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finally reached their destination, Dan was surprised to see that they were in front of a hospital and not the police station.
    The hospital blended in with the rest of the towering buildings that lined the roads. If it weren't for the giant awning with the words "Emergency" Dan wouldn't have known it was a hospital at all.
    "I'm going to let you two go," the cop said in a flat voice. "That was not the first attack today, in fact it was only one of many in the past few hours. We have so many of these crazies in custody that the chief wants me to cut you two loose."
    Dan couldn't believe his luck, he was about to receive a get out of jail free card.
    "How many attacks was there?" Barns asked.
    The cop sighed, "There was a few here and there all morning. It has gotten worse since people have begun to come out of hiding from the storm, way worse. There have been two hundred recorded attacks since we picked you two up."
    "Two hundred!" Dan said, completely taken back. "It’s that bad?"
    "Yeah, these kinds of attacks are usually not seen, and not so brutal. Every attack has involved some form of cannibalism." He rubbed his eyes and shut off the car. "It sounds like there are more and more attacks being reported every minute, Riot Patrol is going to have to take control of the situation. You guys watch yourselves today." He got out of the car and shut the door behind him.
    It was then that the window exploded next to Dan. Two bloody hands reached in and grabbed him by the hair, yanking, trying to pull him out. He could feel Barns take hold of his feet, trying to keep him in the car. Dan was in the middle of a vicious tug of war; it felt like his ribs were going to split apart.
    For a moment Dan saw what was pulling on him, a corpse. Its skin was pale white and there was a hole in its stomach that you could see clear through. Its eyes, they were the eyes of the drugged, toothless man at the homeless community.
    It was coming in, about to take a chunk out of Dan, like had been done to all those other people.
    That drug, Dan thought, this is all because of that drug! The thought only had a moment to sink in before the side of the man’s head exploded.
    Its hands fell away with the body and Barns successfully yanked him to the far side of the car. Dan looked at the cop in time to see him holstering his pistol.
    "I got a man down in front of the hospital," he said to the Nextel on his shoulder.
    "Copy that, we are going to need you to hold out there until we can get somebody," a lady on the radio said.
    "Shit!" said the cop. He contemplated for only a moment before coming around and unhandcuffing Dan and Barns.
    Dan had to step wide to avoid touching the still body on the ground; brains seemed to be sprayed everywhere.
    "Where are you going?" asked Dan when the cop started to walk away.
    "I'm going to get my partner."
    Dan took a deep breath; suddenly he felt like he needed to be close to a gun. "We are coming with you."

 
    Chapter 7
     
                  The hospital was in shambles, it was as if they had stepped off of the street and right into a fun house. The first thing they saw when they came through the doors was two nurses and a doctor, trying to tighten the ropes that held a thrashing man to his chair. The man coughed, spat and wheezed as he struggled to free himself.
    The place was packed, everybody seemed to have some sort of bite wound or another. They all swayed drunkenly and hunched over in their seats, nobody spoke. An orderly walked into the room, she was pale white and shook like she was frightened for her life.
    "Three more bite wounds?" she asked, her voice breaking on the last word.
    "No, I am here looking for my partner," said the cop.
    The woman sighed in relief, "His name?"
    "Jim Kacewell."
    She thumbed through a clipboard she was holding. When she looked up her eyes were watery. "Fourth floor containment, room four fifty."
    The cop thanked the lady and headed for the elevator; Dan and Barns followed.