After the shots more figures hurried to the scene and Kendal and Griffin were forced to back into a deserted locker room. They peered through the frosted glass window in the door to see the vague shadows of a gurney being wheeled from the room.

"Have they shot her?" Kendal asked.

"I don't know." said Griffin.

"We need to follow." exclaimed Kendal

She made to open the door but even as she touched the handle more people appeared in the corridor.

"We have to wait." Griffin said, putting a hand over hers to stop her. They would be discovered easily if they broke from cover now.

He took a look around the room they were hiding in and opened the nearest locker, it contained a single shoe.

"Maybe we can find something in here of use."

…

Although Kendal was only partially distracted by the locker search; they did uncover a filthy boiler suit, a stinking vest and two white lab coats. Of the lab coats one was huge the other too petite even for Kendal.

"Well that was pointless." said Kendal collapsing back onto one of the benches.

"Maybe not." said Griffin, pulling on the overall on over his clothes. "This might let me get close."

He messed up his hair and then grabbed the dirty vest and tucked it in his pocket like a rag.

"So do I look like a janitor?" he asked.

Kendal used a finger to wipe dirt from the wall and then rubbed it into Griff's cheek.

"Much better." she said. "But are you sure it will work?"

Griffin went back to listening at the door. The hullabaloo wasn't dying down.

"I'm going to have to risk it." he said resignedly. "You stay hidden, and if anything happens you get back to the others and tell them what happened."

He turned the door handle, straightened his back and stepped out into the corridor.

Two men ran past him, following the route the gurney had taken. They never gave him a second look. There was a guard on the door to the room where the shots were fired. Griffin walked up trying to be nonchalant. The guard took one look at Griff's outfit and actually opened the door for him.

"I don't envy you the clean-up." he said, as Griffin walked passed.

…

The room was a mess. Computer screens were smashed and something was sparking inside one of them. There were small groups of medical teams fussing over three fallen bodies. One guy was screaming but the others were silent. Griffin circled the room as casually as possible while he checked the casualties. It was three men in guard uniforms, none of them were Bianca. Two were dead and the third was not far behind.

"What happened?" Griffin asked one of the medics.

"Escaped prisoner." the man explained. "But don't worry she's back under guard."

He nodded and moved toward the screaming man. It was hard to make out above his cries of pain but he seemed to be saying,

"She's alive, not dead!"

Griffin was confused; did he mean Bianca?

…

"You shot those people!" Dr Norrell stammered staring at his boss in horror. "You actually shot them!"

"Yeah," Mr Silva muttered gruffly, "They'd seen too much!"

Bianca watched the exchange with trepidation. Even Dr Norrell looked nervous of the man in the dark suit she had just seen shoot three men in cold blood. Dr Norrell was currently cutting away her improvised brace and with her wrists and right ankle cuffed to the gurney she's wasn't able to put up much resistance.

"But they're employees." Dr Norrell exclaimed, pulling the last of the wood free from Bianca's leg.

"Well now they're ex-employees. You're lucky not to be joining them. You've messed up this operation from start to finish! Just be glad you're too useful to me alive right now!"

The man stared down to where Bianca was struggling in her restraints.

"Now what do we do with her? I was under the impression she was already dead!"

Dr Norrell swallowed visibly.

"I thought she would be more use to us alive… If we could use the Lazarus formula to cure her where Orpheus had failed..!"

"And have you?"

"She's been injected with the serum but… we miscalculated with our additional treatment." said Dr Norrell. "It's doubtful it will be sucessful."

Bianca gasped suddenly. The cloud of pain that had been following her since she woke had dissipated but was now replaced by a sharp pressure.

Bianca looked down, Dr Norrell was gripping below her left knee. Was that what she was feeling? It didn't feel like her leg, more a sensation outside it. Did the doctor say she'd been injected with the serum? What was going on?

Neither the man in the suit or the doctor noticed her reaction, and she made an effort to disguise it.

"Well that is just as well." the man in the suit was saying, "But what is the point of that? We can hardly unveil her as a successful patient at the launch when we've gone to such pains to prove her dead! Do what needs to be done! I have a plane to catch! This whole visit has been a disaster from start to finish!"

The man turned on his heel and stormed out.

Dr Norrell sighed and looked Bianca in the eye for the first time. He reached out a hand and stroked her cheek.

"But it seems such a waste." he muttered

…

Griffin left the security room as casually as he arrived and headed back to Kendal in the locker room. Two of the three bodies had been removed from the room now and the bustle was dying down. As he approached the room he notices shadows approaching from that direction. Not wanting to risk Kendal being detected he kept straight on, aiming to walk right past the new arrivals. He turned the corner and suddenly found himself in a neck lock.

"Hold it, hold it!" exclaimed a familiar voice. "He's one of us!"

It was Jackson. Reggie released his grip. It was the rest of the group, and Griffin noticed two more faces with them.

"David! Erica!" he exclaimed in a whisper. He patted David's back and turned back the way he'd come.

"Come in Kendal will want to see you." he said putting his other arm around Erica's shoulder and leading her on.

Waiting for the right moment they all dashed together to the abandoned locker room.

Kendal was sat on one of the benches staring at her shoes. When she saw her mother she could barely stop herself from crying out. They shared a fierce tearful hug. Kendal gave David a brief nod too and then frowned.

"Bianca?" she asked.

"They've taken her away, but I don't know where." said Griffin. "There was a shoot-out in the guard room but Bianca isn't among any of the casualties."

Kendal then noticed bruises on Reggie's face.

"What happened?" she asked.

Reggie shrugged off her concern.

"You should see the other guy." he said simply. "Now how do we find Bianca?"

Kendal held up the two white coats she had found.

"We still have these." she said. She held the large jacket against Reggie and the smaller one against her mother. "They might fit."

…

Mr Silva marched towards the exit but got himself turned around. This hospital was a warren. He must have been mad to purchase it as a laboratory, but it had been cheap and out of the way.

He saw two white coated figures walking towards him.

"Where is the exit?" he demanded.

The big black guy stared at him and turned to his colleagues, a diminutive older woman, who held a veneer of glamour even though she looked a little worn down.

"Mr Silva!" the man exclaimed. "We've been wanting to have a word with you!"

The woman, who was looking increasingly familiar, peered at him too.

"He was in the observation room. Where's Bianca!" she exclaimed.

The big guy grabbed at Mr Silva and shoved him back against the wall.

"The lady asked you a question!" he demanded.

"Let me go!" Mr Silva demanded, "Do you have any idea who I am?"

"Yeah, you're a murderer!" the man roared angrily. "Now answer the question!"

Juan Silva reached into his jacket for his gun. The big guy grabbed his wrist before he could draw it properly and slammed his hand against the wall repeatedly. His hand went numb and he dropped his weapon.

"We need to get him out of here." the woman, Silva's now recognised as Erica Kane, exclaimed looking anxiously down the passageway, suddenly afraid they would have been over heard.

Mr Silva's arm was twisted sharply behind his back and, protesting as he went, Juan found himself barrelled unceremoniously along the corridor. The woman picked up his pistol and followed.

…

"Look what we found!" said Reggie, shoving Mr Silva in the locker room where they were hiding. "He's going to tell us where Bianca is."

Mr Silva's fell back against the lockers with a crash and slid to the floor laughing.

"You're too late," he said smirking, "…Much too late!"

"What do you mean?" Erica exclaimed.

"She's being cut up as we speak."

"Don't believe him." said David. "Where did you find him?"

"Coming from the operating theatres you told us about." Reggie said, standing over Mr Silva trying to look as threatening as possible.

"Then we get right back there." said David, rushing to the door, no longer worried about a disguise. Kendal, Griffin, Jackson and Erica followed.

"What now?" Mr Silva asked, starring up at Reggie.

"Now you are going to find yourself tied up until the authorities' arrive." said Reggie, ripping some of the loose wiring from the wall. "But first we are going to have a little talk!"

…

Bianca twisted in her bonds while Dr Norrell approached her with a large syringe.

"I really am sorry about this." the doctor said as he approached.

Bianca tensed, and as he approached lashed out with the only limb that wasn't tied down. For the first time in a long time her left leg did what she wanted and she caught the doctor on the shoulder, making him drop the needle.

When he bent down to pick it up she swung another kick at his head, but he wasn't going to get that close again.

He backed up as Bianca starred defiantly at him.

Just then the doors behind him flew open and five people tumbled in; pausing as they saw the stand-off.

"Bianca!" exclaimed Erica.

While Griffin, Jackson and David wrestled the syringe from Dr Norrell, Kendal and Erica hurried to release Bianca from her restraints.

Kendal was crying with relief at the sight of her sister. Once her wrists were untied she sat up and engulfed her sister and mother with a hug.

Dr Norrell quickly raised his hands in surrender when faced with a pistol pointed in his face by David Hayward.

…

The police raided the hospital two hours later. They found Mr Campbell and an injured Mr Salt locked in Erica's old cell. Dr Norrel was found strapped to the gurney Bianca had been tied to. Mr Juan Silva was found stuffed into a locker, a signed confession to five murders and three attempted murders taped to the door.

…

"We have to get you to a hospital." said Kendal as she and Griffin helped Bianca to the car.

Bianca stopped in her tracks.

"No," she said firmly. "I'm going home to Marissa and my family and nothing is going to stop me."

…