pushed the needle into my skin and injected the liquid into my vein.
“What is that? What are you doing to me?” I demanded.
She pulled the needle out and turned away ignoring my questions. She picked up another vial, a new needle, and injected a blue liquid into my neck. She pulled the needle out and set it on the table.
The pain in my hand began to subside.
“Alright, let’s move her into stage one.”
Two doctors rolled a machine to the top of the table and locked it into place. They took two needles and pressed them into my arms. Another doctor moved in and pulled tubing from the machine and snapped them onto the freshly inserted the needles.
“Ready for fusion.” The doctor said.
The machine began to hum loudly; blue light shown from behind my head. Dark red liquid flowed through the right tube, and a dark green liquid moved through the left. They both entered my skin at the same moment.
I didn’t feel anything at first but that didn’t last. My blood began to boil. I shrieked in pain as more and more of the foreign chemical was pumped into my body. I thrashed against my bindings and screamed as my skin burned.
“What are you doing to me?” I yelled in between screams.
“Grace dear, we are making you better.” Dr. Cid smiled.
I yelled, I screamed, I cried.
I wanted to tear the flesh from my bones.
Darkness began to push in around the edge of my mind and I was happy to let it come. I laid my head back and closed my eyes.
“Sorry, but we can’t let you go to sleep just yet.” Dr. Cid pressed a button on his tablet. A jolt of electricity came through the table and in to my body.
My eyes burst open and I screamed again.
“Please! When is it going to stop?”
Blood ran from my wrists and ankles as I thrashed at the bindings. I prayed for my mind to shut down. I wished that everything would be done with; over.
I wanted to be dead.
~//~
When I woke I didn’t open my eyes. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to know what was going to happen next. The room was cold. I was lying on a thin mat, that didn’t form any kind of barrier between me and the cold metal below me.
I looked at my hand. The bones were in pieces, but as I felt it there was no pain. It was as if the incident had never happened.
I turned my head to the side and blinked. There was a pair of feet.
“Sandy?” I turned my head slowly to look at her face.
“Sorry, my name is not Sandy. It’s Rachel.” The girl said kneeling down to bring her face to the same level as mine. She pushed her dirty blond hair out of her face. She was at least my age, but she looked like she hadn’t had a decent meal in months.
I looked around the room; it was only me and Rachel. I was sure that they had already gotten to Sandy and Kenny. The room was small; there was the bed, which is what I was sitting on, a toilet with a small sink on top of the bowl, and a door. Enough room for me to stand. If I had stuck out both of my arms they would both found a wall.
“Who are you?” I leaned against the wall and rubbed my neck.
“I am like you, part of this project.” She sat on the ground, and leaned on the opposite wall.
“What was that stuff that they pumped into my body?” I hoped that she had some answers.
“Sorry again. I don’t have anything for you. I just wanted to warn you.” She stood and moved into the center of the room.
“Warn me about what?” I looked up at her face, the light from above her burning my eyes.
“They are about to do something to you, I don’t have time to explain what. You need to let your emotions take over, let whatever bubbles up around the edge take over.” She looked scared.
“What in heaven’s name are you talking about?”
“Just remember to let your emotions take over and things will get better for all of us.” She said, “Oh, and the others that you came here with, they are all fine. They have all been through the injection and are in separate cells on this level.”
I let my head fall down into my hands, and rubbed my eyes. I wasn’t sure if I was going to