Chapter 2

The darkness consumed everything. The team had torches but had seemed in their haste to have forgotten about me. I tried my best to hold onto the handrail, as my hand moved across the cold bar something grabbed me, I couldn't move. Fearing it might be one of the infected I screamed and pulled away hearing my Lab coat tear. I fell down to the bottom of the steps onto the cold floor. The team rushed back to aid me.

"What's wrong?"

The team leader stood over me shining the torch in my face.

"On the stairs, something grabbed me!"

He shone his torch at the stairs.

"There's nothing there."

He looked back at me,

"You must have caught your coat on the rail?"

He ordered the team to carry on and helped me up, giving me his torch. His gas mask showed no expression but I knew he was smiling under that mask. Both my body and my ego bruised I got up, looked back at the stairs and followed them down the corridor.

As far as I knew the facility had been evacuated. If there had been anything back there it shouldn't have been. Though I don't know why I screamed, I kill people for a living so why did something that wasn't even there scare the hell out of me? I repeated to myself that I was caught off guard and that was the only reason.

It surprised me we were already on the bottom floor. The stairwell and the elevator must be the only two direct ways out of the facility. We walked into a large open area full of desks and research. I walked up to a computer terminal on the right wall and accessed the facility map, printing off four copies. Four corridors were linked to this room. The first being the one we came through and the only exit. The team was instructed to split up into three groups and they would search the remaining corridors with a map.

I was left in the room alone; a sound came from a desk in the corner of the room. I walked towards the desk and looked at the research lying on it. A voice came from behind me

"Don't move! Now… turn around slowly."

I turned and was face to face with the barrel end of a handgun.

Chapter 3 coming soon...