Joe by Jacqueline Druga Page B

He paused. “What the hell am I saying?” He opened up the board, removed the notice and headed to his next destination.
    It seemed to be Danny problem solving day.
    Missing invisi suits, panic over the brain flu, and now Trish having a lock down.
    At least that would be easy.
    Trish was consumed with a phone call when Danny walked in. She paused enough to talk to him. “It’s been insane around here, Danny no one can view history.”
    “Was anyone even here?” Danny asked.
    “What do you think, Danny?”
    “I don’t think anyone was here.”
    “Well, the ghost was.”
    “Oh my God. I’ll go fix the computer.”
    “Be careful, Frank said the men were getting the brain virus from computers.”
    “I’ll uh, keep that in mind.” Danny went into the back room. It didn’t take him long to fix the problem, the computer was locked down. The main frame history link locked up when a password was entered incorrectly three times.
    Overridden, Danny had history back up and running.
    Trish was done with her phone call when he emerged.
    “Fixed?” she asked.
    “All done.” Danny prepared to leave. “Next time make sure you remember the password.”
    “It wasn’t me.”
    “Who was it? You lock it down.”
    “I know, but it was like that when I came in. It read the executive password entered is incorrect.”
    “You’re kidding me? Man, Frank couldn’t remember the password?”
    Trish snickered.
    “What?” Danny asked.
    “Frank never comes in here. That was the ghost.”
    “What are you talking about Trish?”
    She huffed out. “Danny, remember some ghost was using Joe’s password. Well I changed it and sure enough, the ghost only knew Joe’s word.”
    “Really.” Danny tilted his head.
    “Yep. Smart ghost.”
    “Um, yeah. Just make sure you lock up at night.’
    “I do. You can check lock history.”
    “I will.” Danny began to leave.
    “Things are weird around here,” Trish said.
    “You can say that again.”
    “Things are weird around here.”
    Danny laughed. “Tell me about it. Ghost using a Joe password, missing invisible suits and Joe’s floating head. Then again, it’s Beginnings.” Danny with another chuckle walked outside and pulled the door closed. But the moment he stepped out he stopped.
    His own words raced through his mind. Ghost using a Joe password, missing invisible suit, and a floating Joe head.
    He blurted out a ‘No’ with a shake of his head as he stepped forward.
    Then Danny stopped again.
    His mind started spinning.
    It took a few moments for Danny, but he reasoned out the insanity of his thoughts. But then he saw Dan from Security. He was coming out of the clinic and walking to where Dan believed was the down hatch to the cryo tunnels.
    He had things to do, a meeting to prep for, but he wanted to talk to Dan.
    “Hey, Dan, you have a minute?” Danny trotted to him.
    “Actually, not too much. I have to work. I missed all day yesterday.”
    “That’s what I wanted to talk to you about.”
    “Mind if we talk and walk. I’m walking the cryo tunnels.”
    “Sure. I have to make my way up toward the offices, I’ll use this route.”
    “Sweet.” Dan lifted the hatch and climbed down, at the bottom he waited for Danny.
    Although Danny had no problem climbing down the ladder, he was dressed for a business day. He straightened his long sleeve shirt and tie, and then asked, “So how are you feeling Dan?”
    “Better. Much, much better.”
    “Good, I’m glad.” They began to walk.
    “Say, Danny, are they gonna have a town meeting, Maybe immunize.”
    “I’ll bring that up at the meeting today.”
    “Because this thing is bad. You start seeing things, feeling like shit. Man.” Dan shook his head once. “I hope you don’t get it.”
    “Me, too.” Danny paused. “So, with this thing, you don’t remember anything.”
    “You get these black outs where you function and don’t know what you did. You suddenly wake up or snap out of it confused.”
    “That