The UPSIDEDOWN Love / Henry Creel / 001 / Peter Ballard

003: dream

I looked up at him. He looked back at me and caressed my head.
"Where did they go?" I asked Peter as he looked around the room to see no one.
"I don't know, maybe complaining to Papa." He said and I stood in front of him.
"Why does everyone call him Papa? Who the fuck does he think he is?" I asked with rage and Peter just laughed.
"Darling, if he hears you, you'll regret what you're saying but I don't like him as well. He brought all of you here like some laboratory rats to test you and your powers. He keeps this as a secret though. He wants you to become weapons if anything happens. But don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you." He said calmly. So Brenner wants to test his new weapon huh? No, that's not happening. I won't let him do anything with me.

"You're injured. Come with me." He adds and takes out his hand for me which I take. I just noticed how beautiful his hands are. Cold with long fingers and veins. Magnificent. He opened the door from the rainbow room and lead me somewhere. I followed. My head started spinning. I guess it's from the wall that crushed my head. Before I could faint Peter lifted me up and sat me on a hospital bed.
"Where are we?" I asked him as I saw him looking for something.
"In the nurses room. When you're injured you just need to come here." Peter says as he takes out a bottle of Peroxide and bandages. He wets a napkin with the Peroxide and slowly puts it on my injured part of head. I flinched a little and he grabbed my hand and caresses it with his thumb.

I looked at him and smiled but he was already smiling at me. To be honest, he's such a sweetheart.
"Thank you." I say and he slightly squeezes my hand.
"For what?" He asked and looked away from me only to change the dirty napkin to a clean one. He gently placed the clean napkin on my head making the bleeding stop.
"For caring about me." I say and he takes his hand from mine and caresses my cheek.
"It's my pleasure." He says right after he looks at my leg which is slightly bleeding as well by the fall. His smile fades.
"Those bitches are gonna regret what they did to you." He said with his voice full of rage. Although he was angry, his touch was still soft and careful because he doesn't want to hurt me.

He cleans my wound and rolls it around with bandage. After I'm all done I stand up from the bed. I look in his eyes and hug him. I felt that he fell into my hug by wrapping his veiny arms around my waist to get me closer to him. My arms were wrapped around his shoulders. He was so tall that I had a problem to reach his shoulders so I got to tip toe a bit. He breathes into my neck and I close my eyes, feeling safe.
He lets go of the hug and i look at him.
"Come. I'll take you to your room." He says and gently takes my hand. We leave the nurses room and walk on the halls. From the corner I see 002 and his gang walking like nothing happened. They looked at me with anger but they were laughing. Like they were planning how to hurt me again. But when their eyes landed on Peter, they froze.

Their footsteps got quicker and they walked past us without saying a word. Actually I was so glad that they kept their mouth shut. I finally saw a door with "007" on it. That's my room. Peter opened the door and lead me inside.
"I have to go now. You rest please." He said calmly with his deep voice. Before he left he showed me a lock on the door.
"Lock yourself here. Don't open unless it's me." He said seriously. That got me a little scared. Why would I lock myself up? Will they try do anything with me again? At least I had Peter caring about my safety and I was so grateful for him.

After he left my room I did as he said. I locked my door and laid on my bed trying to fall asleep. After some time I did so, I was really tired. I opened my eyes and saw that I was in a house. A big house. I wasn't in the laboratory anymore. I looked around myself and saw a woman with a man sitting on a couch and watching old photos and laughing. They laugh was echoed. I felt like nothing is real. I turned around as I heard some fast footsteps running up the stairs. I saw a little girl with blond long hair. She was laughing while she ran upstairs.
I walked up the stairs following her. She ran into a room and closed the door. I tried to open it but I couldn't. She locked it. I got away from the door and started walking.

I saw another door slightly opened. I slowly got to the door and through a little gap I saw a boy. Kinda older like the girl. I think they were a family. Mom, dad, sister and brother. What caught my attention was the boy sitting on the floor with his back facing me. He was looking down like he was playing with something. After zooming in with my eyes I saw a black widow running up his hand. I felt uncomfortable and scared. I always hated spiders. I looked closer now but the spider disappeared. I looked around myself and saw the whole house fading away except the little boys room. I looked back at him when his head turned around. He saw me. He looked me in the eyes as I heard a scream. I woke up in my bed, back in laboratory. It was just a dream. But it still felt so strange. I sat up and I heard the scream again. My eyes widened. It was Peters.