Hybrid

Prologue

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 It was all too familiar. The smell of a sterile lab and a bit of blood. A bright light shining in my face. Leather straps holding me down on an ice cold metal table. The only thing foreign to me was the sound of Shai fighting for his life. It was his sallow gasps that had awoken from my deep sleep inflected on me by a blow to the head.

My eye finally open my heart begins to pound in my chest and I start to fight against the restrains, which cut deep into my wrists and ankles. When my efforts prove to be fruitless an animal like scream escapes from my throat, hurting my own ears. I hear a loud gasp from my right informing me that my scream had awakened Shai. Immediately I look for him and find him behind bars laying on the floor. He's not in good shape. His eye is swollen shut, bone is visible from his left leg, there is a large gash on his side that looks far from pleasant.

"Oh god, Shai, hang in there," I say quietly, my mind coming back to me I now realize my scream probably alarmed everyone that I was awake. Someone is bound to be heading our way.

My suspicions are proven correct when I hear a click from the door. It swings open and an older man with very little hair and glasses walk in shutting the door behind him, keeping his left hand in his lab coat pocket while the other hangs onto the door handle for a short moment. I know him, but it's not the sight of him that I remember it's the smell. The smell of lilacs, smoke, and heavy medication. I hold my breath as he approached me, not wanting that sent to attack my sense of smell any more than it already has. He circles around the lab table as his eyes study me then walks over to the cage holding Shai, then pulls a cigarette and lighter from his pocket. He lights the cigarette take a few puffs then whistles as he turns his gaze to Shai.

"They really did a number on you two didn't they?" His voice is like nails on a chalkboard to my ears. It's so deep and rough a result of years of smoking, I would assume. "Amazing creatures aren't they?" He looks back at me again, this time a smirk spreading across his face. "Nothing like you. They're stronger, faster, not quite as smart, but intelligence would just get in the way. Make you and your little family look human."

"Their disgusting just like all your other creations." I look him right in the eye as the words slide off of my tongue.

He chuckles then slides a chair over next to the table. He rests his elbows on the metal as he sits down, moving his face way too close to my own. "You know you just insulted yourself right?" He's silent for just a moment then pulls the cigarette from his mouth and without even a single thought puts it out on my shoulder. It hisses as it burns into my flesh though he's efforts to make me scream were a waste.

"You think that's going to hurt after all the things you've already put us through?" I've earned myself an other smirk from him.

"Well, isn't that the truth?" He reaches his cold pale hand across my face to push a bit of hair to the side, "You have been through a lot haven't you?" Taking the opportunity I sank my fangs into his hand. He grunts and yells, "You bitch!" as he quickly pulls his hand away and turns away from me to inspect it. "Well, that is quite a bite," He turns back, "but nothing compared to your old brother." He pulls his left hand from his coat pocket revealing the only two remaining fingers that Gabriel missed years ago when his own fangs had sank into this mans hand. Placing his hand back into his pocket he returns to Shai's side, deciding that was the safer bet.

"I have to admit you have to be pretty clever to have made it back over the wall, though I'm assuming this traitor helped a bit." He places his heavy boot against the side of the cage, and before I can yell at him he knocks the cage over on it's side, throwing Shai onto the metal bars, smacking his head on one side of the cage.

"Leave him alone! And how dare you call him a traitor. It was your people who betrayed him in the first place." The man returns his eyes back to me, his eyebrows lifting in surprise.

"We betrayed him first?" He chuckles again, this time in anger. "He told you only criminals are sent out there, right? Well, I wounder what kind of crime he committed."

"Shut up" Shai's says his voice strained. I look at him, he's now grabbing onto a bar trying to left himself up. His expression both pained and angry.

My eyes still on Shai's blue eye my heart sinks, "He said the government accused him of something in order to kick him out of the city."

"Well, that was a clever lie," A loud beeping noise filled the room. The doctor looked at his watch and pushed a button with his lonely pointer finger. "Well, it was fun talking with you two, but I have things to do." He exists the room, leaving silence in his wake.

The room is quiet for what seems like a long time. Shai is now sitting up, his back leaning against the bars closest to me, clearly not wanting to make eye contact. I stare at the sink at the other side of the room. The silence is almost deafening when I hear a sigh and Shai begins to speak. "If we're going to die here I might as well tell you the truth, Lucia."

"No," I interrupt him before he can do any kind of explaining, " We're not going to die here. You can explain when we're safe."

"And how are we going to get out of this mess?" He starts to cough then I hear a sound I can only assume is blood splattering across the floor, "Unless the others can make it through those monsters we're goners, and you know that, Lucia."

It's hard to argue with him, but I refuse to die here, and there's no way I'm going to go down without more of a fight. I close my eyes and start racking my brain for some kind of plan to get us out of this, though my thoughts only return to what I could have done to have changed the outcome.