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Isla was fairly certain she’d missed something big. Or a lot of big things. For a start, her head was absolutely pounding and her legs barely worked. Having absolutely no shame at this point, she’d parked her ass right down on the ground in the parking lot they’d all gathered in. 

Along with that, everyone else seemed absolutely pissed. Definitely not the time to ask what had happened while she’d been drugged up. 

[color=FireBrick]“For once, I agree with Emily,”[/color] Maya spoke up from where she leaned against her own car, eyes sharp with anger over the whole affair (and getting cockblocked). [color=FireBrick]“Why the fuck did we think trusting some outsider was a good idea? The hell was someone going to just give us useful information? And why the fuck are you still here?” [/color]

She turned to Penny with a brandished finger, eyes blazing with anger. [color=FireBrick]“For all we know she was feeding that bitch information the whole time!”[/color]

[color=f26522]“Hey, Penny wouldn’t do that,”[/color] Isla piped up in her defence, as if doing that in the face of someone blinded by rage was a smart thing. [color=ed1c24]“She-”[/color]

Thankfully for Isla, and for Maya not getting arrested for destruction of property and murder via soundblasts, the very feds Madison was giving up about turned up. Maya turned her furious gaze towards them, narrowing at the sad expressions they all wore. What the fuck. Whatever they had to say wasn’t going to be good news. 

[quote=Leon]"I regret to inform you that Claudette, she… She didn't make it." [/quote]

It took a moment for the news to set in. Isla stared up with wide eyes… confused about how it had even come to that. Fuck, if only she hadn’t drank that drugged cola then maybe she could have teleported them out before shit happened… and saved their leader. Former leader. She wasn’t exactly sad, she didn’t know the girl, but she felt a sinking guilt over it. 

[color=FireBrick]“She- fuck- are you kidding me?” [/color]Maya gritted her teeth, fist clenching at her side. She spun around and kicked her car, hard. It didn’t make a single dent, because she was weak as shit, but it hurt her foot. Which just seemed to fuel her anger more as she turned back around. [color=FireBrick]“Did no one help her? How the fuck did she… What the fuck! What’s the point in trying to solve our problems if we all end up fucking dead?!”[/color]

She hadn’t even been particularly close to Claudette, but it was too much. Their numbers were reducing too quickly. And fuck, if anyone deserved to die it wasn’t Claudette. She’d been [i]trying[/i] for all the Maya had rolled her eyes at it. Fuck. 

[color=FireBrick]“We can’t just let them get away with this. We’re not going to get any fucking cures from them, so we might as well just destroy them.”[/color]

It was an incredibly idiotic thing to say in front of the DENS, nevermind as an idea, but Maya’s mind was entirely clouded by a boiling rage she’d felt since having a gun held to her head. They couldn’t just go back to Tampa empty handed and pretend everything was fine, until the next one of them was murdered. 

[color=FireBrick]“Kimberley too.” [/color]