JANE DOE Ep 06

Smoke.

Broken, bodies and shattered bones. Is this my 'normal?'. The carnage  seems so familiar.....so intimate...like warmth of a lover's hand. The stink of bodily fluids and gun powder conjugate to conceive the stench of death. I do not feel the bleeding holes on my body,....I can not feel the blood oozing from my skin. I feel nothing......I am static....a tabla rasa,....undefined. I am featureless and out of focus like a blur. Detached and yet connected to everything....and nothing.



I can hear the heart beats of the ones inside the infirmary. The sound is a sickening symphony that excites what I am....or what I used to be. I can smell the powder from their guns. Who are they? Why the f**k did they want me?   Like dominoes, each question leads to another question. Odd. One of the heart beats seems normal. It is  steady, like a Hunter's....like mine. I have heard this  before.


Out on the street, when they attacked me. It's the slender girl with dark eyes. She's not afraid of me .Her heartbeat could pass for one who sleeps. Why isn't she afraid? Why's she so calm? I have to find answers. One F**king way or another.







The silence was occasionally punctuated by Jabari's short gasps.

"Ideas, anyone?" Samuel asked after a long silence. Despite the cold air of the infirmary, he could feel tiny beads of sweat on his body.


Save for Christie and Victor, the rest of the  faces that stared back at him were wide-eyed  and coated in shiny layers of perspiration.

"I'm open" Christie said without taking her eyes off the door.

"She's going to kill us all" Jabari's frightened voice said to no one in particular.

"Is there another way out sir?" Victor asked.
Silence.

Jabari seemed to be in a trance. His eyes focused on the door without seeing it. His fear had frozen him.

"Sir??" Victor's voice was louder.

Jabari blinked.

"...I..uh...there's an emergency exit...."
All eyes turned to him.

"Where?" Samuel demanded.

"....Down the hall.....left corridor,....take another left into another hall with.... red door at the end..that's the armoury ..there's an escape hatch......"

Long pause.

"Meaning....we have  to go outside....?" Samuel asked.

Jabari nodded.

"Great!!" Caroline threw her hands into the air.

"....So we're f**ked" Samuel shrugged.

"...long and short....yes!" Jabari replied simply.

Long pause.

"I think we should stick to the mission and take out the target" Victor whispered.

"...'take out the target?'....." Samuel stared at him incredulously. "Have you been fucking blind, deaf and stupid this whole time? Out there's a Bio-enhanced, Psychotic-bitch-commando that's just killed over two dozen armed men........FucK the mission,  I'm leaving"
"You do realise 'leaving' requires stepping outside this room?" Victor said calmly. He hadn't taken his eyes off the door, or  his finger off the automatic rifle in his hands. " Our best option is to kill her"

"Our ONLY option is to save our asses"
"He's right" Christie said softly.

"Finally, someone f**king agrees with me" Samuel said.

"Killing Jane Doe's the wisest option" Christie said.

"Not you too" Samuel grimaced. "And I was beginning to like you"

" As crazy as it sounds...it's the smart play" Caroline whispered. " We're lucky to be alive....."

"Wasn't luck..." Christie said .

All eyes turned to the slender dark eyed assassin. 

"Jane Doe's strong, fast and well trained....she could've taken us all out in her first attack....I saw her move, it would've been easy for her.


But she held back and let us escape"
"Bullshit!!" Samuel spat.

"She could've knocked down this door in less than ten tries, but she didn't" Christie continued. " She's saving us for something.....or she wants one of us alive at least......and I don't want to find out why"

".....I agree with Christie...." Jabari said.

"You're all  crazy......" Samuel waved a finger at them.

Long silence.

"So ....What's the plan?" Samuel shrugged.

Just then, the lights went out.

"What the f**k?" Samuel exclaimed.

"No..no,no..no.no!" Jabari's voice sounded frantic.

A dull red glow suddenly enveloped the room.

"No...no.no" Jabari kept on saying.

"What....?? Samuel snapped.

"This is bad....this is very bad...." Jabari's voice was shaky.

"What's going on?.....What's bad?" Samuel asked desperately.

" She's cut off the power....the backup generators have kicked in....this is bad"

"You Keep saying that.....it's beginning to piss me off" Samuel snapped.

"With the backup generators on.....we'll have to open the red door manually"

"You've lost me" Caroline said with a confused frown.

The beads of sweat were thickening on Jabari's face.

"I'll have to cut open the....circuit next to the door....and emerge the right combo of wires  ....it'll probably take ten minutes"
"Ten minutes a fucking long time with She-Rambo out there" Samuel rolled his eyes.

"One more thing" Jabari added. He was wide-eyed and looked like he would pass out from sheer panic alone. "To begin the  over-ride process, we have to reset auxiliary power"

"Speak English" Samuel shrugged.

Jabari gulped.

"The Auxiliary reset is on the other side of this facility...the reset and  merging of wires has to be done simultaneously.......which means, we have to split-up....I'm the only one who knows the  sequence."

"Wa-wai-wait,....." Caroline began.

"After we merge the wires, after the reset. How long will the Red door stay open before it shuts again?"

"Approximately three minutes" Jabari said.

Long pause.

"So....the group that does the reset, has about  Three minutes to make it to the red door or.....?"

"The door shuts and the system automatically reboots itself" Jabari cut her off.

"Great....!!!"Samuel said under his breath.

The temperature inside the room rose.

"The back-up generators are too weak to power the air circulation system.....we have to leave before we suffocate in here" Jabari said hurriedly.

Long silence.

"So we either suffocate in here or have our asses torn to pieces outside......I'm really  liking our chances" Samuel sighed.

Long silence.

"So what are we waiting for?" Christie shrugged.

Another long silence.

Samuel paused for a few seconds, then opened the door.

Most of the smoke had cleared, blood splatters and broken bodies littered the semi-darkness of the corridor.

"This bitch's got issues" Samuel whispered. He was in front, with his rifle leading the way.

Caroline swallowed back the bile that had risen  to the back of her throat.The silence of the semi dark hallway coupled with the grotesque forms of the dead soldiers, made her skin crawl. The smell of gun-powder, and blood mingled to form a vile stench that made her stomach churn.

She'd witnessed dozens of crime scenes in more than a dozen cities world wide. Someone once said she'd get used to it,....but she never did. Each time she saw a murder scene, it felt just as unsettling as the first time. She closed her eyes and counted backwards from ten. It was a technique she'd learnt on the job. It had been helpful for most of her career.

"Miss whyte, you'll have to merge the wires" Jabari whispered. Weapons drawn, They were still creeping over bodies as silently as they could.

"I don't understan...."

"I'm the only one who knows the key code combo, ....... I can't be in two places at once,"His voice was a series of tremors, it sounded quite hollow in the hallway. "The by-pass is simple, match the green and blue wires and the Red door will open"

"What happens if you don't make it back? Caroline asked.

Jabari looked away. His silence said it all. Caroline could sense a great deal of fear in the man. But there was something else she could sense. It was a rather vague impression that he was somehow pleased with what was happening.

But then again, maybe it was just her.

They kept on moving.

"So,....where are you from, Samuel?" Caroline whispered. Not like she really wanted to know,  but the silence was getting to her.

"We're trapped in a secret facility, being hunted by a bio-enhanced Psychopath and you wanna start a friendship?" He shrugged.

"Just trying to make conversation"

They moved slowly through blood-soaked floor.

"All the locations in the world, and i had to choose this one" Samuel grimaced. "I should f**king shoot my travel agent"
"Keep it down" Victor said sternly.

"Why?....am I gonna wake the neighbours?"

Long silence.

All was still.

"Okay, what's the plan?" Samuel said when they reached the end of the corridor.

Jabari looked down both passageways.

Long silence.

 Both ends looked the same, empty.

"I don't mean to point out the obvious" he whispered. "But I wont go down there alone"
"Don't look at me" Samuel shrugged." Don't mean to point out the obvious, but two feet away from that red door is as far as I'm gonna be"

"If I don't put in the code, nobody's leaving this place" Jabari said grinding his teeth.

"So you'd better get started then" Samuel said. "I'm with Red door team"

"I'll go with you" Victor said simply.
Jabari nodded.

"Guess that leaves me with the bitches" Samuel grinned.

Caroline glared at him, but said nothing. Then, she saw something that made the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. A shadow emerged from the dim and stood behind Samuel.

"You shouldn't call women bitches" Came Jane Doe's voice close to his ear.    Samuel panicked for two reasons; 1. The sound of the voice sent electric chills through him  and 2. The sudden realisation that Jane Doe was right behind him.


He spun around with his weapon, but  an insanely strong hand grabbed and flung him into the passageway on the left. He hit the side of the wall hard. The impact knocked his weapon from his grasp.

Victor was quicker. He fired of three rounds into Jane Doe, each bullet sent her staggering backwards into the way they had come.


Christie, Jabari, and Caroline joined in, unleashing a series  of bullets into Jane Doe.


The halls came alive with gun fire and explosions. They kept on shooting. Each bullet slammed into her, sending her farther away from them. But she was still on her feet.

"Die..... B**ch!!!!"  Caroline screamed   as more tiny missiles tore through Jane Doe.

Then they all ran out of ammo. First Victor, then Jabari, then Caroline, then finally Christie.
A  Pin-drop silence descended.

Jane Doe was still on her feet.

"Dear God!" Caroline Shuddered. "She's still standing."

"Not for long" Christie said, unstrapping her Side-Arm. She swiftly raised the Combat hand-gun and let out a single shot. The bullet smashed into Jane Doe's skull, knocking her off her feet. She crashed into the ground amidst the bloodied, torn up corpses of her victims.

Long pause.

The sound of weapons being reloaded filled the smoke-thickened air.

"Is she dead?"  Caroline shuddered. Her hands were still shaking.

"Not even Jane Doe can survive a bullet to the head" Jabari said.

Groaning sounds from Samuel.

"Check on the a**hole" Christie said rolling her eyes.

Caroline quickly went to him.

"We have to be sure she's dead" Victor said softly.

"I don't think that's necessary" Jabari said.

But Victor was already slowly making his way towards Jane Doe's body.

"Victor!" Jabari snapped, still keeping his voice slightly above a whisper.

Victor wasn't listening. He carefully stepped over pools of blood and spent shell casings.

"That's the...... second time that..... b**ch has knocked me out..."Samuel groaned when Caroline helped him up. "I must be special"
Victor was standing over Jane Doe's body.


Through the faint light, he could see a single bullet hole in the centre of her head. Her eyes were closed. He paused over her face. She seemed so peaceful. It was hard to imagine that such a serene face could be capable of such mayhem.

One thing was certain though. She was dead.


He relaxed his gun hand, and turned away. If he had stood there a few more seconds, he would've seen the holes on her body slowly begin to heal.

"Lets get out of here" he said making his way back to the group.

Jane Doe's eyes blinked. She slowly sat up on the ground.

"Samuel,...Look out!!!" Caroline screamed. But Jane Doe was already on her feet. There were strange metalic tapping sounds coming from her dark figure.

Victor turned around slowly. His heart was racing. It wasnt just the adrenaline coursing through his veins. It was also something he wasnt certain he'd felt in his life. Fear.

She stood perfectly still as the metalic tapping sounds continued. In a weird way, the sounds reminded him of corn grains popping inside an oven. He suddenly realized what he was hearing.  All the bullets were falling off her body.

"Get outta there, Victor!!!" Caroline screamed frantically. But Victor's entire body seemed frozen. His eyes were fixed on Jane Doe.

"We have to go....Now!!!" Jabari ordered.

Victor was still raising his rifle when Jane Doe closed the distance between them and snapped his neck.

He crumpled to the ground lifelessly, his rifle clattering against the blood soaked floor.

"MOVE!!!!" Jabari screamed. They all ran into the left passageway, towards the red door as Jane Doe stood studying Victor's lifeless body.


....to be continued




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