24 Hours

Chapter 5.

The pain soared through her head as she opens her eyes. Selina shoots up as she remembers the last thing that happened to her.

"Did I bite you?"

In sheer panic, Selina starts to shimmy backwards until she hits the wall.

"Don't worry, please!"

Selina shouts, "You fucking jumped me and your first words as I come around is did I bite you?! And you say don't worry! Do you care to explain?"

"I've got some disease...urmm...I have the urge to hurt people, I have got this insatiable urge like I'm on drugs, this need, this want..."

"What the hell are you trying to tell me," says Selina nervously. 

She begins to look around to explore her options and spots another exit, however, it looks like he has barricaded the door. She quickly gazes over at the attacker and sees him slumped over, he has lost all the colour in his face, he needs medical assistance.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Selina stands up quickly, as he hasn't responded.

"Hey, are you okay?" Nothing, Selina approaches quickly and grabs him, pushes him upright and notices his eyes are cloudy, you can't see his hazel eyes through the clouds, the stench emanating from him is overwhelming, she covers her nose as the urge to vomit is rising.

In a compassionate tone, Selina asks again,

"Hey, are you okay?"

He shoots his head up and glares at her!

Selina jumps backwards frightened.

As he slowly rises, Selina spots his name tag, it reads John, and underneath his name, it says line supervisor, John begins to step forward and he looks devoid of life.

Selina continues backwards until she bumps into the filing cabinet, the coffee cup upon the top shatters as it hits the floor, which momentarily distracts John. Selina reaches for her baton, but it's gone.

She scoured the room to see the baton poking out from under the desk, John is advancing quickly and lunges forward at Selina when suddenly...

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