Born 01 - Born

would be trying to get back in.
    I pull on the door before I have to shoot the lock. It opens with a hard pull. My heart pounds. I look in with my gun ready. No one is inside. Whoever left there last never closed the door properly? Inside it looks as it did when I was last here. The hose with the nozzle like the one my Grampy had is sitting as if no one has been by to touch it. Leo saunters in, sniffing and watching me. I close the door. The door inside has no weird scanning thing for the card. I turn the handle and the lock clicks open. It's one sided.
    I look both ways down the hall before I creep out. Leo and I leave the garbage room and walk down the hallway. It's only early in the morning. The staff tends to get to work at around nine. The clock on the wall says seven eleven. I smile and remember it was a store. I called it the slushy store. My stomach growls but my animal instincts kick in and push my smile and hunger away.
    I hear a rustling of papers and take a breath. The footsteps inside of the room on my right sound heavy. I glance in nervously. A man in a white lab coat is looking for something frantically.
    I look at Leo and wink. He drops to his belly against the wall and waits. I hold the gun up and round the corner.
    When he looks up, I don’t recognize him.
    "I'm one of you." His words are fast.
    I look him over. He looks like a doctor. He doesn’t look shiny like a citizen of the city.
    He pleads, "I worked with Marshall. I'm helping the rebels if that’s who you are."
    I put my finger on the trigger and take his pass from his desk. I check his door. The pass must be used to get out. I tear his phone out of the wall and rip the cord out of the back.
    "Sit. " The large older man sits at his desk.
    "Leo." Leo stalks in and growls. I look back at the doctor. "Push your chair back."
    He does and Leo rests his growling face in the doctor's groin. "That’s a scary dog, lady."
    "He's a wolf," I mutter and tie his hands to the armrests on the chair. "If you are one of us, you'll need proof you tried to stop me. This looks convincing." I finish the knot and smack him in the eye with my gun. He winces but doesn’t cry out. His eye is red and swelling instantly.
    Holding his pass, I walk to the door and look both ways. Leo makes a grunt and leaves his groin.
    "There is a destruction level in here."
    I glance back. "What?"
    "You have to come back and get me out before you detonate."
    I nod.
    He sighs. "In case the infection ever makes it in, they put in a destruction level. It's new. Every building has one now. The infection got into a building in the South. We have a way to wipe the building. All the breeding institutes have it. It's in the basement, in the far left corner when you come off the elevator. It's a time-release detonation bomb. The building implodes like how they demolished buildings, before."
    "How can I get the women out first?"
    "Each wing has a pool. It's their best hope. It's where we were told to go in case of detonation. The building has an alarm. The minute you set the bomb, the alarm will go off.
    "Like a fire alarm."
    He nods. His eye is watering and swelling.
    "I will come back for you." I take a doctors coat off the back of his door and shrug it on. Leo and I walk out again and look around. I need to get the women out before I blow the building. The pool sounds like a bad idea but I don’t see any other hope. If I set the alarm with too much time, they could stop it from blowing up the building.
    I try to remember the way back but I realize it doesn’t really matter. I need to get them all out. I have to go to every wing.
    I see a nurse ahead of me I recognize and follow. I assume she is on a night shift. She leads me through a doorway. I stay far enough behind that she doesn’t pay attention to me or the giant wolf behind me. We end up in the hallway that has the windows to the garden. The place I used to escape. "Hide, Leo."
    I open the door to the garden and let Leo in there. He leaps in and hides in the garden.
    The nurse goes through another doorway, and I break into a run. I arrive at the first door and open it.
    "Get up and wake up the girls next door."
    A very pregnant redhead wakes with a start and looks at me, startled. "What?"
    "The infection has gotten inside. Everyone needs to go to the pool. Immediately. We're doing a lockout."
    She waddles out of the bed and starts banging on doors.
    I walk until I get to another door that needs my pass. On the other side of the