Darkest Night by Will Hill

Author:Will Hill [Will Hill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

The staff of University College Hospital were used to seeing things that were unusual; their accident and emergency department served a large section of Central London, and regularly received more than three hundred patients a day, with everything from broken fingers and infected insect bites to heart attacks and gunshot wounds. But none of the staff had ever seen anything quite as strange as the convoy of black vans that pulled up outside the hospital’s side entrance, and the men and women who climbed out of them.

Jamie Carpenter stepped out of the second van, his visor down over his face. Qiang appeared beside him, followed by an Operator that neither of them were familiar with: an American in her early twenties by the name of Laura O’Malley, who had been temporarily added to their squad after Lizzy Ellison had been selected for the first round of PROMETHEUS. O’Malley had not said much on the drive down to London, but she seemed calm and composed, and the fact that Larissa had selected her from the ranks of NS9 meant that Jamie was not worried. If anything, he was more worried about his own mental state than hers; he had tried to push the Zero Hour briefing out of his mind, to focus on the task at hand rather than replay his awful, awkward conversation with Matt over and over again, but was struggling to do so.

I still can’t believe he would use me like that, or lie to my face so casually, or line his friends and colleagues up to be bitten by Valentin. I can’t believe any of it.

He surveyed the scene as the other two vans discharged their passengers, ordering himself to concentrate. There would be time to deal with Matt later; right now, there was work to do.

The side street was long and narrow, running between the hospital and one of the many red-brick buildings that made up University College London. Ambulance bays were marked out on the ground in straight yellow lines, and a wide glass entrance was set back from the sloping kerb, beneath a wide canopy. Standing in front of the doors was a man in a white coat; he was holding a clipboard and looking at the vans with a mixture of curiosity and obvious unease.

From the lead van, Jamie saw three more Operators step down on to the road. One of them was Jack Williams, who was technically in charge of this Operation, and the others were the usual members of his squad; neither Ben Harris nor Kim Caldwell had been lucky – or unlucky – enough to be selected for PROMETHEUS.

A member of the Lazarus Project that Jamie didn’t know climbed out of the third van, alongside the same member of the Loop’s medical staff who had looked after him when he went through the turn himself. The man held a large plastic box in his hands, stamped on all sides with HAZARDOUS MATERIAL warnings; he carried it carefully across to where Jamie was standing, and forced a thin smile.

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