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Centipede attack
Lauren isn't sure when exactly she had been separated from Jack and Bert in all the chaos - one moment she had been running at their side, the next she was in an empty corridor with nothing but the sound of her footsteps for company. She knows she ought to double back, try to find them, but as she looks around she realises that she is near one of the the labs and the urge to be somewhere familiar and safe(ish) is just too much to fight. She hurries down the hallway, Bert's gun held tightly in one hand as she counts the doorways between her and her destination. Six.... five...
Suddenly, there's a flickflickflick sound from up ahead and Lauren freezes like a deer in the headlights. Her brain is telling her to run but she can't seem to make her feet take even a single step, and the hesitation is long enough that the centipede soon appears ahead of her, taking up nearly all of the corridor with its massive segmented body. Jolted into reaction by its sudden appearance the doctor lets out a blood-curdling scream, at the same time raising the gun and firing off a single shot which does nothing to deter the monster, if it even breaks through its carapace. With a sudden burst of speed it darts forward, seizing Lauren in its forcipules and injecting a dose of fast-acting venom into her bloodstream. Immediately she feels the burning, her heart spasming and then slowing, her limbs suddenly heavy and icy-cold.
"Help..." Lauren croaks out with the last of her strength, though she knows it's futile. If only Bo was here to save her, like she had saved her a dozen times before, a dark-haired blue-eyed fury of a succubus to snatch her from the jaws of death and deliver her safely back to her cocoon of a lab. As the venom seeps through her a veil of darkness descends over her eyes and then she is gone, limp and unconscious in the centipede's grasp.
Suddenly, there's a flickflickflick sound from up ahead and Lauren freezes like a deer in the headlights. Her brain is telling her to run but she can't seem to make her feet take even a single step, and the hesitation is long enough that the centipede soon appears ahead of her, taking up nearly all of the corridor with its massive segmented body. Jolted into reaction by its sudden appearance the doctor lets out a blood-curdling scream, at the same time raising the gun and firing off a single shot which does nothing to deter the monster, if it even breaks through its carapace. With a sudden burst of speed it darts forward, seizing Lauren in its forcipules and injecting a dose of fast-acting venom into her bloodstream. Immediately she feels the burning, her heart spasming and then slowing, her limbs suddenly heavy and icy-cold.
"Help..." Lauren croaks out with the last of her strength, though she knows it's futile. If only Bo was here to save her, like she had saved her a dozen times before, a dark-haired blue-eyed fury of a succubus to snatch her from the jaws of death and deliver her safely back to her cocoon of a lab. As the venom seeps through her a veil of darkness descends over her eyes and then she is gone, limp and unconscious in the centipede's grasp.