The Devil's Daughter

Chapter 15

"Father, I don't want to do this" I cried. I felt powerless, I probably was, I couldn't do anything. Father took the lid of the bottle and took his syringe and filled it up with the substance. "You won't feel anything afterwards because you won't be human".
I swallowed, the injection came closer to my neck. It was about the pierce my skin. Suddenly I heard an explosion, father dropped the glass syringe and the substance splashed all over the floor. A small light was in the distance, it turned from small to big and it became clearer of what it was, it was a fire.
This fire was spreading very quickly. Father growled in frustration and unlocked the cuff from my ankles and wrists, I fell to the ground and crawled away but my dad put this arms around me and dragged me towards the fire and said shouted: "If everything is lost then there is no point of you even living". The fire roared in front of me it left like there were hands trying to pull me in but I knew father was going to throw me in.
He was about to throw me towards the flames but then someone pushed us away from the fire and the figure came towards me and out of the fire and through the smoke. It was Jonathan. He picked me up away from the fire and but father came from the darkness and pushed us. I fell close the fire, the flames licked my skin from the right side from my body. It burned my skin and I crawled away from the flames. I realised that my left leg was broken from the fall. I saw Jonathan and father fighting each other, they were shouting at each other, "You could have been powerful with me, Jonathan" father roared. "I don't care, I won't let anything to my sister".
Jonathan shouted to me "RUN MAIA". Then he punched his father in the jaw. He fell to the ground holding his jaw but it wasn't broken. I stood up on my leg that was okay I walked slowly out of the warehouse and towards the main road. After about 20 minutes I saw a town and it was quiet and nearly empty. I saw the police station and saw fire engines and police cars going towards the fire. I was on the go through the doors but this policeman grabbed my shoulder and asked: "What's happened to you, sweetheart?". I was about to speak but then I saw blood coming from my hip and collapsed on the floor in front of everyone. Then I passed out.
I woke in the hospital bed and saw equipment everywhere. The doctor was coming towards me and he said " Your burns are not bad but all the cuts and bruises and broken bones are. So you are probably going to have to stay here for a few days maybe less, and the police want to talk you about what happened". I looked away from him and the same policeman from before came to question me. "So we have a few questions for you?". "What is your name?". "Maia Collins". He was writing down everything I said. He asked, " How did you become in this state". "My father hurt me and he killed...." My voice was breaking. ".....my little brother and my mother, he burned my skin, injected me, broke my bones and more". " Where is he?". "The last time I saw him was when the was fighting my other brother, Jonathan. Is he dead, please tell me that my brother isn't dead".
Then suddenly I heard a familiar voice in the hospital. " I need to see her...." Then he pushed through the other doctors and I saw him. "Jonathan...." I cried. "...you're alive". "Maia, you're okay". His face was stitched up and clean and he looks okay. "Where's father, is he dead," I asked. " I don't know, he kicked me soon after you left and I fell away from the fire and the building collapsed between us, so I ran to the nearest town and found the police station and they said you were in hospital". "So we don't know if the father is alive or dead" he added. "But I know that he can't be killed Jonathan, trust me I tried. He's alive somewhere and he is going to come back to kill us both, Jonathan and you know this as well". I said.
"Okay, kid why don't you come down the station and we can talk more" the officer grabbed his shoulder but Jonathan replied back "I need to stay with my sister, she doesn't trust anyone else". "Jonathan, please don't leave me alone". " Don't worry, we will take care of your sister". I grabbed his hand and asked him "Can you get Jordan for me, please". He nodded. Jonathan was walking away from me and I waved goodbye.
After about two hours Jordan was with me. He bought me flowers. "Hey, you're safe now". " No, I'm not he still out there and we don't know where he is," I said. "Well, surely he wouldn't come to a public place". I shrugged my shoulders "Well I guess". "Thanks for the flowers", "You're welcome," he said proudly. "Well, you should go because you know it's getting dark". "Yeah, I will come tomorrow," he said.
He left the room and I was in the separate room from the other patients. I turned around to look out the window, I heard the door open I turned around it was just a doctor.
I was sitting up and asked, "What am I getting next". The man took off his mask, he turned around and looked at me and said "Painful injection". It was my father. Underneath my pillow was a button which can alert anyone to help me. I pressed it a number of times. He grabbed the back of the neck and I was struggling and screaming out of him grasp and I was scratching his face to make him stop. "Why don't you ever listen", his voice said.
The doctors came rushing in the room. One of them said, "What's happening why are screaming?". I was panting and I saw that my father wasn't there. " My father.......I saw him....he...he....". "There is no one there," one of the doctors said. "Please, I want my brother.....please". I begged the doctor. The doctor nodded and walked out the room, as well as everyone else.
I faced the window and I was lying down on my side. I was thinking about the father and where he is and if Jonathan is okay and he hasn't got arrested. I started to cry because I was all alone and no one was here to protect me.