the angel in a wasteland

Where am i? who am i?

It all started with a gunshot.

It was a normal day at the start of it, well as normal as I was concerned. It was the usual start in laser city. The radio in my parents kitchen tuned to the local rock station playing "heart shaped box" by nirvana. I was just pulling myself out of bed when I heard someone break into our house.

I snuck to the balcony overlooking the kitchen and peered through the rails. Three government security guards and some important looking businessman were talking to my parents, and they seemed pretty angry about whatever they were discussing.

"Where is it?" The businessman kept asking my dad. My dad just spat in the businessman's face and refused to answer. That made them furious, the businessman nodded to the nearest guard and then pointed at me. Shit! I'd been seen, the guard ran up the stairs to me and forced me down to where my parents were and held a gun to my head. My mother, bless her soul made a lunge for me but fell short. But her suffering was over when the laserbullet went into her head. "Mum!!" I screamed and started to try and wriggle my way out of the guards grasp, only when I kicked him in the place where a man does not want to be kicked, he let go.

"No, no nononono..." I mumbled through my tears, I cradled her lifeless body and looked at my dad, he looked like he was going to cry too but he was trying to stay strong for me ( I appreciated that).

"Holly," my dad said through gritted teeth, "go get the papers from my office." I looked up from my position on the ground, "now Holly," I rushed upstairs to the office. It was a big spacious room with lacquered oak furniture, velvet rug, window that looked out over the neon streets of Laser City and the largest collection of books in the city, probably the world even. You see, everything is on tablets that project your computer dashboard at you, my dad fought to have these books and he was keeping them, he said. Now where was I, oh yeah the papers. I grabbed the papers and had a quick skim through them, it was mostly scientific crap, but there was a couple paragraphs about me, they said,

" Holly is responding well to the anti-rejection drugs for the avian DNA implanted in her bloodstream, will start her on the prescriptions for speed and agility enchancers."

What.

"Holly refusing to take meds, she is not eating well either, will have to coax her to eat when meds have been crushed into food. Check up on the overall health of circulation and digestive systems. She has been vomiting and having fainting spells,could be side effects of meds."

What the hell did that mean? Are the meds I've been taking since I was a kid some sort of steroids?! Well, dad you have some explaining to do. Wait, maybe there's more information on this, ran to the filing cabnet next to my dads desk and went to the s-z section, and started flipping through some files until I found one with Tennant, Holly on it.

It said:

Laser City files,

Citizen #253789774

Holly Tennant

On the front.

I decided to hide this file in my hoodie pocket, so I carefully folded it all into a square small enough to fit. After that well, uhhh.... Interesting five minutes, I ran downstairs to where my dad was still arguing with the businessman.

"Give. Me. The. Formula." Mr. Businessman said through gritted teeth. Dad just gave a sarcastic "yeah sure," I don't think Mr b liked that, my dad looked at me straight in the eyes but didn't say anything. I knew what he wanted me to do, I needed to get out of Laser City, and go somewhere very far away.

I didn't need anymore persuasion, I turned on my heel and legged it out of the house.

I was running faster than I ever had in my life, god I was scared. There's an old saying "the only person who's not scared is an idiot." I now know what that means, I was terrified for my life, my dad and what would happen if they caught me.

I ran out of the the city borders and into the desert. I kept running until I collapsed onto the red dust below hitting my head on a rock, I reached at the back of my skull and found, when I brought my hand back there was blood. I was feeling pretty woozy now, until everything went black.

I woke up in an unfamiliar makeshift bed in an unfamiliar place, I tried to raise my head to look around, but that was immediately stopped by a woman with long, bright green hair and a septum piercing.

She said, " you've had a concussion, do you remember anything? "

I racked my brains trying to remember but I couldn't

Before I passed out again, I said, "where am I?" "Who am I?"