Free The Secret Apocalypse (Book 1) by James Harden

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    We were then escorted by the soldiers to an isolated wing of the hospital. Officer Denis had his leg inspected and was promptly put on a bed and wheeled away.
     
    Maria, Jack, Kim and I were locked in a room together. Kenji was taken away for ‘debriefing’.
     
    "What now?" Jack asked. "Can we go home?"
     
    "I don’t really feel like arguing with strange men carrying machine guns," Kim said.
     
    She made an excellent point. The men in the suits made me anxious. Apart from the fact they were pointing guns at us, they looked like soulless, killer robots.
     
    "Isn’t your mother a nurse?" Maria asked.
     
    "She doesn’t work at this hospital," I replied.
     
    "Oh."
     
    "OK, as soon as they let us go I think we should go straight home," Jack said.
     
    Kim looked at her brother. "And do you still want to walk home?"
     
    "So maybe walking home wasn’t the best idea. But I didn’t realize things were getting so out of control. Is it like this all over?"
     
    "In certain areas it’s getting pretty crazy," Kim said. "Most of the looting and riots are happening at the grocery stores and the pharmacies. I think people just want to stock up on supplies, prepare for the worst."
     
    "Rebecca, maybe you should come home with us? I think it’s getting a little dangerous to be at home on your own."
     
    "I totally agree."
     
    Kim told everyone to remain calm. "Guys, just remember we’re at a hospital. This is the best place for us to be right now. If there is some sort of virus then we’re in the best place to get treatment. Just think of all those people outside. We’re pretty lucky when you think about it."
     
    I suppose we were lucky to be inside an actual hospital where we could get treatment or a vaccine or whatever.
     
    A few minutes later the soldiers in the space suits were back. They dragged us down the corridor and into what could’ve been an operating room. We were then separated. I don’t know what happened to the others, but I was taken to a little room. The room was just like any doctor’s office. There was a desk and a bed. There was a poster on the wall explaining how to prevent type two diabetes.
     
    A man in a space suit who could’ve been a killer robot pushed me into the room and sat me down. "Wait here," he said.
     
    "Hey, where did you take my friends?"
     
    He didn’t answer me. When he left two other soldiers and a doctor entered the room. They were all wearing space suits and the soldiers were carrying rifles, like the one Kenji had.
     
    The doctor introduced himself to me. He said his name was Doctor Hunter. He had a soothing voice. It had a calming, almost hypnotic affect on me.
     
    "Please, Rebecca," he said.  "Sit on the bed for me. I need to ask you some questions."
     
     
    Chapter 12
     
My first thought was how the hell did he know my name? My second thought was why was he wearing a space suit as well? I didn't ask, but I did exactly what he said and sat down on the bed. After all if I was in some sort of trouble or if there was some sort of virus, I wanted his help. I didn't want to be like all those people trapped out the front of the hospital on the other side of the fence. We were lucky to have even made it inside and I felt privileged to be receiving medical attention when so many people were going without. I was still worried that he needed to wear the suit and that it was necessary to have two heavily armed soldiers in the room but maybe it was just a precaution.
     
    "Lie down for me."
     
    Again I did as he said. No questions asked. But then he raised the rail guards on the sides of the bed and bound my hands and feet with Velcro straps. "Um, is this really necessary?" I asked as my pulse quickened.
     
    "Just a precaution."
     
    "Precaution for what? Why do I need to be tied to the bed?"