Patient 0

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"Wake up 52".  The voice startled me awaking me from my dream.  "We've let you sleep in for 1 more hour than your other friends".  I slowly sit up looking around the room. The same bright room that I've been in since I can remember.. empty with only a bed and a bucket. "It's time for you to eat along with the other patients". I look up at him. The face of an empty man who has no remorse for what he does to me and my friends. It's sickening. I start to get up and feel pain in my legs.  A couple of bruises usually doesn't bother me but right now they hurt more than usual. My vision being a bit blurred doesn't help at all either. He opens the locked door and gestures me to follow. I start limping towards him and walk out the door into another room where I get to eat with my friends. "Make sure to eat all your food and don't play sick.. I see you limping and it won't get you out of the tests today".  I nod feeling a bit shaky knowing there's even more tests while being in pain. He opens the door and I see my friends in sight. 53 looks fine even though he's been tested on more than me. 54 is still the same while munching on the food.  The coatmen closes and locks the door behind me startling me. "Goodmorning 52!" 53 says to me while waving. He's always been high in spirits and it makes me feel safe. I'm sure 54 feels the same. 53 has bright orange fur which matches his bright personality. He also has an arrow antenna so sometimes I like to call him arrow. He doesn't mind and I'm happy for that. 54 has light blue fur and white fluff on his shoulders. He's a fighter against the coatmen trying not to get tested on.  Almost all the time he has to be put to sleep and now he's droopy all the time. I sit next to 53 and look at the plate of food that was set up for me. Mushy and smells bad. It's the same food every day. "Just eat what you can alright? We just have to get through another day" 54 says. "We say this everytime and it's getting tiring.. the same food..the same testing...when will it ever come to an end where we can be free and be happy?". "Maybe after all the testing they'll let us go!" 53 says trying to keep our hopes up. "I really hope so..". The door suddenly opens to another man holding a book. "52, since you have been doing your tests without any fight and being obedient.. We've decided to give you a notebook". I look at him in confusion but I get up and walk up to him and wait for him to give it to me. When he does I open it and see blank line paper. "This is for you to write or draw what ever you'd like..though be mindful we will check on it every 2 days to make sure there's nothing wrong, got it?". "Yes sir and thank you". He nods and gestures all of us to finish. "Wow someone is a favorite" 54 looks at me while drinking. "I don't think so..but maybe it can help us somehow...?". I wanna hold onto hope that one day we can leave and be happy but this is not as big of a step it should be for us to leave.

I was aloud back into my room to drop off my notebook. One of the men helped me open my door and there I placed my notebook on the bed. After that he took me to the room that I hated the most. "52 you know where to sit at". I sat in the table knowing there would be tone of needles and injections. "We have something new for you and your friends".  A new injection isn't really new to me. They always have something new and I don't even know what the purpose for all of this is for. "As you know you been put through various amount of testing but it's all for a reason..you and the other patients are special cases. Usually tubbies don't have antennas but you guys do and we want to figure out why and how. We want to find out what makes you different genes all the testing". I don't know how I feel about being told I'm different. I don't wanna be like this I never wanted to be! "So we have something entirely different.. patient 0".  The way he said it made it seem more terrible than the others. "What's best for you is to remain calm and to not react to any pain".  The man inserts a needle with a tube in it into my left arm.  At first I don't feel anything but when the pink fluid went into the tube in my arm it felt like little needles into my veins. I couldn't help but squint in pain. I think the man noticed and took out the needle a minute later. "You're free to go now". I couldn't even feel my arm. It felt numb. I try to get up but my strength disappeared within a matter of seconds having that stuff in me. "You can get up it's not that bad".

"Wake up 52! You're missing out on the flowers!". I open my eyes to see a bright blue sky and a bright yellow ball. I stare at it for a few more minutes before sitting up. Green floor that was spiky and smelled amazing. 53 and 54 looking at me with big smiles and laughing. It's amazing! We're outside! Freedom! I get up and hug them. "We're finally free!".  When I hug them it didn't feel like fur it felt like my pillow. Rough and had a stuffing coming out of it. I open my eyes and there I was holding my pillow. I feel my tears start to slowly form from my eyes. "I want to be free".

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