Heaven Can't Wait - Chapter 47

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Chapter Forty-Seven - I Think We Blew a Fuse

A little over twenty hours later, Bellamy is in the bowels of the station, wedged in a too-small crawl space, a flashlight in one hand, his radio in the other. Faintly, he can hear Kane’s voice over the PA letting everyone know the lights might be going off and on for the next few minutes while they do some maintenance to the electrical grid. Does anyone believe that?

He squirms forward a couple feet and shines his light at the walls. “I think I see the panel,” he tells Raven over the radio. “Who’s idea was it to hide it in here?”

“Take it up with the original builders in 2026.”

Bellamy snorts. “All right. What do I need to do?”

“Just plug in the tablet—it’ll do the rest.”

“Right.” It takes him a moment to retrieve the tablet stuffed in the waist of his pants. And another minute to wiggle it out in front of him. He sighs when he finally has it hooked up. “Ready.” The tablet immediately whirs to life as a program starts transferring. Bellamy has no idea what it’s doing. He leaves the science to Raven. He’s just the muscle. Somewhere outside the station, Murphy has it even worse waiting to disconnect the external transformer.

Bellamy tries not to think about the fact that in the last hour, another storm built in the north. Murphy still insisted on going out. He checks the progress on the tablet then changes frequencies on the radio. “How you doing, Murphy?”

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