L2 Outbreak
Maybe you were waiting for this. If you were thanks. If you just started reading, more to come after this. Thank God these aren't short chapters like in Camera. This won't be just four chapters either. I'm shooting for ten. Wish me luck.
Day 3: Overwhelmed
7:03 A.M.
When Duo walked into the classroom he noticed that not just he, but all the students we wearing surgical masks. It probably wouldn't do them any good now. They all looked at him as he walked in. Duo paused. "What?" he asked.
"Can you explain what's going on?" asked one of the girls, her voice slightly muffled by the mask.
"Why not?"
"Privileged information," Duo said as Wufei walked in.
"No Duo, I think they can hear what's going on," Wufei said. "It's all over the news right now." He turned to address the students. "Major Po of the Preventers is here to explain."
Sally walked in and started to explain the situation to the students. Duo leaned over and whispered in Wufei's ear. "Do you think I can't explain?"
"I know you can, but the bitch wouldn't leave me alone," Wufei explained.
Their discussion was interrupted when a student raised his hand. Sally paid no attention though, and kept on talking. "Yes, Mr. Wachowski?" Duo said.
Sally glared over at Duo. "I was talking you know," she growled.
"I know," Duo answered, "but a student had a question, and you ignored it."
"I didn't see his hand."
"Your eyes passed over him just about six times," Duo calmly stated.
Sally was about to answer when Wufei interrupted. "What was your question?"
"If this thing is so bad, then why aren't we home? Why are we still in school?" the student asked.
"I'll answer that," Duo said before Sally could say anything. "The school and hospital are currently in a state of quarantine. No one will be allowed to leave until the virus is either cured or has run it's course."
"Duo, could I talk to you in the hall please?" Sally asked.
"Fine," Duo answered. "Wufei, you can take over. Remember, smallpox today."
When the door closed Sally said, "Why didn't you let me say anything in there?"
"You said plenty, Sally," Duo said with an amused look on his face.
"You're a real smart-ass, you know that Duo?" Sally said, growing angrier by the second.
Duo sobered. "Listen Sally. I didn't let you explain because you would have started using terminology that they don't understand."
Sally sighed. "I wouldn't have done that," she said, then turned on her heels and walked down the hallway and out the exit.
12:20 P.M.
The cafeteria had been completely decontaminated, as had every student that entered. For this reason, every student left for lunch an hour early. There were four different DECON rooms, one for the boys, one for the girl, one for the male faculty, and one for the female faculty.
Duo sighed as he stepped out of the DECON room and into the cafeteria. "I don't see why we have to go through that," he said to Wufei. "It doesn't really matter. If someone is infected a thousand DECON showers isn't going to disinfect him."
"I know, but it's official policy," Wufei said.
"Official policy sucks," Duo grunted.
Wufei sighed and rolled his eyes. They walked past the line of students waiting with some lunch trays. There were some mock shouts of outrage, but not as many as ordinary. Duo sighed at this. He walked right up to the woman at the counter and said, "Pizza."
The woman grabbed a piece of pizza and put it on his tray. Actually she slammed it on the tray. "Having a bad day, Anne?" Duo asked.
"A very bad day," she said. "I not allowed to leave the school, which I really want to do, and I can't even call my family."
"The Preventers are informing the families as we speak," Wufei said.
"Oh," she said. "Are you one?"
"Yes I am."
"Good," she said. "At least you seem efficient. The woman with the curly hair, Major Po I think it was, wasn't helpful at all. She..."
Duo interrupted her. "We have to go now, Anne," he said.
"Oh! Of course," she said.
Duo sighed as they walked away. "We're doing a lot of sighing lately," Wufei said.
"Every single one of them is justified," Duo replied.
"It gets kind of annoying."
"Is there a point to this?" Duo asked.
"Just trying to make conversation," Wufei
"Let's just eat and get to work," Duo said.
1:32 P.M.
School had ended early that day, so Duo and Wufei arrived at work early. Sally was waiting to "greet" them. "Howdy Sally," Duo said, smiling broadly.
"You shut up!" she yelled.
"Whoa! Sally, what's wrong?" Duo asked.
"Don't think I didn't hear about what you did to Wufei!"
"What are you talking about, woman?" Wufei asked.
"He kissed you!" Sally yelled.
"Actually, it was a two way thing," Duo said.
"SHUT UP!" Sally yelled.
Before Duo or Wufei could reply the phone rang. Duo picked it up. "Hello. Yes.... Oh shit," he mumbled.
"What is it?" Wufei asked.
"Ten more cases," Duo said.
"Oh man," Wufei mumbled.
"You guys aren't handling this too well, are you?" Sally said smugly.
"Shut up," Wufei said. "You're supposed to be working on this case too."
"I am," Sally said.
"What are you doing?" Duo asked.
"I'm doing office work and writing reports," Sally said.
"Oh, yeah," Duo said, rolling his eyes. "Big help."
The phone rang again. Sighing again Duo picked it up. "Hello."
"Duo, this is Une."
"Oh, hello," Duo said. "How can I help you?"
"Sally sent me a report that said things weren't going well," she said.
"Well what can you expect?" Duo said. "We have a highly lethal, highly contagious new disease on our hands. It's not an easy thing to handle."
"Sally said that with the right equipment she could have an antiserum within fourty-eight hours."
"Well, Sally's feeding you bullshit," Duo said. "We don't even have the host.... If there is one."
"Couldn't Fitzgerald be the host?" Une asked.
"No," Duo answered. "The host wouldn't be sick."
"So Sally lied?"
"Yes," Duo said.
"I'll have to speak with her about that," Une.
"She's right her," Duo said. "Should I put her on?"
"Yes."
Duo handed the phone to Sally. "Major Po," Sally said.
An argument ensued between Une and Sally. "Come on," Duo said as he walked past Wufei. "Let's go see how the hospital is handling this."
2:43 P.M.
The door to L2 Mercy slid open and Duo saw the chaos inside. Doctors and nurses were running around trying to handle all the cases. A doctor came running up to Duo and Wufei. "Are you Preventers?" he asked.
"Yes," Wufei answered.
"This is getting out of hand," the doctor said. "Not only do we have the virus cases, but one of them happened to fall unconscious when he was driving, and he caused a major car crash. By the way, we have fifteen more deaths."
"We didn't hear about that," Duo said.
"Well sorry if we're a bit busy," the doctor said sarcastically and walked away.
"Well," Duo huffed, "that was uncalled for."
"He has every right to be like that," Wufei said. "We really should get to work on this."
"Yeah," Duo said. "I'll cancel the rest of my classes until we get rid of this."
5:06 P.M.
Prometheus smiled to himself as he thought of the trouble his virus was causing. He found it amusing how the Preventers were searching for an antiserum. If only they knew that it was bioterrorism. Well, one of them had his suspicions. "Duo Maxwell," he thought.
He had found files on the man and discovered he was an ex-Gundam pilot. It had taken him a lot of hacking just to get those files. It was obvious that this man could be his downfall, but he would make sure that wouldn't happen. "You're smart," he said to no one in particular, "but I'm smarter."
He grinned to himself. The colonies finally had population control.
7:31 P.M.
Duo tossed him jacket on the couch and immediately set off to bed. Wufei had the same idea and lay down on the couch. Duo sighed. He walked over and grabbed Wufei's hand. He dragged Wufei over to his bed and threw him onto the bed. He plopped down next to Wufei and snuggled close to him.
Duo grinned when he saw the surprised look on Wufei's face. He settled his head onto Wufei's head and promptly fell asleep.
On the next chapter of L2 Outbreak: Relena pays a visit to L2 with Heero as her escort. Duo, Wufei, and Sally are all angry at her stupidity. An accident is remembered, and occurs again. All in Chapter 4: Stupidity and Accidents.
Maybe you were waiting for this. If you were thanks. If you just started reading, more to come after this. Thank God these aren't short chapters like in Camera. This won't be just four chapters either. I'm shooting for ten. Wish me luck.
Day 3: Overwhelmed
7:03 A.M.
When Duo walked into the classroom he noticed that not just he, but all the students we wearing surgical masks. It probably wouldn't do them any good now. They all looked at him as he walked in. Duo paused. "What?" he asked.
"Can you explain what's going on?" asked one of the girls, her voice slightly muffled by the mask.
"Why not?"
"Privileged information," Duo said as Wufei walked in.
"No Duo, I think they can hear what's going on," Wufei said. "It's all over the news right now." He turned to address the students. "Major Po of the Preventers is here to explain."
Sally walked in and started to explain the situation to the students. Duo leaned over and whispered in Wufei's ear. "Do you think I can't explain?"
"I know you can, but the bitch wouldn't leave me alone," Wufei explained.
Their discussion was interrupted when a student raised his hand. Sally paid no attention though, and kept on talking. "Yes, Mr. Wachowski?" Duo said.
Sally glared over at Duo. "I was talking you know," she growled.
"I know," Duo answered, "but a student had a question, and you ignored it."
"I didn't see his hand."
"Your eyes passed over him just about six times," Duo calmly stated.
Sally was about to answer when Wufei interrupted. "What was your question?"
"If this thing is so bad, then why aren't we home? Why are we still in school?" the student asked.
"I'll answer that," Duo said before Sally could say anything. "The school and hospital are currently in a state of quarantine. No one will be allowed to leave until the virus is either cured or has run it's course."
"Duo, could I talk to you in the hall please?" Sally asked.
"Fine," Duo answered. "Wufei, you can take over. Remember, smallpox today."
When the door closed Sally said, "Why didn't you let me say anything in there?"
"You said plenty, Sally," Duo said with an amused look on his face.
"You're a real smart-ass, you know that Duo?" Sally said, growing angrier by the second.
Duo sobered. "Listen Sally. I didn't let you explain because you would have started using terminology that they don't understand."
Sally sighed. "I wouldn't have done that," she said, then turned on her heels and walked down the hallway and out the exit.
12:20 P.M.
The cafeteria had been completely decontaminated, as had every student that entered. For this reason, every student left for lunch an hour early. There were four different DECON rooms, one for the boys, one for the girl, one for the male faculty, and one for the female faculty.
Duo sighed as he stepped out of the DECON room and into the cafeteria. "I don't see why we have to go through that," he said to Wufei. "It doesn't really matter. If someone is infected a thousand DECON showers isn't going to disinfect him."
"I know, but it's official policy," Wufei said.
"Official policy sucks," Duo grunted.
Wufei sighed and rolled his eyes. They walked past the line of students waiting with some lunch trays. There were some mock shouts of outrage, but not as many as ordinary. Duo sighed at this. He walked right up to the woman at the counter and said, "Pizza."
The woman grabbed a piece of pizza and put it on his tray. Actually she slammed it on the tray. "Having a bad day, Anne?" Duo asked.
"A very bad day," she said. "I not allowed to leave the school, which I really want to do, and I can't even call my family."
"The Preventers are informing the families as we speak," Wufei said.
"Oh," she said. "Are you one?"
"Yes I am."
"Good," she said. "At least you seem efficient. The woman with the curly hair, Major Po I think it was, wasn't helpful at all. She..."
Duo interrupted her. "We have to go now, Anne," he said.
"Oh! Of course," she said.
Duo sighed as they walked away. "We're doing a lot of sighing lately," Wufei said.
"Every single one of them is justified," Duo replied.
"It gets kind of annoying."
"Is there a point to this?" Duo asked.
"Just trying to make conversation," Wufei
"Let's just eat and get to work," Duo said.
1:32 P.M.
School had ended early that day, so Duo and Wufei arrived at work early. Sally was waiting to "greet" them. "Howdy Sally," Duo said, smiling broadly.
"You shut up!" she yelled.
"Whoa! Sally, what's wrong?" Duo asked.
"Don't think I didn't hear about what you did to Wufei!"
"What are you talking about, woman?" Wufei asked.
"He kissed you!" Sally yelled.
"Actually, it was a two way thing," Duo said.
"SHUT UP!" Sally yelled.
Before Duo or Wufei could reply the phone rang. Duo picked it up. "Hello. Yes.... Oh shit," he mumbled.
"What is it?" Wufei asked.
"Ten more cases," Duo said.
"Oh man," Wufei mumbled.
"You guys aren't handling this too well, are you?" Sally said smugly.
"Shut up," Wufei said. "You're supposed to be working on this case too."
"I am," Sally said.
"What are you doing?" Duo asked.
"I'm doing office work and writing reports," Sally said.
"Oh, yeah," Duo said, rolling his eyes. "Big help."
The phone rang again. Sighing again Duo picked it up. "Hello."
"Duo, this is Une."
"Oh, hello," Duo said. "How can I help you?"
"Sally sent me a report that said things weren't going well," she said.
"Well what can you expect?" Duo said. "We have a highly lethal, highly contagious new disease on our hands. It's not an easy thing to handle."
"Sally said that with the right equipment she could have an antiserum within fourty-eight hours."
"Well, Sally's feeding you bullshit," Duo said. "We don't even have the host.... If there is one."
"Couldn't Fitzgerald be the host?" Une asked.
"No," Duo answered. "The host wouldn't be sick."
"So Sally lied?"
"Yes," Duo said.
"I'll have to speak with her about that," Une.
"She's right her," Duo said. "Should I put her on?"
"Yes."
Duo handed the phone to Sally. "Major Po," Sally said.
An argument ensued between Une and Sally. "Come on," Duo said as he walked past Wufei. "Let's go see how the hospital is handling this."
2:43 P.M.
The door to L2 Mercy slid open and Duo saw the chaos inside. Doctors and nurses were running around trying to handle all the cases. A doctor came running up to Duo and Wufei. "Are you Preventers?" he asked.
"Yes," Wufei answered.
"This is getting out of hand," the doctor said. "Not only do we have the virus cases, but one of them happened to fall unconscious when he was driving, and he caused a major car crash. By the way, we have fifteen more deaths."
"We didn't hear about that," Duo said.
"Well sorry if we're a bit busy," the doctor said sarcastically and walked away.
"Well," Duo huffed, "that was uncalled for."
"He has every right to be like that," Wufei said. "We really should get to work on this."
"Yeah," Duo said. "I'll cancel the rest of my classes until we get rid of this."
5:06 P.M.
Prometheus smiled to himself as he thought of the trouble his virus was causing. He found it amusing how the Preventers were searching for an antiserum. If only they knew that it was bioterrorism. Well, one of them had his suspicions. "Duo Maxwell," he thought.
He had found files on the man and discovered he was an ex-Gundam pilot. It had taken him a lot of hacking just to get those files. It was obvious that this man could be his downfall, but he would make sure that wouldn't happen. "You're smart," he said to no one in particular, "but I'm smarter."
He grinned to himself. The colonies finally had population control.
7:31 P.M.
Duo tossed him jacket on the couch and immediately set off to bed. Wufei had the same idea and lay down on the couch. Duo sighed. He walked over and grabbed Wufei's hand. He dragged Wufei over to his bed and threw him onto the bed. He plopped down next to Wufei and snuggled close to him.
Duo grinned when he saw the surprised look on Wufei's face. He settled his head onto Wufei's head and promptly fell asleep.
On the next chapter of L2 Outbreak: Relena pays a visit to L2 with Heero as her escort. Duo, Wufei, and Sally are all angry at her stupidity. An accident is remembered, and occurs again. All in Chapter 4: Stupidity and Accidents.