I am not even sure there is a word for what I was feeling.  I was beyond feeling joy.  I kept my eyes fixed on Josiah as he sat on an adaptive water ski between 2 skiers.  His smile told me everything I needed to know.  He was on his second lap around the lake and beaming.  What was even more incredible was that they were not holding onto the back support of his ski.  He was skiing himself.  Hints of water began to moist  my eyes.  How was  this even possible I thought to myself.  It was incredible.

It is moments like this when it just does not matter how we got here.  Just that we did.  Maybe just maybe this really is all part of that big master plan the man up there has for us.    One thing for sure  its  during  times like this when I don't think about all the sleepless nights I spend up caring for them.  The unending hours spent at medical  appointments and Hospital stays.  The heartache and sorrow that almost drowns me at times, while I watch my sons  fight for enough muscle strength to simply lift a fork to feed themselves.  Because its at times like this when that all fades. I embrace the joy and simply know every step we took to get here was all part of this journey for reasons I am not sure of the we were chosen to  travel.

Josiah placed his phone back in his belt holder and wiped at his brow.  He looked over at where Eve was working with Doc.  She had mixed some of  the  vials she had retrieved from the lab up stairs together and was now studying them under a microscope.  Doc sat closely next to her in silence.

"You are coming with me upstairs to help Cody."  Josiah ordered at  Tony.  "There are more of those things up there.  I am not leaving this room."  Tony said stepping back  from Josiah, almost cowering away.  "The way I see it you are responsible for all of this. I am not giving you a choice."   Josiah placed his hand on his pistol as he spoke.  His eyes glaring at Tony as he felt  its  hard handle  against his fingers. He was almost daring the man to give him a reason to shoot.  Tony stared at the officer.  There was no back up man for him to call now to do his dirty work.  He felt nausea rising from the pit of his stomach.  The sites and smells he had scene filled him with a fear he had never known. "
then I need a weapon."  he almost hissed back at Josiah.  Josiah ignored his request and walked over to Doc.  He handed him the second gun he had tucked in his back.  "Doc use this if you have to.  Don't  take any risk...... if you and Eve want to get out alive."


Josiah pulled the other gun from his  holster.  "Lets go."  He said to Tony motioning  towards the door with his head. "Don't do anything stupid and stay close to me, you will be fine."  Tony followed the man.  Part of him wanting to flee.  Yes flee,  leave the country, he thought silently  to him self.  He could make a mad dash to his vehicle, get the hell out of this nightmare.  He could phone his assistant Vanessa to have a plane ready, some clothes and cash.  He had money stashed in a Swiss bank account,  he could live off that for a while.  He could hide out in some little resort in Mexico till this all fades.  A car yes I need a car.  He fantasized a bit more.  His thoughts were abruptly brought  back to reality for a moment.  Shit he thought to  himself,  he did not have the keys,  his driver had them.  They were with his driver.  His dead driver.  His color went ashen.  He did not have a chance in hell to escape with out a car.  The two men walked in silence up the stairs.  Josiah called out to Cody as they reached the first landing.  "Were just around the corner on the  second landing".  Cody called  back. 

Cody had  been planning  how they were going to move Blake.  They had to get him  out of there safely.  He had remembered  seeing some sheets in one of the closets in the lab, when he and Eve were looking for the vials.  They could stretch Blake out on one of them he thought to himself.  Easily they could get him back downstairs and wait for help.

Just as Josiah and Tony reached the scene Josiah heard is cell phone go off.  He looked at the name it was Eve.  "Eve whats happening?" He quickly said as he answered.  "I've  got an antidote.   I want to try it out on Zach.  He is getting worse.  If there is any chance at saving him we need to try it now."  He could hear the desperation in her voice. "What does Doc think?'  She handed the phone off to Doc he  spoke with a low soft tone.  Its his only chance to keep him from turning into one them."  "We are with Cody now. We will head back as soon as we get Blake ready to move.  Do it.  But keep a close eye on him."  He ended the call and turned back to Cody.  "His leg is pretty bad we are going to have to move him carefully.  Wait with him." Cody said to Josiah.  " I saw sheet in one of the labs we can use it to help move him.  Josiah agreed with a nod and knelt down to asses Blakes injuries better.

Tony could no longer contain his nausea.  The site of the blood soaked half headed corpse just a few feet from where Blake rested  was to much for him.  He tried desperately not to look at the splattered brains and human tissue that  hung loosely from what remained of the shattered skull.  He turned his back to the men and released the contents that had built up in his throat.   He kept his back to them as he tried to regain control of himself.  Beads of sweat dripped from his forehead as he spat out the remains of fluid and bial left in his mouth.

The loud sounds of objects being tossed around in the direction of the lab immediately caught all their attention. "Stay with him.  Do not leave him    Josiah said as he cocked his gun moving  toward the direction of the noise.  Tony stood frozen realizing he and Blake were now defenseless.  "Are you mad you cant leaves us here like this, defenseless." He called out after him.  "Its your job to keep us safe." he screamed.