the crack of amelia kearney

crackter 8

scen 3 part 2 the food crisis+more

For the past several days, Amelia had been collecting knowledge to aid her in survival.

She was learning a lot about the facility that she was trapped in from two of the oldest people in the facility, Amber Collins and Andrew Celine. Also known as 13-17 and AC-19. Actually, according to Amber, Andrew was the oldest known patient in the facility, with all other patients being under eighteen except for him. And Amber? She was seventeen. Which was honestly pretty unimpressive. But did have an eyepatch (not a pirate eyepatch. One of those anime swag eyepatches)

The two older people had taken Amelia under their wing after she'd been moderately traumatized by watching a kid get his skull caved in. According to Amber and Andrew, that type of thing didn't happen often, but it did happen more than it should.

Amelia also learned about the Head Staff of the facility.

There was Vonia, the girl who'd had the clipboard and the blue swearer. She was the lowest ranking Head Staff for the sole reason that she'd only been working there for about a month, maybe a month and a half. She was also the youngest Head Staff. Andrew said that he had no idea why she was even hired because she seemed relatively incompetent and bad at her job. (Sorry Vonia)

Then there was Gale. Apparently, they were second in command and had been working there since before even Andrew had been around. Also, apparently nobody knew their gender or had seen their face which was funny. Amelia hadn't ever seen Gale in the flesh, and Amber had said that Gale wasn't often seen near patients. But if they were, they were always accompanied by the redhead guy.

Speaking of, the redhead guy. Apparently he was the first in command. Like, he fucking ran the whole facility. Also, according to both Andrew and Amber, he was older than he looked, seeing as he'd been working there and had looked the same since as long as either of them could remember.

Neither person knew the redhead guy's name. Amber speculated that it would be a, quote on quote, "cool name" like Damien, whereas Andrew seemed absolutely certain that the man's name was "Lee" or something similar to that. Andrew claimed to have heard Gale once refer to the man by something that had sounded vaguely similar to "Lee". Course, nobody believed him because Lee was a stupid name and there was no way in hell that the redhead guy's name was something as lame as "Lee".

And then after Amelia had asked about the names, she'd asked about the "patient tests", sighting how she'd seen Whet's name on the death board with the cause of death being "died of blood loss during a test".

Andrew had, apparently, never been tested. Which was probably why he'd been alive for so long by facility standards. Amber though? She said that back when she was twelve, she'd started getting tested. According to her, the tests had ranged from sitting in a dark room alone for six hours to having several of her organs rearranged and/or removed. But apparently, she'd stopped getting tested after she almost died during a test and had mostly lost eyesight in her left eye.

It had really made Amelia feel genuine fear. She didn't want her organs to be rearranged or removed, and she didn't want to go blind.

But all of that was besides the point.

Now that Amelia had a baseline amount of knowledge about the place she was trapped in, she could start her plan.

What was her plan, you may be wondering?

Well obviously, she was going to manipulate her surroundings and the people around her to get the fuck out of this place.

She didn't want to be some- some lab rat. Some failed experiment. Sure, her life outside of this facility might've been awful at times and several times she'd considered ending it, but she promised herself that if, no, when she got out that she'd make sure to live a happier life. A better, happier life that she wouldn't take for granted at any time. And that was a promise.