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Your Hollow Heart	By : KyuKitsune Category: G through L > Hollow Man Views: 3682 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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~oooOYOHOHOooo~
Chapter 19
OHMANOHMANOHMAN! SHIT! That was what Frank had going on in his head, seeing how fucked up this was as things were not going so well on his end. He was doing what Sarah had told him to, keeping the soaked rag over the gaping wound and seeing that Carter was now looking very pale right then. Shit this wasn't any good, he wasn't going to make it unless Sarah got her ass back here with that first aid kit and have that immediate transfusion pronto.
He wasn't sure what else to do at that point, he was a computer tech not a doctor for Christ's sake! That had been Janice and Sarah's field and yet even with his temperature lowering fast and with the amount of blood he lost within the passing hour, he was one step closer to death's door...
"Hey, hey stay with me here Cart! We're going to fix you up buddy and you'll be back on your feet in no time, you hear me? Don't you let up on me now...Goddamnit Carter! Sarah! Sarah!" He was shouting as loud as he could and hearing his voice echo down the corridor and not even sure he even heard him then.
Dammit all to hell! He should've known better than to let her go by herself. For all he knew she might've wound up bumping into Sebastian wherever that invisible fucker was. But even while this was going through his mind of such a possibility, he believed that Sarah would be fine and show up soon. Then they could work on getting the hell out of here.
It was maddening to believe this was really happening and wishing that he could close his eyes and make this whole thing disappear, to wake up from this horrific nightmare...
Just stay calm Frank, just need to keep your focus on Carter now, can't let this get to me... But then he heard something, footsteps coming this way and immediately two things pop into his head. One that it could be Sarah with the medical stuff or it could be an invisible psycho killer ready to finish him off. He prayed it wasn't the latter, hoping to god that it was her rushing back this way.
Yet instead it was Linda and Matt, both looking worse for wear and seeing they must've had a run in with the psycho and manage to get away as soon as they did. They had arrive to find Frank with an unconscious Carter but no sign of Sarah within the vicinity.
Linda rushed over to take over for him while Matt was busy asking Frank what happen to Sarah. "She went to the supply room. Carter needs the transfusion so she went to grab the first aid kit from the medical room."
"How long ago was that?" Frank had no clue, he had been too busy with Carter to take notice but guess it had been half an hour, give or take. Matt didn't like hearing this from him, fearing that Sarah might already be in jeopardy and someone should at least go and try to find her. But before he did, he took some of Frank's ammo since he was out and needed to reload. He was mentally counting how much was left, Linda's still had a couple rounds and finding they had a limited number unless they hurried back to the supply room to grab more in the process.
Things were looking pretty fucked up for them and bet Sebastian was laughing at them from wherever he was. "GODDAMMIT!" Matt smash his fist against the cement wall, knowing the bastard was taking great pleasure in this sick twisted game of his.
Linda could see how upsetting it was but she was too busy checking Carter's vitals while looking to Frank who was also feeling shaken up by these current events. "You shouldn't have let her, I said no one goes anywhere alone..." She didn't like repeating herself but finding how everyone here was in immediate danger with Sebastian picking them off one by one and god only knows where he was now.
It's like they were the sheep and he's the big bad wolf, he knew which one to choose from and then made his move when they were alone and defenseless. It was a bitter pill to swallow but for all they knew Sarah could've already been...unfortunately, there was more bad news as she found that Carter was already long gone, having taken his last breath and was cool to the touch.
She reached to close his eyes, finding it wasn't right for someone like him to go out like this. He never hurt nobody, it was so unfair! Linda would've love to scream her frustration out but felt it would be better to conserve her energy in using it to take Sebastian out when she found him.
She swore she'd make him pay, for Janice, for Carter and for just about everything else. Matt had gone on ahead towards the medical quarter with them right behind him and the trio finding the mess that was waiting right there when they got to the lab. The blood was all over the floor and saw Sarah lying in a pool with her head twist at an odd angle and looking the other way.
Even though they knew that Sebastian must've gotten to her, Linda still went to check and found no pulse. This was the third dead body they had and knew they could be next if they didn't do something and put a stop to him.
Matt notice there was bloody footprints leading down the hallway and using it to follow wherever it was heading. The others seem to have gotten that same idea and Linda swore when they find him she was going to make him regret this whole thing. But then she realize something and then turn to Frank and seeing the man seem unsure on whether they should even go down that way, knowing what might be waiting down the hall.
"Listen I'm going on ahead but I want you to see about getting those elevators back online so we can get out of this hell hole. I'll try to keep Sebastian distract while you work on this okay? Can you do that for me?"
Frank seem unsure but he thought that chances were that if Sebastian had his focus on either her or Matt and he could work quickly on the problem to get them out of here sooner. "Okay of course."
When he took off, running as fast he could back to the lab while Linda kept going further ahead, following the bloody prints and calling for his attention, "Sebastian, hey Sebastian, I know you can hear me!"
Silence, there was no response and yet she knew someone else was here. She moved with caution and keeping her hand on the gun, her finger on the trigger in case anything was to pop out.
She could feel it deep in her bones that someone else was here but who. Sebastian? Matt? She had no idea and had left the walkie-talkie in the other room when she went to go find him. She cursed silently and thinking on whether she should turn back or not to go get it but told herself to forget it.
"I don't know if you can understand this, but what you're experiencing is a psychological breakdown. This isn't who you are." She heard nothing and finally giving in to her frustration and started yelling out and hoping this would get him to respond to her.
"You goddamn bastard! You goddamn bastard. You're gonna pay for this. I'm going to bring you back to visibility and then I'm going throw your ass in jail!" She kept cursing which would've made a sailor blush but since she was more concern over Matt and thought that if Sebastian hurt one hair on his head, she would fry the bastard until he was nothing but a smoldering pile of ashes when she got her hands on him.
~oooOYOHOHOooo~
Frank had just made it to the work station and was checking on how the system was doing so far and hoping that it was done so they could get out of here. It hadn't been an easy feat but he knew that it took a while to get the system to accept them and hoping that within the time that they had been playing 'Hide-and-seek' with the goddamn bastard.
So far it was only about 70% finished but would take maybe another hour or so to give them the authorization they needed to get out of this goddamn hellhole.
Hell yeah, it seem that way when he thought of what's been happening all around him and with the dead bodies just piling up and not sure how much more he could take.
Maybe once he got out of here, he would go somewhere far far away, someplace where he didn't have to go dealing with invisible madmen or anything else relating to that.
But as he was working to speed up the process with the limited window he might have just then, he still saw that Sebastian's code still in the mix but then moving farther down the screen and saw that he missed one and showing it had been active recently.
"Wait but then that means…" He didn't get to say anything more as something sharp punctured through his neck, making a deep gash to his jugular and letting the blood splash out onto the console.
His head was tilted back as more of the red hot liquid was spraying outward, his body shook for a few more minutes before he knew no more. When he finally stopped convulsing did Sebastian let him fall face down on the keyboard before the body slide down onto the floor in a awkward position.
Well that takes care of him. He had been waiting for him to show, figuring out of anyone, Frank could screw his whole plan and checking the monitor to see who was where and waited quietly when he got in.
His eyes dart to the screen and seeing the name that popped up recently showing they were here and then turning to the thermal monitor that had been following everyone's movement and notice the two were heading for one of the empty labs.
He exited the room and went to go find them seeing it was time to put a end to this whole thing...once and for all.
~oooOYOHOHOooo~
Linda was coming down the end of the corridor, figuring that Sebastian had to be somewhere close by when she heard the sound of running feet that were leading outside one of the room. Okay you bastard, get ready to taste some payback.
She held the gun out and as she reached to open it she sense them and whirling around with the gun pointed in their face. Shock was clearly written in their expression and seeing that it wasn't Sebastian but also the last person she expected to see down here and almost shooting off if not for her fast reflex to stop it from going all the way.
"Wh-whoa Linda it's me!" Linda saw the woman with her arms raised and finding to be Joey standing there, looking just as startled, probably from the sight of her boss with a gun aimed at her.
Linda was surprised but a bit relief as she lower the weapon from her face. "Joey oh thank god it's you! You have no idea what the hell has been going on down here! Sebastian, he just gone and snapped, he did something to our codes and everyone, Sarah, Carter, Janice..."
Joey didn't have to be told everything, just the short version and manage to put two and two together judging by how the situation appeared when she got down here. "Okay Linda yeah c'mon let's go...I just can't believe this, I mean I had a gut feeling something wasn't right. Look we should get on out of here, we should leave while we-"
"I'm not leaving without them!" Also not without kill that sonofabitch myself, she thought bitterly. Joey looked conflicted but seeing how the chances of getting out alive while leaving two comrades down here with a dangerous lunatic before she finally gave in, "Okay let's try and find them. Any idea where they could be?"
"I'm not sure but Frank was checking to see if the system was back up. Matt, I'm not too sure. He could be anywhere around here."
Joey looked concern and took that as a not good sign on their end. "Okay let's go and check the main server first, also maybe make our way around and hope to spot one of the other before he does." The two went to go down the next route, both being extra cautious as they went down a blind area and checking if anything was out in that direction. As they made to make it another turn down the hall, Joey stopped and put her hand out towards Linda, halting her in the process.
"Joey what?" But she hushed her and then Joey's eyes widen before turning back to the blond, "Shit Linda he's coming this way, hurry over here!" She had Linda following her and heading to one of the vacate room and Linda quickly shutting the door as they got in. They stood close, waiting with fear and apprehension with the air trapped in their lungs. A few seconds passed and Linda not hearing anything before she thought that they got lucky and he hadn't spotted them.
"Joey I think he's gone now, I think we can—" But then she felt something thin and sharp jab into her left side, she immediately whirled to find Joey standing right there with a look in her eyes that shocked her, finding them boring into hers. She saw her pull back but Linda was focus on the syringe in her hand and watch it fall to the floor. Whatever she just pump into her was going through her was fast and feeling her body becoming half numb which gave Joey the opportunity to pull the gun from her grasps.
It took a couple tugs to get it pry loose but she manage to as Linda's body reacting to the foreign substance made it all the more easy to have her not struggle against her.
"There we go, can't risk you causing trouble even though I highly doubt it will be possible as your fingers are now probably too stiff to even pull it and will be the last to fully recover even if you had the chance." Joey held the gun up and had it pointing directly at her, "Joey what the hell are you talking about?" But then she stopped when she heard Joey cock the trigger and finding it aim right at her. She could tell that one wrong false move and Joey would shoot her down in a heartbeat. She felt a ice cold sliver of fear go down her spine as she look into those hazel orbs and not sure what was going on to make her turn against her. "Joey what—"
"Shut up, you don't get to say anything until I say you do capiche!" She saw Linda was complying as she kept her mouth shut. "Go on have a seat I insist you do Linda." She was watching from her end as the blond made to take a chair and watching her every move. "Oh and Linda, try not to be discourage when I say that I have nothing against the others, just you mainly."
Linda was having a great difficulty to do so from the upper half with her body succumbing to the drugs now pumping into her but since this was a low dose she doubt she'd be falling asleep anytime soon. Linda manage to get herself seat and looking to see the other woman watching her and wondering what she could do to diffuse this predicament.
"Joey if this is about what I said before on the phone the other night...you know I had to do it, you had went against protocols..."
Joey send her an incredulous look, "You mean that beside the fact that I actually consider Sebastian still a person and not some lab rat and the whole reason you decided to booted me out was so you could keep me from helping him stay grounded here." Joey move to cross her arms and stare down at her, "Or maybe you just didn't like how Sebastian prefer my company over yours now. I mean you were with Matt so why should it matter but then when it comes to Sebastian, it's obvious you can't stand the competition and decided to have it your way and knock me out of the equation, what a complete bitch move there."
"That's not it, you and what Sebastian are doing, how could you even go and be with him! He's a selfish bastard who cares about only what he wants and doesn't give a damn about you or anyone else." Yet instead of causing the other woman to get ticked off, she looked to her with a frustrated scowl.
"Honestly that's what you have to say, I'll admit he can be stubborn and doesn't like to be deny anything but you know it takes two to tango and he can even admit when he's in the wrong." Joey consider the interaction they had in the past and also with him in his present state and while everyone did not seem to show an ounce of consideration and realize there was more to him than what meets the eye.
"Sebastian can be whatever you think he is but I for one have never thought him any less of a person. But that wasn't what we're here to talk about, no there something much more and I intend to hear it."
She could see her former co-worker was trying to figure a way even with her condition and before there could be any chance of that happening, she aimed her gun and the next thing Linda knew there was a dart sticking out of her left thigh.
"AGH the FUCK!" She may not be as lucid but the pain of it still hurt like a bitch. She turn to see Joey smirking while lowering the tranq gun as she watch her immediate reaction to what she just did.
"I bet you're wondering what I dose you with earlier, well let me tell you, before you came and ask me to come on board this pet project, I was working on my own commission, something of my late grandfather to be precise. He was a man of modern science who believe in certainty and how to benefit mankind, he also figured how the best way to moderate simple concoction that were useful during the late World War II. He never got the chance to show his finding but I manage to trinket it around some and got it patent down just right."
Joey had moved to grab one of the chairs and pulling it up to go sit down while watching her colleague reach to pull it out, with the serum already injected with a little bit of a numbing solution that wouldn't dilute it too much but giving it enough time to be absorb into the bloodstream. "I never got around to testing it human wise but I thought better late than never as I made sure to keep a vial with me in such a case."
"Just-just what is it?" Linda's body was feeling way off, her arms and legs were ten times heavier than norm as though they've been tied to heavy anchors and her thoughts becoming muddled as she struggle to fight whatever it was that was happening to her. She saw Joey had that look and swore she seen that on one other person and thinking how uncanny it was to imagine a female version of the madman running loose.
"I call it 'The undisputed Truth' as it's twice as strong as the Amytal sodium which they used back then in those days but with less of those dangerous side effects. Trust me I did my research and I have some questions that I would like you to answer truthfully and then can see what happens later. Now then just to see if you are ready let's start with something simple: Did you and Matt have an affair before or after you and Sebastian broke up?"
Linda look like she didn't want to say anything but feeling her mouth moving on it's own accord and finding the words leaving her tongue as she said out loud, "Before, we were together then for three months until I manage to break things off with Sebastian." She never wanted to let it out like this but seeing how she had no choice in the manner to even stop herself from saying this.
"Hmm I see, well that makes it all the more interesting I imagine. Well let's proceed shall we? Did you attempt to sabotage this project for your own benefits?"
"I no of course not!" But she flinch when Joanna sent her a glare and saw they were full of fire and looking ready to throw a smack in her direction. "So you never consider it, well I suppose given that you were leading team member now with Sebastian out of commission it wouldn't do, but then maybe you saw it differently as you decided to go a different route."
She then grab something from her pocket and held it up for Linda to see. She saw how her eyes widen and was turning it around to read the label out loud, "Potassium is certainly quite a useful little concoction when it comes to triggering heart attacks don't you think so? I can only imagine why you would have this in your apartment along with our notes, mine and Sebastian's that is to say but here what I got and you can tell me if I'm wrong on this but here goes:
You added this stuff to the reversion the day before we were to bring him back. Back then, I had assumed you were just getting some last minute things out of the way at that time but I never imagine you would deliberately go this far to sabotage the reversion by diluting it components! You figured that it would be simple enough to slip a few dosage into it, knowing full well what kind of reaction Sebastian would have once it enter into his bloodstream."
It wasn't hard to picture what would have occurred in that typical scenario: Sebastian reacting negatively to the reversion and go into cardiac arrest just as their previous test subjects had in the past. She could see the nightmare playing over again in her head, only this time realizing that it was because of Linda's doing that they almost lost him and that he had remain trapped into this mess because she kept all their notes and swiped it with some fakes so they could never fix the issues.
With the deteriorating cells that had been occurring within the passing weeks and Linda would only have to bind her time and wait until the inevitable happen where no one would be the wiser. They would see it as an unfortunate result and then probably figure Linda would give them some bullshit to go and sweep it under the rug or something so that the government can have the serum and be a win-win in her book.
"You must've had a damn good reason to try to do what you did and all for what? Just so you can stay on the government's good side and save face so no one knew what happen, or would you have try to pin the whole thing onto him with him dead and no way to say otherwise. Well Linda I'm waiting."
Though she had said nothing, her face gave it all away and Joey knew she had caught her. She march over to Linda and before she could react, Joey clocked her one on the face, turning her cheek to the other side before forcefully grabbing her chin and having her turn to look her in the eye.
"Just what the fuck were you thinking?! You think just because he's a menace to you that he deserves to die, is that it?! You had all of us go through hell because you decided to tamper with it in the first place."
She had her eyes locked onto the frighten blond and couldn't let go of the anger that was rushing through her entire body and had to let it out on her for all she done to them. "But here's something I do know! You brought this all onto yourself and you deserve no less for what you're about to get..."
Linda felt a surge of panic going through her, wondering what she plan on doing but then saw Joey had moved away and was heading towards the door. The door that was wide open and seeing a figure totally drenched in blood standing there and having listen to the whole thing!
Joey didn't so much as look back as she walk by him, barely brushing the stoic figure and shut the door behind. She had decided to give those two a moment of privacy, knowing Sebastian wanted a piece for himself and he deserves no less as she let him have it.
With shaking hands, she grasp the two rings, finding mild comfort as she grasp them tightly in her clutches and struggling to calm down the internal storm going on inside her. She knew what she did was beyond wrong and knew she might as well have damned herself for letting this occurred but deep within, she could not let it go that everyone had as much fault and had to pay the piper one way or another.
~oooOYOHOHOooo~
If there was anything he wasn't expecting, it certainly hadn't been something like this. Sebastian had came upon the two but finding that Joey had been talking about him and hearing what she was saying about him to Linda, coming down on his side. He had been struck utterly speechless as he listen in to that confronting conversation and finding that conclusion to be startling yet never would guess she would attempt to off him like that.
He had felt Joanna moved against him and swore he heard her say something to him, 'I'm so sorry...' She had nothing to be apologizing for but maybe the fact she had him hearing her air Linda's dirty laundry in such a way or finding out the immediate truth to why things hadn't been going as plan.
The fact that his ex's had been sleeping with Matt before they even broke up was only the tip of the iceberg. Linda had tried to get him out of the picture, she had actually try to murder him! She was the one who had made him go through Hell these last few weeks, all because she wanted him dead!
He was now feeling his whole body shaking with undeniable anger as he turned his hollow eyes to the blond who was looking to him with fear and seeing how she was caught. If looks could kill, she'd be buried six feet under and he'd be damn if he let her slip away before he gave her what's coming her way.
Linda was moving on her feet, managing to do so in a somewhat awkward matter with the drugs still in her system and she without her gun. Joey had left her defenseless and knowing that there was less chance of getting Sebastian to listen to reason when she saw the expression written on his bloody face and was good as dead at this rate.
"Sebastian you have to understand but what else would you expect me to do. You were putting all of us at risk. I didn't want the board to realize what you done and we had no choice but to follow you through this whole ordeal. You should've listen when we told you to and I couldn't just let you endanger Matt and I with all we done."
Yet Sebastian was not listening to a word she said as stalk towards her with only one thing on his mind. It was all her fault he was left like this and lunging for her and grabbing her before she could make a run for it.
"Shut up, just shut up you, you fucking bitch! You have messed with me for the last time!" He had his hands around her throat and was squeezing it tight even as she tried to break free feeling her lungs were having difficulty getting air into them.
Linda was trying to fight him and couldn't take her eyes off the bloody phantom that was Sebastian and feeling him choke the life out of her and envision his hollow eyes full of anger and hate as those were the last two she saw before her vision went black and drawing her final breath in that moment.
Sebastian kept his hold on her as it didn't matter that she was no longer struggling but once he saw she was good and dead and let her drop to the floor. He stared at the limp body and all he could think was good riddance.
He felt a warm hand touch his shoulder and turning to find Joey who was by his side and feeling his anger slowly disappearing as he look into those hazel eyes of hers. Then with all that's that happen, every last bit of energy gave way and feeling his legs give in but she was there to keep a firm grasp on him. She help ease him to the floor as they sat in this position, finding to have him lay his head on top her chest and feeling him wrap his arms tightly around her. She reach to stroke his matted hair, the blood made it stiff and clumpy yet ignoring it as she tend to her lover and letting him know it was all right.
"It's over now Sebastian, we can put this all behind us." Her words reaching out to him was soothing his raw nerves and feeling more at ease once the adrenaline was long gone. He lift his head to look up at her and placing his hands on either side of her face, her skin practically tingling his fingers as they touch her cheek while leaving red smear all over them.
Joey didn't seem to care just as she saw Sebastian move with lightning speed to smash his lips against hers, the heat of his mouth mixed with the coppery metallic taste as he savor the feel of her once more. How he missed this, it might have seem like ages since he last tasted her and finding her once again in his arms, despite what had happened.
Yet seeing that Joey was here, coming to his aid once again and to reveal the truth to all this chaos. He may as well be consider something of a heartless monster for the way he let go of a part of his own humanity, killing those they had worked alongside with and yet she chose to stick by him…she chose him over everything else. It didn't last long when he pulled away, finding her lips painted red and slightly swollen and looking solemnly at her.
"Not yet, we still have some unfinished business to take care of down here. I need you to do me a couple quick things and make sure it's all taken care of before we leave. Think you can handle that for me Joanna?"
She reached out to caress his cheek and was smiling in such an endearing way which made him feel his heart leap as he look to his woman who would go to the ends of the earth for him, "Do you even need to ask Sebastian?"
They made their way out of the room and down to his quarter where he hurried to wash the blood off and get changed. She had some extra clothes in her locker and once she finished, was heading towards the main lab and went to work with gathering the vital necessities.
She had everything backup on the portable hard drive and grabbing a copy of the original formula and making sure it was secure so it wouldn't break from its' container. She had them placed inside the aluminum briefcase to ensure nothing got knocked loose and were safely tucked inside once they left this place.
She tried not to look at the prone bodies on the floor, or looking to the large freezer where she had locked the unconscious Matt and left him in there when she went to find Linda...
She had left the apartment in a mad rush, not caring if anyone gave her any grief but thankfully no one seem to have take any notice as she got in. She had reach the ground floor and was walking in to see what has been happening within the last twenty-four hour.
Going through the empty lab and only seem like a stroke of luck she bump into Matt who had been heading down her way to get back to the others. He gave her the brief summary of what's been going on and telling Joey to stay close while he was looking around to see if Sebastian was nearby.
Joey saw him setting the tranqs to the side while looking onto the screen where they saw it map out the entire floor and could see where everyone was persay.
She had found it gave her the perfect opportunity with his back turn and though a part of her wish she didn't but jamming two of the darts right between the shoulders before he turn and saw the look of disbelief on his face.
"Joey wha…" She knew he was trying to get the gun but she was much quicker and using it to take one final shot and hitting him square in the chest before he fell to the floor unconscious. "Sorry Matt it's nothing personal but I just can't let you go through with this." Three doses of that stuff should keep him down for hours but didn't want him to coming around anytime soon.
She couldn't take the risk of him going after Sebastian or even helping Linda after what she found out. She was given no other choice but to put him inside the storage freezer and sealing it shut once he was in...
She doubt he even knew what happen and knowing his body had been there for almost half an hour and probably be too late to revive him. Matt had been a good friend, a pseudo brother she had look up to within the last few months and thought his death would hang heavily onto her until her dying day.
She should feel some remorse by what she done but after everything she just couldn't, not right this second. She was sorry that he had gotten dragged into this even though he should have realized what a two-faced bitch Linda really was.
If only things weren't so messed up, then maybe Matt wouldn't wind up like this… A part of her wondered if he had known what she plan to do and went along with it or maybe it was just only Linda who was the one to come up with it. But the fact those two had been together while Linda had been dating Sebastian still, it still was wrong and thought Matt would never but then again maybe she didn't know him as well as she thought.
She'll never get her answers and didn't think it very much matter anyway as the bitch was dead, serves her right no less, and they were going to leave this place and see it burn all the way to kingdom come. Sebastian said he would take care of that and told her to meet him right by the elevator once she finished here.
She took one final glance around the room before walking out and found him right there waiting for her to show. He had his latex mask on and took notice he drew some eyebrows for himself. He also had on a pair of sunglasses and a wig to go with the ensemble and seeing he could almost pass as a human if no one look too closely at him. It would have to do for now but hopefully until they can fix this and swore she would do so for him. Call her mad, insane or a fool as she let herself fall down this path but at least she wouldn't be alone as Sebastian would be beside her all the way who would be there for her no matter what.
"C'mon let's go." She slipped her hand in his as they got into the elevator together and made their way out of the building, side by side, feeling the rubbery glove pressing against her warm palm and finding it comforting that he was there with her.
Sebastian had them pulled out of the parking garage and as they were a few blocks out, heard the loud explosion and feeling the impact that took the whole building down with it. Joey didn't have to turn around to look behind but from the rearview mirror seeing the tumbling compound consume by the flames as they made much distance between them.
Many thoughts were going through her head then: the months of research and the people she came to meet, those she was going to miss while others she hoped would burn for all eternity. She turn her head slightly and saw Sebastian had his eyes on the road but guessing he also felt tired after everything and knew it took a lot out of the both of them.
After everything that's happen, we'll probably have to be extra careful and wait until things die down. She figured there would be some sort of investigation going the moment the higher officials learns about this and everyone trying to figure out what had trigger it and what might be salvageable in the process. She thought of what they might do to Sebastian if they learn what he became and that they'd probably relocate him to some other remote lab somewhere else and keep him locked up until the day he died or live to his usefulness and be disposed of.
Though it would be difficult to figure with all the bodies they were bound to find down there, that is if they weren't completely incinerated by the fire. She figured that they would have to plan the next move with great care and soon. She felt Sebastian reach out and place his hand over hers and give it a gentle but reassuring squeeze. She turn to look in his direction, watching him as he took his eyes temporarily off the road and saw the look he gave her.
He knew what she must've been thinking and obviously he had something in mind but for now they wouldn't let it ruin the small opening they manage now and could wait until later. For now, they were free and Joey lean her head against his shoulder while looking out to the open road and seeing the future was open for just the two of them. Her and her hollow man.
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