Broken Bones

Mr. Eludes

Dov and I were stuck in the concrete room for two days.

But on the third day....

A tall man walked into the room. He had black hair slicked back on his head, and a little bit of a beard. He had cold black eyes and looked as if he had never smiled. He wore a sharp black tuxedo.

"Anika, Dov." He acknowledged us with a nod of his head. He had a hard, cold voice. "Anika. Come with me. Dov you will stay here until it's your turn." I didn't move, frozen with terror. What will these people do to me? What will happen to Dov? A million possibilities ran through my mind, a thousand miles a minute. I was pulled out of my trance when the strange man pulled me up by my arm. My look of terror must have showed on my face.

"Now don't you worry. Nothing bad is going to happen to you," he says, with about as much emotion as a pile of shit. I look over my shoulder to see Dov's eyes filled with tears. Whatever happens to me, I hope that I come back to this little boy.

The strange man dragged me out of the room and closed the huge steel door with a bang. He then turned me around and looked me in the eyes. I was so scared that I didn't comprehend his words until he did what he told me.

"This is for your own good," he said, and a burst of pain exploded in my jaw. I stumbled back and saw his fist raise up again. I raised my arms up to protect me.

His fist slammed into my arm.

He flew backwards. What? He cracked his knuckles and started towards me. I turned and tried to run. As soon as I turned, the strange man was in front of me. What? I was so confused that I didn't move and he was able to pick me and throw me against the wall.

Everything went black...

*****

I woke up strapped to a table. My glasses were gone. Things were somewhat fuzzy, but I could make out the room around me.

It was concrete, like everything else. There were monitors surrounding the top half of the table. I couldn't see anything else, because I was strapped around my ankles, wrists, upper arms, thighs, stomach, and neck with metal. There were tubes coming out of my arms and going into bags that hung on the monitors near me. I had a tube coming out of my nose.

What were they doing to me?

How was this for my own good?

Everything hurt. Things were getting fuzzier. I felt dizzy despite the fact that I was lying down. For the second time that day, my vision was overtaken by black.

*****

The next time I woke up, there was a small woman standing next to my bed, typing something on one of the monitors. She had her auburn hair in a ponytail and a white coat on. She turned toward me, and I could see she had green eyes. Then her mouth stared to move. But I couldn't hear anything.

I tried to form words to tell her, but no sound would come out. She mouthed oh, turned a dial on the monitors, and I could hear her.

"Hello Anika. I'm Irene. I am a nurse under Dr. Watson." She sighed. "Not that I like it. Anyways, I'm sorry this is happening to you." Then she was gone, walked out. Bye.

But I was still sooooo tired. But why? And for the third, hopefully final time, I went out like a light.