Fibre Mortem: Rhesus Factor

19

Nothing happened that night when he came back to the room.

It's been three days and I'm getting cranky. Why am I getting cranky over this so suddenly?

Probably because I actually want to now and I'm growing restless. If I didn't know any better I'd think Reese was avoiding me.

He stayed busy almost all the time, we hadn't trained in that time either and I knew that Lou was missing it too.

I hunkered down, regardless of Reese's sudden dismissal of us, and taught Louise even more and she was so bright.

It was like having a sister, I mean, I didn't really know since I never had one but if this is what it felt like, I'd missed out.

It was during one of Lou's science lessons in the lab when I stumbled across it. This would change everything.

I'd been reading the encrypted files Dean gave me. In one of them they laid out a hypothetical vaccine--it wasn't a cure--but it was a damn start.

"Holy fucking shit!" I shouted not realizing where I was, I blushed when I looked around and saw everyone staring at me.

I caught Nate's eye and he was smiling. He knew I was on to something. I couldn't tell him. Not yet anyway, because he was already infected I worried that it wouldn't work for him. It was a vaccine afterall. That broke my heart a bit, if I couldn't save Nate... I shrugged the thought off. I couldn't have those thoughts not right now anyway.

I cleared Lou to go back to her room, that she had a free day for the rest of the evening. She seemed soured by the news and I knew that it probably hurt her since she looked forward to our lessons but I couldn't tell her either. I trusted her but if she were ever pitted against my dad, she wouldn't stand a chance. She wasn't strong enough yet.

Mary kept trying to look but I wouldn't let her, and after three tries of evading her nosey body, I dismissed myself and left as well--with the flash drive.

Mary had been acting a little weird lately, she wasn't the small, portly redhead I used to know and I'd wondered if my father had gotten into her head as well.

Maybe Nate had gotten into her head, or somewhere else. I shook my head on that one, he flirted with Mary sure, but I think it was just him being polite. She was old enough to be our mother. Don't get wrong, she was beautiful, but Nate never seemed like a guy who trailed after cougars. No, something else was going on there and I'd find out soon enough.

I talked Dean into rigging me up a computer I could have in Reese's room. It was a little janky, but it did the job.

I looked around one more time before I locked the door and got on the computer. The loud hum of the motherboard groaning as I popped the drive into its designated spot.

I brought up the same file and began reading more thoroughly. In the file, it mentioned how different blood types were affected. Negative blood types seemed to have the least amount of impact by the virus while positive blood types got hit the hardest, A positive turning the fastest.

Of course, all of this information had been given to use during the early testing of the virus--which the decomposed primates we'd seen in the lab being the most probable way they got those answers, answered my question on whether animals could contract it.

Maybe it was just certain animals, closely related to humans because I hadn't heard about any other animals that looked creepy as shit terrorizing the outside populace.

The file further went on by revealing the nature of why the damned virus existed in the first place. One word: Bioweapon.

"Great," I said allowed thinking that this had my father written all over it. That was his area of expertise after all.