Overdose

7. Yvonne Mcreary

It was two days after I had arrived at the Facility when I was brought to the infirmary. Xander had woken me up early in the morning. My room had no windows, but I assumed it was early since no one was out of their rooms yet. Walking with Xander made me nervous, especially since we were alone.

"Yvonne, do you like our Executioner?" He asked as we walked.

"He's nice, I suppose." His question confused me.

"Do you trust him?"

Trust him? How could I trust anyone who seems to have authority in this place? This thought ran through my head but I didn't say it. At the time, I didn't know what Xander was capable of.

"I don't know who I trust yet." Not a lie, but not the truth either. Xander gave me a smile, which made me think (or at least hope) that I had said the right thing.

He took me into the room and shut the door behind him. There were two doctors in the room. "We're just going to check you over and make sure you're not having any negative side effects from the medicine we used to heal you. We also want to make sure that your Mutanol overdose didn't cause anything either."

One of the files I had stolen during my escape had told me that the reason Mutanol is involved in so many overdoses is because even though it makes you think that you are happy and all is good, it is actually depleting your serotonin. You just can't tell. I also had come to learn that when teens had overdosed on Mutanol, there was an element in there that would cause the actual effects of the overdose to happen faster, which is why I passed out so quickly. It would then cause you to seem dead, but then the drugs that they give you when you are brought to the Facility would be able to 'revive' you. It is harder for people who commit suicide in other ways, and sometimes they are not able to revive them, or they have to use much stronger drugs that may have bad side effects. Evan told me he wasn't sure if he was lucky or not that the drugs weren't able to revive him.

The doctors took my vitals and made sure everything was OK. I took that chance to ask a question that had been bothering me.

"What exactly is in the Containment Unit?" Xander gave me a surprised look, and the doctors paused.

"Excuse me?" Xander asked. He had been standing nonchalantly, leaning on the wall. But then his posture was different, as if he wasn't calm anymore.

"The Executioner took me past the Containment Unit. He said there were patients who had experiments that went wrong down there. What did he mean by that?"

"Continue with the check-up." Xander pulled up a chair across from me and sat down, looking me in my eyes. "We've been trying some things out with our patients. Little things at first, just to make small changes. Make them stronger or faster. But sometimes it doesn't work. Or we do something major, and it goes terribly wrong."

"Are you going to do that to me?" I asked, trying to move away.

"This check-up is over." He walked me to the door and whispered in one of the guard's ears loud enough for me to hear. "Tell the Executioner he needs to keep his mouth shut before he says something else." He gave me a small smile, but it was different from the smile he constantly kept. I wondered if I knew something I wasn't supposed to know.

The guard took me to the rec room. I looked around for a friendly face. It was like when I started Elbridge and went to the cafeteria for the first time. However, the Facility and Elbridge were very, very different.

I spotted a girl with long brown hair and pale skin in the room. She was my roommate, Lilith. She was a sweet girl, with kind brown eyes that you get lost in. Next to her was a boy with dark skin and short, tight curly hair. They were sitting on one of the couches. She made eye contact with me, and waved me over.