A/N- I know some of you want me to do a sequel to 'Never Judge A Book by its Cover' and I'm seriously considering it but I need some ideas. All ideas are welcome. And also I put a poll up some time ago on your favourite episode from series 7 and I would really appreciate it if you could vote.
R&R
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Tom's P.O.V
Economics... Uh seriously, I hate Economics. I'm not going to be a politician or self-employed. What use is learning about the economy. I wondered what the others were doing. I looked over at Dan and as usual he was half asleep on his desk. I looked over at Keri and she was painting her nails. Aneisha wasn't there because she didn't take economics, she took Chemistry instead.
The end of my pencil had started to flash when Mrs King was in the middle of a lecture on 'The Perfect Structure of an Economical Business'.
I raised my hand.
"Yes Thomas," Mrs King sighed," what is so important you feel it necessary to interrupt me?"
"It time for my meeting with the school counsellor," I replied.
Mrs King looked sceptical so I added," she wants to try to get me to be more social." I knew Mrs King couldn't deny that.
"Yes, fine off you go," She said.
I waited just outside whilst Dan and Keri made their excuses to get out. I could see that Dan had the ink tube from inside a pen and a pair of scissors underneath his desk, he put the scissors halfway up the tube and split it down the middle, letting the ink pour onto his hands.
"Excuse me Mrs King," Dan said, "my pen just broke and the ink spilled all over my hands can I go and wash them?"
"Yes, but be very quick."
Dan joined me outside desperately trying to get the ink off his hands. When I looked back at Keri she looked as though she was crying.
"Miss, my hay fever is playing up again," Keri said so convincingly that the Queen would've believed her.
"Oh, yes. Of course, go and see the nurse."
By the stage that Keri joined us outside Dan and I had already started making our way to the caretakers storeroom.
Aneisha was already there,
"Why do you have paint on your hands?" Keri asked.
"Mr Flatley had us helping his Yr 7 Visual Arts class,"
Aneisha said.
"I thought you had Chemistry?" Dan asked looking confused.
"I did," said Aneisha scanning her finger," remember this is Mr Flatley we're talking about."
"It's better than being stuck in economics with Mrs King," I say," I swear ever since she found out about us she's hated me."
Dan pulled the broom and we plummeted downwards.
When we got there Frank was standing at the centre table in the middle of a heated argument with Stella. Completely unfazed by the fact that we had just stepped out of the lift they continued arguing.
"They know their names," Stella argued exasperatedly.
"We can't exactly put them on a plane and send them to Siberia and let them freeze to death," Frank said back.
"How many illegal back channels to KORPS listen into? And how many do Annabel know about?" Stella asked. before she was cut off my Dan coughing rather loudly.
They stopped and looked at us composing themselves as if to signal 'you saw nothing'.
If that was in fact was what it was saying I was too curious to comply by it.
"What?.. Sorry. Are you suggesting that Annabel will tell everyone about us?" I questioned attempting not to show the fact that I disagreed with their judgement of her.
What had she done that was worse than anything I had done, how come I got rewarded for hacking into the Mars Rover when Stella wants to send them to Siberia to freeze because one of them attempted to hack into the Mars Rover, Why? Thats the question I really wanted to ask but didn't because I knew that was crossing a line.
I felt eternally sorry for Annabel.
"Okay team," Stella said completely ignoring my question,"we have received a distress message from the MI9 hospital."
"We don't know what's going on there because the communications with the rest of MI9 have been cut," Frank followed.
"Tom, you will be in the field for this mission. Your skills will be more useful in the MI9 hospital than in the base. Frank and I will be here to help and do what we can," Stella said.
I wanted to protest but my glance caught Aneisha's and I decided that one mission out in the field wouldn't hurt.
"Okay,"we all said in unison as we turned and stepped into the lift.
The MI9 Hospital
We were not far from the Hospital when Aneisha stopped and looked back at me, "You okay?" she asked falling in step beside me.
"Yeah, but if I've learnt anything it's that arguing with Frank about going out in the field isn't worth it," I said.
"I'm talking about Annabel, I know you didn't know her overly well but she's your friend and from what we over heard from Frank and Stella's argument you might never see her again."
"I met her once and have had an actual conversation with her once. If she has to go to an MI9 protection facility and never see her family again it will be sad to see a good person- friend, be locked away behind bars for the rest of her life. At least she will have her brother to talk to. She umm... Understands me-the technology side of me. In a way she's some what like me."
"Yeah you could say that," Aneisha said as we approached the MI9 Hospital she said,"for good luck," as she leaned in and kissed me on the cheek.
"You still cool for tonight?" I asked.
"Give me a reason not to," she responded.
I didn't have a reason and before I could say anything Keri asked,"Are you two coming or what?"
We jogged to catch up with them.
The floor around the door was covered in tiny shards of glass, covering every single nook and cranny in the surrounding 2 meter radius.
"What on Earth happened here?" Dan questioned.
As I stepped inside I could see what he meant; the lights were hanging from the ceiling at odd angles, the paper work that should have been on the receptionists desk had been strewn across the floor, the chairs in the waiting room had been flipped upside-down, some of them even split in half. There was someone sitting in the corner of what used to be the waiting room but was now merely a pile of chairs, glass, paper work and a whole lot of other things; a wheel from a trolley, a few bed sheets, a couple of pillows- stuff like that. He was sitting with his knees touching his chest rocking backwards and forwards humming an odd tune.
"What song is that?" Asked Keri.
"The tune is familiar..." I said trailing off slightly.
"Isn't it an Irish drinking song?" Keri asked.
"Yeah... I think it is..." Dan said trailing off sounding really vague, as though he was only half there.
"Thats weird," I commented.
"Let's just get on with this," Keri said," this is seriously starting to creep me out."
We entered a room and found out where all of the patients had escaped to. They were all seemingly dead. I heard a shriek come from Aneisha standing beside me. I wrapped my arms around her and she buried her face into my shirt, I rested my head on top of hers as Dan went over with his SpyPod to see what had happened. He checked one of their pulse's, it was incredibly weak but it was there.
"Neish, they're not dead," Dan said.
This caused Aneisha to relax slightly and lift her head to look, she stood up straighter as she pulled her self together.
"What do you think happened to them? What caused this?" Aneisha asked.
"I'm not sure," Keri replied.
My SpyPod started beeping, I pulled it out of the pocket in my jacket. I opened it up and looked at it slightly confused, thinking 'why on Earth would my SpyPod be beeping', so I checked what alert had gone off and once I found it I became slightly worried.
"Umm, guys the 'safe air filter' just sent me an alert saying that it picked up something in the air and it wouldn't have notified me unless it was something that had side effects," I explained.
"What kind of side effects?" Dan asked.
Before I could answer Aneisha interrupted. 'Does no one want me to reply today I thought to myself.'
"Do you guys know where Keri's gone?" she asked.
"And is it me or do you hear that creepy song again," Dan added.
With that comment we all look up and walk out of the room and towards the hallway, where we found a very vague looking Keri, humming the same tune as the old guy that we saw before.
"Keri, what are you doing? We need to get this information back to Frank?" Dan said.
Keri turned to look at Dan, "Who's Keri? Who's Frank?" she queried.
"Stop messing about Keri," Dan stressed.
"I ask again who is Keri?!" Keri asked almost yelling.
"Yeah, ah, Dan you might want to note that suggesting by the knife in her hand I don't think she's joking," I said with no level of sarcasm in my voice what so ever.
Dan stepped forward from where he was standing and kicked Keri square on the side of the head. As Keri fell unconscious Dan caught her falling body in his arms. The surprising news was that Aneisha was now slumped against the wall looking into the very far distance at something that nobody else could see.
"Neish, Neish,... Hello," I whispered waving my hand in front of her face.
"First Keri and now Aneisha, they're just like everyone else here," Dan said starting to stress out.
With that comment suddenly all the pieces of the puzzle came together.
"The air," I breathed," the air," I repeat."
"The what?" Asked Dan.
"The air, there has to be something in the air, but surely something else in my SpyPod or at the Hospital would've alerted me," I said trying to take it all in.
"I need to run tests on the air," I clearly state.
"What do you need?" Dan asked.
"Magical Abilities, Super Powers," I reply sarcastically, implying that it will be almost impossible to take a sample of the air and be able to examine it.
"Well, you know what I need?"Dan asked," less sarcasm and more explanations."
Dan's temper was fraying and his fist was clenching.
He was getting angry.
"Dan look, whatever has affected the girls is in the air, there is no way that I can preserve a sample long enough to get it back to base," I explained.
If Dan's expression didn't give it away what he did next did.
His fist collided with my face and the pain spread rapidly, it hurt a lot.