Around the front of the school, it was just as empty. There weren't the soldiers that Matt had run into when he was escorted back. A cluster happened to be over by the tent in the field but they were just standing there, posture perhaps slightly tense but Mohinder didn't linger to try and figure out what they were doing. He pushed open the door and moved through the hallway toward the stairs to the second floor. There was commotion in that direction but Mohinder just decided to go with it. He opened the door--
"Move!" One soldier knocked him almost violently out of the way, clearing a path for half a dozen men in hazmat suits carrying stretchers. Dead. Mohinder didn't even have to stop and check them. All dead.
Another group of soldiers were almost right behind them. Mohinder slipped through and crawled along the wall to the landing. He probably should have headed right to the science lab, but instead, he had to see the sick for himself. Soldiers were arguing at the end of the hall about having enough room in the morgue tent. And about when their superiors would pull them out. No one even looked at Mohinder as he stared at them. He was so far under their radar that they didn't notice him at all.
Lucky too, considering the faint voices coming out of the helmets were all violent and terrified. "We should just fire bomb the town!"
That was all Mohinder needed to duck back down the hallway. He could hear feet moving above him, likely soldiers tasked to bring down bodies from the upper floors. It was time to get Matt. It was too late for Bennet.
Finally outside the door, Mohinder rattled the knob. "Matt?" he hissed. "No key!"
Zonked again. :(
Around the front of the school, it was just as empty. There weren't the soldiers that Matt had run into when he was escorted back. A cluster happened to be over by the tent in the field but they were just standing there, posture perhaps slightly tense but Mohinder didn't linger to try and figure out what they were doing. He pushed open the door and moved through the hallway toward the stairs to the second floor. There was commotion in that direction but Mohinder just decided to go with it. He opened the door--
"Move!" One soldier knocked him almost violently out of the way, clearing a path for half a dozen men in hazmat suits carrying stretchers. Dead. Mohinder didn't even have to stop and check them. All dead.
Another group of soldiers were almost right behind them. Mohinder slipped through and crawled along the wall to the landing. He probably should have headed right to the science lab, but instead, he had to see the sick for himself. Soldiers were arguing at the end of the hall about having enough room in the morgue tent. And about when their superiors would pull them out. No one even looked at Mohinder as he stared at them. He was so far under their radar that they didn't notice him at all.
Lucky too, considering the faint voices coming out of the helmets were all violent and terrified. "We should just fire bomb the town!"
That was all Mohinder needed to duck back down the hallway. He could hear feet moving above him, likely soldiers tasked to bring down bodies from the upper floors. It was time to get Matt. It was too late for Bennet.
Finally outside the door, Mohinder rattled the knob. "Matt?" he hissed. "No key!"