Keith's POV
September 5th, 2019
12:21 a.m.

It took us about 2 minutes to reach the 31st floor. It felt like 2 hours.

We both ran out of the elevator when we reached the 31st floor. Charlie led the way with me following him. He skidded to a stop at a lab door. The room sign read L42.

Charlie jiggled the door knob. It wouldn't budge. He then began to ram against it with his shoulder. I could tell he was panicking.

"You need to calm down. This won't help her at all." I said, grabbing Charlie's shoulders and pulling him back.

I could tell he was getting frustrated, as he tensed up when I grabbed his shoulders.

"Maybe if we both hit the door at the same time, it'll open." I said, glancing at Charlie. Either way he was going to run at it again.

"On three. One.....two....three!" I said before racing at the door, bracing myself for the impact. Charlie was next to me.

We hit the door with a loud thud, and it opened. We both recovered and raced inside. I was rubbing my shoulder.

"Go make sure the door is closed to the terrarium!" Charlie instructed as he began to look for Claire.

I ran to the terrarium. The door was closed and latched when I arrived, which was a good sign. However, not far from the terrarium was a lab station. The microscope light was on. I walked briskly over to it.

That's when I saw her.

Her round face was swollen, as well as most of her body. I raced to her and placed my hand on her forehead. She was burning up. I screamed at Charlie to call 911.

Her skin color was almost as white as a bed sheet. I didn't realize I was crying until Charlie wrapped his arms around me.

'I hear wailing in the streets.'

That song lyric popped into my head as the ambulance drove toward the building. I was shaking uncontrollably.

Her hand was extremely swollen, which must've been where the spider bit her. I cried more, watching as her chest rose and fell. She was alive, but fighting to live.

I was pulled away by someone larger than me, probably Charlie, I don't know. The EMT's arrived and began to check Claire over. I was leaning against Charlie, trying to prepare myself if she wasn't going to make it.

The thought of her not making it made me cry harder.

We sat in a corner, not far from Claire. But that was when I noticed the spider.

It was bright blue thing. It crawled over to me and went onto my hand. Before I could smack it, the fangs dug into my skin.

I managed to pull it off of me and stomp on it with my shoe.

"What was that?" Charlie asked.

"The spider. I....I think it bit me." I stuttered, looking down at my hand.

Charlie cursed before getting up and running over to an EMT. He quickly told the guy what happened and before I knew it, the guy was in front of me, checking my temperature.

I could feel my vision beginning to go black. I also could feel the sweat trickle down my face as a fever took its hold onto me.

Within five minutes I was out cold.

562 words.

Again, mostly a filler chapter, but hey, now we know a bit more about Keith and what he likes.

Also, Claire is alive, so that's good.

Not sure what else I should put here, so here is a meme.