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<h1> Lab Rat </h1>
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<!-- perspective: Emily -->
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<p>
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<span class="quote speech">Why not?</span><br />
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Emily looks back and forth between Lena and Sasha.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Tony said he had some success with his mice,
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why shouldn't we try it?</span><br />
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Sasha says: <span class="quote speech">Tony also died after...</span>
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He is interrupted by coughing. <span class="quote speech">...after trying
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it on himself.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Not like anything else is gonna happen to
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us...</span><br />
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Lena shakes her head.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">I don't want to spend my remaining days
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alone. Just don't do it, please.</span><br />
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Emily gets up and paces around the module. Her eyes fall on the drawers
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in the adjacent maintenance module. An idea forms in her head...<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Emily, where are you going?</span><br />
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She steps inside and rummages through a bunch of drawers, leaving them
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open as she opens the next one.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">What are you doing with that hammer?</span>
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<br />
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She storms off into the hallway; Lena jumps up and runs after her.
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</p>
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<p>
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As Emily runs through the door to the lab module, she smashes the hammer
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into its control panel. Arcing noises, the hissing of air pressure
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getting released, the broken equipment alarm beeps. The door comes
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falling down behind her, slamming into the floor and latching with a
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loud click. She looks around for a moment as she catches her breath.
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</p>
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<p>
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The walls are lined with workbenches and cupboards above them. In the
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center is an additional large workbench where Tony's lab mice are
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still running around in their cage, entirely oblivious to the situation.
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Emily had kept them as pets after he died.
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</p>
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<p>
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Banging on the door – Lena is outside. Emily walks over to the
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Erlenmeyer flask that's sitting next to the sink built into one of
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the workbenches. She lifts it up and looks through the clear, blue
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liquid. Tony had written some science-y words on the flask along with
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"cure 5x concentrated", and closed it off with a glass stopper.
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Emily removes it and grabs a small beaker from the drying rack above
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the sink. She pours some of the liquid into the beaker, sets the flask
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aside, and tops it off with tap water. Holding the beaker in her hands,
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she hesitates.
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</p>
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<p>
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Buzzing noises and clicking from the door. The latching mechanism opens.
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Emily's hesitation is over, she lifts the beaker to her mouth and
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drinks the liquid. It has a pungent smell and burns in her throat but she
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downs it in two gulps. The door moves up a bit. Through the opening, she
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hears Lena struggling on the other side. A foot appears in the door,
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followed by her hands. Emily begins to feel dizzy, she sets the
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beaker onto the center workbench and holds on to the edge of the work
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surface. Lena slowly lifts the door and pushes it back into the ceiling,
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holding a screwdriver in her mouth. The panel covering the latching
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mechanism has been removed and is leaning against the wall. Emily starts
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to move towards the door but feels too dizzy to walk. She still sees
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Lena jam the screwdriver in the side of the door before her knees give
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out and she falls. A burning sensation spreads throughout her body as
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she lays on the floor. Lena starts to yell at her but she drifts out of
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consciousness before she can process any of the words.
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</p>
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<p>
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She wakes up briefly while getting carried down the hallway. The pain is
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unbearable. In an attempt to scream, she sighs before everything goes
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dark again. The next time she regains awareness is while throwing up
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in her bed. She gasps for air, and drifts away into unconsciousness.
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</p>
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