Innocence Lost

Chapter 78

"I'm glad to see you have fully recovered from your injuries" Jeanine says to Eric as we enter the elevator.

"I feel 100%" Eric responds and I roll my eyes.

"That's good to hear. We need you at top physical health to proceed with our mission"

The elevator take us up to Jeanine's personal laboratory. Once the elevator doors open she leads us down the corridor.

"Are you sure she can be trusted?" I hear Henry ask Jeanine. I assume he's referring to me.

"She's your daughter Henry. If we can't trust her who can we trust" Jeanine answers.

"She's not my daughter" Henry answers coldly.

For a split second I felt my heart rip in two by his words. He purposely said it loud enough for me to hear. I truly was alone with no family. What did I expect by choosing a different faction. I tried not to let it bother me but Eric saw right through it. He gave me a stern look and I knew he was thinking faction before blood.

We stop in front of the lab and Henry opens the door for us to enter. I could feel his eyes on me as I walk past him. Upon entering the brightly lit room chills run through my body as my eyes laid on several metal examination tables, four to be exact. Next to each one is a console displaying vitals on a screen, there are numerous amounts of wires, electrodes, tubes, and Iv's attached to the bodies lain on each surface. They're all unconscious, but they are all very much alive.  I wanted to throw up.

"As you already know, the goal is to protect the city from the Divergent, to keep such a flaw from spreading and becoming an uncontrollable chaos. To prevent the world from going back to the old destructive ways. A system works only so good as every piece functions as intended. A virus threatens the very existence and foundation with which the system is based. Divergent is a fragment of the old world seeping its way through the walls and into the people" Jeanine states confidently.

"We've uncovered three of them during our last initiation and had been keeping an eye on them. They are now being used for testing" Henry says as we approach the tables.

I didn't know what to say or do, I could feel my composure start to diminish. I needed to keep calm. Eric slowly walks over to the bodies, observing nonchalantly as he normally would do.

I stare down at one of the girls, she has to be around my age. Her pale pink lips are slightly parted as she breathes. I look up at Eric who is staring at me intently. Is he expecting me to lose my cool? To start freaking out?  Instead I do the exact opposite.

"We are keeping them asleep with heavy doses of propofol" Jeanine continues.

I am familiar with the drug. It is primarily used to treat insomnia, cure night terrors, and induce coma's. When the patient wakes they do not even remember being put under.

"They look like everyone else" Jeanine states as she stands next to me and looks down at the girl I was just looking at "That is what makes them the most dangerous"

The sounds of Jeanine's clicking heels can be heard throughout the lab as she walks over to Eric, Henry and a few of the other lab technicians. They seem to be in some type of discussion. Eric walks away uninterested.

I glance over each of the Divergent brain activities. The different parts of their display light up and flickers with an array of colors.

Maybe they're dreaming.

I look at them further and they appear to have numerous incisions, abrasions, and lacerations on the exposed parts of their bodies. I felt so sorry for them and thankful I wasn't in their position.