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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agamon" data-source="post: 1056703" data-attributes="member: 184">Jaya walked down the hallway swiftly and barely acknowledged the few people she had passed.  The calm and thoughtful demeanor she displayed belied the nervousness rumbling in the pit of her stomach.  She checked her watch and hastened her step.“This is insane, it’ll never work,” she thought as she rounded a corner.  The calm she projected began to waver.  Beads of sweat formed over her brow as she clutched a datapad tightly in her fingers. “They could get killed doing this, and it’d be my fault.  Hell, I could get killed, too.”  She briefly glanced at a slowly panning security camera as she walked past it. “No, I’ll let it be they’re choice if they come or not.”She rounded another corner, her heart in her throat, but felt some relief at what she saw.  At the end of the hallway, standing guard at the door of the elite prison room was a lone guard, Michael.  He didn’t look very happy to see her.“I think this is a really bad idea,” Michael said grimly.“A worse idea would be to do nothing,” Jaya replied.  “I’m sorry, Michael, I have to do this, I told you already…”“Yeah, I know.  Okay.  I know better than to try and change that stubborn mind of yours.”  Michael looked over at the empty post beside him.  “Jefferson took my suggestion to take off early really well,” he said, smiling.  “He hates the graveyard shift, every other word out of his mouth tonight was a complaint.”  He sighed as he pulled a black rod from his belt.  “Here you go,” he said, handing the rod to Jaya.Jaya took the rod and looked at Michael worriedly.  “I don’t want to do this.”“You have to.  I’m going to be in enough trouble as it is.  You need to make it look like I didn’t help you.  Now, it’s this button right here,” Michael replied.  He pressed the button and two small prongs at the other end jolted with electricity.  Jaya flinched.  “It’s okay, it’ll hurt a bit, but not as bad as it does because you’re leaving…” he said, looking in her eyes.Jaya looked away from him.  “You don’t need to stay here forever.  When you leave, we’ll meet up again.  I told you, I can’t stay here anymore.”“Oh, I’ll come looking for you, bet on it.  Now you better hurry up, you have less than a half-hour until the next shift comes on.  Good luck.”  Michael smiled, and then closed his eyes and gritted his teeth.“I’m sorry,” was all Jaya could say as she jabbed the stun baton at Michael.  His body jolted for a second and he slumped back against the wall and to the floor.  She kissed his forehead and dropped the baton.  Quickly gathering her wits, she punched a code into the door panel.  Once again, she gave a retinal scan and the door slid open.  She hurried inside.</blockquote>

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