Chapter 10 - The Confession on Every Hospital Screen
Daniel guided Mia through the broken monitor’s hidden service menu.
The screen flickered beneath the cracked glass.
Most controls no longer responded.
The emergency archive function remained active because Daniel had restored it for the center’s historical display.
“Press the lower button twice,” he said.
“Then enter Caroline’s patient number.”
Mia hesitated.
“What was it?”
Adam had once told her.
Caroline had been Patient 001.
Mia entered the number.
The machine requested a second code.
FIRST RECORDED HEARTBEAT
Daniel searched the original archive.
The timestamp came from the afternoon Caroline received the compound.
Mia entered it.
The monitor displayed one word.
CONNECTED
Celeste activated the deletion command from Harborview.
The order traveled through the modern diagnostic system.
The broken monitor intercepted it using the original Northbridge administrator protocol.
Instead of deleting the patient records, it copied them.
Not only to the Olivia Grant center.
To every hospital network still containing legacy Langley equipment.
Across New England, screens changed.
Doctors, nurses, patients, and families saw the Harborview data.
They saw the disabled alarms.
They saw Beatrice’s confession.
They saw Celeste standing beside the control console.
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The senator could no longer contain the story inside one building.
Detective Brooks placed her
