Thursday: Expect the Unexpected

Chapter 2: Unknown

I breathed with only the greatest effort. My hands were tightly strapped down to a worktop. My wrists were bruised. Body numb. Side throbbing.
I awoke to hear muffled voices saying something like, "begin the process," and "re-inject". Neither of the things made it sound like anything at all good was about to happen.
Just as I had gotten myself fairly orientated and started making sense, (if that was possible), of what had just happened, I heard an ear-screeching cacophony of noise. I attempted to get up, but my body betrayed me. I struggled for freedom as if my life depended on it.
For all I know, it did.
  I couldn't actually make out what I was trying to escape from. It was near impossible to differentiate the, if there were any, various objects within the room. The only scarce light seeping in, through what I guess were tiles, just about showed the shape of a ceiling fan eerily swaying against its squalid background.
The thundering noise edged nearer, forcing my heart to soar, and not in a good sense. With shear desperation I tried, again, to stand upright or even move my then mauve wrists. The blood-curdling noise was getting increasingly louder by the second. It sounded like a treacherous storm was raving on, although it never seemed to ease, only escalate and by now it was near metres away.
I heard the rattling of trolleys stocked with jars and such heading my way. It wasn't looking good for me at this point.
I squeezed my eyes together hoping that if I enveloped my emotions, I would be back at the dilapidated bus stop, with the rain spitting against its plastic casing creating a gentle strumming sound. I would be sitting there impatiently, fidgeting the minutes away, intently waiting for its arrival.
If only...
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Instead I was awaiting a fate that was unknown to me. Tears rapidly running down my panicked face. Whatever virus had been added to my bloodstream had turned my innocent tears to red rivers. Blood now dripping down the corners of my eyes, began dying my white shirt and socks into a bloodied mess.
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Suddenly, noise made its presence in the room. The doors to the room slapped against the tiled walls. The lights flickered on then off, then on again. A great dark shadow swooped in soon joined by many others and in an instant several needles, syringes and tubes were stuck everywhere.
  Several people swarmed around me and continued fidgeting and one person in particular was causing me a lot of pain. Someone gripped my neck and put it at an unnatural angle and shoved a tube down my neck and I felt it make its way to my stomach. A figure reached over me a poured something into the tube, dribbling some of it on my face. Another figure hauled it out and made a wave of dizziness and nausea sweep completely over me. I lifted my head and began to ask, "Who are yo..?" When suddenly I was cut off by a man smacking my head now onto the counter, giving me a nasty lump, followed by repeated layers of duck tape being put on my mouth, eliminating any chance of finding out what was going on.
  More needles and cannulas were inserted into my veins. My senses were more heightened than ever. I could see so much detail and could hear the minute scratching of syringes. That was until my eyes were tape shut or a blind fold was put on them, maybe both, I couldn't tell.
  Now my only working sense was the ability to hear because my sense of touch was gone with my body being so numb, barely feeling like my own.
  Things were plunged into the backs of my ears, and soon enough hearing went to.
  The pain was unbearable and I was so overwhelmed and scared my body gave in and once again the dark engulfed me and I was in a deep 'sleep'.
I could hear things around me but I couldn't see. My wrists, ankles and stomach straps seemed to have been tightened again; that was the only thing I could feel, that along with agony. I think I was wearing a blind fold and my mouth was closed with tape. I found it incredibly difficult to breath, I noticed my breathing slow right down but I was determined to fight all these viruses and syrums...