David smiled contentedly as the tv screen turned on. And he began to explain the situation to his 'guests' "Thanks to some friends I have within the Chinese government I know that our city is on China's tertiary target list because of it's ports and ship bays. What this means is that we will have about 30 minutes between the time the first bombs strike Washington and when we will be hit." as he said this David moved one of his hands from his shotgun onto Kelly's thigh. He was curious to see just how willing to please she was. "That means that by tuning into the different news stations we should be able to watch the destruction of Washington, New York, and if we are lucky Chicago. Before I tune into the local news so we can watch Ridgewood's end....Exciting isn't it?" David's voice betrayed the fact that he wasn't in the least bet saddened or even phased by the colossal loss of life the events he was describing represented.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>After a moment the machine that the nurse who had taken Auriok's blood sample was working at gave a soft DING. Without turning around the nurse declared "Clean!" she was focused on her job, already getting ready to take a sample from the person behind Auriok once he was finished being processed. The guard who had asked him the question nodded as he answered "medical huh?" he asked "good we can use all the doctors we can get." as he said. As he did this he reached over to the table that the metal detector that Auriok's briefcase was being set through sat on. He quickly grabbed a single green laminated card. "You're a green card" he said firmly as he handed Auroik the card "Keep that with you at all times, now take your things and get in the shelter."<br/><br/>As soon as he handed Auriok his card he was waving the next person forward.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>It took a few minutes soon enough the man in front of Jennifer and Laney finished passing through the check in station "Next two" the female security guard who was overseeing their line said firmly. Time was running out and in a last ditch effort to fill the shelter before the lock down procedures had to begin the word was given to start admitting people two at a time into each line. The nurses and security guards were moving much faster now, obviously strained for time. Small mistakes were being made, and more importantly going unnoticed. The guard who told both Jennifer and Laney to place their bags on the metal detectors and asked both of them what their occupations were wore a look that betrayed she was much more nervous then her words and tone made her out to be. She knew that as long as she was in the shelter when the explosions started she'd be fine but she didn't want to get caught out here processing these losers...<br/><br/><br/><br/>