"Thank you so much for watching Mars!" The doctor says.
"No worries!" I laugh, "How long is he going to sleep?"
"At least a couple more days, this medicine is powerful, I heard." She explains.
"Why does it take so long for it to wear off?"
"Would you like to try it? You ask so many questions now…" She grins.
I back away slowly anxiously to run off as soon she brings a needle out, tripping over my own two feet out the door. I dash down the halls to find the wall open where Alex was kept.
"Chara?" I ask.
She stood there silently watching as large eyes big as dinner plates observing Alex's heaving in and out in an attempt to breathe on the ground, his skin lashed and broken with deep lacerations, blood seeped and oozed under the tight ropes that restricted movement.
Her maid dress was smeared with his bodily fluids, I had to cover my nose to the gore inflicted on Alex. I could tell she was beating him with a steel pipe.
Leisurely she faces me, dropping the steel pipe she crumples to the ground. I am fast enough to catch her. I hear footsteps behind me as I shake her trying to wake her.
"Here I was hoping she would have beat him to death…" Shimon smiles.
"What did you do to Chara?" I growl.
"I was having a bit of fun is all," Shimon argues.
"How dare you do this to Chara!" I shout.
"Hold your tongue, Igor!" He warns.
"Or what?" I yell back.
"Or I will turn you into an experiment as well since I heard you are snooping around…"
The mere mention sends shivers down my spine, I audibly gulp nervously in his presence. He doesn't deny these things, he simply states them to bring more power to frighten me.
Another person appears behind him, Doctor Silas from the place I was held before. His glasses are glaring against what little light is in the room.
"Thank you for bringing my original experiment back to me…" Silas comments.
"Wait, I thought you were a good doctor?" I shout, "Wait…"
"You really are dumb!" He laughs.
"He has been keeping tabs on Everett and Moran!" Shimon explains.
"Maybe…I should actually play with you this time?" Silas smiles.
"Don't you dare!" Gavyn threatens.
Gavyn gets in front of me brandishing some sort of short dagger in hand ready to defend my life, they close on him ready to lay their hands on him.
"Gavyn…stop please…"
"No, you keep giving up!" He answers.
"Chara…the young master…" I spout.
I begin to give in, letting my hand allow tears to stream down my face, laying Chara down, I dust myself off clutching the chain I stand there pitifully.
"I have an idea…have him work the floors," Silis explains.
Terrified by these implications, Gavyn gawks at me from afar. He enters his hand through my body decidedly taking control. I am made to do a back-flip swinging the blade around to-and-fro only to be grabbed from all positions by the hands pulling up from the ground like the ones that brought me here.
A hand clinging around my head restraining my movements, Doctor Silas strolls over to me holding a syringe. Gavyn separates from my entity, lashing out, knocking the needle out of his hand.
Shimon snaps his fingers, Chara sits up almost robotically to blankly stare me in the eyes.
"Chara! Snap out of it please!" I yell, "She just came out of a coma you bastards!"
"She will fall back to sleep and not even remember this happened Igor, I just wanted to test the command work first," Shimon says.
Wobbling to her feet, she bends down stumblingly to pick the needle back up, limping over to me. Gavyn attempts to wrestle the object from her fingers, but she stabs him with the needle causing his limited room to exist in that body to dissipate.
"Christian!" He shouts.
Straight in the eyes, I shift my face away from her, unable to understand how this could be the same sweet and caring Chara I always knew.
"But we also learned her secret…Igor.." Shimon says.
"Y-yes…"
"I think she is the key, give me a reason I shouldn't kill her?" Shimon states.
"Because I will do what you say!" I scream.
"I will have Dominique introduce you to your new duties then…" Silas laughs.
Released from the binding appendages, I bow down to Chara to squeeze her tightly in my arms. Hunching, I lay my shaking head on her shoulder.
"Chris…tian…" She says.
"She came out of it…" Silas whispers.
She embraced me back, closing her eyes, Shimon pulled her off me pushing her to the ground to rip off my eye patch.
"Hmmm…" Shimon replies.
"Later, meet me in my office," Silas responds.
"Master Alex!" Chara cries loudly.
"Give her a bucket of water and bandages…I guess I owe her that much." Shimon scoffs.
"Will you really allow us to take care of Alex?" I yell excitedly.
"As long as you keep your end, you may…" He explains.
"Understood Master Shimon!" I answer.
I carry my young master back to our room as soon as Shimon and Silas leave, Dominique meets me in the hallway holding a pail of hot water. A washcloth sits on the side.
"Christian…what did you do Chara?" Dominique asks.
"What do you mean?" I inquire.
"They are now interested in you, you need to lay low." Dominique scolds.
"I just hugged her though?"
Gripping the handle, Chara comes out helping me bring it inside. She quickly sticks her tongue out at him slamming the door in our faces.
"Stupid bitch I brought you here!" Dominique yells.
Chara kicks the door with all her might letting him know that she understood what he said, he pounds on the wall back nearly denting a hole into the cheaply made surface.
"How do you even like her? She is so pompous and annoying!" He shouts.
"Are you with Katherine now?"
His face turns red, he combs his face with his bony hands in embarrassment not giving a straight answer.
"Well…I guess I am…"
I smack him on the back proudly to get still life images of Gavyn in his grasp, stopping what I am doing I forget what I was thinking. Reversing I become instantly nervous in Dominique's company.
"I got to check on the young master, I mean Alex!" I stutter.
"Why so suddenly?" He asks.
"Let's hang out soon okay? Catch up!" My voice breaks into a squeak.
"Okay…"