Poison Ink

The Drug (I)

Molly sat in a computer chair while Ryder sat on the counter.

"Why did you even take it in the first place?"

"I was kidnapped and a woman shoved a syringe in my arm. Wanna know what that feels like?!"

"Calm down it was a simple question."

"You're giving me a whole lot a attitude right now and I have no idea what the hell I did."

"You came back here."

"You know what I'm not normal anymore because of things that happened to me. You don't understand what I've gone through. You've just had a gun put up to your head."

"Yeah what have you gone through. Waking up to the mind of an animal!"

"No. I've been through a woman stabbing her fingernail into my arm right here and I moved the skin back! I've dealer with that same woman trying to kill me after we were dating for a couple momths! I've dealt with going from person to person. I've had plenty of guns shoved up against my head. People look at me like I'm about to change and kill them for no reason whatsoever! You don't understand!" He pushed off the counter and pushed the heavy double doors open to go back home.

"Hey where's the beast?"

"He left."

"What did you do?!"

"Nothing!"

"She just upset him." A scientist walking by said.

"Molly! You know what no. You are no longer aloud in here when he's in here."

"Dad!"

"No! He's gone through a lot and now he's unstable. You just don't understand."

She stood and pushed into a separate room that her father put for experiments that get too crazy.

"I'm sorry." She just looked at him through the one sided glass and waited.

"No, don't be. You had every right to go out of the room. She was making you uncomfortable."

He jumped back up on the counter and looked at the mirror.

"What?"

"I can see her heat signature."

"What?!"

"I can see how warm she is. I can see her heart. How her lungs are letting her breathe. I can see everything."

His head flashed back to Dr. Carter as he heard the pencil move.

"What are you writing?"

"Exactly what you just told me." He looked up and jumped. "Orange. You must be curious huh?"

"Well I don't know what the hell you're doing over there when you look down and scribble onto that paper."

"So this serum should have made you to be able to use more parts of your brain."

"Hell no. I seen Lucy and that doesn't end nicely."

"No it's gonna get to 100 percent. You'll just be able to stop something before it falls or save something before it dies. You'll heal istantly" he smiled and looked at Ryder who was still curious.

"Can you see things in orange?"

"Yeah."

"Amzing. I'm so hypnotised by the power you have. Because the first dose should've killed you. But the second should have just made it worse. The third you would have never made it to. But you're working perfectly fine."

Ryder looked back at the glass and Molly turned pink.

He jumped back and almost fell in the floor.

"What does pink mean?!"

"Love or something like that. Let me check." He looked at Ryder who's eyes were turning from pink to orange.

"Yeah love."

"Molly!" She walked in slowly and looked at the beast.

"Yeah Ryder?"

"Come here." She walked closer and her father just watched on silence. She looked at him for support but he motioned his hand to move closer to him.

"What's the matter?" She finally was about a foot away from him. He grabbed her shoulder and jumped off the counter. He snapped his fingers and kissed her as her father struggled to see.

"She's completely pink!"

"What?" Molly had no idea about what he was talking about.

"Okay. It's love."

"So you're in love with me?" Ryder looked at her and swallowed then leaned against the counter all cool.

"Well."

"You do!"

"You kissed me first!"

"What?!" They both looked at Dr. Carter and smiled nervously.

"I might have kissed him before you met him yesterday after I went with Jayden and that girl Delilah."

"Oh. So Jayden say it?"

"Nope. We were in the darkness."

"Okay I need a moment."

"In my defense I was in beast mode."

"Okay as long as nothing happened after that I'll be fine."

"Well . . ."

"Oh my god!"

"No that was a lie. We just kissed and came here."

He looked at Ryder for support who just nodded to protect his case.

"Good I don't need you two doing anything. Especially with that serum in his blood. It could make all the children you ever want die instantly."

Ryder looked at his hands before shoving them into his hair.

"Is the serum supposed to make his hair soft?"

"No what are you talking about?" While saying that he moved closer to Ryder then put his hand on his head. "Oh my god. Your hair is so soft."

"No. It's always felt the same."

"Ryder. Your hair has been soft tour whole life and you didn't know."

"Well it might have been but I never really touched my hair so it's soft I guess."

"It's soft." He looked at Molly then smiled.