Sorry for the long wait but his fic is coming to an end!  Will they save Miss Parker?….

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In my Mind

By Happy Camper

Chapter Six

Broots finished feeding loops into all the cameras in the infirmary and sat back for a moment to admire his handywork.  Sydney had not told him everything, As usual he thought bitterly.  He figured that they were going to take Miss Parker out of the Centre or something.  Nobody ever tells me anything, he thought as he picked up the phone to tell Sydney that the surveillence system should no longer be a problem.

Sydney hung up on him the moment the word 'done' had come from his mouth.  Broots was supposed to hang around up here and make sure that noone realised that the cameras were down in the infirmary, but Broots was confident in his work…noone would realise that the cameras were off until he wanted them to.  So Broots stood up and headed to the infirmary.

*****

Sydney was standing just beyond the infirmary reception.  There was one nurse on duty this late at night.  His heart was racing as he snuck along the shadowed hallway.  I feel like a secret agent or something, he thought as he pressed his back against the wall.  Right on cue the phone at reception rang…Jarod.  The receptionist was talking…making a noise that sounded like 'uh-huh' and he heard her leave the desk.

He crept past the reception desk…all the lights, except for the one above the reception desk were off.  He hurried down the hallway until he came to the place where the two security guards lay unconscious.  The door to the room was ajar.  Sydney nudged the door open.  It was dark…he could just make out a pair of eyes.  He reached against the wall, groping for the light switch.

The sudden brightness blinded him.  Then he saw her…sitting, staring ahead.  She didn't even blink.  Miss Parker was propped up in the bed, several pillows holding her up.  She had a sort of glazed look about her…like she was sort of surprised.  Where's Jarod?  Thought Sydney, glancing around the room.  It was unnerving, her just sitting there.  If she had followed the same pattern as the others, she had been like this for several days.  Did none of them suspect what was wrong?

The sudden sound of a bolt scraping shut in the hallway made him jump, and then Jarod was there.  They both smiled weakly at each other and gave each other half-hearted hugs.  Jarod began unlocking the brakes on Miss Parker's bed and they wheeled her bed out in silence.

*****

Broots looked up at the lit numbers above the elevator door.  He had decided that he would go down to the infirmary.  I'm sure I can be some help, he thought.  The door of the lift slid open.  Broots nearly fainted before pulling himself together and stepping in to the lift.  Raines and the sweeper in the lift looked him up and down suspiciously.  They know, they know! Broots thought frantically.  He could feel himself sweating.  The lift seemed too small.  Why are they staring at me like that? He thought, before he sank down to the floor and passed out.

The sweeper imediateley knelt at his side.

"I think he fainted sir."

"…Well pick him up, we better get him to the infirmary," wheezed Raines.

*****

Sydney stood, silently watching Jarod work.  They had set up in the main ER area of the infirmary.  The two beds were next to each other.  Jarod had emptied the contents of the bag Sydney had brought.  Several small bottles of different drugs were lined up on the table.  Jarod picked up and empty syringe, ripping the paper off a needle, he looked up at Sydney.

"Here goes."

Jarod drew the clear liquid into the syringe.  He tapped out the air bubbles and injected it into the girl's arm.

"What now?" asked Sydney.

"We wait."

*****

Raines led the way to the infirmary.  He was in a bad mood.  He was busy…he didn't have the time for this.  He should have just sent the sweeper…but he needed the sweeper.   They reached the large double doors with the sign 'Infirmary' above them.  Raines pushed…the door wouldn't budge.

"These doors are kind of heavy…allow me." offered the sweeper.  Shifting Broots' weight in his arms, the Sweeper leaned his shoulder against the door.  Nothing.  The doors were bolted shut…from the inside.

"What is this? The infirmary never closes", wheezed Raines angrily, "Go find the nurse on duty."

The sweeper lay Broots carefully down on the floor and hurried off.  Raines sneered down on the man lying prone on the floor.  It was a good thing he had come.  It would be terrible if anything happened in that infirmary…some of his subjects were in there.

*****

"It's been ten minutes," said Jarod looking at his watch, "The effects should be as powerful as they're ever going to be."

Sydney nodded and looked at the girl.  They had injected her with Raines' failed psychic drug.  If Jarod was right, the girl would be giving off a strong signal that this thing in Miss Parker wouldn't be able to refuse.  Jarod looked down at the bottle in his hand and took a deep breath.  I can do this.

"Jarod? Are you okay?"

"Yeah Syd…I have to do this."

Sydney nodded and watched Jarod take Miss Parker's arm in his hand and once again look at the needle in his hand.  Jarod looked at Miss Parker's blank face and finally he pushed the needle under her skin and pushed the plunger down.

"Jarod…."

They looked at each other for a moment.  Jarod turned the volume on the heart monitor up.  Bleep…bleep…bleep…bleep…nothing.

"Quick!" cried Jarod racing up to Miss Parker.  Fumbling with a needle he injected her again and went about resucitating her.

*****

"Sir…." Panted the sweeper.

"Well?"

"I found the nurse sir."

"Where is she?"

"Unconsious sir…in a closet down the hall."  Raines stood staring at the sweeper for a moment before pulling his phone out and calling one of his computer technicians.

"Well…it looks as though someone has fed a loop into the cameras for that section of the building…it will take me a while to get them back."

"Not good enough." Snapped Raines.

"Well…if I reset the cameras the feed would come back…but I'd have to cut the power to the whole infirmary…and um…it would be a full 2 minutes until the generator kicked in…."

"What's the problem?"

"Uh sir…the power would be out for two minutes isn't that kind of dangerous…."

"I don't care…do it."

Raines hung up and put the phone back in his pocket and aimed a half-hearted kick at Broots on the floor. 

"What are you still doing here?" he snapped at the sweeper, "Get someone to open this door."

To be continued….