Sleeping souls

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Mendez wasn't giving her any chance, her opponents were all pros, there's no way she could protect herself. Visiting the infirmary three to four times a week.

"I'm starting to think you like me." the younger doctor was stitching up her wound.

"Don't flatter yourself." she smirked, looking at the stitches. "Perfect. You're good at this."

"Of course, I'm qualified." he bandaged her calves.

"Right! Like they would let an unqualified doctor to practice." he shrugged smiling.

"I'm Chris Pine, you could refer to me as Dr Pine or Chris." he offered her a glass of water, his blue eyes staring into hers.

"Chrissy." she joked and he laughed, drinking the water himself. "Hey!"

"Don't call me that." it was fun teasing him, after all, he was good looking.

"CP then." she jumped off the bed, her calves hurting.

"Need a hand?" The fun ended when Mendez interfered, she glared at both of them. It sent chills down Kylie's spine, if it wasn't for
Mendez she wouldn't have tore a muscle.

"No, sir."

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"Good to see you walking fine again, Kale." Downey smiled, it was too early for anyone, except for them.

"Let's just say,I've visited the infirmary waaaaaay too much." She gave her best during his lessons and he was good, a great teacher. He measured all the improvements she made, its been months. She'll need to get out there soon, alone. Which is highly unlikely for her to survive.

"Cad- Major?" Mendez glared at them, Kylie took a few steps away from Downey.

"Major Mendez, up so early today?" She could sense Mendez's anger radiating from where she stood, Downey gave a look to Kylie that says, run now or never.

"You gave personal trainings to her?" Kylie started to slip away, it was now obvious that she's been with Mendez's Asset, wrong idea.
"And where do you think you're going, Cadet?"
Kylie stopped breathing, looking at
Downey.

"She needed it." Downey walked closer to Mendez, trying to settle this peacefully. He tried stopping Mendez but she pushed him away, still awfully pissed. " We were training Mendez, what do you have against her?" Kylie took her chance and ran, she stopped when she saw a bunch of people gathered around the entrance.

"Greg! Help me! I need to stay! Please!" They were dragging a kid, others begged them for him to stay. Kylie yelled, turning all their attention to her.

"We are under orders, Cadet." the boy was in tears, his face was filthy. Others were still shivering from the horror they experienced.

"What kinda fucking logic is that. he's just at kid." Everyone cheered for her, one of her Dorm members begged too.

"He's my brother, please. Just let him stay.." he was on his knees, they were planning to start a riot before a guard took out a Tazzer.

"Step back!" The guard yelled, Kylie took her chance and punched him in the face, dislocating his jaw. He groaned, landing straight on the ground. More guards came out, others were pumped to help, punching and tazzing each other.

"Stop!" Mendez took the guns out, pointing at Kylie's direction. It was ready to fire, the turquoise lines were fully bright, just like how Downey described. Everyone stopped, looking at Mendez. She walked towards Kylie still pointing the gun at her, she didn't back off, she hated how Mendez treated her. " You started the riot!" She slammed her a face with the gun, blood dripping from her nose.

"They were throwing him outside for good, they might as well kill him!" Downey came and took control of the situation, he glared at Kylie, no one ever disrupts the orders given.

"You, come with me. Send that boy to the infirmary." Kylie didn't move a step, she carried the boy in her arms and glared at the Majors before walking the boy to the infirmary.
They yelled after her, but she couldn't careless. She was sick of this place, being pushed around by Mendez, bullied and physically hurt more than ten times.

"What's your name?" He licked his lips, it was so dry. He wouldn't last another day out there.

"Jack."

"I'm Kylie." he nodded looking at her batch, Chris was in his lab coat checking out reports until he saw her.

"Hey! What happened?" Kylie gave jack to his capable hands.

"He's dehydrated, infection on his right leg." She stopped herself before spitting out her secrets.

"Okay, I got it. thanks." Kylie walked to board's office. Mendez and Downey Joined this time, she felt less intimidated, she was doing the right thing.

"Cadet, you had no righ-" she cut him off directly, without knowing who he was.

"You are here to tell me, I have no right to help a child? "

"It was an order!" His voice echoed through the room.

"Why? We work for our food daily. He's young, he could do more!" She challenged.

"Because we are running out of supplies, Ms Kylie Benson!" she kept quiet, they were all dying, whether you're inside or out. The meeting was adjourned, leaving Majors and her alone.

"You are a disgrace to my team." Mendez said through her gritted teeth.

"You are a disgrace to your family and you're a bitch." Kylie spun around and walked away, for once, she really hated this place. All the people around it, especially Mendez has a special grudge against her.

"Stop there!" Downey yelled after her, she stopped in her tracks. " How could you say that?"

"Really? Oh right. I totally forgot about the amount of times she assaulted me. How does she do it? what did I do?" Her fists were white, she wasn't in the mood to fight with Downey, he was the only person that helped her. She turned around, prepared to walk away. He grabbed her by her shoulders and her immediate reaction was to punch him in the face.

"Oww." he groaned stumbling back, she ignored him walking to the infirmary.

"hello jack, how are you doing?" Jack smiled giving her a thumbs up.

"I'm great too for your record, just tired." She chuckled looking at CP, he took her hands in his, studying her fists.

"Don't ask." she pulled her hands away, walking back to her dorm, Jack's brother was looking at her.

"Thank you, Benson." he shook hands with her.

"Jack is doing fine-" Hugo interrupted them by shoving a letter close to her face.

" It's a letter from the boards."

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