Blue Nights At The Starlight

2: The Meeting

 Emma wakes up in a different room, it's cleaner, it's not covered in blood like the room she last remembered. "Ah, Kelly, you're awake," a voice says to Emma. Emma turns her head, and sees that it's Colonel Schaffer. Emma is first confused about the "Kelly" person, but then it all comes flooding back to her. Paul singing, but not being infected, her new name, the dark hospital room, and then, nothing.

"Wait, where is Paul?" Emma says, petrified. "He is here, but he is restrained right now, he is partially infected, and we can't take any risks." The colonel says heavily. "But on the bright side, P.E.I.P. Is working on a cure as we speak!" The Colonel continues. "May I see him?" Emma says with a sigh. "Yes, but it will have to be through glass, and we can't have you walking with your leg," the colonel comes back with a wheelchair and helps Emma sit down. The ride to the isolation room feels like eighty five years, but they eventually unlock the door and go into the room. But just then, colonel Schaffer's walkie talkie goes off,

"Colonel, we have a cure, but we need your authorization to give it to Mr. Bridges." Take my word, give it to him as soon as possible." The Colonel responded quickly. The blinds to the observation window opens, and Paul and Emma make eye contact. Soon after, a doctor comes in the back with a syringe. Emma gets a chill down her back, trying to push away the thoughts of her professor.

The doctor sits down with Paul, and Emma can hear them talking about the vaccine, and Paul gives the ok to the doctor to administer it. Almost as soon as the doctor finishes pushing the plunger down, Paul starts twitching in discomfort in his chair, and soon a feverish chill takes over his body. Emma screams for him, but since Paul isn't singing, or fighting against receiving the vaccine she gets the all clear to go in the same room as Paul. She is soon rolled into Paul's room by Colonel Schaffer, and she hops out of it, and crawls to where Paul is sitting, and tries talking to him.

Though it takes about a minute for the effects of the cure to subside, they eventually do, and the doctor comes back in to take some blood, and as it turns out, the cure fully works! The spore count in Paul's blood was down to zero, and Emma climbs back into the wheelchair and the doctors leave them alone.

"Oh shit, that hurt," Paul said, sitting up straighter in his chair. "Yeah, it did, but you know what? It's over now, everything will be okay," Emma responded, reaching out and grabbing Paul's hand. The doctor came in, and rolled in a bed for Paul, and said it was time for Emma to leave. She waves at Paul, and Emma is rolled out of Paul's room.

Emma lifts herself onto her bed, and Colonel Schaffer explains what her new life will be like. Well, what's left to be explained after the whole, Paul being infected thing. She explains that Emma and Paul will be living together on Emma's plot of land in Colorado. She also asks Emma who her top priorities to use the cure on are and she only says professor Hidgens, but Emma doesn't even know where he is. The Colonel nods and leaves the room.

Emma is left alone in her little room, so she thinks about her new life. What to do in colorado? Can I tell people about Hatchetfield? What sports team do I have to cheer for now? You know, all the important things. She's interrupted by a knock coming from the door and it bursts open. "Holy shit dude! I know I'm amazing, but eager much?" she laughs at the sight of Paul bent in half catching his breath. "Sorry. This is important." Paul breathed, springing back up. "Okay, so. We, are out of this fucking town, for real this time," he finished.

"You dork, I know!" Emma quipped, just then, Colonel Schaffer walks in and sits down next to Emma's bed. "Kelly, Ben, as you might've heard, you are moving in together. But there is a strict set of rules you must follow. Firstly, you can not talk about Hatchetfield to anyone, and when we say that, we mean anyone, understand?"

Paul and Emma both nod.

"Second," the colonel continues, "you have to use your new names, we can't have anyone make any connections to you two, and the two that perished, in the Hatchetfield catastrophe." The colonel gives the two the last bit of instructions, and hands them each a folder. Inside it has, what is essentially a new identity for the both of them. "Also," the Colonel starts, "we've tested the cure on one other person, you may have run into him once or twice I presume?" She continues with a fake questioning look.

"Wait, no, was it John?" Paul whispers to colonel Schaffer. "Yes, but it was successful, and if you want to say hello, he would be more than happy," the colonel says, and walks out of the room. Moments later, Colonel Schaffer walks back in with a man in his early fifties. Emma soon recognizes him as the dude who was trying to murder them the other day.

Emma tries pushing herself back onto her bed, trying to inch herself away from the stranger, but Paul convinces her it's fine. "Hey, I'm not going to hurt ya," the man in the doorway says with his hands in the air. "Emma, this is the general that brought me to his base after Bill died. General MacNamara, this is Em–Kelly, and Kelly, this is General MacNamara." "Pleasure to meet ya Kel-Emma. Can I just call you guys by your original names? ," General MacNamara says with his hand out. Emma shakes it as both her and Paul nod

"Well, that's enough introductions, we have to get to work," general MacNamara pipes up. "I'm very sorry for this, but the hive knows you're both going to Colorado, but on the bright side, that's where we can cure the most people!" MacNamara continued.

"Alright," Emma started, "Let's go cure some aliens!"