Subject 083

Chapter 2

(83's Pov)

                     We watched the 'Tv' for a while before someone was pounding on the door. "Jea we know you have subject 083, we watched the news, so open up and you won't be harmed!" She stands up and sets me on the couch, "Go to your room and lock the door. Okay...I love you, Black." I do as she says and I hear her voice, "What do you mean? I found him on the side of the road near the sign. I took him under my wing and I'm raising the little boy inside. He's only ten and he is mute. His name is Black." "We know you called subject 083, Black. So where is he?" "I don't have to tell you." "Well, it's either him or you" "Or me what?" "We take you as our new subject 083." "BLACK RUN!" She yells and I slide on my sandals and jump out my window. I forgot to grab my things but I couldn't go back now so I just started running. Then I heard a gunshot and a scream. "NO! Leave him alone!" I just kept running and turned to the woods nearby. I was scared, worried, and cold.

         Then I felt a hand grab my wrist and I saw a little girl younger than me pulling me through the woods. "Miss Jae's brother saved me...I'll save you in return. Just stay close." She said as she ran then she stopped in front of a huge tree and she knocked on it making a door appear. "Get in." I get in breathing heavily, she then climbs in behind me and the door disappears as lights turn on showing a whole room with two beds and other things. "Welcome to my house." "Nice," I said quietly, I haven't used my voice in so long I had forgotten what I sounded like, She smiled at me and handed me a bowl of liquid in it. I looked at her confused, "Soup you eat it." I set the bowl down and rolled up my sleeves revealing my '083' tattoo, "You too?" She says as she shows me a tattoo on her neck '021' She is lucky her numbers are on her neck and not on her arm, with mine I need to wear long sleeves all the time. I nod and quietly say "You're lucky you have it on your neck." "I guess...It hurts more on the neck than the arm tough..." I use my powers to cover her numbers up as my nose bleeds. "Oh my..." She says and hands me a tissue. I wipe my nose with it "Powers" I say quietly referring to whenever I use my power I get a nosebleed.

~Flashback~

             "I'm 83, but people call me Gold because of my hair, and who might you be?" I asked as I held out my hand showing my '083' "Mike, but my numbers say '093'" the boy said he had brown hair and brown eyes something I could look at for days but he shook my hand and indeed his arm said '093' "Is Mike your real name?" "yeah.. I don't know how but I remember it." "Well, Mike we are going to be best friends even if they split us apart." I then saw a girl sitting by herself in the room we were in, some other subjects were around they looked around our age. The girl had 02 on her neck but I couldn't see the last number. This is when I went mute. The guards pulled me away and put me in a small room with a mirror on the wall, they would shock me until I spoke up, I eventually stopped talking. I didn't see Mike again either there was an announcement saying the 90's subjects got ill and 5 were in critical condition I was never told who out of them died. All I know is that...Mike was never seen again.

~Flashback End~

              I looked away and mumbled, "Mike..." I used my powers to roll down my sleeves and I close my eyes. "You knew Mike? I'm Ella." I nod and opened my eyes again, I don't want to talk anymore he was the last person I talked to fully and I want to keep it that way. "Eat up...Those meanies should have left by now..." Ella says. I eat silently and Ella heads over to a cupboard, and a tree root hands her a bottle of water. She hands me the water and then she opens the door in the tree. I took a sip of water and then walked out of the tree and Ella starts to lead me back home. When we arrive, I climb in my window and leave my room to see my savior on the floor bleeding heavily and her clothes torn. I run over to her and Ella gasps and runs to get a neighbor. An old woman runs in with Ella and she quickly closes the door and curtains, "Jae! Oh, you poor child...always continuing his work..." She starts to wake up and when Jae sees me she smiles, "Black...Good...I'll be fine...We may have to move..." I shook my head we couldn't move I was just starting to get settled in, "You don't wanna move...Okay. I'll get a security system so that way they can't break in at night." She says and then she holds out her arms to me, "Hug?" I hugged her tight and she wrapped her arms around me and held me close then whispered in my ear. "While Miss Devan and your new friend are tending to my wounds, I want you to go read some papers on my desk in my room." I nod and walk towards her room. When I enter I walk to her desk and I see papers marked 'Subject 083'. I was right I was just a test for them 'a kid who has powers that will be abused in so many ways to harness his powers' then I see a paper with journal entries.