In The Blood (Book 3): The Blood Flows by Lee Isserow

Author:Lee Isserow [Isserow, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror | Suspense
Publisher: ABAM.info
Published: 2017-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

14

Lafayette couldn't say how he knew they were trying to get in touch with him. He had a compulsion, the number repeated in his head, the name traced through his thoughts. Ben glanced at Luke, who looked particularly guilty. Kat put her arms around her son with a beaming smile on her face, proud of his surreptitious use of the blood to communicate with the doctor.

“I believe you knew my father,” Ben said.

“Oh I know him, and know of you all too well.” Lafayette said, with what sounded like a tone thick with lament.

“Do you know where he is now?”

“Alas, I do not. Haven't seen him for quite some time.”

“But you know what happened to me, how I became... infected.” Ben was becoming resentful of the word, it had negative connotations. And whilst the blood was, to some degree a bane on his life, it was also the greatest gift he could ever ask for.

“I do,” Lafayette said, taking a breath. “I suppose you don't remember, you were so young, barely able to walk when you first cut yourself, when you bled. Your father rushed out of a lecture he was teaching at the time when the call came through from your mother, saying you fell, weren't clotting... Your father vowed to do whatever it would take to remedy your condition. He changed specialities, got funding, God knows how. Brought in people like myself and other to work on his project. Geneticists, nanotechnology researchers, all manners and disciplines coming together.”

“I want names,” Ben said.

“Would that I could, my boy. Your father oversaw it all, kept us separate. I was with him when we began the phase zero trial on a single subject... then the phase one, where we had ten participants. It was all going rather splendidly as I remember, but as we were beginning to recruit subjects for the phase two trial, the project was abandoned...”

“Why?”

“My doing, I'm afraid... I oversaw a routine visit from the Phase zero subject, the nurses were busy and thus I decided to draw blood myself. The bastard launched itself out of the syringe, skewered me in the damn hand!”

“It infected you...”

“Yes,” Lafayette spat. They could almost hear his scowl on the word.

“Do you know what it is, the blood, what it can do?”

“I don't know a damn thing, take bloody drugs to degrade my platelets, reduce my red and white count to keep the demons at bay, straight-jacketed.”

“A cure?” Kat asked.

“Not a cure, a treatment. A treatment that's degrading my damn organs in the process.” His voice trailed off, a scuffling sound over the phone's microphone. “I have to go,” he said, in a whisper.

“Are you a prisoner?” Ben asked. “We can break you out if you - -”

“I'm here voluntarily, I was self-medicating for decades and they came to me, asked me if I wanted to work on a genuine cure with the staff here... we're all infected...”

“So, it's an internment camp, a work camp...”

“We're the best chance there is for a cure.

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