As I wrapped my wounds, I felt as if I was getting weaker and more tired, but I had to manage. Sam looked at me, but I just turned my back on her,
she was working on the creature that John shot down,
"Shit." She said as I winced, but grinned as Duke looked at her,
"Duke." She called for him and he went over to her,
"Hold this open." Sam said as I saw where Carmack once was, Duke just took a step back but Sam nudged him forward,
"Don't be a wuss." Sam told him, Duke opened up the mouth and Sam just digs her hand in. I put my vest back on and situated my weapon,
"Little tension between you, Reaper and Ghost?" Duke said making me just growl,
"We just went our separate ways." Sam said as I watched the room in a sane emotional state,
"Why does a talented student throw it all away and join the RRTS?" Sam asked as I just muttered,
"So, what were they like before?" Duke asked Sam as I snickered, but went back into hard ass mode.
"Who, John and Jace?" Sam asked Duke who nodded at her,
"Empathetic, sensitive." Sam quoted what we were before we joined the RRTS,
"It's kind of hard for me to imagine Reaper and Ghost as sensitive." Duke said before I flipped him off,
"I knew Reaper and Ghost before all the "drop down and give me 50, woo-ha" stuff." Sam said as she was trying to break through the skin of the Imp as I like to call
it,
"Yeah?" Duke said leaning towards her, but I growl low,
"Well, it's hua..." Duke corrects her and she looks up at him smiling.
"Do you have a family?" Sam asked Duke as she tried to enter a scalpel into the Imp,
"I have Destroyer."Duke says with a slight smile,
"You know, we grew up together." Duke tells her as she smiles.
"You know, Duke, I bet secretly you have a big heart." Sam says as I crack my knuckles loud enough for Duke to hear,
"Oh, yeah?" Duke says leaning towards her head.
"And that's not the only secret big thing I got." Duke says as I roll my eyes,
"Little rusty, huh?" Sam says as she smiles at him,
"Oh, lady, you have no idea." Duke says as he looks at the blond Grimm,
"Right now, having sex with me is practically your civic duty." Duke says as Sam breaks her scalpel on accident,
"Duke really?" I whine but get back into hardass mode,
"I need a power bone saw." Sam says as she looks at Duke,
"A power bone saw?" Duke says surprised and shocked at the same time,
"Girl, I've been waiting on you my whole life." Duke stammers to her but she looks at him and points to the wall,
"There's one in the procedure room. Down the corridor, on the left, through the nanowall." Sam tells him, his eyebrow go high as I slightly let out a chuckle,
"Through the nanowall?"Duke asked as he tilted his head to the solid wall.
"All right, I got it. It's cool. For you I got it, 'cause you're pretty." Duke says smiling
"Cool." Sam says as she watches him walk,
"I wouldn't do it for a dude, you know." Duke says as he walks backwards,
"Off you go." Sam says as I watched my team mate going through the molecular wall, it was a dead silent room, only Sam and I occupied it, I just looked at the walls
and machines till Sam finally broke the dead quiet,
"Why?" Sam asked as she looked at me,
"Why what?" I asked her as she just placed her hands on her hips,
"Why would you join the RRTS?" Sam asked as I scoffed, I turned my comm off then looked her dead in the eyes,
"Cause I lost my only brother Sam, I developed PTSD cause of what happened here, when I joined the RRTS, I left emotion behind, I was a shell of my former self" I
growled as I shook,
"Then John join the RRTS and we found one another, he understands me more than anyone, I became better" I said as tears fell from my face, I wiped them away.
"I didn't know" She said as she walked over to me then checked to make sure my wraps were on correct.
"No one knows but John, before I really got to know him, I was empty, lost, and shaking all the time, but he makes me feel the adrenaline pump through my veins
once again" I said as she smiles,
"Thanks" I said before she walked back to investigate the body.
"Basically the team only knows that my emotions can and will shut down and they do all they can to keep my as you call it humanity and emotion up" I say as the
lights begin to flicker on and off, Sam looks up and opens the nanowall,
"Duke?" I yelled out as Sam followed me,
"Duke?" Sam cried out as she stayed behind me,
"Duke!" I yelled turning my comm back on, Duke appeared and scared the shit out of me,
"Hey, hey, hey." He said relaxing us,
" It's just a power shortage." Duke said as I got my heart to beat normal,
"You okay? Here's your bone saw." Duke said as he handed it to Sam,
"So, which of you is the oldest?" Duke asked Sam as the three of us began to walk back to the lab,
"What? Oh, me. By two minutes." Sam said as Duke scoffed,
"Twins? Shit. " Duke said shocked as I smirked at him,
"Identical, right?" Duke said before the power went out, I shoulder my weapon fast, Duke used his light as I used my heat seeking scope, I saw a Rottweiler growling
aggressively.
"Sam, get back in the lab." I ordered her, my weapon was trained on the dog, as she got into the lab the dog whimpered and turned tail, Sam screamed and that
caused Duke and I to turn and see another Imp, it hit Duke's shoulder, I pushed him to the side and shot, it hit the shoulder of the creature. It screamed, Duke's gun
jammed so he got his hand gun and shot,
"Duke come on" I yelled as it was trying to get back up,
"Motherfucker!" I growled as I drag Duke with me, we got into the lab.
"Close it!" I screamed as Sam soon saw the Imp close, she got it to close, I fell about two feet from Sam and Duke, the Imp shot something from it's mouth and it
missed all of us, the thing wiggled then ceased it's movement
"And that's why I don't do nanowalls." Duke told Sam, who relaxed on his shoulder. I got up, I grabbed some tongs and placed the thing on a metal sheet.
Pinky, we're entering the archaeological dig. John's voice came up on the comm, I was glad he was safe and sound.
Mac, stand by. Sarge's voice went through the comm, I watched as Sam used the saw,
Destroyer, report. Sarge's voice went through the comm as I felt a slight pain in my shoulder,
We've reached the north airlock. It's secure. Console indicates nothing's come in or out for 26 hours. Destroyer's voice went through the comm then silence, I
watched as Sam opened the dead Imp on the table up.
"Jesus. You see anything like it before?" Duke says as I shake my head,
"Duke nothing comes close to this" I said as I just cringed.
"Heart." I say as Sam had just removed it from the body,
"Liver." Sam says as I watch her removing the vital organs,
"Kidneys." Sam said as she placed them down, I just snort as I was thinking bad thoughts, but I shake my head.
"Dogs got kidneys, right? Pigs got kidneys." Duke asked and I shake my head as I see Sam pull the lower intestines out, the appendix was removed,
"It's had its appendix removed. It's human." I said before turning around to growling and so did Sam and Duke.
"What the fuck?" I growled, it was Goat, he's alive,
"Goat" I said as he did the sign of the cross,
"Wait Goat don't" I cried as he ran at the glass, I ran at the glass and placed my hands on it as he ran at it multiple times, Sam's screams echoed in my ears, I
watched as Goat died in front of me not for the first time, but a second time.
"Goat knew he was turning." Sam's voice began to echo in my ears, my body was going numb as it began to slide down the wall, this can't happen now.
"This thing didn't butcher Willits." Sam's voice was getting more distance,
"It is Willits." it was faint voice.
"What?" Duke's voice was becoming worse,
"Duke" I whimpered as I looked at him, my body was becoming numb,
"No not now" Duke says as he dashes to me,
"What's happening?" Sam asked as Duke patted my face,
"Something's happening, Ghost what are you feeling?" Duke asked me, I turned my head slightly,
"Numb" I groaned as my emotions were becoming frozen and more nonexistent by the second, Numb was the key word that the team had to look out for when I said
it, it was the first priority.
"Oh shit" Duke said as Sam was checking my pulse,
"Reaper, it's happening again" Duke's voice was becoming less aware,
"Shit Jace baby can you hear me" John's voice caught me,
"Yes" I said as my emotions were coming back,
"Stay with me" John's voice echoed in my ears through my comm,
"I'm ok" I said as I took a deep breath in and stood up, shouldering my weapon.