Jimin's Pet | Park Jimin (a hybrid story)

^.^Forty-one~~

Poppy~

I was awake. The sun hadn't even crested the horizon, but I had been awake for hours. This was the last day before some lowlife would buy me in an illegal auction and take me away to only God knows what kind of life. Mi-cha would be here shortly before the first customer was due to arrive, so this was my last opportunity to cry.

Even now, with all that was about to happen, I was still happy I had left the mind numbing safety of the hybrid facility. I had so many firsts after coming out into the real world. Leaving had allowed me the opportunity to find love, however briefly it had lasted. The memories of those feelings, both good and bad, were something they could never take from me now.

My heart was broken, knowing that I would never dance again, and that I would never again see the only real friends I'd ever had. Tears coursed down my cheeks as I cried for all the things I was losing—my love, my friends, my freedom, and my future—but I was glad that I had the opportunity to have them in the first place.     

Farrah, in the cage next to mine, put her fingers through the bars to grip mine in sympathy, even though she was in much the same boat. We sat holding onto each other and consoling one another for the next hour. 

Part of me had remained hopeful that they had been looking for me, that someone would find me and save me from this grim ending. However, we were now at the zero hour and no one had appeared. Mi-cha would be here soon. I dried my face and schooled my features to give her every indication of my being indifferent. I would never let that woman know she broke me.

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Sehun and Mi-cha came in together, already irate before even walking in the door. They stomped around, yelling at each other as they did last minute things before customers showed up. Mi-cha went into the back room, while Sehun unlocked the cabinet against the wall.

"Don't forget that ridiculous outfit you got for the cat, and make sure you don't give them too much this time, you idiot!"

Sehun mumbled curse words as he pulled out a plastic bag and three syringes. These contained the drug used to knock us out when they needed to do things without us fighting back. I stiffened at the sight of the syringes and looked over to a cage along the other wall to see two females holding onto each other in fright. I wouldn't be the only one on display today. There was also a very young fox hybrid and a rare snow leopard hybrid being checked over today.

I watched Sehun walk unceremoniously over to their cage and, without even warning them, jab the needles into them. They were unconscious two or three seconds later, slumped to the side, one on top of the other.

My heart thumped loudly inside my ribcage as he came my way, pulling an outfit that was little more than leather straps out of the bag as he walked. I didn't understand the point of it, I was already naked.

"Are you done yet, you asshole?"

He slammed the syringes down on the top of my cage as he turned, his tone savage as he yelled back, "What is your problem today, woman? Give me a damn minute!"

My breath caught in my throat as slender fingers reached through the bars to snatch the one full syringe left. I trained my eyes on Sehun, not reacting in any way, knowing he would kill Farrah if he caught her.

"That woman is gonna be the death of me," he grumbled, grabbing a random needle and jabbing it through the bars into my shoulder. I flinched in pain and he turned and stalked to the back room, not even waiting to make sure I was knocked out by the shot.

Farrah widened her eyes at me as I just sat there, frozen in fear.

"Dammit, play dead!" she urgently mouthed towards me. Just as Sehun started to turn his head in my direction, I slumped against the back of my cage and let my head flop to the side.