Toxic

Chapter 9

Six weeks to take down Richard. And now three weeks flat in little Lucy. I was getting good, but not good enough. Entire medical books aren't written about viruses that kill you weeks after infection. Unless you're HIV and you want turn the entire Immunity force against their body and take over. But I'm a solo act. I don't need a million and one white blood cells to do my dirty work for me.

"Thrax?"

I only have one.

Tilting my head to the side, I let Kat know that I was listening. She was fiddling with the radio in the car, a few words breaking through the static. Eventually, she got a good enough signal and turned up the volume.

"Welcome back to Lucy At Night. I'm you're host A. T. Phineas and we have Hank Nucleus and Sarah Sartorius in the studio with us to give their professional opinions on the dramatic rise in crime in Lucy."

"This is all the mother's fault! If she hadn't made Lucy get that flu shot, the streets wouldn't be filled with Influenza virus and the body temperature wouldn't be on the rise like this!" a male voice shouted angrily. I glanced at the dashboard. 101 degrees. Glancing out the window, I could see smoke starting to rise from some of the skyscrapers in the distance. I couldn't keep the grin off my face.

"How can you blame her!? It's all Immunity's fault! The department isn't prepared to handle this kind of infection!" a female voice responded.

"I've also heard that Cerebellum Hall was attacked in addition to the hostage situation in the lungs and... Oh! I'm getting word from my producers that news just broke that Lucy's mother is taking her to the hospital."

"Let's hope for all our sakes that she isn't too late," the female voice said in a somber tone. I chuckled lowly as Kat turned off the radio.

"This is perfect. Head for the mouth. We'll wait there and once we get to the hospital we can make our escape in a cough," Kat said and pointed out the exit that was headed towards the mouth.

"You seem to be forgetting that hospitals have antiseptic," I drawled.

She chuckled before patting my arm. "Hospitals are full of people, Hun. You promised me that we wouldn't be animal more animals as a part of the getaway plans," Kat pointed out.

"Yeah yeah," I drawled. When I saw her cross her arms and pout at me, I chuckled. "Relax, baby. Don't you trust me?"

"About as much as you trust me," she answered. I looked away from her with a frown on my face.

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Once Lucy was in the hospital, she was pushing 104 degrees and sweating worse than a sinner in church. Kat and I didn't have to wait long before she was taken inside on a gurney with doctors and nurses crowding around her. We sat on the hood of the car, Kat examined her manicure while I fingered the chain in my pocket. After a few seconds, I took it out to examine it.

A repair cell, huh? Did she take it from his body before or after putting the cat to rest, I wonder? After turning the chain over in my hand, I noticed a blue glimmer on it as it pulsed. Squeezing at the chain, I watched as a familiar DNA bead bulged out towards me. My yellow eyes widened as my hand shot down to my pocket.

I hummed quietly as I moved the chain. Two DNA beads moved within the chain. Obviously, Kat had mistaken the chain the purpose of the chain. I glanced at her from the corner of my eyes. She was still looking at her chipped nails with a frown. I'm not surprised. She must have just thought that it looked nice. With these beads- proof of my first two, real kills- it was downright beautiful.