Level 1

[Kex]

See you

<--- Podarge

*next morning*
*a blast slams the door shut*
*awakes with a start*
*looks dizzily around*
*notices the sleeping girl next to her*
*wants to carry her into the bed but doesn't dare to touch her*
*then realizes that she doesn't feel any pain anymore*
*overwhelmed by emotion, just hugs the girl* She did this for me - even after I treated her so badly!
*eventually leans back, still holding the sleeping girl* Hell, I don't even like children! I can't stand them! How can this one be such an exception?! *shakes head*
*gets up*
*cautiously drags the girl into the chamber, lifts her onto the sofa and covers her with a fresh sheet*
*looks around* Blood stains. Damnit. *removes all the bloody things, gets some cleansing stuff and cleans the room*
*then makes some breakfast and eats*
*carries some food, juices and a vase with flowers into the chamber and puts it all onto the table*
*bends down to the girl and strokes her hair* Sleep well.

*hears knocking*
*walks out of the room, leaving the door ajar, and opens the front door* Oh, good morning Doctor! *smiles* You're my first guest, please come in and take a seat. What would you like to drink?

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*hours later, late evening*

*at the door* Good bye, Miss Cunningham! I hope to see you soon again! *smiles*
*closes the door and walks back into the kitchen*
*takes deep breath* What a day! *smiles to self* And I think it was a successful day! *hums*
*walks into the chamber* Good - *pauses and looks around*
*spots the girl cowering in the hindmost corner of the room* Hey, what's wrong? *walks over to her*

<--- Twilight

*shakes, can hardly take her eyes from the hook in the ceiling* D- don't tie me - please!

<--- Podarge

*blushes, embarrassed* I'm sorry! I made a mistake, I won't do it again! *hugs the girl, thinking* Damnit, I can't really handle this, I need help! But whom could I ask? Only Hazel knows about her - but - I can't tell Hazel what I did! What would she think of me? How would she look at me? She'd regret that she ever liked me! *cries silently*

<--- Man

*sneaks into the room*
*his face shows signs of a fight - bruises, one eye is black, nose broken*

<--- Podarge

*hears some noise behind her*
*quickly gets up and turns towards the noise* You!

<--- Man

*stabs Podarge, pulls his knife out of her chest and watches her collapsing*
*then notices the girl*
*can't let her be witness of what he did so jumps over to her and grabs her*
*gets surprised by the bright silver light covering both*
*hears the girl's scream, and as the light vanishes, he sees his wounds covering her*
*shocked*
*touches his face and finds everything okay*
*grins devilishly*
*grabs the unconscious girl and drags her out*
*doesn't notice the short flash of bright light as her feet shortly touch Podarge, as he's too excited from his discovery*
*drags the girl out of the house and throws her into his car boot*
*locks it, enters the car and drives away*

<--- Podarge

*coughs*
*awakes*

<--- Man

*somewhere in the city, in a dirty backyard* Listen, this will make us rich! You do the show, and I provide the - "technology" to do what you promise! Fifty-fifty! It works, believe me!

<--- Small man

Do you really think I trust you just because you say it? Show me your so-called "technology"! How does it work?

<--- Man

*laughs* No, I won't show you anything! But I can demonstrate how it works! *opens his car boot*
*gets his knife out and quickly cuts the small mans hand*

<--- Small man

Hey, are you crazy?! *attempts to box the man but he's not strong enough*

<--- Man

*laughs* Of course I am! *grabs the small man's hand and leads it under a thick blanket covering the tied, gagged and knocked out girl*
*pretends to push some buttons under the blanket to make the small man believe it won't work without a special code*
*waits for the bright light to vanish, then removes the small man's hand* Now look!

<--- Small man

*stares at his hand*
*stares at the blanket wondering what kind of object that could be*
*greed shows in his eyes* Okay, we'll do it! *mumbles lots of things to consider* We need a doctor, or better, one of those miracle healers. *grins* I always wanted to be a miracle healer!

<--- Man

That's why I chose you. You are a show talent, you can do the show! We'll put this - *points at the blanket* - into a box on your stage, right behind the curtain. People who want to get healed will get blindfolded before they are allowed to go behind the curtain. And when they return, they'll be healed! *grins widely* This will bring us MONEY! People will pay hundreds of dollars to be part of the show!

<--- Small man

Right, let's go. Some preparations, then the first show can start this evening.

<--- Man

Right. It must be dark behind your stage, and when you choose someone from the audience to get healed, I want you to make them cheering and stuff, I don't want to hear anything else but their cheering, is that clear?

<--- Small man

*nods* Yes, I think I can manage that. Some of that religous crap will make them euphoric enough to be as loud as you want.

<--- Podarge

*slowly gets up*
*notices the girl is missing, and some blood stains on the way out* Damn! You will pay for this, you bastard!
*stumbles towards the phone and picks it up*
*attempts to dial until she recognizes that the phone is dead* DAMN! *throws it through the room*
*picks up her mobile* Please, Hazel, call me, CALL me!
*runs into the bathroom, washes herself and dyes her hair blonde*
*quickly dries it, changes clothes, gets an old hat out and covers her head with it*
*puts the mobile into her pocket and leaves the house in order to search for the girl*

[Nicky]

I'll be back properly tomorrow

<---------Hazel

*wakes up*
*looks at the mirror for a long time*
*finally gets up and goes to her work station*
*doesn't know what she sould type*
<Either I work or I get fired. It's a simple choice>
*a light blinks on in the corner*
*turns towards it and tries to figure out why this light is on*
*hears a knock on the door*
*sighs and stands up to leave the station*
*stops as she hears the door opening*
*listsnes to two voices*
<What's Clarke doing here?>
*concentrates on the other voice*
<It sounds familiar. Who is it?>
*the voices start arguing loudly about money and investigations*
*opens the door slightly and peeks out*
*sees Clarke talking to some black haired woman*
<Who is she?>
*the woman sighs and walks into the kitchen*
*decides to leave her station and find out whats going on*
*Clarke stares at her wide eyed and runs out of her house*
<What was that all about?>
*curiously walks into the kitchen*
<Where did she go?>
*looks around but doesn't see anyone*
*slightly scared goes back to her station and sees the light is off*
*reads the label above the light to be sure*
Home intruder warning system
<It's the right light but how did she get in. And why?>
*shivers and gets back to work*

<--------Sarah

*sighs and stares up at the roof of her cell*
*checks her watch again*

[Kex]

I hope so I'm running out of ideas ...
See you

edit: Well, this day is over for me now ...
If you read this: Good night and sleep well

<--- Podarge

*somewhere in the city, looking and listening around* A new miracle healer? That sounds like I should check it! *keeps listening and eventually finds out where the event is about to take place*

*walks to an old theatre where many people are already entering* Damn! I can't buy a ticket! *quickly gets over to a group of 6 chit-chatting women and pretends to be one of them*
*as the cashier asks for the money for 7 people, the other women explain that they never met Podarge before*
*blushes* No, I wasn't - I mean, I thought I saw an old friend, you know, from childhood, but it just turned out I was wrong! *smiles* Sorry for the inconvenience! Have a nice evening! *walks over to the other side of the street*
*sighs, swearing to herself* Okay, that was - a failure. A lost battle, but the war still goes on!

*looks around*
*sneaks into a side street and finds the backdoor of the theatre* Damn, a bouncer! *thinks a while* I better try to "convince" him with my female attributes first. Maybe that's already enough. Let's just hope he's not gay! *opens her jacket and blouse a bit and approaches to the door guard*

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*awakes in a waste container*
*coughs* Damn! He WAS gay! And rude! *climbs out*
*checks herself* That rib will need a while to mend. Damn. *checks her pockets* The mobile! Where is it?! *hastily searches around*
*jumps back into the container and searches*
*eventually picks her mobile out and cleans it*
*checks it* It's still working! *takes deep breath and immediately regrets it*
*gags and quickly climbs out*
*gets as far away from the waste as possible, coughing*
*checks the mobile again* Hazel didn't call. Damn! *looks around* I HAVE to get in somehow!

[Nicky]

Sorry its the end of the year rush of coursework finishing now so for the next week or so i wont be around too much but I'll try my best and also my computer hasn't quite recovered from the crash so everythings going really slow now

<---------Hazel

*finally finishes working and leaves to do some more work with the mirror*
*looks into the mirror for a while and feels the familiar dizzyness*
*nothing out of the ordinary appears to happen*
*sighs*
*turns the mirror over and examines the back*
<Nothing>
*sighs again and turns around as she hears a something*
<Nothing? I definately heard something. That woman?>
*shakily gets up and searches everywhere*
<Nothing. Am I going crazy?>
*looks at the letter and starts reading it again*
*thinks about the curse for a while*
<I'll have to pay a bit more attention. If this curse is real I should see definite examples, and then have some idea of wh.....DAMN! How the hell does a curse affect my thoughts too.>
*looks at the mirror again*
*rubs her eyes and tries to think of something else*
*the first things that comes to mind is the noise she heard a minute ago*
*imagines the space behind her and tries to picture everything as it normally is there*
*turns to look*
<So nothings moved>
*looks at everything and tries to determine what could make a noise*
*sighs again and turns back to the table*
*sees something different in the mirror*
<There it is again>
*touches the un-reflection and feels a pull*
*falls into the mirror and instinctively reaches out to hold onto something*
*both her and the mirror vanish*

<--------Sarah

*lies in her cell*

<--------Hazel

*reappears holding the mirror*
<Oh my god!>
*walks over to the place where the noise came from*
<But that means...>
*thinks and starts smiling*
*thinks about the look on clarkes face earlier on and starts giggling*
<Why am I finding everything so funny. It must be a side-effect from using the mirror>
*continues giggling for a while*
*finally stops and makes a decision*
<Well I should definately do it now in case I forget to do it. I don't even want to think about what would happen if I forgot>
*shudders*
<What am I supposed to say though?>
*thinks a while and finally decides that fate can let her choose the right things*
*giggles again and looks down at the mirror*
*gently touhes the new un-reflection and feels the pull*
*holds onto the mirror tightly with her other hand and both vanish again*

<----------Sarah

*watching her watch and smiling*
<How long until I can go?>
*thinks for a while*
*the door unlocks and a guard wih a gun opens the door cautiously*
*she looks up at the slowly opening door*
Don't worry I'm not one of those crazy people who tries to attack the guards. I know there's no escape.
*smiles*
*the guard grumbles something about a phone call*
*she gets up and walks ahead of the guard to a white room containg only a bolted down table with a built in phone*
<Who shall I phone?>
*looks at her watch again*
<It seems that everything does work out nicely> *giggles*
*picks up the reciever and dial a mobile number she has memorized*
*a dull robotic voice answers*
The number you have dialled may not have a signal. Please leave a message after the tone *beep*
*puts on a happy voice*
Hi Podarge. It's Hazel, sorry I haven't phoned, I've had lots of work to do and I'm doing it as quickly as possible. I hope everything's going ok with you and the girl. I'll try to come over soon. Oh and they have caught the person who shot me *giggles* he was just hunting and was too far away to realise that we weren't foxes. And can you do me a favour, dial 03456234 and when it asks you to leave a message say "X,P,Y,J" and don't worry it's a free number. I'll see you soon. Bye.
*hangs up the phone*
*sighs as she gets led back to the cell*
*looks over at the exit as she passes and sees somebody ducking out of sight*
*giggles*
*safely back in her cell imagines the person behind the door running through the complex to a room and dialling the number she just called*
*speaks like the robotic voice*
The number you have dialled may not have a signal and the voice message box is currently full. Please try again later
*starts giggling wildly*

<-------Hazel

*reappears with the mirror and starts laughing*
<This mirror is so fun>
*sits down and thinks of all the things she could do with it*
*eventually falls asleep from exhaustion*

[Kex]

<--- Podarge

*feels her mobile vibrating* Hazel?! *quickly grabs the phone buts drops it and accidentally kicks it under the container*
*hastily crouches under it and grabs it but as she holds it in her hands, the vibrating stops* Damn! *tears of frustration appear*

*stares at the phone* Guess I have to do it all alone. And if I'm on the wrong track, the girl will probably die, and I have no chance to contact Hazel again. *opens and closes her fingers, can't yet decide to do it*
*then opens the back of the mobile, takes her card out and closes it*
*cleans it as good as she can*
*gets up and walks to a small shop around the corner*

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*leaves the shop without the mobile*
*walks over to the theatre, buys a ticket and enters*

[Nicky]

I'll come back every couple of hours or so to post and have a rest from the coursework It'll take me about 20 minutes to make the post lol so it'll only be one each time but it's better than no posts at all

<--------Hazel

*wakes up suddenly*
*had a strange dream*
<The ad......it was just a dream, don't think about it too much ...DAMN! I hate this curse!!!>
*decides to go out for a while today*
<I'll go see Podarge and the girl>
*walks over to the phone and searches for the number*
*finds it and reads it several times to remember it fully*
*dials*
*a robotic voice answers*
The number you *crackle* d..*crackle* ..a... *crackle* the *crackle* please try again later
*sighs and tries again*
*hears the exact same message again*
<Thats weird. The sound broke up in the same places again.>
*stares at the phone for a long time and then decides to leave anyway*
*leaves her room and looks towards the entrance*
<No. Go the other way>
*turns and walks deeper into the complex*

[Kex]

I wish you good luck with your coursework - and I hope that nothing else goes wrong

<--- Podarge

*sits somewhere in the audience, waiting impatiently for things to happen*
*doesn't really listen to the noise around her*
*watches the small man in some strange black robe on the stage, calling a woman from the audience up*

<--- Man

*behind the curtain*
*opens a box that's standing on a table, and the girl appears, hands tied on her back, legs folded so her chin rests on her knees, everything tied with her own long hair, her mouth gagged*
*checks the ties and waits for the first person to come up*

<--- Twilight

*shakes*
*doesn't know what's going to happen*

<--- Podarge

*watches the woman on the stage who's shows the machine that's hanging on her chest, right above the heart, to the audience*
*hears the audience around her, sceptically murmuring and mumbling as the woman gets blindfolded*
*the small pushes the woman gently behind the curtain*
*some people around start a bet if the woman is really going to be healed as everyone knows her being suffering from her heart problem for years already*
*meanwhile, the small man on the stage starts to intone a well-known song, and the audience starts to sing along, channeling their excitement to their voices*
*just as the tension reaches its climax, the woman returns, the machine in her hands*
*a doctor jumps up and grabs her, checking her quickly, obviously worried and quite shocked*
*then turns to the small man, his mouth wide open*

<--- Doctor

How - how did you do that?!

<--- Small man

*the whole audience is absolutely silent for a moment, as the small man just smiles and lifts his arms* A miracle of god - channeled into the hands of an angel who wants to stay anonymous! Believe me, son, it is a miracle! *turns to the audience* Let's pray! *intones another song while leading the overhappy woman and her doctor to a couple of chairs near the stage*
*several women with blue robes and small wooden baskets go through the audience and collect money*

<--- Podarge

Damn! Let's hope this is a fake! Please let it be just a fake! *squeezes through the rows to get closer to the stage, as a man gets called up onto the stage, his right arm bandaged*
*people start whispering about the car accident this man had several days ago*

<--- Man

*lightly slaps the girl's face* Hey! Stay awake! *grins* I want you to experience the whole show! You can have a 23-hour rest after that before the next show starts! *chuckles as he watches the girl's reaction*
*steps to the gap in the curtain and waits for the next person to come in*
*grabs the blindfolded man, drags him in and leads him to the box*

<--- Podarge

*shocked as she recognizes the face behind the curtain* Carl! It's him! I was right! *sneaks through the people towards a side exit in order to get backstage while the singing audience already reaches the next climax*

<--- Twilight

*screams underneath her gag*

<--- Sick man

*heard something despite the infernal noise* Wh- what was that?

<--- Carl

*tries to talk loud enough to be heard by the guy* That, brother, was the joy of everyone around who wants to see you healthy! Now go! *pushes the guy out onto the stage*

<--- Podarge

*finds a door and sneaks through*
*finds some old gloves and puts them on while searching the way to backstage*
*peers through another door*
*watches a woman, pushing a wheelchair with a man in it, both blindfolded, as Carl just leads the man's hand towards the girl's knee and the bright light appears*
*watches, horrified* He's using her!
*as the woman and the man leave, without the wheelchair, she jumps up, grabs some batten that was standing around and hits Carl unconscious*
*grabs his knife, money and carkeys* Sorry, but you get a new haircut now! *and cuts the ties away*
*catches the girl as she falls to the ground* Damnit! I'm too late! *sits and stares at the girl, benumbed*
*hears the audience getting louder again*
*wraps a blanket around the girl and picks her up, crying*
*gets up and steps through the curtain*
*the audience immediately gets silent*
*can hardly speak* Those - who you call - father - and his companion - just - KILLED THIS GIRL! *pauses, still crying*

<--- Small man

*shocked* G- girl? Wh- where do you - *points helplessly at the curtain* What -

<--- Podarge

The show - *voice breaking* - is over -
*steps from the stage and carries the girl through the stunned audience and out of the theatre*
*carries her to Carl's car, opens it and lays her down on the back seat*
*then sits down behind the steerwheel, removes her gloves and drives away with the girl, towards the part of the city where she assumes that Hazel lives there*
*parks the car somewhere and gets out*
*climbs onto the backseat and to the girl* Sorry - I was too late!

[Nicky]

It's quite a lot of coursework lol. But I should be ok i have one more exam tomorrow and then i have nothing until I hand in the work

<-----------Hazel

*walking through the complex*
*passes by the cell block and enters the labs*
*walks over to alarge door and steps up to the control panel*
*scans her fingerprint into the machine and waits for the door to open*
*frowns as nothing happens*
*checks the panel and sees a message on the screen*
<Why a lockdown?>
*sighs and looks for someone to ask*
*walks into the main lab and watches as everybody runs around frantically*
*sighs and heads back to her room to check her workstation for details*
*enters her code and quickly crosses the room to the station*
*sits in the chair and logs on*
*reads the screen*
<So there's some sort of disturbance. There's always a disturbance, why should it cause a lockdown?>
*types a few words and waits for the screen to refresh*
*drums her fingers as the screen shows a series of numbers*
*eyes slowly widen*
<A thousand times normal levels! What the hell is going on?>
*turns and leaves*
*heads to the upper levels and looks for the bosses*

<--------Sarah

*looks at her watch*
<Any minute now>
*a siren starts somewhere deep in the complex*
*giggles*

[Kex]

Make sure you get enough sleep

I wonder what kind of complex that might be

<--- Podarge

*strokes the girl's hair aside as the bright flash appears* What?! *checks her rib* Damnit, you aren't dead yet! *checks the girl again* But you aren't even healing anymore - something's wrong! *checks the girl's pulse but can hardly find it*
*jumps out and back behind the steerwheel*
*drives to the doctor as far as she can*
*parks, jumps out, quickly drags the girl out and carries her into the practise* Doctor! I need help! Quick! *ignores all the other patients and runs through to the doctor's room, carefully avoiding the touch of the other people's hands* Please help her, she's dying! *lays the girl down on the cot*
*slams the door shut*

<--- doctor

*swears*
*starts to check the girl as the bright light appears again* What?! What was that? *looks around* Did you take a photo?

<--- Podarge

*shakes head* No! *tells a half lie* I - I don't know what that was! *hopes that the doctor doesn't notice anything* Maybe he didn't even know that something was wrong with him!

<--- doctor

*examines the girl, mumbling to himself*
*gets a needle out and gives the girl some injection* Just something to keep her going for now. Tell me, what happened to her since I last saw her? Those burnings - they must be several weeks old! And this broken arm - her chest - bruises - what the hell did you do to her?!

<--- Podarge

*despaired, doesn't really know what to tell* She - she got kidnapped! And when I found her, she was like this! *points at the girl, crying* Please, can you help her? I can pay this time, really! *gets the money out she stole from Carl* Here! I took it from the kidnapper!

<--- doctor

*thoughtfully stares at Podarge* I see. You should know by now that I always do what I can do. But this - *sighs* - well, let's care about the obvious wounds first. *works a while* And why did you not call the police for this?

<--- Podarge

I couldn't! *attempts to explain* They - they would have wanted to know how the girl got to me first! And then they'd find out that I should have notified the authorities of her and I didn't! And then - *shrugs helplessly* - they probably wouldn't have found her anyway!

<--- doctor

How can you be sure of that? *softly* And besides that, what did you plan to do with that girl? *finishes bandaging* She looks much better already! *prepares a drink and hands it to Podarge* Here, calm down!

<--- Podarge

Thanks! *takes the cup* I - I wanted to keep her with me - to give her some days of rest, you know? From what she told me I think her sister got murdered but I have no proof of her existence even! And as far as I could tell, nobody even searched for those two. I don't think they are registered somewhere, you know? *sips*
But now - *sighs* - she's not safe in my house - I need to go somewhere else with her. *remembers something* Can I use your phone?

<--- doctors

*nods while giving the girl another injection*
*covers her and waits, watching Podarge*

<--- Podarge

*takes the phone and dials the number she memorized* Please, Hazel! Be at home!

[Nicky]

I'll try to get enough sleep I'll go to bed now because I'm tired and I have an early day tomorrow lol
It's a pretty interesting complex when you know the job you'll understand the complex
Good night sleep well

<---------Sarah

*walks over to the door and looks through*
Are you going to let me out? And don't give me that crap about me being a prisoner et cetera, you know from all of those scans that you gave me that I can help with the things that are happening.
*the man takes a while to think and finally gets up and opens the door*
*follos the man up some stairs*

<--------Hazel

*getting a headache from the siren*
*running through the upper floors to the main control room*
*walks in and looks at all of the people trying to work the computers*
EVERYBODY OUT!
*they all look up and instantly leave*
<Now that they are gone maybe there can be a little control>
*runs to the central computer and starts to work at the front terminal*
*switches over to the terminal on the other side and back again*
*the door opens*

<--------Guard

Uh...Miss. This woman says that she can help.
*gets pushed out of the way as the woman walks over to help*

<--------Hazel

*doesn't look up*
Nobody can help.
*hears clicking from the other terminal*
HEY! I said nobody can help.
*her screen flashes*
<How did she do that? Who is she?>
*starts typing*
*suddenly stops and looks up at the guard*
OUT.
*the guard looks at the woman and starts to say something but decides not to and leaves*
*continues typing*
*tries to look around the structure supporting the computers but can't see the woman*
*sighs and continues typing*

<----------Sarah

*types*
*smiles to herself and decides to tease Hazel*
*purposefully types things slightly different*

<---------Hazel

*looks at her screen and sees something flash several times*
*reads it*
<DAMN! I HATE THIS CURSE!>
*continues typing*

<--------Sarah

You know. This could have been avoided if you'd done your job properly.

<-------Hazel

Shut up. I did my job just fine.

<--------Sarah

*smiles*
You and I both know that you've had other things on your mind. You missed the major flaw in the system. If only you'd phoned the AI and given it the four letter code this wouldn't have happened.

<--------Hazel

Well if you know so much about this then why didn't you phone it in.

<--------Sarah

Well as you probably guessed from the guard I was in the cell block. And the phone in there doesn't allow internal calls, especially not to the AI.

<---------Hazel

*sighs*
*continues typing*
<Hold on. I can sort this out in an easier way.>

<--------Sarah

I know what you're thinking and I wouldn't if I were you. If you do that then you know something very bad could happen.

<---------Hazel

<She's right>
Just.. just shut up and keep typing. It's going to be a while before we can get this under control.

<----------Both

*continue working*

[Kex]

Good night and sleep well

<--- Podarge

*eventually gives in and hangs up*
*almost voiceless* Okay doctor. We two are going to leave now. If the person I just called calls back, would you please tell her me and the girl can be found in a car near the industrial park North Side, that's Elizabeth Street. It's a quite short alley so she should be able to find me.

<--- doctor

But - you can't - this child needs the warmth of a house and the care of a doctor!

<--- Podarge

*looks at the doctor, crying* But I can't stay here! If the kidnapper finds me here, you and your other patients are in danger, too! *points at the girl* Does she need more medication? If so, hand it to me and show me how to give her!

<--- doctor

*sighs* Okay. Look. *takes a small flask and a couple of one-way needles* This is just support, some vitamins etc, nothing crucial. But it should help her until she can eat by herself. You give it every 6 hours or so. You fill this until that mark, see? *watches Podarge nodding* Okay, then you set the needle here - *demonstrates* - and shoot it in. Not the full length of the needle, only about half of it. Understood?

<--- Podarge

*slightly pale, but nods* Okay. Thank you very much doctor! *hands him half of the money she stole from Carl* Is this enough?

<--- doctor

*nods silently* Take care, you two. *wraps the girl into a sheet* Keep her warm! And in about two days, come back to get the bandages checked!

<--- Podarge

*nods*
*picks the girl up* Take care!
*leaves*

<--- doctor

*stares at the open door for a while*
*then picks up the phone and a piece of paper and dials the number on it* Mister Clarke, please.

<--- Podarge

*lays the girl down on the back seat of the car*
*gets an idea*
*walks into a nearby shop*
*returns with some food for babies and a mobile*
*opens its backside, inserts her chipcard and closes it*
*then switches it on*
*grabs a paper card and dials the number on it*
*smiles* Charged! Now I can call with it again!
*startled as the phone beeps*
*reads the message* I have messages on my voice box?
*dials a number and listens*
*attempts to memorize the number so listens to the message several times, then hangs up*
*dials 03456234 and waits for the voice, then says slowly* X - P - Y - J! *waits for a moment, then hangs up* Weird. Why couldn't she do that herself? I hope that helps her. *puts the phone into her pocket and enters the car*
*drives to the said place near North Side and parks there*
*climbs onto the back seat* Not very warm here. And the car doesn't have a heating. *takes the blanket and wraps it around herself, then pulls the girl towards her under the blanket* I hope Hazel recognizes the doctor's number and calls him back! We can't stay here forever! *thinks about her house* I better should have sold it. I can't return to it anyway. I have a house but I'm homeless! *cries silently, holding the girl, feeling extremely lonely*

[Nicky]

Now my exams out of the way so I can concentrate on coursework

<-------Hazel

*still typing*
*the screen suddenly goes bright white and the sound of a large machine losing power can be heard somewhere below*
<Finally>
*sighs with relief*

<--------Sarah

*stops typing and listens to the sound*
<I have to find out what that is.>
*looks around for a way out without guards catching her*

<-------Hazel

*listens as the sound stops*
Seeing as you know so much. What is that machine?
*silence*
*walks around the structure*
<Where did she go?>
*a guard bursts in through the door*

<---------Guard

Our tracking device just went dead. Where is the prisoner?

<---------Hazel

I don't know. She was here just a second ago.

<---------Guard

*looks around the room*

<-------Hazel

Don't touch anything! It's bad enough that you're in here anyway. For people who are meant to enforce the rules you sure don't follow them so well.

<--------Guard

*ignores her*
*walks around the room and looks in every possible hiding place*
<Oh crap.>

<--------Hazel

*sees that the guard is upset*
I know what you're thinking. But He isn't going to blame you for letting her escape. He'll blame me. But if you don't want him to be as angry with you, I would suggest calling Him now.

<--------Guard

*lifts his radio to his mouth*
Sir. The prisoner has vanished. I think you should get Him in here right now.

<---------Hazel

Now leave quickly. He may blame me, but if he sees you in here then you're in deep trouble. I won't tell Him it was you guarding her and I know the other guards wont say anything. Do everything as the handbook tells you to do and you'll be fine.
*watches the guard leave*
*waits for Him to arrive*

<---------Sarah

*drops the shattered chip on the ground silently*
*rips her shirt and holds it against the back of her neck to stop the bleeding*
*crawls forward and hears the voices fading*
*smiles to herself and crawls deeper*

[Kex]

At least one thing finished

<--- Podarge

*watches the sun rising*
*freezes* Guess it's time for a shot. *slowly unwraps them both, gives the girl an injection and wraps them both back into the blanket*
*sits and waits*
*slowly sinks into depression*
I wish I had a friend. How do other people get friends? What did I do wrong?
*cries, still freezing*

[Nicky]

I'll have a little rest now lol. Maybe make a few more levels.

<---------Hazel

*sits in a chair and waits*

[Kex]

<--- Podarge

*sits up and lays back down in another position, still holding the girl* I wish she would wake up soon. *sneezes* Maybe Hazel knows someone where we can leave her. Someone we can trust. Someone who doesn't abuse her. *sighs and sneezes again* I try to call her again! *grabs the phone and dials the well-known number*