This choice: Pretend to be sick and go home with Cassie. • Go Back...Chapter #5Pretend to be sick and go home with Cassie. by: SSJ2Shadow   Spending the next fifteen minutes in Cassie's cubicle you start going through the rest of her e-mails scanning through anything easy enough to handle and reply to. Shying away from answering the phone, voicemails began to come in, before you start thinking that you should come up with an excuse to leave work. You start to get up and head towards the bathroom, remembering that the bathroom was on the opposite side of the hallway towards your supervisor's desk. Wobbling along the way in Cassie's pumps praying nobody is paying attention, you finally make it to the bathroom. After going to the bathroom, you wash your hands and face, brushing your hair towards the sides of your face before looking towards the mirror again. Leaving the bathroom, you head towards your supervisor's office deciding to tell the supervisor that you haven't been feeling well all morning and that you might be coming down with something. Eugene was reasonable enough that he let you go for today and hoped to see you tomorrow. Gathering up Cassie's things you pass by your body's cubicle going by unnoticed for the most part and start heading out the main door, saying goodbye to your mom on the way out.
You open up Cassie's purse again and look for her driver's license to find out Cassie's address before punching it into her GPS. Driving back to her house wasn't as hard as you thought it would be, the height difference between you and her proved to be the only problem. After pulling into her driveway and entering her house, you take off her pumps and start to immediately look for her computer to try and talk to Cassie again. Running all around the house, you find the computer in the den and set Cassie's purse down beside it. As you start to boot it up, you figure you might as well get the USB drive inside Cassie's purse. Feeling around for a bit, you take out the USB drive holding the backup of Cassie and plug it into her computer. After waiting for a bit, Cassie opens up Notepad on her own and starts writing a message.
Brett, Is that you? Where are we?
You explain how the Virus came over and deleted the original Cassie and that it was really nice quick thinking on her part to create such a backup.
After he erased you he sensed something was off about me, but he went back to my cubicle and started to do my work I guess.
What happened after he left? Did he come back at all?
Well I didn't want to take any chances with him so I started to do some of your work for a while before finding a way to duck out of work and get away from that thing. It worked I suppose.
Thank you for that, better safe than sorry. As for what to do now though I haven't got the slightest idea. Do you have any idea on what it might be up to?
Nor a Clue. As far as I know it's primary objective is to find a suitable host. Perhaps its next step is to multiply and more hosts?
What if we tried executing the virus' program here? Could we maybe be able to get me back into my body?
You looked on the USB drive and indeed the program, as well as the file for Cassie were both there. You thought about it for a while, if you went through with this you'd be giving up your host body to go back to being a computer file. On the other hand, you are friends with Cassie and you don't really think she would just leave you like that.
Before we do this, can I ask if I can use your body as a host for me?
If you are able to get the program to work and get me my body back I will think about it.
Cassie we're friends, I'm not about to go and do anything terrible if you say Yes or even No for that matter. I would just like to be able to not be a computer file that sits here all day with a computer virus that will drive one of us insane.
Alright fine, I'll get the program ready just set everything up on your end. I want to do some errands and run to the store real fast and pick up some groceries.
Looking around the den you find a spare Ethernet cable and plug it into the computer and plug the other side into the phone next to the computer.
Okay I'm ready over here.
The phone starts to ring as you take a deep breath and pick up the phone. A few moments later you feel the same sensation looking at a Matrix-like place which you recognize as the inside of Cassie's computer.
Cassie, did it work?
Yes! it did. I'm so glad to be back in my own body, my ear hurts but I'll be fine.
Yeah, I felt the same thing when I first entered your body as well.
Brett, I promise I'll try and be quick but I want to at least get all of my errands done first I'll see you in a bit.
Not like you could go anywhere. You start to run a disk defrag on Cassie's computer to speed things up and start browsing through the programs on Cassie's computer. You start to notice that Cassie use a lot of old versions of programs, you wonder if this is because she doesn't like the new features of such programs or because developers keep messing with around with menus and how to find regularly used features. Losing track of time as you are running all the computer maintenance programs available to you that by the time you finished with all the maintenance Cassie came back.
Brett, I thought about what you had said, and I suppose it couldn't hurt if we shared a body for now. At least until we figure out just what this virus is up to. As for right now...  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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