Changing Tides [JohnProudstar]

07

"All right, listen up." John walks into the tech room, where a bunch of the other immediate members and I are. "Been talking with the other stations. Sentinel services is ramping up surveillance across the board. So it looks like things are gonna get worse before they get better."

"Well, how much worse?" Lorna asks. "With all these new refugees coming in, we're running out of food, blankets, everything."

"I heard Marietta might have some supplies. I can head up there this afternoon." Marcos offers.

"All right." John nods. "How's it coming with the hard drives from Baton Rouge?"

"We're working on cracking them." Sage answers.

"Well, the bad news is they're encrypted. But the good news is it probably means that there's something worth hiding."

"Okay, if we don't figure out how they're turning mutants against us, none of this is going to matter." John says. "And one more thing. Tate and I are going to go track down Clarice."

"Both of you? Now?" Sonya quickly questions. "You really think that's a good idea."

"She knows where this place is. If sentinel Services catches her right now, it's gonna be a disaster" I say, pushing myself off from the wall.

"All right." John looks to everyone. "We got a lot of work to do. Let's get to it."

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"So, on a scale of 1-10 how successful do you think we'll be in persuading her to come back?" I ask, as John and I walk toward the abandoned building where he tracked Clarice to.

"Well, I'm sure if you apologize good enough then she'll come back with no problem." He grins.

"Yeah, we'll see about that." I attempt to pull the metal door open but it doesn't budge. I pull harder, but I can't get the stupid thing to open.

"I turn to see John watching me with an amused look on his face. "Just let me know when you're done."

I roll my eyes, and step to the side. "Just shut up and do your thing." He pulls on the door, and It opens loudly. Surely letting Clarice know we're here. "Show off." I walk inside, and into the room on the left just in enough time to see Clarice about to open a portal. "Clarice, wait!"

She drops her hands to her sides with a sigh. "What are you two doing here?"

"Well, I'm not here for the soup." I look down at her spilled can of food.

"You're tough to track, you know that? You didn't leave much of a trail." John says.

"Yeah? That was intentional." She says beginning to pack up her stuff.