Against My Will 7 (Chapter)

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The pad beeped under his fingers, the agent punching the last digit out of six into the locking system. His keycard came free from a pouch as the red light switched to yellow and he swiped it through the available port.

The air was silent, a total of six extra bodies right behind him quiet in their breathing.

‘ROLLINS, JACK - LEVEL VI.’

The pad intoned his name and clearance, that little yellow light switching to a bright and steady green with one final beep.

“Clear!” Jack Rollins barked the word, locks thumping inside the wall in a quick four-beat. Glass walls pulled apart, the hydraulic sigh enough to blow air in each of their faces. “Alright.” He waved them all through with two quick motions. “We’ve got a time crunch.”

Nobody disagreed.

Three armed operatives in all-black and three medical staff in solid blue kept a solid pace behind him, remaining layered glass reflecting warped forms as Rollins led the way through to the small cell.

A single gurney was left outside, IV waiting and ready.

“Director wants him moved before twenty-one thirty.” Rollins’ boots squeaked against a polished white floor. “Science chief’s busy turning Manhattan into fucking Beirut, so his sign-off’s a no-go.”

“We’re going offsite?” One of the medics looked up at Rollins, mask covering his mouth and nose the same color as his scrubs. “Offsite where?”

“Need-to-know.”

“I’m putting drugs in him.”

“And all you need to know-” A single pointing jab directed the medic to what he should have been focused on, Rollins’ face as hard as his words. “- is where his vein is.”

Subject Jade’s holding room sat at the end of another long corridor under harsh blue light, the small enclosure secured behind another wall of glass.

“Hate this fucking glass, sir.”

Rollins nodded without even thinking, his feelings much the same as his soldier. Everybody upstairs loved the shit; let the white-coats watch without getting close, let cameras see every angle…

“It’s convenient, though,” was all he bothered with as an answer back.

“Makes the whole thing feel like a zoo, though.”

Another nod betrayed him. “Expensive ass zoo.”

Chuckles from his men lasted as long as it took for them to reach the second set of doors and for all gathered to slow to a stop. Subject Jade lay there, curled up on a cot — knees almost up to his chest as he shuddered under temperature control that was damn near perfect.

“Jesus…”

“Stow that, soldier.” Rollins snapped out the command. This was not the time or place for anything that could be read up the ladder as sympathy, not for some off-earth thing that presented as human.

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