Contamination by T.W. Piperbrook

Author:T.W. Piperbrook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: T.W. Piperbrook
Published: 2015-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

“We found them again, sir. And we’re back with Jameson,” Winters said into the cell. He paused for a minute. “No problem. We’ll take care of it.”

He dropped the phone into his lap and stomped on the gas. Brown leaned out the passenger’s side window, taking aim at the backseat of the station wagon. Three heads appeared, shifting from side to side with the movement of the vehicle. He wondered how long he could hold out before he would have to shoot one of them.

Not long, if he had to guess. His partner screamed at him.

“Fire, Brown!”

Brown heard the roar of another engine and looked to his right. Jameson had joined the pursuit. Brown glanced at the other driver, but his eyes were fixed on the target in front of them.

Why am I the one shooting? Brown asked himself. But he knew the answer.

Winters was enjoying this—making Brown get all the blood on his hands. If only I could have been the driver, he thought. If he had been the one controlling the vehicle’s speed, he could have driven the damn thing off the road.

The SUV gained ground on the station wagon, closing the gap between his rifle and the people in the backseat, between life and death. Brown looked through the open back window, catching a glimpse of a little girl in the front seat. He could tell she was terrified, and she ducked down when he aimed at her.

He thought of his own sister, trapped in a holding cell in God-knows-where. The Agent leaders had shown him a video and told him she was alive. He didn’t know if he believed them, but he couldn’t take any risks. She was only eleven years old—probably about the same age as the girl he was looking at now. He felt a single tear slide down his cheek and immediately tried to retract it. He wondered if Winters had noticed. He would blame it on the wind, of course.

Unlike the other Agents, Brown had been forced into submission. He hadn’t had a choice. Winters had arrived at the university with one specific mission: to recruit for the cause. And Brown had fallen right into the trap.

Brown had been taken into the fold slowly. At first, he was lured in by the promise of power, of knowledge. His new roommate had shared information with him, entrusted him with secrets about a new world to come. At first, the idea had seemed ridiculous. Maybe even insane.

But Winters had been persuasive. Within a few short months, Brown found himself assisting the group from his dorm room, lending his knowledge of computers and programming, and doing whatever was else was asked of him.

In his college classes, Brown was just a number, another kid vying for attention in a crowded room. But with the Agents—with the plan—things had seemed different. Any reservations he had had were quickly alleviated by his roommate.

Winters had had an answer for everything.

“What about my scholarship?” Brown had once asked.

“Education is just the beginning,” Winters had told him.

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