Billy stopped dead, his hand hovering just above the door handle which-like all the other handles on the doors in the compound-hadn't been changed to knobs yet; you'd think people would learn from their mistakes. He turned to face Lily, blinking rapidly as if he could blink away the knowledge that Lily had murdered a guard on a Naval base. She looked at him with unwavering child-like eyes that possessed an innocence that barely clung to whatever of it was left.
"Okay…" he sat on the bed beside her. "What did he do to you?"
She shook her head, "I read a book once. The girl was raped... I want to go home."
He nodded, "Did he hurt you?" She nodded and looked up at him. He stood, rubbing his temples, "We have to be very careful. When do they come check up on you in the morning?" She shrugged.
She wasn't much help. He pulled out his cell and dialed James, having a heated discussion of how they'd get her away from there. They decided inevitably to take her back to the island somehow or another. James was to pick them up in 20 minutes, about the time it would take to him to get to the base.
Billy gave Lily some clothes for her to wear which included a hooded sweatshirt that would hopefully hide her pretty well. He left immediately to go back to her room, catching a janitor off guard on the way. He coaxed the poor janitor into the room before pulling some stuff Alan had showed him the last time they needed to knock someone out, almost a dozen years ago. Jerking the door into the man he knocked him off his feet. The janitor slipped in the pool of blood around Sachs' body where he soon fell, his forehead catching the corner of Lily's dresser. He fell onto the body, out cold.
"Thank God," Billy whispered-the janitor hadn't even had any time to make any sound, and didn't get a chance to fall into the blood which would've blown his cover. Billy stripped the man and pulled the janitor's pale grey jumper that looked more like a prison uniform than anything, on over his day clothes. There was plenty of space between the jumper and his clothes; the janitor had to be at least thirty pounds heavier than Billy. With the janitor's outfit and hat on he grabbed the shades off of the guard's lifeless body, noting a rather large chunk of his throat missing along with his right eye hanging sickeningly out of his eye socket.
He walked out of the room, grabbing the trash bin and replaced one trashcan before slipping back into his own room. Lily got into the bottom of the can as Billy called James.
"Hey, you get texting right?" he asked the geologist who was obviously distracted, most likely driving.
"Yeah why?"
"You know 1's and 0's?"
"You mean bina-"
"Shhhhhhhh," Billy hissed, "They're listening."
James groaned and Billy hung up, his fingers hammering the small keyboard on his cell. He typed out in rapid succession: which translated into "backentrance." He ended the text with, in regular text "your ipad should have a binary code ap if necessary." He sent the text and put a bag in over Lily, telling her to keep quiet. He made sure she had enough space and a hole on the brim of the cart so she could breathe before exiting his room.
The rest of his ploy was embarrassingly easy. He made it down the halls to the back entrance when he found it after replacing two trashcans as a distraction. The rear exit door took the janitor's ID card via scanner and let Billy out easily-he was worried he'd have to use the guard's which might alert someone of his plan.
James was outside in a dumpy looking pickup truck that Billy really didn't want to know where it came from. It looked good though and had a shell that Billy and James lifted the cart into effortlessly. James slammed the window of the shell down and closed.
Billy got into the passenger's side door and shifted, calling back for Lily to remain as quiet as possible until they let her know when it was safe. He pretended to be sleeping, the hat hiding his face for the most part. James drove to the security checkpoint where his ID was checked and then Billy's clip-on janitorial ID. The guard let them pass when James mentioned heading to the dump which had an incinerator to burn some important documents from InGen.
