Kryptid

Chapter 19 : not me

Alex  pov:

Izzy's hair tickled my chest as she rested her head against my chest. The blanket was pulled up to her neck keeping us warm. "So did you like your present?" She asked in a seductive voice. "Mmm hmm" I said. "I love you" I said to her not knowing what else to say. "I love you too" she said. I noticed she sounded tired. In truth I was tired as well. I felt her breathing slow against my chest as she fell asleep. I closed my eyes and fell asleep beside her feeling her warmth seep into me.

I woke up very slowly. I was warm and comfortable. I felt Izzy curled up beside me her smooth skin was blazing hot. I opened my eyes. It was dark in the room but I quickly adjusted. I felt happy. More than happy actually I felt amazing. I sat up and looked down at Izzy. She was laying on her stomach. The blanket was pulled down to her waist to where her back was bare. She had a smile on her face. She groaned and lazily opened her eyes to look at me. "Good morning" I whispered. She smiled and pushed herself up on one arm. Now she was sitting up as well, both of us shirtless. She leaned over and kissed me. Just a light brush of the lips as I pulled away. She looked at me questioningly. "If we don't stop now I won't be able to" I said. "I bought more than the one last night" she whispered with a sexy grin. "But I want to go to the store. I need a mtn dew." I said and got up. She frowned and made a soft noise. She was purring.

I pulled on my clothes as she watched me with the covers pulled up to her chest. "I'll be back in a little bit" I said as I started walking out. "I love you" she told me. "Love you too" I replied and I walked out. I saw it was early morning as I approached the exit of HQ. Not paying attention I ran into someone. "Sorry" I said as I looked up to see Luke. He was on the phone with someone and had a nasty sneer on his face. "Yeah. No, they're leaving. Alright, bye" he said as he hung up. He just stared at me for a second and walked off. I shuddered. I got the creeps around him. I walked out and climbed into a little two door car. I drove in the dark for awhile. I thought of last night and smiled. I saw the lights of a gas station come up in the distance but suddenly a car's light flashed in front of me. I slammed the breaks and my head snapped forward against the dashboard.

I slowly got my bearing back and unbuckled my seatbelt.  I opened the door and stumbled out of the car. There was an s.u.v facing my own car right in front of me. Their lights were blinding me. Before I could do anything else two people out of nowhere grabbed me. I tried to scream but one of them put their hand over my mouth and I felt a needle prick my arm. Instantly my limbs started to go fuzzy. The hands that gripped me loosened.  "There see? I told you it would be easy" someone behind me said. I recognized the voice instantly. Dr. Gallahorn. Fear shot like a hot lance through me. "Now lay him on his back." He ordered my assaulters. They shoved me to the ground. I couldn't fight or move. Everything felt fuzzy. "Ah Alex how good to see you again. Now I know you must be thinking, how did we know where you were? Well I'll tell you everything. You see, I like to gloat." He said as he chuckled to himself. I heard car doors opened and bags shuffling. "Well you see I have an operative in your base! I know where everyone is. I plan to destroy apex. However I do not think it wise to attack your headquarters straight up. Rather I will cripple your computer systems from the inside, then destroy it." He said and laughed again. He regained his composure after a short while. "Ah anyway let me tell you the best part. You will be my weapon. You will cripple your own  base and leave it open for attack." He said. I went cold. How? As if he read my mind he continued, "you see as we conducted the experiments on you I was testing a new mind control technology. Originally we could have used it to commit assassinations through the targets suicide. However it was only in its early stages and now it's finished. And you will be the first test." He finished.

I saw one of the figures open up a duffel bag and pull out some metal thing. It was a thin metal oval with four little metal spikes protruding out of the side and one thin needle on top of it. "Roll him on his stomach." The evil doctor said. I started to really panic. I had to fight this. I tried to use my abilities but to no success. "Lift up his shirt" the doctor said with finality. I tried to kick or hit anything to just move. I couldn't. I felt my shirt be lifted up to expose my back to the cold night air. I strained as hard as I could to move just my arm. It barely twitched. My mouth wouldn't even work. I tired to scream. No sound came. For a moment I thought this was a nightmare but it was too vivid. I felt a needle against my spine below my neck. Then it slammed into my spine. I screamed as I felt the needle pierce my skin and into my spine. Pain exploded from my spine spreading everywhere. My vision went red. My head felt like it was going to explode. Then my body went still. I felt something no, someone else in my head. I felt detached like I was in the back of my head watching everything. I watched as my body stand up. I faced the doctor. He was smiling from ear to ear. "Ah yes. Is it working graymark? Move your arm for me" the doctor said into his cell phone. My left arm rose. The doctor laughed. I was no longer in control of my body. I tried to move my arm and stopped immediately. It was like my mind touched an open flame. I recoiled from the pain even though I couldn't feel my actual limbs. "Good, now go to the base. You know what to do." He said into the phone and hung up. "And now Alex you may watch as you destroy the things you hold most dear. You will be as a bystander to General graymark, who now controls your body and takes you over." He said and got into his suv and drove off. "That's right I control everything you do now." I heard myself say. But it wasn't me. It was my body receiving order from the one who destroyed my life. And now he'll do it again I thought as my body now alien to me drove back to HQ.

Isabelle pov:

After alex left i drifted off back to sleep, comfortable in the warm sheets. I jolted awake feeling like i had just fallen. As if fate had planned me waking up at the perfect time, alex walked in. He looked different but not different i thought. He looked the same but there was a strange look in his eyes. "hey" i said as he walked in. "sup" he said back. i had an odd feeling. "so did you get a mtn dew?" i asked him. He looked confused for a second. "no i didn't feel like it." he replied. Now i was confused. That's why he left in the first place. I stopped myself i was being paranoid, it's not like anything happened to him while he was gone. "so do you want to continue with what we were doing before you left?" i asked as i sat up letting the blankets fall around me. A hungry savage look came into his eyes. i got a horrible feeling. That look reminded me of mason. "no, if that's alright with you" he said. A small part of me was grateful due to that look in his eyes. I got up suddenly shy and quickly pulled on my panties and jeans on with my shirt. I almost felt alex staring at me the entire time. I quickly realized that something HAD happened to him. He was different, but not different.

Over the next month I realized Alex was not the same. He didn't talk as much and when he held me or kissed me, which was almost never now, it was not the same. I no longer felt safe in his arms and he was growing distant. Often times when i woke up in his bed he wasn't there and when i asked him about it he just shrugged it off without actually answering it. As i walked back from my room to his, i decided i would confront about what was going on because i knew in my heart something was not right.

I walked in feeling nervous for some reason. Alex was sitting on his bed playing around on his ipod. at the sound of me he looked up but his expression didn't change. I remembered a time when he would've smiled at the sight of me. No longer did he do that. "hey alex can i talk to you about something?" , i asked in a small voice. He powered off his ipod and set it on the nightstand. "sure." he said in a casual voice. I took a deep breath. " okay, but don't take any of this personally ok?" he nodded. I tried forming the words in my head before I continued. "Well lately you seem... Different. I don't know how to explain it or if I'm just imagining it but something's changed about you." I said and shut my mouth. He just stared at me for a second. "I don't know what to say. I mean I don't really feel any different. After all I did get struck by lightning. Maybe it's changing me. But at least one thing won't change about me" he said and looked at me. "And that's how I feel about you." He finished as he stood up. I should have felt reassured or at least a little bit better. But I didn't feel any better. Instead I almost felt worse. Alex got up and hugged me. I leaned into him hoping to feel better. But I no longer felt safe with him. I loosened my grip on him. Something was terribly wrong.