Endurance: Apocalypse (The Endurance Series Book 2) by T. J. Blake Page B

metal chair and gripped one of the blades, pulling it away from the chair. As she pulled at the metal, it sliced the skin on her hands to ribbons, which hung from her hand and dripped blood onto the floor. She used her strength to stretch and bend the metal, eventually pulling the blade from the chair and holding it in her hand.
    ‘Sorry Gavin.’ Laura said as she walked over to Gavin.
    She grabbed him by his hair and pulled him to his feet. She stabbed the blade into his stomach repeatedly. He managed to push her away, launching her across to the other side of the room. Gavin looked down to his hands and then his arms; he punched the wall and dented it.
    ‘I’m really strong.’
    Laura stood up and picked up her blade again.
    ‘So am I, but only one of us can live,’ Laura said as she charged at Gavin.
    Gavin stood with his shoulders sloped and his right arm arched ready to swing. As Laura launched herself into the air at him, he punched her across the face. Laura lost her grip on the blade as she clattered into the chair. She reached across to the blade but Gavin kicked it away. He grabbed Laura, pushed her on the floor and sat on her back, holding her arms down.
    ‘Laura stop this, we can get out of her together; don’t you see?’
    ‘Only one of us can.’
    ‘We are both strong, why should just one of us be in the elite group? If there is such a group, this may just be a sick fucker messing with us.’
    ‘Yes I suppose.’
    ‘Look, we’re strong, we’ve healed.’
    ‘Yeah.’
    ‘Right, let’s get out of here.’
    Gavin turned to the door, Laura looked to the blade that lay across the room. She looked back to Gavin and grabbed him by his arm. She dragged him across her leg. As he stumbled, she grabbed his head and pushed it onto the blade still attached to the chair and pushed it through his head. She fell backwards as she watched him twitch and groan. His eyes rolled up into the back of his head as he pushed himself off the blade.
    Laura ran across the room and picked up the other blade. She swiped at his neck with the blade, cutting through his skin as easy as scissors through paper. Blood poured onto the floor and Gavin’s head became more detached from his neck with each swipe of the blade. Laura screamed as she cut his throat and eventually his head came away from his body and it slumped to the ground. Laura dropped the blade as she stared at Gavin’s head. She knelt down next to his body, her face in her bloody hands.
     
    ‘She killed him.’
    ‘Yes but it had to be done, it was part of the experiment.’ Miller said.
    ‘Why did that need to be the experiment?’
    ‘I need elite humans, humans that will not fear to kill a child that is infected and dangerous. I need someone who will kill their family if they are a danger. When you watched that, did you feel disgusted by the blood?’
    ‘No.’
    ‘And that’s what I need. The mind is a funny thing; humans fear blood and death, the brain tells them to fear it. We do not though, we are not afraid to kill a child who’s infected, because we are superior. You were not scared of the possibility that one of them would die, and that’s a good thing Jonny.’
    Jonny stared blankly at Miller.
    ‘Right. Well let’s move on, we have to free Laura and one of my assistants will brief her on what her role is now.’ Miller pulled out a walkie-talkie, ‘Laura Dupry needs briefing. Clear up experiment room eight. Gavin Dupry failed the test. Line up the next subjects.’ Miller put the walkie-talkie back into his jacket pocket. ‘Shall we?’ Miller said as he walked towards the stairs that led to Waterloo station. ‘There are more kinds of people to meet.’ Miller said placing his arm around Jonny’s shoulders.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    8
     
    ‘Where are we?’ a middle-aged man bellowed as he and a group of people walked through the underground tunnel. His shout echoed through the tunnel and