Devil's Children

Check-ups from hell

“Subject Two, come to the platform." A voice bellowed into the grey lab as a young girl stood from her concrete bed. She stretched her arms above her head and looked at Subject One walked in from the experiment.

“What is it today?”

“A few shots, a blood check, and a check-up.”

The girl huffed softly and said to the boy, “How many shots?” To where the boy held up 9 fingers and rubbed the back of his neck quietly. Three looked down and said, “these shots always hurt my arms! It’s no fair! I hate getting shots!” Two turned around and growled, “Stop complaining! I have to get eye drops AND a needle through my eye!” The room went silent before Seven stood up and said with a small voice, “We should be grateful we’re still alive. You don’t know when one of them is going to pull us into the back room and finish us off,”

“Ya know, I really wish they ended me off.” Four said, standing and shrugging his shoulders. Five and Six gave each other looks before looking at the ground. All the children were boys except for Two, who was supposed to be killed many years ago but when they found out they could use her for blackmail against the other children, they kept her. They all knew that Two was going to be killed off when they found no more use of her and so they always stalled her when they had the chance.

“I should get going…. Doctor Rodgers’ll get angry at me if I stall in here.” The others nodded and they gave her each a hug, for they didn’t know if it was the last time they would see her.

The girl walked through the large cell bar doors and she limped down the hall, taking her sweet time and ignoring the doctors and scientists giving her glares. When she made it to the platform, the scientist grabbed her by her wrist and yelled, “What took you so damn long!? You’re lucky I don’t beat you black and blue!” He threw the young girl to the floor and towered over her, grabbing her once more my her wrist and giving her a few harsh smacks on her backside.

Two gasped and screamed, flinching and kicking her legs with each swat of his hand. When the scientist was done, he placed her on the table and began cleaning her arms. “You should be ashamed of yourself! Making me wait when I called for you! Unbelievable!” He grabbed the needles and proceeded to inject her with chemicals and other medication.

“Uncover your eye so we can put drops and get you new bandages.” 

The girl did as she was told and uncovered her right eye from bloody bandages. Her right eye was grey and scarred, blood still pouring out of the pupil. Her eye was no longer black like the other experiments, but white and grey. Black blood fell from the eye and dripped onto her hands. The scientist lifted her head and cleaned out her eye, then stuck a needle in and injected it with medication. Once this was done, he added eye drops and bandaged it up like before.

The scientist helped her down from the table and let her walk out as he went into the speaker, "Subject Three, come to the platform" Two rubbed her bottom and walked to the cell once more, crawling up to Five and falling asleep in his arms. Three left and One slammed his fist against the cell bars, "They can't do this forever! I'm so FUCKING sick of this! SO FUCKING SICK!"

Six walked to One and rubbed his back, "bro, calmed down, you're going to have a panic attack again if you don't take a deep breath." One shoved the boy away and yelled, "DOES IT LOOK LIKE I GIVE TWO FUCKS!?" Four got up and slapped One across the face, saing, "calm down! Two is sleeping and YES! Yes they can do this forever because they OWN us! We aren't human, we're monsters and monsters don't get to be with the humans!"

One stepped back and he shoved Four to the ground, "I WILL NOT BE PUSHED AROUND BY YOU! I WILL GET US OUT OF HERE! WE LOOK, SOUND, FEEL, AND ACT LIKE HUMANS!"

"OPEN YOUR EYES, ONE! NO ONE IS COMING FOR US!"

"MY EYES ARE OPEN! WE DON"T NEED SOMEONE TO SAVE US< WE NEED TO SAVE OUTSELVES!"

There was a loud bang and a scream from the platform, causing silence to linger in the room. Six got up and went to the bars of the cell, "Three!? Three, are you okay!?" There was another scream and One ran to the bars, banging his fists, "THREE, ANSWER US!" There was another long silence before the scientist threw Three in the cell. He had bloody bandages on his nose and he was knocked out. Six picked Three up and yelled, "Three! Three, answer me!"

"what... did you do...." One turned towards the cell bars and slammed his body against them, reaching out for the scientist who was a few inches from being grabbed,

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO HIM!?"

There was a long and quiet pause from the scientist before Doctor Rodgers chuckled and turned around and walked away, saying, "This is an example of what happens when you lie to me. This is what happens when naughty subjects don't listen to their masters. This is what's going to happen to every single one of you.... if you are disobediant."

With that the subjects sat there, tears swelling in their eyes and trying to figure out what happened.

what happened....

they all knew they were doomed

that they were going to die.