ARISEN, Book Six - The Horizon by Michael Stephen Fuchs & Glynn James

Author:Michael Stephen Fuchs & Glynn James [Fuchs, Michael Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: SEAL Team Six, SOF, high-tech weapons, Increment, serial fiction, fast zombies, spec-ops, techno-thriller, naval adventure, SAS, dystopian fiction, special operations, zombies, supercarrier, Delta Force, Hereford, military, horror, Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs
Published: 2014-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

Fluids

JFK - Biosciences Lab

Ten minutes after Park and Sarah got back to the lab from lunch, Lieutenant Commander Walker, CO of the hospital, stuck her head in. “Just want to see how you two are getting on.”

Sarah was on her back behind a cabinet, re-plumbing the pipe on a water purification system, nearer to where Park needed it. He was sitting at his laptop, as usual.

“Good timing,” Park said, turning to face the door. “I’m going to need a pretty significant volume of both scintillation fluid, and solvent – toluene, ideally, but benzene or phenol will do. So far, we can’t find any in the lab.”

“If we do have any, it’ll be down in Stores. Not the kind of thing we use every day. Hang on.”

Her head disappeared out the hatch again. Two minutes later, a compact man in blue overalls and a ginger crewcut appeared. “Hiya,” he said. “I’m Dietz. Lab tech. You need some solvent? Benzene, that kind of thing?”

Park nodded, as Sarah climbed out from under the bench, dusting her hands on her thighs.

“Not the kind of thing we use every day,” Dietz said.

“We heard that,” Sarah said.

“Any stocks we have are going to be down in Stores.”

Sarah restrained herself from saying they’d heard that, too.

Dietz cocked his head. “How much, you figure?”

“At least five or ten gallons,” Park said. “Probably all you’ve got, realistically.”

“Okay, no problem,” Dietz said. “But we’re short-handed today. Hell, who am I kidding, we’re short-handed every day. I could use some help carrying. Or else loading up the cart, if by some miracle the cargo elevator’s working.”

“Sure,” Park said, hopping off a stool and to his feet.

“Not so fast,” Sarah said. “You’re expected up top in forty minutes, to meet the British scientists when they land.”

“No problem,” Dietz said. “We’ll be back before then.”

Sarah didn’t move. It took her a second of introspection to realize the time wasn’t what she was worried about. She pinned Park with her cagey eye. “You’re also still the most important man in the world. And I like you locked away in this nice, safe lab.”

He looked a little crestfallen. Maybe he’d been looking forward to the walk. Maybe he didn’t enjoy feeling like he was under house arrest, or in protective custody. As if he were some precious and fragile object, rather than a human being.

Dietz said, “Don’t even worry. The ship’s totally secure now.” Sarah still hesitated. Dietz lit up, put one finger in the air, said, “Hang on,” and disappeared out the hatch. He returned ten seconds later – with a Remington pump shotgun slung over his shoulder.

“That put you at ease?” he asked. “’Cause I am gonna need at least one of you if the elevator’s still out.”

Sarah considered. She could go herself, and probably should. But there was also something to be said for keeping Park in her sight at all times. Screw it, she thought. Looking seriously at him, she said, “Okay. But you stay behind him, and in front of me, at all times.

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