There Where the Power Lies (Monster of the Apocalypse Saga Book 2) by C. Martens

Author:C. Martens
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-09-24T19:00:00+00:00

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The halls and large spaces of the Los Angeles FBI Center were quiet. There was no work being done, as there were no workers. Well, no workers except one. Billy had taken the best part of an afternoon to find a way into the building.

Work being important to the Down syndrome young man in many ways, he had walked for hours to get to his job after the bus failed to show up. Finding doors locked, he determined to find a way in. Surely someone would have told him if there was a holiday, and according to his watch with the big hands and numbers and the voice that told him what day it was when asked, it was not a holiday.

A window on the ground floor behind some shrubs was open enough to get his fingers in, and after much jiggling it exposed an opening large enough to climb through.

Billy had never seen the offices empty. At first it terrified him. He found his way to the mailroom and started to sort packages and load his cart. The work had piled up several weeks ago and only recently eased. Billy did not understand why, but shipments suddenly ceased. The backlog was still crowding the tables and bins. Billy had plenty of work.

The big board with all of the blinking red lights made Billy uncomfortable, so he avoided looking at it. He knew what the lights meant from a conversation he had overheard. He was glad that he did not have one of those things in his arm, and he was sad when the light next to Jimmy’s name started to blink. Now every name on the board had a red light blinking next to it.

At 5:00 p.m. it was quitting time. The cart was finally empty from his first run of the day, and there was still plenty to do, but quitting time was quitting time. Billy entered his time on his watch and made for the door, forgetting that it was locked. Panicked by the delay and worried he would miss his bus, Billy ran to the jimmied window and jumped out. Leaving the window open seemed wrong, but on looking at his watch again, he realized he did not have time to close it. He raced to the bus stop and waited.

The bus never came.

A good thing that the window was still open, Billy climbed back inside. He was hungry and tired. The day had been more stressful than any he remembered, and the morning walk had been long.

The lunch room offered food from the employee fridge. This was not the first time he had stolen food from the fridge. He could never resist chocolate pudding. Somehow a six pack of pudding always waited for him every Monday, and no one ever seemed to catch him. Agent Flynn made sure of that, replacing the pudding every week. Jimmy had a coworker take over the position of pudding donor before he died.

Eating the creamy chocolate first, Billy understood that he should limit himself to one and make them last.

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