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[accessobrian]

July 6th, 2012.
CTU: LA.Chicago, Boston, Houston. Now Las Vegas. Of course the alert level was at its highest, but what did that matter? They could pretend they were going to stop every attack, or they could give up, go home and wait to die

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[_righthandman_]

Apparently the newbies think Chase doesn't have enough to be doing, because they're coming to him with their problems. It's that or go to Chloe, who's not likely to be sympathetic, but Chase's sympathy and patience are wearing very thin.

"Stephen, come on. Trust me. You can handle this. I really need you to be at your station right now, man--we can talk later."

He hands Stephen the box of tissues on his desk and buries his face in his hands. Jesus.

[agirllost]

At any other time, Kim would look over at the scene and smile, but right now all of her attention is focused on trying to keep the network running.

The servers keep freezing and nothing anyone's doing is making much of a difference.

They've picked up more chatter and none of it makes sense and Las Vegas was just hit. All around her she sees the reports and has this sick guilty feeling like she should have been there and should have done something. It's not like China; the enemy is not at all clear.

And then there's that little knot of emotion in her head that represents Behrooz and something's wrong but that doesn't make sense either and all she can hope is that he's not involved in all of this.

She picks up the phone and dials Chase.

[accessobrian]

Chloe's trying to concentrate.

"God damn it, I need those files de-scrambled. Right. Now." She doesn't need stupid little pimply-faced hack3rz having issues with their jobs.

"If you get me that Comm link, then maybe we can salvage this, AND save some other city another terrorist attack."

Chloe's mind flashes back to when this girl was hired. PoB: Reno, Nevada. Oh shit.

"Look, take a minute. Go to the bathroom, splash some water on your face. Go. Now." Chloe points the newbie to the bathroom. "Stephen, get over here. Take over for Chandra for a few minutes."

[_righthandman_]

Chase would give Chloe a slightly reproachful look here, but he can't blame her at the moment.

He picks up the ringing phone. "Kim? What's up?"