The Escapist

Chapter 8

         The nurse walked into my view. "Oh well looks who's awake!" she says, "Now we can start."
           She takes a scalpel and starts cutting into my stomach. I feel a lot of pain but I try my best not to scream. "Unfortunately the experiments so far with you have been making you pass out, and have been reopening your scars," she says starting to mess with my insides, and I feel tears streaming down my face biting back screams. Trying not to show her my weakness. I wonder why am I not numb?
             "We were impressed with your abilities. We decided you needed to be stronger and more stone cold, but they thought you were perfect. I knew better," she says. Then she stabs the scalpel in my gut. I hear someone scream and I feel water down my face. Not knowing that it is me that's screaming and crying. I can feel my blood and then I feel it streaming out of my mouth. I start coughing. Choking.
               "Awww not so strong anymore are you," I fade away into black hearing her laugh.
                Next thing I know I am at school. I hear laughter and see smiles. "Lucy are you okay?" I hear someone next to me say. I turn my head and see Buck. Then, I run. I don't know why I'm running, but I get this scared feeling inside me. I started zigzagging going up and down hills.
                 I then find myself in the closet with Isaac. He's on top of me, I'm pinned down. I let him get closer and then I bang my head into his. While he screams and let's go of me I run again. Why am I so afraid?
                 I find myself in Lab 108. I see the nurse to the side and I'm just sitting in a chair. "You passed out again and I was advised to bring you here," the nurse says, "I hope you're okay. You took a pretty bad fall on the field."
                 "Uh, yeah. How long was I out?" I ask hazy thinking I'm forgetting something. I look at the nurse and I become scared. It's like my brain is blocking something out so I can't see it.
                   "A few hours. It was quite a fall, you did a lot of damage to your stomach area."
                   "Okay, I guess I'll just go now," I say.
                   While I'm eating my sandwich for dinner I taste blood. For some reason I start to hate it. I thought I liked it but maybe I'm not a monster. I stop eating my sandwich and I go to the trash and start to puke. Blood comes out and I look at my bandages. It starts coming back to me. The realization of what she did it me. I try to be done but I just keep puking like all I ate was blood. I feel someone's hand on my back and I think they're talking to me. I just can't hear them. I turn to look and it's Isaac. "Lab......108," I try to spit out before puking again. "Nurse....evil?"
              Then I run outside. I start to feel better in the fresh air. I see Isaac come to me. Once he gets here he pulls me in and I limp having him hold me. I can't feel my legs. I also see Anthony make his way over.
"LUCY!" Anthony yells, "are you all right? Also what is this about Lab 108, nurse evil?"
            "I'm.....fine" I say almost as a whisper I try to stand up but I fall and Isaac is right there beside me. Yet he hasn't said a word. "There is a lab called Lab 108 it's on my schedule. The nurse in there does experiments on really good and fast kids to make them better and stone colder. I'm one of them," I say looking at the ground, partly surprised I found my voice.
            "They do experiments on kids here?" Anthony asks.
             "Yeah they either do it while they're sleeping or they erase their memories," I say.
             "I'm sorry for you," I hear Isaac whisper, "I heard of this happening to kids. They usually die in the end from the experiments killing them...I was hoping they wouldn't experiment on you.
"Isaac I'm not going to die," I say looking him in his eyes. I take out my knife and show the hole in the end where you can hang it somewhere. I show him it and say, "I just need a few keys to hang onto my knife."
Anthony looks at me surprised "Why do you have a knife."
"Defense," I say. I try to get up again but I fall. Isaac pulls me into his lap and doesn't let me stand up again. I look at him pretending to be annoyed.
"Ooo lovebirds. I'll leave you two alone," Anthony says walking away with a laughing grin on his face.
Isaac buries his head into my neck and says "Trust me. I won't let anyone hurt you." I feel the bandages around my stomach. Too late Isaac. A few minutes later he carries me to the storage room. I don't care about that dream I had. I know it's not real. While I fall asleep in his lap I hear him say, "I love you."
                  I wake up with him playing with my hair and singing. I don't move. I just want to listen to his calming voice. I wonder how some military orphan caused me to bring back my emotions. I then picture myself drowning in his words. Next thing I know it's probably field time and I'm still in his lap. I quickly get up worried. I look at him and he is asleep. I decide to stay with him to make sure he doesn't get caught. He should get sleep. I take the guitar and I quietly sing along to the beat. A few hours later he wakes up.
         "Your a beautiful singer," he says smiling.
         "I will be leaving in a few weeks maybe a month," I say.
         "Why?" He says.
          "I had a talk with an official. I'm being moved to a higher up facility, or should I say I'm escaping during the transit," I say. "Plus it's best I find Buck."
           "Going by yourself?"
           "Yes, I won't be able to get anyone out with me," I say.
            "Not me or Anthony?" he asks.
             "I'll have to come back for you guys,@ I say. Then I hold my stomach trying not to puke. Isaac comes to my side as I fall to the ground. He lays me flat on my back. He takes off my military shirt which just leaves my undershirt and bra. I'm too busy trying not to puke or swallow my puke to notice. Then he lifts up my undershirt just to the point where my bandages where and started pushing down on it with his hands as if he is giving CPR. I spit out blood and a few seconds later I'm back to breathing. I just have blood all over my undershirt.
               "Are you okay?" he asks me. I sit against the wall and nod. He hands me the military shirt, and I put it over my bloody undershirt.
                During breathes I ask "How did you know to do that?"
                  "Something I learned from John," he says.
                "Thanks," I say with a little blood dripping out of my lip. He notices it and takes a paper towel and wipes it off. I try to shoo him away but it doesn't work. He's determined.
              "Do you remember what she did to you?" he asks.
             "She cut open my stomach, messed with my insides, and then stabbed something inside me. I passed out after that happened," I say. "I also had two dreams after I passed out."
             "What we're the dreams about?"
             "I'd prefer not to tell."
             "Why?" he asks.
             "One has you and the other has Buck," I say.
             "I'll make a deal. You tell me the dreams  and I'll give you a kiss," he says.
             I laugh and say, "No way," then I spend the rest of the day sleeping.

~Author's Note~
         Sorry for the long wait. I wasn't in a writing mood. I also made this chapter longer (more than a thousand words!) and I'm not sorry about the love or gore scenes. Anyway I hoped you liked this chapter of my silly story!
   
  

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