Evergreen

XI

I was led through white halls, men in white either side of me. It reminded me of the day of my trials, only today held a more sinister tone. My hands were locked behind my back. My face battered and my stomach aching a nice new bruise forming there.

I fought, and I will keep fighting but there is only so long I can fight for. Today they are going to cure me, or rather they will do to me what they did to Alex.

I found out too much, and I couldn't even warn him of what was to come before. I've lost count of the days in here but I know they're numbered. Soon it will come and so help us all.

They will subdue me, as they did him. Try to silence me without causing a scene.

That's what the men in white do. Pure and transparent, but full of lies. They are here to guard us, to protect us from the disease. When really all they are here for is to guard us from ourselves, to protect us from ourselves. The disease is no disease but purely human emotion.

And now they were going to take mine.

The lights blinded me as I was dragged into a room, one familiar to me. Much like the viewing room of the day of my trials I was placed in a glass box. Men in lab coats surrounding me from beyond the glass.

I began to laugh. All the white, all the glass. The Regimes' slogan. 'Purity and transparency for a safer future.' The governing body were anything but transparent. Clouded and controlling the Regime were more of an oppressive scheme.

They strapped me to the table. My arms removed from their shackles just to be put in more, holding me to the stale metal of the table. My legs and feet also strapped tightly, I couldn't move.

'Sleep well Doll.'

I knew that voice, but I couldn't look her in the face. If I could I probably would have spat in it. Everything went black, but one thing remained in my head.

Jean White.