Rebel Heart

"Doc!" It was the blond special security woman, Elise, who burst into the med center. "Doc!" She shook him awake. The doc sat groggily.

"What happened?" Brady asked. After watching the madman named Arnie last night, he knew better than to assume anything about the deceptively quiet Peak.

Elise gave him an irritated look, reminding him again of how little respected the army-types were.

"Doc, I need some meal bars, anti-sleepers, and pain killers."

"You're maxed out," the doc said.

"Don't give me any shit, doc! The walls were breached. I need 'em for the spec security guys. All of them."

"When were the walls breached?" Brady asked.

Elise was agitated at more than him. She glanced at him then around at his men. An odd look crossed her face. She shook her head.

"Dammit, Lana," she murmured with a look at her watch then barked, "Doc, hurry!"

"Lana's the little girl who got shot, right?" Dan asked.

"The missing little girl who got shot," Elise replied.

Brady moved forward at her words.

"She's too naïve …" Elise drifted off.

"What happened?" he demanded.

"Aside from the whole mountain coming down and the Peak being overrun by God-knows-who?"

There was more. She wiped her face and whirled, following the doc into his office. Brady signaled his men to ready themselves. If what she said were true, the oasis around them was on fire.

"How bad is it?" he asked, following her. "Are you moving your men?"

"We'll fight until Greenie gives the order to leave. God help me, I hope it's soon," Elise responded, stuffing the meds the doc placed on his desk into a tactical bag. "Anti-bacs, too, doc. Greenie's holed up in the hub trying to figure out what to do." She slung the bag over her shoulder.

Brady caught her arm. The pretty blond glared at him, but he saw the worry in her gaze.

"What happened?" he growled again. "I won't ask you again."

A look of incredulity crossed her features, and he doubted any army-type had ever threatened one of the elite class member forces. She wrenched away, saying, "Lana locked out all the systems and left."

"Left the compound?" Dan asked, equally surprised.

"Yep. She's somewhere out west over there," Elise said with a wave of her hand towards the forest.

"How do you know?" Brady asked, suspicious.