Loving and Leaving Him

Chapter 14

I awoke to me in a empty room with machines attached to my beaten body. My arms and legs ached with pain and I felt very weak. I smelt roses that were placed beside my bed. Last time I woke up to Ryan holding my hands caringly, now I was alone in a room that only contained my bed, a bedside table and some carts with medication scattered on the top. There was a large window beside the door to the room. Out the window I saw people walking by my room not paying any attention to who was inside. Nurses with wheelchairs and doctors with clipboards came and left giving me no attention. It was strange on how calm everything looked also how clean it was from the preseptive I was seeing at. The doctors I had seen so far were old and sick themselves but the ones from my window were young and healthy, in fact two doctors who looked to be my own age stood leaning against the wall drinking coffee and laughing. 

I stared at the people who passed my window since there was nothing else in my room. But my gaze was interrupted by a sharp pain in my wrists and ankles. The sharp stabbing pain turned into a burning one making a small scream escape my lips. Then the memory of the doctors operating on me came to mind, the doctor who rubbed the wipe on my wrist causing it to turn red. I remembered how it brunet me and that pain I experienced then I was experiencing now. I tried lifting my arm to see what my wrist looked like now but it wouldn't lift. I moved my head so I could see if the doctors had strapped me down and as I expected they did. I pulled against the straps but they just made me hurt more.

''Doctor! Nurse!'' I yelled hoping someone would hear me. In less then five minutes a tired cranky looking nurse came in rubbing her temples.

''Yes Ms. Strong.'' her voice was aggravated and hoarse.

''I just would like to know why I am tied down like a insane person?'' I asked ignoring the way she rolled her eyes at me. 

''Well you see, the doctors have noticed that when you sleep sometimes you get up and move. They think it's a side effect from the electric impulses. But since you are awake I think I can take them off you until you go back to sleep.'' I nodded as she walked towards me. She reached into her pants pocket and retrieved a small thing that resembled a remote. She waved the remote over one of the straps and the fabric bound opened up leaving faint marks where I had pulled against them.

''Now if you need me or anyone else just hit that button up there.'' the nurse waved her hand in the direction of a green button next to my bed. Before I could thank her she disappeared leaving me alone once again. 

I winced in pain as my wrist started to burn again. This time I was able to lift my arm and get a good look at the area that seemed to be the most painful. I raised my arm only to see a dark red line across my wrist and many small white blisters with it. I felt faint seeing that there was such markings on my skin and that they were causing me such pain. In a panic I checked all the places that hurt, every place had one thing in common. they were the places that Douglas had attached the lead straps to the straps that had in fact channeled the electricity through my body. I felt my neck my fingertips grazed over small bumps and there was a certain spot that was hotter then any other place on my neck. 

In my head I debated weather I should hit the button and ask for a doctor but the way the nurse greeted me last time I wasn't to fond of that option. I looked out my window wondering if I could just get one of those doctors to come and look at me. Their friendly smiles and bright cheerful eyes looked almost unrealistic. I put one foot off the side of my bed and then another only to collapse as I stood up. The pain in my swollen red ankles was unbearable at this point I wanted to scream but nothing came out. I placed my hands on the side of my bed only for them to give out and start to hurt more then ever as well. I finally lifted myself up with my elbows and knees. The process was long and sometimes it hurt my ankles a bit but I was glad to be back to laying down. 

I squeezed my hands together digging my fingernails into my palms the pain I was experiencing was unbearable. I looked up to the ceiling with tears in my eyes.

''Please God if you exist give me something to relive my pain.'' I waited for a response but felt foolish for doing so. I laid there crying in pain eventually the scream I wanted to come came out but it relived nothing. A sharp shooting pain started as well as the burning feeling I was getting making me feel as if I was being electrocuted again. 

''Lacy!'' my door burst open to reveal Ryan with a panicked look on his usually cheerful face. The beautiful glow in his hazel eyes disappeared to just leave empty voids. 

''RyanÉ'' I managed to get out but my voice was strained. Ryan nodded while he walked over to me. He started to undo the mess of wires that were attached to me I gave him a confused look but his face was as determined as ever.

''We have to get out of here. The doctors they work for Tex, they work with his scientists. This is all a big experiment for their new torture device.'' Ryan laced his fingers with mine ever so gently with one hand as he toyed with the wires with the other hand. I started to hear footsteps come from the hallway and for once I noticed that the hall in my window was completely different from the one that I could see from the opening in my door. Ryan pulled on a wire causing the beautiful image of the happy cheerful staff to disappear leaving a ugly gray hallway as a replacement.

''You have to stay awake, okayÉ'' Ryan stroked my head trailing his hands down my arm until it reached my other hand then he pulled me onto my feet. I screamed in pain before I collapsed to the ground. Ryan stared at me looking dumbstruck at what just happened.

''Babe I'm so sorry here I'll help you, sit in this.'' he pulled up a wheelchair. The loud thump of feet grew louder, closer. I did as told I stayed awake but my vision was blurred from my tears. Ryan pushed me out the door and then I saw them rows on rows of guards just around the corner. I stopped crying because I knew if I didn't they would hear me. Silently we went around the corner to stand in front of a elevator which in a matter of minutes opened to reveal my Mother, Father and Mallory. Mallory looked as worried as my Mother but my Father stood strong looking at me with stiff eyes.

''Daddy.'' I said feeling like a innocent child. I looked into his face and remembered a time when that scar wasn't there a time where when I called his name he would rush to my side making sure no one would hurt me. But now I could tell this was something else, something that involved me and whatever was wrong with me. 

Ryan pushed the wheelchair into the elevator shaft handing me over to my Mother. She rested her hands on my shoulders giving me some sort of comfort. Ryan looked at my Dad who gave him a sharp nod which signaled Ryan's departure. Mallory reached for my hand and gasped as she saw the marks on my wrists out of the corner of my eye I could see her crying. I closed my eye only opening them at the ding of the elevator.

''Molly sit up straight, Mallory drop your Mother's hand Suzan hands on the chair not her.'' I looked to see who was talking surprisingly it was my Father. Then I remembered my identity as Molly Strong. I sat up straight and even waved to a few people around me. I knew where we were, in the hospital lobby, Father walked in front of us leading us towards the door. We walked out and a tall lean guard stopped us. 

''Passports.'' he said with a hint of amusement in his voice. My Father handed over four green booklets containing our fake identities. 

''Where'd you get the short oneÉ'' he motioned his head towards Mallory and my chest tightened I saw fear graze across Mallory's eyes I prayed in my head, hoping it would work again.