Castle | b. blake | 2

15.

"Who we are and who we need to be to survive are two very different things."

-Bellamy Blake

15.

I huff in frustration as I scan the key card again and the red light pops up on the scanner signifying that I can't get in. Somethings wrong. This is Lovejoys card, he was a guard, it should be allowing me access to anywhere.

"Bellamy, come in." Ravens voice sounds through my ear piece as I look around for another door to try.

"Yeah, I'm a little busy here, Raven." I tell her as I walk away from the door I just tried.

"You missed check-in. Did you find the source of the acid fog yet?" I walk faster not having a good feeling about this.

"Making my way there now. It's taking longer than I thought." I sigh.

"I dont know enough to crack it on this end. You gotta give me something."

"I'm working on it." I walk up to a door and try my card, red light, no entry.

"Somethings wrong. My key card isn't working."

"That's not good." No shit, Raven.

"I need to find another way in. I'll call you back." As I finish talking to hear I hear a door open behind me. Shit. I turn my head to see two guards pointing their guns at me.

"Stay right there. Hands in the air." One of them yells. I take a deep breath, wait, and then take off running up the stairs to the left of me as they continue to yell and chase me down. While I'm running an alarm starts beeping. I pump my legs to go faster and suddenly I stop and hide behind a corner. I hear someone coming and as he comes into sight I push the hand with the gun down and elbow him in the face making him stumble back as I punch him two more times before he knocks out. I check his pockets and find his keycard. I grab it and run to the door by me and swipe it. Green light. I quietly walk the halls until I reach Vincent, the man who has been helping me and everyone else. I knock on the door and after a second he opens it.

"Vincent, I need your help." I whisper and he lets me in and shuts the door.

"It's all over the radio. They know about you. Anyone see you come here?" He questions me.

I shake my head, "No, I've been keeping in the vents and unmonitored halls like you said."

He goes to speak before another voice behind me does, "Vincent." I turn around and quickly raise my gun up. The man is in a guard uniform.

"It's okay. Lee's with us." Vincent says. I eye the man suspiciously not lowering my gun. It's getting hard to trust anyone in here, especially people with guards uniforms since they all want me dead.

"Some of us dont agree with Cage's agenda." Lee says with this hand still raised.

I take a look around, "where's Jasper, Monty, and Maya?"

"They're okay. Thanks to Lee we moved them to a wing thats already been searched." Vincent tells me.

I start to lower my gun, "Isn't that a risk?"

"We had no choice. They've gone public with what happened on level 5. They're saying you killed 10 soldiers." Vincent explains as I sigh.

"I dont know how much longer we can keep this shell game going. Did you take out the acid fog yet?" Vincent asks as I shove my gun in the side of my pants.