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Right now, though, none of that mattered. All that was relevant right now was that no one else was going to die. Not if she had anything to say about it.

There was something.

Something she was starting to remember.

It was about the colors blue and green, of all things. It had been niggling her in the back of the head, but she'd dismissed it as another bit of trivial information that wouldn't come to her, like what a bathrobe was called.

Now, though, she was sure that those two colors were critically important.

Spence, meanwhile, went over to help Matt with Rain, even as Alice continued to scout ahead.

So far, the corridor was clear.

She wondered how long that would last.

From behind her, she heard Rain's voice.

"When I get outta here—I think I'm gonna get laid."

Spence chuckled.

"Yeah," Matt said dryly. "You might want to clean up a bit first."

Alice was about to laugh, too, but then it caught in her throat.

She knew this corridor.

And she knew the lab she was standing next to, looking into the window of.

"You okay?" Matt asked. She turned to see that Matt had left Rain with Spence to check up on her. She must have gone vacant for a second.

Blue. Green. Blue and green.

And rabbits.

Then it all came back. In her mind's eye she could clearly see Mariano Rodriguez and Anna Bolt injecting a white rabbit with a hypo-gun. The rabbit was named Daffy for some reason Alice couldn't remember. The hypo was loaded with a corkscrew-shaped tube containing two different color liquids.

One blue. One green.

"Blue for virus, green for the anti-virus."

Matt gave her a funny look.

"There's a cure," she said.

"What're you talking about?" Matt asked, sounding confused.

"There's a cure. The process can be reversed." She turned and looked at Rain, still held up by Spence down the corridor. "There's a cure! You're going to be okay."

Rain actually smiled. "I was beginning to worry."

Alice ran into the lab. The entrance was at the top of a raised entry way, with a short staircase leading down to the main part of the lab. The unsealing of the doors when Kaplan powered the. Red Queen down had reduced the flooding down to the level of the raised entry-way, so the room was still knee-deep in water.

This was where Mariano and Anna had worked, along with their lab assistant, a big bald guy whose name Alice couldn't remember.

They were the ones working on the T-virus.

With a start, Alice realized that she'd seen all of them. Anna was the corpse whose presence floating in this very lab had scared Matt when they first arrived. The bald lab assistant had been one of the ones who first attacked them in the so-called dining hall. And Mariano had been one of the ones trying to kill Kaplan in the tunnel.

Jesus.

"This is where they kept the T-virus."

"How do you know all this?" Matt asked.

She decided to go for broke. Besides, Matt deserved to know.

"Because I was going to steal it." She turned to look at him. "I was your sister's contact."

Mart's eyes went wide. "You betrayed her."

"I don't know."

"You caused all this."

"I can't remember."

She started to move down the staircase, but Matt grabbed her arm.

"The truth."

"I don't remember the truth," she said honestly.

But she found she couldn't look Matt in the eyes, either.

Instead, she turned and proceeded down the stairs.

She remembered it now. The door on the far end of the room had the vault that held the T-virus.

Wading through the sprinkler-system water, she was, for the first time since the mansion, eternally grateful for the thigh-high boots, as they kept her mostly protected from the frigidly cold knee-high water.

The door leading to the vault required both hands to get open, so—since the dress had no pockets, nor did she have a holster—she set Rain's gun down on a table that was above the water line.

Behind her, Matt guided Rain down to sit down on the dry entryway, legs hanging over into the main lab.

Spence, meanwhile, waded down the stairs.

Alice yanked the door