Alexia woke slowly to a pounding in her head. As she sat up, she realized the pounding she heard wasn't in her head at all, but was coming from the direction of a mirror on the wall. "I see you're awake Ms. Darkling, " A deep voice boomed from the speaker in the corner. Alexia covered her ears and glared at the two way mirror. "Yes I'm awake, and if I wasn't I most certainly am now. Is it entirely neccassary for you to be that loud?" Surprisingly, the voice obligingly reduced it's volume, though it did correct her.

"The speaker is set at a normal volume. Any heightened output is on your end." Alexia looked up at the mirror, startled, and looked around for the first time. As she took in the stark room, her situation began to make sense. She found herself trying to remember what had happened.

"I went to the control room," she muttered, counting on one hand. "Then I flooded the building with the microbes, then..." as much as she strained, she couldn't remember what had happened next.

"Then you collapsed," The voice supplied, "And were brought here for observation. We couldn't take the risk of leaving you and possibly ignoring an infected, but you are too valuable to simply dispose of. I'm going to ask you a series of questions that-" 

Before the voice could even finish Alexia rattled off the list of preaproved answers. She grinned at the mirror sarcastically. "Surprised? Who do you think wrote those questions in the first place? Besides, every answer is true. Except..." 

"Except I hear your heartbeat.." as she heard the atendent in the other room scrabbling for the kill switch, she panicked. "Wait!" She shouted, diving towards, and through, the reenforced glass. As the interrogator tried to worm his way into the corner, she looked at him disdainfully. 

"I'm not infected." She said simply, turning away from him. "There's no hunger. This is more like..."

She paused for a moment, then turned on the man again. "Give me a clean bill of health," she said with an excited gleam in her eye, "I need to get back to my lab."

Ten minutes later she had managed to convince the interrogator to release her, and was running back towards her lab. She knew it was across the city, but according to the tests Jojo had been able to run as fast as 50 MPH, which meant she could do at least that. "It worked" she shouted gleefully when she burst through the doors of the science building.