Nathan Jones

Scene 5 "The Gift From Hell"

{Micro-labs Central Science Facility}

As night begins to fall, at Micro-labs Central Science Facility, Miss. Rebel puts on a lab coat as she hears another scientist enter the room. She puts on lab goggles and latex gloves, then makes her way over to a radio, and turns it on, the song "The Chain" by Fleet wood Mac was playing faintly. Miss. Rebel walks back to a table with tools on it, she begins polishing the tools and cleaning her lab. As other scientists enter the room with a wooden box, they walk the box to Miss. Rebel's table, they place the box on the floor next to her. She reaches under the table grabbing a crowbar, when she has the crowbar in hand she comes back up and leans down to open the box as the other scientists leave the room. Before opening the box she reads the note on the side. "Careful opening may jump." Miss. Rebel begins chuckling thinking it was just a joke from a coworker. She begins to open the box, breaking the nails that held the sides in place. With cracks and snaps, the box finally opens revealing Styrofoam and a plastic tube with another note on it. "From Egypt." the note read.

Miss. Rebel- "Egypt huh? I've never asked for anything from Egypt. That would explain why this note wasn't on the outside." (Chuckles)

She stands up and grabs her test tubes and other tools to experiment on the sand. As she opens the tube with the sand in it, she pours a little in a test tube with water, and some in a dry test tube. While she waits for the sand and the water to level out, she made her way to a counter with the photo of the baby from the school. After a few minutes of waiting for the water and sand to equal out, she gets up and goes to check on the sand in the water. She notices the sand in the water hasn't sunk to the bottom of the water, she grabs the test tube and begins stirring the water and the sand. After a bit of stirring, she gets frustrated and puts her finger in the tube of sand and water, when she touched the sand she grunts in pain and pulls her finger out. She looked at her finger only to see a cut with blood on it, as she places her eye over the opening she looks into the tube. The sand wiggles a little before it jumps at her, it broke through the goggles and lands in her eye causing her to go blind for a bit. She rushes over to the sink to wash it out, she takes her gloves and goggles off and puts her hands in the sink making a cup, she splashes the water into her eye.

Miss. Rebel- "What the hell was that?"

She looks back up into the mirror seeing herself with water dripping down her face. She doesn't notice movement crawling under her bottom eyelid. She dries her face then makes her way to the lab door while she begins to take her lab coat off, she opens the door and walks down the hallway while rubbing her eye. She began feeling sick and runs to the bathroom and begins puking. After a while she comes out of the stall and washes her hand's ad rinses her mouth, she exits the bathroom then leaves the building. Miss. Rebel begins getting a burning feeling from inside of her body, she falls to one knee and groans in pain, she places her hand on her chest with a heavy grip. She coughs over and over again until a pile of sand formed beneath her, she spits out another spot of sand before getting back up. She brushes herself off makes her way to her car, with a yellow glow in her eye, and gets into it, she sits in her car and looks at another photo of the baby, "How I wish I was still with you Brian, but you're long gone, my child." She looks out the windshield then starts up the car, she pulls away from the lab and leaves the parking lot and drives down a long dark road. The road was on the other side of town. While in the car she starts scratching her arm then her leg as movement can be felt from inside of her. She lets go of the steering wheel as the car starts swerving, by the time she gets her hands back on the wheel, a car in the other lane swerves by her causing her car to go off road, she crashes into a tree. She lies on top of the hood with the car smoking and blood running down her face, she sat there blankly with her eyes still open.