Judgement Day - 02 by Randall Frakes

Author:Randall Frakes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-28T17:32:01+00:00

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TERMINATOR 2

In another corridor in the maze of the vast hospital, Sarah ran like an animal, her bare feet slapping on the cold tiles. The orderlies were charging after, not far behind her. She turned a corner, caroming off the wall, and sprinted on without slowing, slamming into a steel door.

Locked.

Footsteps pounded behind her.

She fumbled with Douglas’ keys, breathing hard.

Jammed the master in. The orderlies were bearing down on her at full tilt, rapidly closing the gap.

Sarah got the door open and dove through, slamming it and turning the deadbolt knob just as the first orderly grabbed the latch on the other side.

He was one second too late.

Sarah saw them through the little window, fumbling with their keys. Gasping from exhaustion, she turned.

She was in another sally-port corridor. A jail-cell-type barred door was between her and the corridors of the ward beyond.

She sprinted to the wall of bars, jabbed the key into the door, unlocking and pulling it open just as she heard the latch of the one she’d just come through being turned.

Sarah flung herself frantically through the barred door as the first orderly came through behind her. She yanked the bars shut. CLANG. With a stab of despair, she saw the keys were dangling from the lock on the other side from her. The orderly was racing at her, white-lipped with rage.

She reached back through the bars, turned the key, and purposefully snapped it off in the lock. An instant later the big orderly slid into the door, grabbing through the bars for her as she danced back.

Just out of reach.

He lunged against the steel bars, enraged.

Sarah had no time for any sense of personal triumph.

She was on a commit run to find her son. Before the second terminator did. So she simply spun and sprinted away.

The frustrated attendants shouted at each other, JUDGMENT DAY

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struggling to fit their keys into a lock already occupied by the broken-off key tip.

Silberman stumbled up behind them, holding his throbbing neck, took in their confusion, and screamed at them. “Go around, goddammit! Go around!” The orderlies ran past Silberman, back the way they came, and careened into an intersection to another set of doors.

Sarah rounded a corner and saw the elevators ahead.

Home-free.

At a full-tilt dash, she had nearly reached it when the elevator doors parted.

And then she saw the worst nightmare come alive and step out into the hall, complete with bloodstained leather jacket, sunglasses, and shotgun. The horrifyingly familiar face of the Terminator swiveled to hers.

Sarah tried to stop, but her momentum was carrying her right into the killer cyborg. Her bare feet slipped on the slick tile and she hit the floor, gaping up at the leather-clad figure.

Sarah lost all semblance of courage and a sizable chunk of her sanity. She was not even aware that she was screaming as she scrambled back along the floor like a crab, spinning and clawing her way to her feet along the wall.

She felt as if she were whirling in the nuclear winds of her vision.

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