ALWAYS [FIVE: THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY]

0.7 Life At The Commission

        Hope opened her eyes to a blurry white light above her. The girl turned her head to look at her surroundings; her hair rubbing against the stiff white pillow her head rested on. Her green eyes scanned the room and found that she was in, what looked like, a hospital room. Almost everything around her was white, a color she had grown to dislike, save for the pale blue curtain that hung to her left. Hope tried to lift her hand in an attempt to see what was behind the fabric, but was stopped before she could move an inch. Leather straps bound her wrists, she also found them on her waist and ankles. 

             Her attire had also changed, she was now clothed in a white hospital gown. 'Where am I?' She asked herself. Thinking back, she tried to rememberers how she had gotten in the hospital room. She could remember her and Five at the fair grounds, then she woke up to a noise and was taken in the House of Mirrors. 'That man,' she thought bitterly, 'he's the reason I'm here.' She remembered being electrocuted then blacking out. Hope didn't know where she was but she knew she shouldn't stay. She had to find Five.

             After mentally preparing herself, Hope created a force field under the bindings on her right wrist. Slowly, she willed the transparent dark blue force to expand, causing the leather to weaken. The force grew and in less that a minute Hope's right hand was free. She used her free hand to unstrap herself from the hospital bed, then she sat up and stood in-front of the curtain. Carefully she looked behind it and saw that there was nothing but an empty and neatly made bed.  

             Hope walked across the room to the only door, the floor cold on her bare feet. She turned herself invisible, then opened the door and ran. Hope ran down the long hallways that seemed to have no end. She went left then right, right then left and found nothing. She passed a few people, all dressed in thier work attire, but no one ever stopped her. Suddenly, the green eyed girl turned sharply around a corner to come face to face with three men. All of them wore suits and glassed. The glasses were what struck fear into Hope's heart; they were thermal goggles. They could see her. Turning around as quick as she could, Hope dashed down the hallway, the three men not far behind. 

             After three long minutes of running and taking random turns Hope stopped to breath. Her heart pounded and her breathing was shaky and uneven. She crouched down, leaning her side against the wall and peeked around the corner to make sure there was no one behind her. She had lost the three men fourteen turns before she decided to stop. 

              Once the girl has caught her breath she used the wall to push herself up. Still hiding behind the wall, Hope looked at the hallway she had just come from to make sure no one was close. Sighing in relief at the empty path, the black haired girl leaned her back against the wall with a sigh of relief one last time before pushing her self off and started to look for an exit. 

             Turning around to continue doing her journey, Hope came face to face with a Young woman. The girl let out  let out a gasp of surprise as she took a step back. The strange woman seemed satisfied with Hope's reaction. 

                "Sorry about this." The woman said insincerely before quickly grabbing Hope and putting a cloth over her mouth. The cloth must have had chloroform because Hope's vision went from clear to blurry to black.  

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                Hope woke up tied to a chair in an office. A large desk in front of her, sitting in a large chair was the woman that caught the girl.

               "What is it? Are the ropes too tight?" The woman asked, noticing Hope's distasteful expression, her voice lacking all sympathy. Hope glared at the woman.