𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠︱monty green

iv. burn for this

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AS DR. TSING JABBED THE NEEDLE INTO RILEY AND LET THE BLOOD OF AN INNOCENT GIRL FLOW THROUGH THE TUBE AND INTO HER, RILEY TIGHTENED HER FIST. She breathed in through her nose and out through her mouth, knowing crying more than she already had wouldn't do any good. It wouldn't help Harper, who was still sobbing in pain. Her bone was literally drilled into; she was going to be in pain for days. Or until they killed her.

"Why are you doing this?" Riley whispered. She wasn't referring to their plan to experiment; she meant why were they forcing her to be apart of it. Even though doing the experiment was sick and wrong, Riley couldn't understand why Dr. Tsing and Cage were forcing her to take the blood.

Meeting Riley's eyes, Dr. Tsing cleared her throat. It didn't matter if she felt guilty for doing this, it was wrong of her. "We need a test subject," she spoke, checking the monitor and forcing herself to look away from the teenage girl's cold blue eyes. "The last one is deceased, after we used the blood transplant. The bone and marrow treatment should work."

The sadness and grief Riley felt began to fade and she narrowed her eyes at the doctor. Her hands started to tremble with anger and rage as she gritted her teeth. Riley had promised her best friend, and made a silent promise to the forty-seven, that she would help them and because of Dr. Tsing and Cage that promise would be broken. "You know what?" She spoke, her voice quivering with each word. When Dr. Tsing finally looked at her, Riley spoke so darkly and harshly she feared herself.

"You'll burn for this."

Riley's statement was met with only a heavy silence. No one had spoke for the next hour, blood treatments being given to Riley again and again, until Dr. Tsing was telling Cage to unstrap Riley and let her outside. She didn't protest when Cage unstrapped her from the chair and gripped her arm once more, before dragging her to the one exit Mount Weather had. The only stop he had made was to put himself in a suit so the toxicated air wouldn't kill him.

At this point, Riley hadn't cared if she died burning from the inside out. The new blood that ran through her veins made her feel sick, knowing a girl had went through torture so she could be the test subject to know if she could breathe fresh air. It only took a few minutes of Riley being lost in her dark thoughts before Cage was shoving her outside and locking the door behind her.

The second Riley was outside, she stumbled from the shove and her knees hit the ground. Shit, the ground, she reminded herself. Her jeans were digging into dirt, and her palms were cupping the most beautiful green grass. With tears in her eyes, Riley tilted her head back and felt the sun beat on her face as she let out a breath she didn't know that she was holding. It was so much different from Mount Weather's air, this was fresh, and filled her lungs with the most beautiful feeling.

However, none of this changed how Riley got here. Her long blonde hair fell in her face as her head fell forward and she let out a choked cry, suddenly not feeling so angry anymore. She hated herself, because she was enjoying being outside. The only reason Riley was outside was because Dr. Tsing tortured a girl without any mercy and put the treatment in her veins. She hated every single second of having to listen to it, but every second that she was outside Riley was liking it.