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was holding the doctor. He was careful to grab it around the wrist so that he could get a better grip. Using Brian’s own method, he grabbed a hand full of Brian's greasy black hair. Kyle's grip, although solid, didn't allow him much other movement. He was simply holding on.
    The door to the office slammed open as Yolanda came barreling through. Her face registered surprise, then disgust, as she took in what was happening.
    “Patrick!”bellowed Kyle in a commanding tone. “Knock him out!” Patrick looked quickly at Kyle and then at the thing that was Brian.
    ”With what?” he yelled, sounding panicked and scared. He was beginning to unclip his 9mm when Yolanda pushed past him and slammed the back of her rifle butt down on the Brian’s head. Brian’s head jerked down from the impact, the back part of his head taking the brunt of the strike. As quickly as that his hand opened and the doctor lurched backward, his face a mass of torn and bleeding flesh.
    Kyle also moved back from Brian after letting him and doctor go. He was watching as Brian lifted his head. No blood was evident from the hit to the head. His thickly-covered eyes made Kyle think of his grandmother’s eyes and she was legally blind.
    Brian lay motionless on the table in front of them, his mouth, neck, and chest covered in blood and gore. His face was frozen in a contorted gargoyle pose. “He is no longer human,” Kyle thought. He wasn’t sure if Brian was dead already but this was…well he wasn’t sure. Kyle burst out laughing at the thought that he was a zombie and cursed himself for his inability to do anything but laugh in difficult situations.
    His mind flashed back to his first serious girlfriend, she had sucked on his tongue while they were kissing and he was so surprised that he started to laugh. The kissing session ended and his awareness had begun of a problem he needed to get a hold of.
    His wayward attention returned to Brian on the table. He began to move. His movements were jerky and unsteady, his laughter died quickly. Kyle looked up to see Patrick and Yolanda staring at him and then at Brian. Their faces serious and full of something Kyle couldn’t place. He tensed as Brian began to rise from the table. Kyle wasn’t sure what was going on, but something was wrong here and he needed to make a decision.
    “Yolanda, Patrick get out of here now!” he said, moving quickly around the table to the sick looking doctor who was still leaning weakly on a table. “I’m right behind you.”
    He seized the doctor’s frail arm and pulled him up to his feet. The doctor made to speak but was cut off as he was bodily jerked toward the door. Kyle slightly turned his head to catch a glimpse of Brian on the other side of the bed, beginning to get up. A glimpse was all he needed, he pushed the doctor through the door into the arms of a waiting Patrick. He grabbed the handle on the way and pulled the door closed as he went through. He quickly reached down to the security keys on his belt; his fingers fumbled as he went through the keys. Found it. He grabbed the correct key and quickly locked the door to the outside. He had just released a sigh when the door shuddered from an impact. Brian had run into the door from the other side. Kyle could see his upper body through the small rectangular-shaped window in the door.

Chapter 5
    “Yolanda, call the sergeant and tell him what happened. Patrick stay here and watch this door. No one gets in, something is not right here,” Kyle finished and began leading the doctor away. “I’m gonna drop the doctor in the nurse’s office down the hall.
    “Hurry Kyle, I want to get away from him, he’s gone crazy!” Patrick yelled from down the hall. Kyle could hear the report over the radio from Yolanda. The radio had been full of reports and chatter since this morning’s incident, half of which he hadn’t been listening to. His thoughts were of what was happening. He thought of the virus that was reported this