Chapter 4 Point of View: 3rd person
Disaster Strikes...
About a month after Tara's first day here, She was sitting in the lab looking up a kind of liquid that was found at a crime scene. She was listening to loud music on her headphones as she surfed the web for information on this case. She sniffed the air casually, and thought she smelled a bit of smoke in the air, but the DNA lab always smelled a litlleunusual from all the tests being run constantly, so she went back to what she was doing.
A few seconds later she felt her eyes start to sting and tear up, and she knew she definitely smelled smoke in the lab.
She turned her chair around and saw a hugemass of smokepouringfrom the open unused fume hood on the lab counter. She panicked and froze for a second, trying desperatelyto remember where Greg tol her the emergency gas vent was, and when she finallygot up to leave the smoke had gotten into her lungs andshe was coughing to hard to yell for help. She slowly went temporarily blind from the smoke because it made her eyes tear up, so as she was trying to feel her way to the doorand get out before she passed out,shefell to her kneesgot there.
She started coughing and gasping and she lost too much oxygen to stand up. She reached around helplessly as she crawled across the slippery clean floor, but she was now getting very weak and wobbly.
She fell to the floor and she winced as she tried to see where the smoke was coming from so rapidly, but she had started to fade fast.
She collapsed, unconsious, waiting to be rescued.