Impetus by Sullivan Scott M

Author:Sullivan, Scott M [Sullivan, Scott M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Digital Ink Publishing
Published: 2014-06-02T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

The more Sid thought about it, the more he felt betrayed. Phillip used them like puppets. Building bits and pieces of the accelerant and then combining them without anyone knowing what his true intentions were. Phillip had told Sid that the molecular stability agent he’d designed was for longevity testing of the vegetables. Sid had never questioned that because it made sense at the time. The hydroponically grown vegetables would last much longer if their decay was stabilized. He felt naive now that Phillip’s true intentions were out in the open. It was all too apparent that his agent was specifically created for the blue gel, not the hydroponics. The clouds began to clear, and the truth shone down brightly. What irked Sid the most was that he’d had a hand in this. Unknowingly, of course, but he’d still played a part in Phillip’s game of God.

He hurried down the white-walled main hallway, passing others going about their own business, surely unaware of what had been birthed in this very building. When he reached Phillip’s door, Sid instinctively knocked, but he entered before being told to do so.

Phillip looked up from the tablet in front of him. “Sid?” he said. “Have you found something new?”

“You could say that,” Sid replied, tossing down his own tablet in front of Phillip. On it played a video of what Sid had just recently found in the tiny lab. He watched as it replayed the CV-1 virus ramping up its attack after being dosed with the blue gel that Phillip had designed.

Phillip also watched the screen. He then stood from his chair, never one to stay in a position of being looked down upon. “And this is?”

“Don’t play coy with me, Phillip. This is what you sent to the outside population. Isn’t it?”

Phillip said nothing. He looked at the tablet again before gently tapping the red square to stop the video from playing.

“I knew this was not an inoculation. We all did.” Sid then flipped the tablet toward him and quickly started another video. This one showed the end result of what the accelerant did: a gathering of dead shriveled-raisin blood cells. “But I never in a million years would have envisioned you as a cold-blooded murderer.”

“A murder?” Phillip scoffed. “How dare you! Who are you to judge me?”

“I wouldn’t dare judge you, Phillip. I don’t think I could be harsh enough.” He paused for a moment, feeling himself heating up inside. His anger brewed. But it would do him more harm than good to lash out. Phillip could snap his fingers and have The Facility’s security team usher him into some dark corner of the building where few traveled. He understood the politics in play here, even without an official political structure present.

Phillip, too, calmed his demeanor. He stopped and buttoned the bottom button of this lab coat, which had sprung loose when he’d shot from his chair. “Sit,” Phillip asked. He motioned toward the chair directly behind Sid. “Please. A shouting match will get us nowhere.

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