Nikita

Watching the video, I am eager to know why it was left for me to watch. AppaRently, my paRents were working on a virus, something that oud be used to suppress the cancerous cells. A virus that would kill the cancers that killed people. This virus was to be used only on cancer patients and while it was already teated, on the day it was supposed to be submitted for approval, it disappeared.

Once again the chief surgeon is disheveled and in pink pajamas. What a great day. With everything unfolding, I kinda feel better about submitting my resingation letter because it's obvious I can't even focus on myself at the moment. I ask Maggie about the pathologist who's handling Liam and she gives me a name I have never heard of.

I look at her and ask her to check the hospital records for a pathologist with the name she has given me but he doesn't find him. I start freaking out because maybe they actually managed to bring the virus to my work lace and since Liam didn't come to the cancer wing, there's a chance that everyone in here is affected.

All the viles were stolen from the laboratory that my paRents had spent their lives working n that. It was gone just like that. The most dangerous virus was somewhere out there without any controls. Maybe it was in the black market, maybe it had already been sold.

From the video, I realize that the virus has already been sold and is in use. I try t find out what connection the missing viles have with my family, and I can't get anything there. 

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Having no option, I message Kyle, my watchdog on the dark web, and ask him if he has heard of the missing viles and he confirms my suspicion.

He tells me that they have already been sold and might be in use anytime now. He warns me of the dangers of the virus on people without cancer. He tells me the patients are bound to exhibit respiratory like diseases and in 6 hours and that no one can survive the virus. He tells me that, on infection, the lifespan of the virus is 6 hours, after which the infected person dies.

He goes ahead and tells me that since the virus was created to combat cancer, it had no cure. As he tells me the horrid details of my paRent's creation, I can't help but feel helpless for the second time today.

As Kyle goes on about the virus, I remember Maggie's complaints about the increasing number of patients, but then I remember that there haven't been any deaths reported, otherwise I would have known. Maybe the condition in the hospital is just because of the cold weather conditions. Just maybe.

I want to believe that the virus my paRents lost is safe somewhere and that the person who stole it is using it for the purpose it was made.

With Kyle yapping in my ear, I consider cutting him short and telling him we'll talk later, but then he tells me of the death train that has followed the virus.

He tells me of the murders that have been committed just to secure that virus. He talks of three plane crashes, accidents, an increase in missing person records.

He tells me that anyone tasked with handling the virus must have a kill switch so that when they are found out, it's easier to eliminate them. I ask about the plane crashes and he tells me of them. When he describes the murders, we both realize that my paRents were murdered.

He apologizes for not noticing earlier but then his apologies won't bring back my paRents, besides I forced him into the dark web two months after the death of my family.

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I want to pretend I feel better after knowing all the horrid truths. Then I remember the guy in the hospital had a kill switch in his brain. This means he might have been having the virus on him. Fuck.

I call Maggie at the hospital and ask her to tell the pathologists to take care of Liam's body. I consider going back to the house and confront Natalya and that other woman, but then something tells me that they will still be here in this house when I come back from the hospital. I know if I take my car they will know I was already home.

I know if I go back to change my clothes, there is a chance that they will change topics. I give Kyle Natalya's phone number and tell him to rack her movements and any digital footprints she could have left. Who knew my most trusted human right now could just be the reason for the massive death counts? I get out of my car and use the rear exit to leave the estate. I hail a cab and hope that I'm wrong about the Liam guy.

I'm still in my pink pajamas, and the slippers Maggie gave me when I got to the hospital. I still have my bed hair and if this were any normal situation, I would accept the ŀusty looks that the young girls had been giving me in the hospital. It might be weird that a bulky man like me is in pink pajamas, but what can I say?

You get you a sibling like my sister and everything in your life is thrown away and replaced with pink, but then again you cant object because she's so cute and it's illegal to make my siblings cry. I guess it became a habit to wear the pink things she would put in my closet. I'm only thankful she knew a doctor never wears pink to work.

The cab driver looks like he's pitying me and I can't blame him because even I pity myself. This however is not the time to focus on that considering I have a corpse to examine. When I get to the hospital, Maggie pays my cab bill and I tell her i'll refund her when I get back to my usual self.

"Initiate lockdown protocols!! No one leaves this hospital!" I use the intercom to communicate t everyone and anyone who can hear me. I know that everyone is panicking and look at them with a sorry face but I can't let any of them go. There's a chance that Todorov hospital has been compromised.

This will be a very long night? Day? I really don't know. I haven't been keeping track of time anyway.. But whatever time it is, this is going to be a very very long day, I think to myself as I call the CDC.