of the apartment building. It was that time of year again and Halloween had arrived once more. The Nailtech was currently dressed in a full steampunk set up with a black spade painted over his left eye. He had truly outdone himself this year. Emma walked out first wearing a mostly maroon Fullbody Leotard that had blue and gold Steampunk/harlequin style detailing on it, a little red nose and a black heart with a few other details around it painted over her right eye. The nail tech insisted that the costume would be cuter if the bodysuit only had 1 leg and the other was covered by a long black sock that reached most of the way up her thigh. however, as a compromise, Emma insisted that she be allowed to have a simple cinched waist bag since she wouldn't have pockets. inside she had a good 10 ft of colorful bandanas tied together to use as a 'magic trick'. Bastion happily clapped. "Very nice," he says with a nod. It took a few more minutes but Chris eventually walked out with a top hat dressed as a ringleader in a similar steampunk/Harlequin style with a black diamond painted over his left eye.

"And now we're cooking with fire," Bastion says with an ear-to-ear grin "We're going to win that contest for sure. remember to meet at the mall by 6 pm okay? Travis will be waiting for us there." Bastion reminds the two, clearly excited to win by a landslide. "Both of you stand together, I want to get a picture" he adds and the two do as they're told. upon seeing them just standing there he drops his shoulders "Act like you like each other, please. You're not fooling anyone anymore."

Emma laughs a bit at that before standing on her toes to give Chris a quick kiss as he puts an arm around her waist.

"That's better" Bastion says shaking his head. before walking over to the two. to get a Selfie with them "now on the count of three. one two three" he counts and the two smile with him. "thank you" he says. "See you guys at the mall.

"See you there" Chris replies.

"See you then," Emma says as well before heading out to go to work.

She was honestly pretty excited to go to work for the day, The release of the Punk Rocker's album was at 3pm. She was excited to hear the main song of the album on the radio for the first time. with this, it meant her workload would be decreasing as well. and it was Halloween so she'd get to be a bit of a goof and have fun. It was the perfect day. or well it was until 1 pm.

"Emmy~ I need you can you join me in my office?" Veronica asks sweetly. Emma looks over and to her surprise, Veronica was dressed as some Succubus chick. The costume design looked vaguely familiar. The chick from the Capcom fighting games?

"Hey Veronica. I didn't realize you played video games," Emma says surprised.

"I don't," She replies confused.

oh... "Never mind," Yeah that tracks. "What did you need?" She asks only for Veronica to motion for Emma to follow her.

"I need your help with a few details on my next release"

Emma's shoulders dropped... the release for the Punk Rockers was in 2 hours... "Sure, is something wrong?" Emma asks as she follows Veronica to her office where her two bodyguards were waiting, one on either side of her desk. laid out on the desk were dozens and dozens of different album covers, CDs Promotional pictures, contact lists, and venue contracts. This wasn't a few details, this was well more than half of them. This was days worth of work, hopefully, she's just messy and only needs help with something small.

"Take a seat if you'd like, we're probably going to be here a while," Veronica mentions but stays standing on her side of the desk.

Emma remains standing as well. "I'll help how I can" she agrees and gets to work with Veronica going over different potential options for the release.

Which poster do you think is better. what about this design? maybe this cover with this CD? what about these venues? do the contracts look okay? who have we contacted from these lists and who have we not. who cant be added? The questions came one after another in a constant barrage, giving Emma little time to think of anything else. before long an hour and a half had passed. 30 minutes to the release...

"Emmy you're just so sweet to help me with all this, I know how busy you usually are," Veronica says as she opens a drawer to her desk. "So I have just the thing to thank you. Here" She says placing a small delicate-looking container on the desk. "Tadah~," she says with a smile "we just got in some samples of that new makeup like we're going to be launching. it's supposed to make you look 5 years younger," she says with a smile. "I think I got your color, you should give it a try."

"Oh. um, thank you that's very kind of you" Emma says with a confused expression. Here she thought the whole makeup thing was just a front. though, I guess they would have to actually produce something to keep any research hidden... "I already have a full face at the moment but I'll have to try it another time." it's not like she didn't have face paint and a nose on at the moment.

"You do?" She asks while tilting her head a bit to the side. "Aw I really want to make sure it's the right color, are you sure you cant try it? please?"

Rude... Emma gives a quiet sigh but takes off the cap to try and Squirt a bit out onto the back of her hand. instead, a soft spray could be heard and Veronica's smile twisted for a slight second.

"Aerosol?" Emma says confused, that was weird for a liquid foundation...

"Yep, we found that an aerosol works much better for getting an even coat," Veronica says as her smile returned back to normal.

"Oh." Well, that kinda made sense? "I'm sorry I don't think this is the right shade," Emma says hoping that would be enough to reject the gift, as she put it back down on the desk. She like the makeup she had already. Not, the clown stuff she was wearing now but, her usual stuff.

"Pity," Veronica says as she happily continues working, occasionally glancing at Emma.

Over time Her expression became sourer and sourer. 15 minutes. it had been 15 minutes since she was infected, why wasn't she turning... She looked to the bottle and snatched it before looking it over... could it be that they actually got the formula right? it worked on a living subject. her soured expression turned to a smile.

"Is everything okay?" Emma asks with a befuddled expression.

"Yes, everything's perfect. I think you're right though, this isn't you're shade," Veronica says as she walks over to a mirror attached to the wall of her and sprays the misty foundation up both of her arms and onto her face and neck.

Emma watched the display highly concerned. She didn't know a lot of things but she was very sure that was not how you apply foundation. what the heck was wrong with veronica? She was acting weirder than usual... was she trying to get high on fumes?

Veronica walked back to the desk and got back to work. after 5 minutes Emma started noticing a bubbling, blistering rash on her arm that was spreading at a rapid pace. "Whoa u, hey I think I should call an ambulance. you must have been allergic to that foundat-" she cut short as veronica started to jerkily twist and contort while screaming.

To Emma's horror, her arms seemed to be splitting and multiplying as her face became tight and stiff. Emma slowly walked back to try and get to the door while the two bodyguards were frozen in place only to get cut down by veronica as she used one of her now, three sets of arms as a fail that cut into their torsos before they dropped to the ground.

"You!" Veronica says as she used another to reach out and grab Emma's leg, knocking her down and dragging her across the floor.

"STRIKE THREE!" She says with a demented smile as she pulls Emma towards her.

Emma quickly kicked the mutating Veronica in the face before slamming her heel down on the arm that was grabbing her causing Veronica to howl in pain and let go. That work! With that realization she didn't hesitate to get away, scrambling to get up and run out of the office. Holy Shit, Holy Shit, Holy Shit. She thought as she sprinted through the office and her co-workers screamed in horror at the monstrosity chasing after her. she made her way into the stairwell and sat on the banister to slide down. Thank you spandex! After going down two flights of stairs she exited to the 3rd floor and started running to try and find anywhere to hide hoping that the sudden change in direction would be enough to lose her. quickly she rounded a corner dodged into a broom closet, closing and locking the door as she heard more screams as veronica ran past.

What do I do, what do I do, what do I do.

How did this happen? the director said that there had to be a liquid and a..gas. Aerosol... a liquid AND a gas. With that, she quickly looked at her hand. Oh Fuck. she leaned back to rest the back of her head against the wall. it didn't seem to be having an effect yet but how long did she have... She took a breath. if she only had a matter of minutes left she was going to make them count... With that, she digs her phone out of her tiny satchel and taps at the screen to set it to silent so it wouldn't give away her location.

[System] Emma Swanson is sharing her GPS location

[Emma] SOS Bio Weapon

[Emma] I'm sorry...

[Emma] It's not your fault okay?

[Emma] I love you

With that she put her phone back into her bag and looked around her. that should do. she grabbed a broom with a metal handle and unscrewed the brush from it. then used some of the tied-up bandanas from her bag tying it to the broomstick so she could carry it over her shoulder. She was dressed as a clown... and had a broomstick covered in colorful bandanas as a weapon... she looked ridiculous. she thought as she ditched the red plastic nose. Not that it mattered if she did look stupid, she was going to die anyways.

Okay, how did the other incidents that she knew about, get noticed? Just in case the texts don't go through...

Local pharmaceutical lab goes up in flames.

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...Breaking news from the Accunews helicopter. A fire appears to have started in the newly constructed high rise.

Fire. Janet always had that wax melter on her desk if she put some paper between the bowl and the burner that would catch fire... okay step one. check.

She needed proof. The spray can. that might not be enough... if she can manage to keep it together long enough to get back to the lobby maybe she could download the security footage from Veronica's office. hell, those bodyguards had actual weapons if she could just get to the office again she might stand a chance... again she looks at her hand. assuming she doesn't go insane first... she looks over to a breaker box in the closet and a few valves. she quickly twisted all the valves to Off took a few quick breathes before unlocking the door to look out into the now dark office.

'*'*'*'*'

Chris sat at his desk looking over the usual pile of paperwork. being gone all of September meant a lovely backlog of work to do since Jill was really only here to fill in on a mission level. He hears his phone buzz once, twice. Five times? What was going on. he dug through his pockets to pull out the device and scroll through the alerts newest to oldest.

I love you. It's not your fault okay? I'm sorry... SOS Bio

He stopped reading at that point, ditches the top hat, and quickly got up to leave his office. Shit shit shit shit. he thought repeatedly as he hurried through the halls before running into Jill. "There you are." He says with a panicked tone "Get a team together, there's another outbreak. we have to go, now."

"Chris whoa hey-what?" Jill says as she starts to process what Chris was saying. "Did the director say something"

"I need you. Do you trust me?" He asks still very much so in a state of panic but jill slowly nods.

"Yeah. Yeah, I do," she says quietly.

"Then meet me at the co-ordinance I'm about to text to you with a team, I'm going ahead," Chris says before quickly turning to leave, trusting her to do what he asked.

"Okay," she says with a nod as she watches him run off to the locker room, likely to change into proper gear instead of his costume. it takes her a moment but she hurries off to get the team of operatives that Chris requested.

'*'*'*'*'

The building was eerily silent now that everyone had, hopefully, gotten out... Emma quietly walked through the room that was only illuminated by the sunlight leaking through the windows. there it was. With how slowly she was walking, from fear of making any noise, she wouldn't be surprised if just getting to the other side of the office took her 10 minutes. She breathed a sigh of relief as the burner she remembered was still there and turned on. Emma quickly puts 3 pieces of printer paper between the bowl and burner. and gathered more papers around it. Hopefully this wor-

"Gotcha," Says a quiet demented whisper

Emma gasps and stumbles back as Veronica was looking down at Emma from her place on the ceiling, using her arms to cling to it like a spider. Shit shit shit. Emma thought as she made another break for the stairs this time to go back up.

"You're not getting away from me that easily!" Veronica says with a laugh as she followed closely behind.

Get to the office, get to the gun, just get to the office, please be loaded. Emma mentally chants as she hears thumping rhythmic paters of arms and legs following her up the stairs. Flashing red lights and the bleating of the fire alarm joined the already terrifying noises screaming around her for her attention. Come on. she was almost the- a sharp pain shot through her back as she was flung into the office, the metal rod had luckily been enough to keep Emma from taking any serious damage to her spine from the slash.

Emma rolled and slammed into the desk before pushing herself to get up Scrambling to grab the decorative aerosol container and the gun from the downed body guard's belt which she promptly fired at veronica. Thin wires sprang forward and burrowed into the now writhing figure.

it was a taser? of course, it was a single-use fricking taser.

With little time to really complain about it, she ditched the taser and pushed past the dazed diva. Sprint for her life with the evidence in hand. there was no way she could keep outrunning her like this. She was getting tired, she needed a better plan. She checked her hand to see how much time she had left... it looked the same as before.

"What the he-" she was cut short as a tight pain gripped her ankle as the extending arm of Veronica had gotten ahold of her once more and was dragging Emma toward her again.

"He-he-Hungry...f-food. EAT" Her speech had become more erratic but certainly got the point across and this time Kicking and flailing was not enough.

Do something! her subconscious screamed as fear started to cause her to freeze up. She point the can at Veronica's face and sprayed, getting it into her eyes and causing her to howl in pain as she threw Emma against a wall before letting go as she held her face and howled. Emma shuffled back towards the stairs down to the 3rd floor to the file room she needed time and she had an idea of how to get it. Do or die with this hobble she was not going to get enough of a lead to get out let alone the security footage. the third floor was now an open frenzy of smoke and flames as the fire continued to spread upward. Emma coughed into her hand as she punched in the code for the file room and waited for veronica to catch up, making sure the woman saw her go inside. she hurried to the back before hearing the wall crash and crumble.

"Fiiind you. F-Fiiind food" the voice taunted as it slowly got closer. with that Emma rammed into the Cabinet causing it to start leaning come on.. come on! Once Twice more and it finally toppled over creating a domino effect and a shrill scream of pain. Emma non to gracefully crawled over the metal stacks of cabinets to make her way out of the room and down the stairs to the first-floor security room.

She made it to the door entered her code and.

Access denied.

"What?!" Emma shouts frustrated, her ankle, head, and back were bleeding at this point and her arm hurt like hell from tumbling and ramming into that cabinet while clinging to this darn thing. she did not go through all this to trip up at the last step. she put the aerosol container into her satchel before getting the metal broom handle from her back grabbing it like a baseball bat and swinging it at the large thick tempered glass window next to the door like her life depended on it. crash crack clank. the metal bar started to bend from the abuse but the reinforced glass eventually cracked and chunks broke off. the first floor was starting to get smokey by the time she finally made enough of an entryway to climb into the room now sporting new cuts on her arms and legs from the flying chunks of glass and climbing through a partially broken window Emma had made her way into the security room. she quickly opened the laptop and started digging around in the files. okay. 5th floor 5th floor. where the hell was- there it was... what was her office number again. Emma frantically clicked through the files before giving up and dragging the whole 5th-floor file over to the desktop. she'd take the computer with her it was basically a giant flash drive anyways.

5%, 12%, 14%, 22%

Emma tapped her foot against the floor while coughing as the room filled with smoke. Come on.

50% 52%... 51%

Why was it going backwards!

63%

she could hear the building groaning from the flames.

75%

Emma picked up the laptop and moved to sit under the desk with it to try and get some less smoky air.

81%, 86%, 92%

"Eeeemmmmaaaaa" called a growling deep warped voice causing her to flinch. come on hurry up!

95% 99% ... Download complete.

Finally!

Emma ditches the broom handle and climbs back through the window earning a few new cuts and scraps before making her way to the front door, she wanted to run but her legs were starting to give out resulting in more of a tired jog between coughing and wheezing. Sunlight eventually came into view as she made her way through the door.

'*'*'*'*'

Chris quickly stops the car as soon as he sees a large gathering of people standing outside of a burning 5 story building. the Properly geared up and armed BSAA operative hurried over to the crowd. "EMMA" He shouts hoping for any sort of response.

none.

"EMMA" He calls again, maybe she just didn't hear him. the shouting certainly got the attention of the others just not the face he was hoping to see.

"you're that guy. The one on the news" Says the older woman who previously helped Emma to her desk when she was panicking. "I'm sorry but... I have seen her come out of the building yet..." She admits sadly causing Chris to frown and shake his head before pushing to get through the crowd and towards the building.

Not again, dear god please not again. He couldn't lose anyone else. Not like this.

Chris smiles as he sees a tired hobbling figure exiting the building. "Chris," Emma says happily under her breath as she tries to move faster with absolutely no success, she was past her limits even with adrenaline.

He hurried over and picked her up to bring her back over to the other Civilians.

"What the hell happened," Chris asks

"Veronica, she turned. there was this spray an-" she paused as she looked at her hand... still no change... why?

"Alpha!" says Night Howl as he, canine, Jill, and Pather Hog squad hurried over to join him.

"stay here," He says as he gets up and hurries over to the others.

"Let's move," Chris shouts back to the group somewhat relieved. he wouldn't be going in alone. Bless you Jill for working quickly.

"Sorry this is all I could get short notice," Jill says as she hurries in with him. "Just like old times."

"Just like old times" Chris agrees, with a smile, it was good to know she still had his back.

"What the hell is that thing," one of the panther hog members asks horrified as they see the 6 armed dozen-eyed 7-foot tall half-body dragging itself out of the flames.

"Open fire!" Chris says to the team, he didn't have a choice, they needed to get this thing, dealt with first. the creature cries out in pain as it is filled with led. it takes a good while even with 8 people shooting at her before the engorged half of a bioweapon, collapses and gives up the ghost.

"Captain, the building is going to collapse," Canine says as the creaking and groaning of the main supports of the building was getting more and more audible over the sounds of the fire alarms.

Shit... they didn't have time... "Everyone, move out," Chris says and the team falls back to rejoin the Group of civilians outside.

Chris walks back over to find Emma resting in the same place he left her. He kneels down next to her to be at eye level. "Emma?" he asks quietly and she pushes herself to open her eyes. the adrenaline crash was hitting hard. the texts repeated in his mind as he pulled her close. "Don't you ever scare me like that again, what the Fuck were those messages?"

"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry" Emma says weakly "I was afraid, I didn't know what to do. I got infected and I didn't want to go without a fight i"

"What?" he says horrified.

"She had me use some spray... then used it on herself and turned into that thing. I went back to get it. I'm sorry..." She replies as she gingerly holds him too with one arm as the other continued to cling to the laptop.

His shoulders dropped as he clung a little tighter. she stayed in that building with a hostile BOW, getting evidence because she thought she was going to die aways. If he just told her she had the vaccine she might have actually ran away like she should have. "Would you stop apologizing... You're going to be okay... you would have turned by now. you're going to be okay." He coaches to try and get her to calm down. It took a few minutes but she eventually started to believe him and relaxed.

"How's she holding up." Jill asks and kneels down as well. recognition shows in Emma's eyes.

"Jill right?" Emma asks and Jill nods. She knew the wolf squad. "Can you get these to Night Howl..." she asks as she attempted to hand over the laptop which Jill accepted before Emma fished out the decorative aerosol can and handing Jill that as well. If memory served her right Night Howl said something about being in a similar field of work as Tundra and she said she did something with information? So that's probably the best person to get them to. "It has the virus and proof."

"You got some guts running around like that for a can and a laptop. Ever consider a career change?" Jill asks with a joking smile as Emma very emphatically shakes her head no.

"I think. I'm going to be a one-hit-wonder," she says with a soft chuckle. "I don't have it in me to do that again..."

"Good," Chris says with a mix of relief and concern which earns him a weak chuckle from Emma. It takes him a moment but he eventually loosened his hold enough to be able to give her a quick kiss. He almost lost her. She was alive. He tried sorting through the range of emotions he was terrified, worried, kinda mad but ultimately relieved that he didn't lose her. "Let get you fixed up."

"Yes please," Emma replies before giving him a peck in return. "Everything hurts..." she admits with a weak smile. "and if that's not enough evidence... I think I'm just going to look for a different job." She says which causes Chris to give a half-hearted chuckle as he picks her up to carry her back to his car.

FanNatic over-explaining fun times x'D because I don't trust myself with my own plot X'DD feel free to skip.

The way Veronica was distributing the virus was with test samples of the makeup. Aerosol requires a liquid and a condensed gas to work and the Arias virus required both of those. so by combining the two, in one smaller container, it made it easier to infect a specific target rather than a large population. Her logic was that, she wanted to stop aging so by using something aggressive like the virus which already had regenerative cellular properties that would target the cells of the body, she could make some form of anti-aging product and she didn't care how many people died for her to get that. They were trying to be smart about testing by having the body parts cut up before testing on it so it would just, grow new skin or something and not attack them but inevitably when working with an aerosol someone accidentally sprayed themself and caused the highrise incident. Chris gave her the vaccine way back in chapter 10 which is within the 3-year time frame to keep it from turning her.