The Rat and The Tower

Chapter 8

The Hospital was a cold and dark place, quiet and unsettling with its history and patients. Hallways were gateways to hidden horrors, with secrets only its broken and spine chilling residents knew of.

How the rebellion thought it would be useful with supplies always confused the former scout. Abandoned stores seemed like a more safer and closer place to get things, at least there he didn't feel like he would get ambushed by patients.

The walls were creaked and molding, some water damage on the floor and ceiling. Beds were knocked over, IV stands seemed like they were thrown about, and boxes full of plastic arms, legs, and joints made getting around a bit harder than it should be. They have to walk around and jump over some of them, walking on the plastic made his feet hurt with the hooks (why was there hooks?) and sharp plastic ends.

They were able to make it pretty far in the dark haunting building, opening gates and going down dark hallways (which was a bit unsettling when there was no patients to be found, normally one person would be stumbling, trying to find a nurse or something), until they came to a set of double doors.

Mono took the lead, coming to the heavy door and pushed against it. Rain came to help him, pressing against the door. Slowly, the hinges were pried open, before they snapped open.

Mono lost his footing, falling, but instead of hard tile floor, open air greeted him. A bright light from far above them lit up the area, nearly blinding him as he scrambled to get a hold of the small ledge that jotted out.

Rain quickly grabbed his arm, helping him by pulling him up onto the ledge. "Careful!" she said after he got to his feet.

Seven came up behind her, looking down at the giant ravine ahead of them. "The Rift got larger?" he asked.

Rain looked over to him, shaking her head. "Earthquakes have started showing more and more since you left, they've been ripping The City to pieces. Guess the Hospital got ripped into two..."

"Earthquakes? Here? We never hard earthquakes before," Mono muttered. Rain looked over, frowing her brows slightly in confusion.

"What are you talking about? You're the one who helped get the rebellion members to safety, you've seen the earthquakes," Rain said back.

"Was this three years ago? Because if it was, I don't remember," he asked. Rain looked at him even more confused.

Why was she confused? She knew he wasn't, whoever and whatever he was in the past few years, right? Seven should have told her; unless...

"Seven, you didn't tell her?" he asked, looking over to the other twin. Seven glanced over to him, before looking away.

"I didn't have time to explain to her fully. We had to get to shelter while you were trying to fall unconscious on us. After we found the hideaway in the alley, me and Squeaks went to go find something to eat. The whole deal with those adult happened, and now we're here, so no, I never did get the chance," he started to snap at the end, growing a bit more irritated as he spoke, the realization creeping up on him.

So Rain didn't know he lost his memories, she was acting like this still thinking he was some kind of monster. Her previous request to let her wrists go came back to him, the fear being smuttered by forced relaxation in her eyes. She was panicking when he didn't let go as soon as he helped her across The Rift, but she hid it well.

'Rain, what did I do to you?'

He wanted to ask, but he feared the answer wasn't something he wanted Seven to hear. The twins were known to always be by the other's side when needed, and if he had done something truly bad to her, he feared Seven would snap his head off his shoulders.