Forever

~28~

My eyes snap open and I find myself on the ground.

"Very good."

I look to my left and see Gorban looking at me.

"It's over?" I ask and he clasps his hands together.

"Yes."

I push up to my feet slowly.

"I'm quite impressed with you."

I cross my arms and he smirks.

"I've gotten what I need."

"Of course." I spit and he smirks again.

"My experiment will work great on your little boyfriend who's on his was to rescue you." I clench my fists-

How does he know?

But I keep my face from giving anything away. He could always be bluffing.

"I'm not surprised he escaped Skylar, and I'm even less surprised that Ryan helped him. I knew everything in him changed when he saw you again, after what five years?"

"They think, they're gonna just run in here and save the day? Take away my most prized possession? I don't think so."

"Hate to break it to you Gorban, but they aren't coming." I say and he laughs.

"Then explain this?"

I look as he clicks play and I see Ryan and Jason coming towards the back door. Ryan catches sight of the camera and Jason looks up and shoots it.

"But they're not coming, are they?"

"Don't you touch them." I spit lunging at him but coming to a painful stop as he holds something up. I cough and look down gasping as blood falls from my mouth and splatters onto the floor.

"Now, I am going to kill Jason just like I had planned before, and I'm going to kill him right in front of you, and you can do nothing to stop it." He says placing the ball down on a table about twenty feet away as I drop to my knees.

"Ryan's powers did come in handy with keeping you down." He says and I spit more blood out of my mouth. He smiles then leaves the room and I clench my stomach, more blood leaving my mouth. The door slams shut and I cry rolling onto my back from the pain. I cough blood flying from my back and I move back onto my knees, feeling like I'm drowning in my own blood. I hear gunshots and I freeze. I see the ball on the table and I force myself to my feet crying out in pain and falling back down to my knees. I force myself to stand up and scream falling back down. I drag myself towards it and the pain enhances as I near it. I keep pushing on though, and when I reach the table, I pull myself up and hoarsely scream from the beyond intense pain. I knock it off of the table and fall to my knees breathing heavy. I catch sight of a hammer and I grab it. I force myself to my feet and limp over to the ball. I lift the hammer and then slam it down hearing a crack. I slam it down again hearing a gunshot from down the hall. The weakness within me grows but with one last cry out I slam the hammer down and the ball bursts into glass.

I fall to my knees and instantly start feeling stronger. I push up to my feet grabbing the pistol from the table and opening the door. I creep out into the hallway and slowly walk down it. I hear more gunshots and I duck behind the wall as footsteps sound.

"Get the girl!" Gorban shouts and I see a brown door to my left. As they get closer I push it open and step inside. I flip on the switch and gasp at all the people laying on cots with tubes in their bodies. I look over at the big tube with a red liquid inside of it.

Oh my gosh. It's my blood!

I look around seeing all the people starting to look frail and weak.