Parasite

Part 19

Toby wakes up to the clicking of the fan. He did not remember going to sleep or moving back to his guest room. Sitting up is difficult as the back cannot curve more than the one hundred and seventy degrees; being restricted from bandages wrap around his torso. The world swirls, voice dry and yells. Casey comes in the room her whole torso shell remove showing what would be a spine made from balls stack on top of each other with thin band like sponge between each of them. There is a large crack on her arm. She grabs a glass of water from the side table, bring the water to him. Sipping the water cools his throat as the world stop spinning.

"Shhh. The sedative has not left the system yet" cooed Casey as she rubs circles on his back.

He rubs at the throbbing pain below his sternum feeling the cavities as the bandage dip under his fingers. Collapsing back onto the pillow, Casey sits still as the two bags swing from where the collar bone would be. She moves as she takes a breath, a very human cue.

Her voice small "I had to sedate you."

Toby closes his eyes, a slight nod to Casey. She continues to talk, "We were rinsing the plates and then you became possessed."

It was a frighting experience when Toby eyes change as if a stranger has decided to stand behind the window in your friends' house while they are out. The speech broken "Don't ...cut...don't cut...open."

His hand grips her arm, the shell start to bend as a crack. Her sensors read the person in front of her as an imitate threat. There are few things an android can do depending on their body and what they are created for. This new body has a few defences mechanism that are use for last preservation of the body. Opening her mouth wide like a snake allowing four small hoses to be exposed; two hoses squirt out a pepper spray right into his eyes. Reflects to the pain the parasite covers the eyes on Toby, with a window opportunity Casey shoots a sleeping draught right into the mouth. By miracle the sleeping draught lands on the tongue. Casey bolts from the kitchen and out onto the patio. The parasites blink rapidly as tears stream down the face. The sleeping draught is a concentrated dose that pulls the possessed Toby onto the floor. West and Becky have come running into the open area. Casey has a real moment of opportunity to perform the surgery. With West they move him into the bathroom were she drills holes into the bone.

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Bo-Peep sat on the end of a bed as a image of a television play the news as they update the kidnapping of West Quarter an assistant cameraman the late afternoon and have last been seen at Raincrow and leaving east heading and therefore if anyone has seen them please report immediately. Tadashi is in the bathroom as the sound of water splash onto the floor. D walks in from his time in the library; his eyes constantly scrolling on his mobile as he eyes flicker over the screen. Bo-Peep watches him as the news change to politics. As the day progress to late noon they had to leave from the hotel room. High school kids are walking around shops as some are eating from bamboo boxes of noodles. They walk from some time as they come to a small cafe with only six tables.

As they sat around for their late three o'clock a chime came from D phone with acceptances. With a tap the speaker Toby voice is on the other end.

"Hey D" the voice haggard as the breath rattles over the line.

"Toby you alright" D said, his body shoulders drop from the tension; "what happen?"

Toby voice came out tenses "We were ambushed. Look I cannot talk for long."

"Yeah uh we are in Raincrow" utter D.

"Right now where are you?" Toby sounds of feet echoing.

D looks at the top of the menu "Lemon Fish"