The Test 2: Finally Free

Finally Free: Death At Last?

I slept peacefully that night, not because my bed is comfy or anything, but because sleeping pills they have forced on me were actually working that night with no ill side effects.

When I’m woken up I’m lead down some corridors. I trudge after my two scientists in front of me, mainly to keep up and not get pushed by the two scientists behind me. I guess because of my father’s history they are wary of me. I feel numb, but almost in a good sort of way. In less than an hour, even less than that, I’m going to be free. I’m going to see my parents and make them happy, I’m going to honour their dying wish for me to be free.

I won’t say goodbye to anybody, even when we passed Le Docture and he said goodbye to me, all I did was stare hard at him. Telling him with my mind that I know what he did to my parents, and I will never ever forget that. I’m glad I won’t see his face ever again.

I was lead into a large room that had been separated into two rooms by a wall of glass. In each of the rooms was a small lounging chair with buckles and belts on, obviously to stop you thrashing around. A scientist greeted me, hiding the poison and concoctions behind his back.

“Test Evaluation Subject 20?” he questioned me, asking if he had got the right Subject. I nodded stiffly, I knew they poisoned you to dispose of you because it was the less messy option, but that didn’t make it all the less painful.

The pain will only last for a minuet anyway. I told myself firmly.

Something moved in the other room beside me, making me turn to see who it was.

My heart skipped, like I was a suffer of Hyperdynamic circulation. That face that had haunted my thoughts for the past year, those eyes that saw straight through me and into my soul.

Jae.

 He looked at me. First he looked shocked and angry at the scientists for bringing me down here to end my life and dispose of me, but then his expression melted as if he thought that death is a better option then spending another year down here.

He was right, I wasn’t scared to die. I took in his face, he had a black bruise on his cheek like he had been struck. I guess Jae thought he wasn’t going to go down without a fight. Simultaneously we shook off our scientists and ran up to the glass wall that was separating us. Again we put our hands on the glass, tormenting ourselves with the thought that we could actually touch and meet each other. I searched into his grey eyes, I could see no fear. He said something but I could not tell what it was, this glass wall was also soundproof to keep the screams of disposable test subjects at bay. I gave him a pained expression and slightly shook my head, indicating I could not hear him. He frowned in thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

 To my heartache he removed his hand and began breathing heavily on the glass, making his breath condense on it. Once it had condensed enough to his liking he began to draw into the fog, drawing three circles and lines connecting them. Next to the circles he drew the letter H's, then he stepped aside so I could see him again, he pointed to his drawing indicating that he wanted me to read it. I looked at it and a slight smile reached my lips. It was the equation for adrenalin, the chemical that was in the heart. I looked back up to him and mouthed thank you. He sighed and rested his head against the glass, I did the same, cursing the glass for not breaking down. After what seemed an age of standing there, closing my eyes and pretending that I was in Jae’s arms my scientist took me by the elbow.

"Come on, the sooner we get this over, the better for me" he said. I almost laughed out, this scientist was actually pretending he had feelings about taking a fellow mammals life. Scientists are no better than machines. I looked up at Jae, he was being lead away too. He looked at me panicky like he suddenly wanted to bolt now he was swiftly being matched towards his death. I gave him a shaky smile, as if to say everything is going to be ok. He relaxed, knowing that whatever happened at the end of this we would finally be together.

My scientist led me to the chair next to the glass wall that was separating me and Jae. I laid in it, watching Jae do the same. My scientist grabbed my arm and buckled it down onto the arm of the seat, in case I tried to rip out the injection. He made a move for my other arm but I flinched away from him.

"Please" I said my voice barely a whisper. "I want to hold onto Jae" the scientist looked confused at me, so I demonstrated by putting my hand on the glass. The scientist swallowed and nodded, then nodded to the other scientist that was in Jaes room when Jae had asked to do the same thing. I turned on my side, not wishing to see the needle that would end my life. Jae did the same, and then put his hand on the glass. I did the same. Suddenly Jae squeezed his eyes shut, his muscles all tensed. The needle had gone in. I watched as Jae struggled to open his eyes, he did not want to cry in front of me.

As soon as his had gone in, mine had also too. The needle burned as it entered my skin and into my vein. The poison stung as it emptied into my blood stream. I closed my eyes shut, for fear of crying out in pain. I could feel the poison working its way around my body, burning and stinging all around me. My breaths suddenly became fast and short.

The poison was fast.

 Slowly I opened my eyes to Jae; his breathing was fast as he looked into my eyes. Jae gave me a weak smile as his eyes slowly began to droop shut. In his final minuets he said something that even I could tell from behind this sheet of glass.

He said Tes, He said my name.

Jae’s hand slid down from the glass and hung beside him. He was gone, and I would be joining him very soon. Blackness started to paint over my mind, but I didn’t fight it, I embraced it. I was going to be with Jae, we were going to be free.

The last thing I remember is Jae’s peaceful face, and a ear piercing bang.