Omega Zero (Omega Metahumans Book 2) by Kurtis Eckstein

Author:Kurtis Eckstein [Eckstein, Kurtis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13: Manipulation

Much to my surprise, the soldiers didn’t try to arrest me. And not just because they were hesitant to put me in handcuffs after discovering they were completely out of their depth with someone like me.

Oh no.

Ms. Doctor wouldn’t allow that. I was now case number two for this lethal virus, with Jordyn being who they consider patient zero for the new strain, and I needed to be quarantined under hospital regulations. Bloodborne or not, they weren’t taking any chances with it. Because the only reason they had been able to keep Jordyn alive was because she was already a metahuman – she had already survived having her genetics modified once, which was determined to be a genetic trait that allowed her to survive again.

But a normal person wouldn’t stand a chance. They would die long before they began having Jordyn’s medical problems.

Quarantine wasn’t exactly what I expected though.

I supposed I thought I’d be stuck in a bare room with no furniture, like a makeshift prison cell essentially. However, while the windowless room was mostly just bare walls, it did have a bed, chair, and small cabinet for clothing, as well as a clock on the wall. There was a small bathroom as well.

I sat in the chair the whole time, not having any use for the normal necessities.

It also wasn’t a quarantine that involved airtight suits and masks, which I supposed made sense. The medical staff who entered my room used the same precautions I had been required to use in Jordyn’s room, including full-body gowns, gloves, and regular masks that covered the nose and mouth.

The female doctor wasn’t one of those medical staff members though. I didn’t see her again, since she was in quarantine too, due to the impromptu surgery she had done without the proper protection.

I was told that Jordyn’s body was packed full of the virus, with a viral load of four million copies per milliliter – eight times higher than what they considered to be ‘very high,’ so all it would have taken was a speck of blood in the doctor’s unprotected eyes and that would be it. Basically a death sentence for her, worse than getting any of the other known bloodborne diseases.

No one bothered me for the first hour, leaving me to my thoughts. Thus, when a male nurse came in to draw my blood for testing, I barked out a humorless laugh when he attempted to get a needle in my arm unsuccessfully. I should have realized he wouldn’t be able to do it, but I was so focused on wondering what was going to happen now, that I didn’t stop him. His eyes were as wide as saucers when I proceeded to pull out a thread of blood to fill the thirteen tubes manually.

The man had brought labels with him, but after seeing my blood move at my will, he gathered all his supplies and made a beeline straight for the door, likely having changed his mind about labeling the tubes in the room.

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