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The air inside the chemical supply room smelled like latex and rubbing alcohol, and despite the movement of the door being shoved open, it hung uncomfortably still.  The beam of Mello's flashlight moved over a wall of bright yellow cabinets and into the dark corners of the room as he searched for movement or unexpected shapes.  Nothing ( Read more... )

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The first sweep of his flashlight's beam revealed six beds covered by crisp white linens.  Although he knew that the room's purpose must have been dark, there was nothing sinister about the space itself.  A desk in the corner held a computer identical to the ones he'd seen in the library, but Mello didn't waste any time trying to boot ( Read more... )

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This time, the doorway opened not into another hallway but into a small room.  Mello stood up and surveyed the space in front of him, but aside from a tarp-covered table and a locker, there was nothing to be noted.

When he stepped around the table to the locker and pulled it open, he found several identical jumpsuits, shirts, and pairs of ( Read more... )

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When the tumblers fell, Mello turned the knob and shoved the door open into the next hallway.  It wasn't hard to understand how someone could get lost in a place like this, and he was glad he'd seen a map.  Each hallway looked the same as the one before it: clinical and clean and creepy as hell.

He crouched by the door to his left and ( Read more... )

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Mello turned right and started down the hallway closest to the stairwell he'd used to reach the second floor.  Before him, everything was silent, though the bulletin had told him that past the wall to his left, people were being tortured and used as experiements.

He mentally shrugged as he moved down the corridor, focusing on the white ( Read more... )

[Specifically M16]Well, dinner did a lot of nothing. Chances were that Not-Noah would depart soon, so Luxord merely continued to pet Tyche (who had, by now, ceased her need to paw his chest in an attempt to make it softer or whatever reason cats did that and decided to curl up and sleep again). Knowing full well that he was lacking in the 'people ( Read more... )

[from here]The Bride paused at the top of the stairs and listened. Quiet. It was quiet. If it hadn't been for the knowledge that there were people up here being tortured, she'd have thought she was the first to make it to the second floor. The Bride headed down the hallway, not even bothering to give the hallway where the torture was done more ( Read more... )

[from here]He knew he was out early now; the main hallways like this one usually had at least one or two other people scurrying about even when he was rushing through. Not yet though, but that was just as well. He took the usual right and kept along the wall just in case his senses just weren't picking up on some kind of threat. Being quick did not ( Read more... )

[from here]One row over - first row in. Sai had stopped needing to look at the room numbers some time ago. He couldn't help but wonder if Usopp would be surprised to see him. His visits were a regular occurrence, but it wasn't as though he'd told the pirate he'd be coming this night in particular. He didn't think he'd be shooed away, but ( Read more... )

[from here]An uncomfortable ache in his chest announced to Sai that moving so quickly right now wasn't helping the healing process any. His pace slowed, but he kept his ears open for signs of any potential danger. He'd be too easy of a target, so showing weakness was out of the question. Luckily, he'd never run into much trouble in this stretch ( Read more... )