10 Subject 010: Barley Getting Out

Here we go. This was it. I was going to go aloft.

I snagged a white coat from the Guard-s room after getting that one Guard's I.D. The man put his card down on the desk that was just by the door. It was easy getting them.

I took the lab coast and I.D. back to my room. The coat was too long for my small body, so I ripped the sleeves off and ripped the hems shorter.

I slipped the six eating utensils into the left pocket. What was left of the coat, I put it on under my gown. Nobody was going to see it on me. The eating utensils might make a little noise, hitting together in my pockets, but I could always hold it while I sneak. Even just in case if I needed to run too.

I climbed under my blankets and the waiting game began.

There was a male Nurse with a bright flashlight who would always check in on the SL2 Hospital Patients. They opened our doors and would look in on us with their modern electronic torches. The bright light would only last for a few seconds. Then he could close the door and leave me alone.

I had my eyes closed for the whole time he was checking in. I would slowly breath in and out, as if I were sound asleep/

I opened my eyes and looked up at the far end of the room. There was a clock that I would never really pay attention to. I listened to it tick and tock.

The waiting game continued.

4 hours. It was 1 O'clock in the morning. It was go time.

I quickly jumped out of my bed and began rolling up the blankets under my first on. After that, I put the spare pillow under the blanket.

There. It was done.

I hurried over to the door and cautiously opened it. I looked both ways, checking to see if anybody was coming or in the hallway.

There was nobody. Here we go. Adrenaline was slowly beginning to rush through me. So intense.

I hurried down the hallway to my left and stopped next to the Guard's room door.

I peered around the corner. There was one Guard and he was asleep. snoring. He seemed like he was enjoying whatever dream he was having.

Good. Now for the card.

I lifted up my gown, reveling the torn lab coat. The picture I.D. was in my right pocket. I quickly dug it out and moved past the door.

I raised my right arm and hovered the card's barcode over the scanner. A green light scanned the barcode... then the heavy double doors slowly slid into the walls in opposite directions.

Just behind these doors is the lobby. I see the elevator doors. I see freedom. There's no looking back. I see them! I see them, I see them, I see them, I see them... And here I come.

I grab onto both of my pockets through my gown and began racing toward the doors.

This is it. I'm doing it. I'm finally doing it.

You promised me,

didn't you?

I get to the doors. My body slams against them, which caused a loud sound. Did anybody hear it? I didn't care. This was it.

So don't you forget just yet.

I take the I.D. card and hover it over the scanner on the clear, plastic wall on my left. The scanner accepts it and at that, the elevator doors open.

That I still continue to breathe.

I throw myself into the elevator, hearing people behind me. Running towards me and shouting at me. The Guards know. They already know.

You know what you must do, bring it all to an end.

You promised me, didn't you?

I immediately turn to my right and I nearly slam myself against the wall. I wouldn't read. I didn't know what any of the buttons said. All I knew, is that I had to go back up to SL1. That's all that mattered.

When I lay down my head, could I dream of above?

I quickly pressed a button. Then a second, what looked like the close doors buttons. There were no Guards getting to me now. They had no idea where I was going. Where I intended on going.

Could this be my last prayer?

The doors closed and the elevator began to move. I had no idea if it was going up or down. I couldn't tell. I was just glad I made it out of there.

I let out a slow shaky breath before letting myself fall onto my knees.

Security Level 4. A girl around 16 years of age, was tampering with cameras in the Guard's room. She wore a prosthetic mask and she had short green hair. She seemed tho be the hacking genius.

She was going aloft herself, and she also wanted to escape.

She was from the Institution Security Level. Security Level 4.

As she viciously tapped on the keyboard, one of the small t.v.s near her gave out static and then it switched to another channel. Camera 27.

Somebody on 27 suddenly caught her interest. It was a person. They looked rather small for their age. She couldn't tell if they were male or female.

Her lips curled up into a grin. She had an idea. Her brown eyes glinted through her mask. Were they going aloft? Maybe she could escape with them!

She got off the keyboard and moved away from the counter. She walked over an injured Guard before walking out the door. She had taken out a few Guards. Three of them. They were easy to deal with.

She raced through the hallway, following the path to the nearest elevator.

As if happy she found an elevator, she spun around in her ripped apart straight jacket. She took out a Guard's picture I.D. and waved it over the elevator door's scanner.

She was on her way to getting to that black haired person.

She slid her way into the elevator and smacked a few buttons. The doors closed just like that.

As the elevator began to move upward, she looked up. A small door! That's where the engineers go to work inside the elevator shafts.

She grinned under her mask and began to quickly climb up the elevator wall. Then she forced the door open and looked out. Wind violently blew in her face, making her hair fly everywhere. She lifted her head up, enjoying the cool breeze before climbing up into the elevator shaft.

Here we go.

She looked for a jumping point to jump into one of the holes that separates the elevator from the wall.

She quickly found her point and made her jump.

The elevator seemed to be slowing down. I think I was almost to Sl1. I was going to make it, wasn't I?

As I raised my head, I slowly lifted myself onto my feet.

The elevator was fixing to stop. The doors were fixing to open.

The masked girl climbed up the elevator shaft wall. She was right below SL1. To no surprise to her, she got there so quickly.

There was an elevator coming up below her. It was the one elevator that had camera 27 connected inside of it.

She grinned. This was the elevator that black haired person was in. This was her chance to meet the person... And to find out what gender they were,

What's your name? She wondered. She hopped onto the elevator as if she were hitching a ride.

She ripped the hatch open and looked down inside.There were Guards! Six of them!

They all looked up at her. She was done for.

"Shit."