man vs. nature

             There was Holly, on her back, naked in the middle of the floor, her heels touching the border of the Turkish rug. Up on the twentieth floor it was cooler than down in the street. The phone rang; she got up and covered herself with a bathrobe. It was 6:30 in the morning; she picked up the phone still drowsy since being jerked from her deep sleep "Hello?" she mumbled.
             "Colonel?" asked a deep and alert voice.
             "General Bailey?" she inquired rather surprised.
             "We have a situation get down here ASAP, Colonel," demanded the general,
             "Yes, sir." answered Holly.
             Colonel Holly Parsons was the head of research at the United States Army Medical Institute for Research of Infectious Diseases (also known as RIID) in Aspen Hill, Maryland. She conducted research on the world's deadliest viruses in one of the two only institutes in the country equipped to do so, the other being the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. It was 6:45 and she knew she had to get moving so she jumped in the shower, got dressed and was out the door by 7:00. She stopped for coffee to complete the awakening process and to get her prepped for the long drive from her apartment in the city to the institute in the country. She pulled up and the sentry at the gate smiled at her as she handed over her ID. His submachine gun was tucked neatly into the small of his back, almost out of sight.
             She smiled as he passed her card under the UV scanner.
             She waited for the gates to open and drove in. She placed her thumb on the fingerprint scanner and reported to General Bailey's office.
             "What's the problem, sir?" asked Holly.
             "There's been a strange death, Colonel," replied Bailey.
             "Strange, sir?" queried Holly, very curious now
             "Your team's in the suite waiting for you go scrub in and meet them there."
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