ExperiMENTAL

Chapter 19~ Progression or Regression?

"Poppet?" I heard an all too familiar voice say. My worst fear was confirmed when I looked up. Oliver.

I looked around to find out that I was exactly where I died on the floor. Everyone around me had expressions on their faces like they had just seen the revival of Jesus Christ.

"Are you okay, poppet?" Oliver asked me. He bent down and put a hand on my shoulder. Once I realised he was touching me, I immediately grabbed his hand and thrust it away from my body.

"Do I seem okay?" I replied.

"Your going to regret that." He warned. I then noticed he was holding my knife in his hand. Before I realised it, the knife was already coming towards my stomach. It pierced my body, but I couldn't feel it. I couldn't feel any pain again!

I didn't know what was going on, but I knew how to use it to my advantage.

"Don't you know, dear," I immitated him. "You can't kill someone who's already dead." I ripped the blade from my body and stood up. Shakily of course because I still had that stupid brace.

He backed up immediately, but I was still gaining on him. We both could tell I was winning. I kept telling myself, he deserves what's coming to him.

Once I had the chance, I impaled his chest with the knife. He looked up at me with complete and utter shock. Be obviously didn't think he was going to die tonight.

I ripped my weapon out and held it tightly as I looked at the other psychos in the room. Oliver sunk to his knees.

"OLIVER!" Allen yelled. He ran over to him and dropped to the floor, catching Oliver and holding his head in his arms.

"It'll be okay. Ollie, talk to me!" He whispered.

"What's... The magic... Word?" Oliver asked him.

"Oliver, please!" Allen pleaded.

"It'll be okay, love. You know, this blood doesn't really go with my sweater vest." Oliver told him. Then he went into a coughing fit. After about a minute, Oliver stopped coughing and he just lay in Allen's arms, motionless. He wasn't breathing.

Tears were threatening to stream out of Allen's eyes.

"You," he pointed to me. "You will regret ever being born." He threatened. He got up, but he didn't charge for me like I expected him to. Instead, he walked out of the gym. Just walked out.

I checked up on the other men.

"You know, Lutz, we should get going. I'm tired." Luci says to a blonde man I just noticed sitting down next to him.

Luci helps him up and kisses him on the check. They hold hands as they walk out and talk to each other. Matt follows them with his hands in his pockets, listing to music with headphones. If I listened closely I could hear it. Yeah, I know that you wanna be Canadian, please.

I suddenly start feeling the pain. My chest starts feeling on fire. I drop to my knees. Everything starts to go blurry from the immense fiery hot pain shooting through my body.

I hear my friends rush over to me. I hear a bunch of are you okay?s, but am unable to reply. If I knew one thing in that moment, it was that I was not okay.

I pass out.

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I woke up on a bed in a bright room. I heard an annoying beeping next to me and sighed. I opened my eyes and took in my surroundings.

I was in a hospital room. Oh, I remember what happened now. I passed out, probably from blood loss.

My friends surrounded me.

"Oh my god, Marki, are you okay?" Brianna asks.

"Yep, I'm fine." I reply.

"Your lying. You just got stabbed." Cynthia pointed out.

"I know, but it's better now, right?" I asked.

"Well, for now, I guess." Amia answered.

"What happened after I blacked out?"

"Nothing special. We didn't see those psychopaths again, so we just got you to the hospital as fast as we could." Amia explained.

"Ah, okay. Thanks for saving me again, you guys."

"No problem. That's what friends are for. You should rest." Cynthia smiled at me. They all smiled at me and I smiled back.

Then, Matthew and Gilbert ran through the door. I got tears in my eyes seeing them alive again. Despite having been told to rest, I got up and ran to them. I squished them in a big hug.

"I'm so sorry, you guys. I'm so happy your alive!" I told them through sobs.

"It's okay, Marki. Everything's going to be okay now." Gil said.

Then Arthur ran in. "My god, Matthew told me you were in the hospital. What happened?" He asked.

"I got stabbed. It was fun." I replied.

Arthur gave a sad chuckle.

"By the way, have any of you seen Alfred? He's not replying to any texts or answering any of my calls."

"I uh... Um..." I started. I never got to know what happened to Alfred. I passed out before I could check. If I came back, shouldn't he have come back too?

Luckily, Amia noticed my expression of pure terror, and jumped in.

"Artie, let's go in the hall. We need to talk." Arthur stared at her, but nodded. She led him outside the room and I could still see them through the door window. The room was silent.

I saw Amia explaining everything she saw and all of Arthur's reactions. He looked petrified.

I could tell exactly when she got to the part about me and Alfred making ourselves sacrifices. Arthur had his hand over his mouth and he was sobbing. He looked at her with disbelief.

Amia put her hand on his shoulder and consoled him. Then she popped in the room.

"Me and Arthur are going to head home, okay?" She said.

"Alright. We'll catch up with you later." Brianna said.

Amia gave a smile and walked back out of the room. I closed my eyes and took a second to assess all the damage I've caused since I've been here. If I hadn't come here, none of this would have happened.

"Well Cynthia didn't say you should rest for nothing. Lie down and go to sleep." Brianna suggested.

I didn't say anything, just obeyed. I lied down on the bed.

"We'll be back later, alright?" Matthew told me.

"Alright." Then they all left one by one.

I had already made my decision. When they let me out of here, I'm leaving the Uni forever.

A/n: Oh my god, this chapter is such a roller coaster. Well, I wanted to include a lot of plot stuff, so it's necessary. Ahh my little sugar plums, next update will be soon. We may be about to hit the climax!

~~~Sugar~~~