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here.]After a point, the hallway cleared out entirely due to them passing all of the other pairs of patients that had been meeting up or waiting around. The sirens had shut off by now and it had left everything deadly quiet as a result. Harvey clenched a fist around his metal pipe, fighting off the paranoia that something was lurking around
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It looked like Jones was thinking along the same lines when it came to the lock. And of course this door was locked. Harvey huffed to himself, wondering why their captors went to the trouble of giving them these weak locks in the first place. To slow them down, maybe, but it just seemed like such a shoddy obstacle.
"Right." He stepped forward and lifted the metal pipe up, holding it tight between both hands. He located the lock with his gaze and then aimed, swinging the pipe at it as hard as he could. A clang sounded and the pain of the ( ... )
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"Damn!" Indy was in no shape to watch Dent's back, but he didn't have a choice. He turned sideways--keeping one eye on the hallway, the other on Dent's progress--and uncoiled the dog leash. With one sharp, agonizing jerk of his right arm and shoulder, he cracked it in the general direction of the snarling. It didn't make quite the right sound, but it wasn't bad, and the metal clip at the end hit the floor with a resounding clang that might scare something away if it wasn't too big or smart.
Indy wasn't prepared to bank on its not being too big or smart. "How's it going?" he asked urgently, hoping to God the answer was well enough that he wouldn't have to take another swing.
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So the only option he really had was to work quickly and hope that they could get through the door before whatever that was caught up to them. He reared back again, forgetting the pain that was still throbbing through his arms in order to hit the lock once more. It gave, and Harvey didn't hesitate to get moving. He transferred the metal pipe into one hand, grabbed his previously dropped flashlight with the other, and then used that hand to grab Jones by the collar.
He tried not to pull the man too harshly, but he didn't exactly have the time to be gentle. "Come on!" he yelled as he kicked the door open further and then dragged them both through.
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