Wild Blood ◇(A Family Force 5 fanfic)◇

Caught in the Crossfire

Jacob was leaning into Teddy trying to get his footing. The sudden change in behavior from the Doc sent the room into a frenzy, but quickly things we're settling down. Everything turned quiet, the air could be heard coming through the vents and everyone's eratic breathing was a rush in their ears.

The gun was locked onto Jacob's forehead. It was as if the Doc was determined to take him out if he didn't get what he wanted. "You gonna shoot me or what?" Jacob asked him.

"Not if it can be avoided. I like my test subjects alive."

Jacob winced at the remark. "Oh really, what do you mean by that?"

"Oh." The Doc relaxed a little. "I'm sure you must have seen him around."

"Seen who?" Teddy demanded.

"Steve."

There was an awkward silence for a moment until Derek gasped something behind him that they couldn't make out.

"I see your friends figured it out." The Doc slowly turned towards Derek and Nathan. "My little monster you could say."

"I thought that was just a hallucination." Teddy said, finally getting it.

"What you experienced in the woods before coming here was purely a hallucination, but anything before that was definitely real."

"Don't tell me that thing is your doing." Teddy said angrily.

The Doc sighed. "Stephen never would listen to me, he always thought his way was best. That his way was the only way."

Suddenly a mortifying thought entered Nathans brain. "No. Oh God please no."

The Doc turned.

"Please." Nathan was pleading. "Don't tell me that thing was human once."

The statement hit everyone like a blow, like they just had the wind knocked out of them.

"It's true." The Doc looked solemn. "He worked with me here in the laboratory. We were both ecologists working to save the world. There was just so much damage caused by oil ruptures and trash dumping, our world was slowly dying. But he- he-"

Progressively the Doc was becoming angrier. "He changed. He decided that the world didn't need saving and he polluted it! He was offered money to do government testing on plant and animal life. He just didn't care anymore!!" The Doc slammed his fist down on to a table. "That is why you got so sick out in the woods. That was his doing."

His face had become empty of emotion and his voice was soft. "So I fixed it." You could hear an almost audible snap as he said those last words. "I fixed him so he wouldn't hurt anybody anymore."

"But you can't just do that to a living human!" Jacob shouted.

"No one cares!" The Doc raised his hand and focused on Jacob. "No one will stop me." Then he pulled the trigger.

Jacob was frozen on his feet. In less than a second that bullet will strike through his heart and end his life. Visions of the past flashed before his eyes. His brothers, his wife, and finally dreams of a family. His eyes started to water.

Teddy, with adrenaline pumping through his veins, saw what was going to happen before it did. The moment the Doc moved his hand Teddy bolted, launching into Jacob and pulling them both out of the firing line. They went sailing towards the wall, but instead of slamming theirs heads into the concrete, they passed clean through it and fell onto the floor in a different room.

The lab was silent. The Doc stood there staring at where Jacob and Teddy had just been. All he saw though was a single gun shell lying on the floor.

"Woah." Derek said.

Suddenly the Doc jerked around and their senses turned back on.

Derek and Nathan bolted, turning down a hallway, just barely missing a stray bullet. For a moment the graying scientist was confused, but quickly he became furious.

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Don't forget guys to let me know if your still up for the Wild Blood's sequel T.A.C.

And if you haven't yet formulated an opinion on that, I have something that may help.

Go my profile, find my story titled, These Dangerous Thoughts, Find the chapter called T.A.C. and I've explained some of my ideas there. It doesn't spoil anything, but gives you a general idea of what's going on inside my brain.

I mean, my brain never stops turning.
......I have like fifteen stories.
...I also have problems.