Alcmene Argent
"What do you want with me?" I ask this time it sounds angry and with little fear.
He just chuckles "Now that would ruin the surprise, wouldn't it?"
"Fuck you." I snarl viciously and glare at him for what seems like forever with him delighting in my weakness and anger.
"Not my type." He tells me in a mockingly warm tone of voice smiling and looking me up and down.
"Go fuck yourself. Vaffanculo." I snarl and glare at him some more.
He just smiles back. We stay like that unmoving for a while in a staring contest.
After for what seems like hours, I watch him walk away, slowly backing up not breaking eye contact with me. Then there is some pain in my neck but before I can worry about it the world turns to oblivion once again.
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This time when I open my eyes, I'm in a dark place, probably a cave because of the rocky ground and a steady drip of water. I start to pant the air is thick with humidity, and it is hot in my cave which tells me that I'm not that far underground. In here I also can't tell what time of day it is, so I don't know how long I've been away from the twins.
They need food, I failed.
Hopefully, one of the neighbors will feed them but that chance isn't very good considering that the closest neighbors are two miles away, and even if they even have extra food or any food, there is a good chance they wouldn't walk two miles to give to two unfamiliar eight-year-olds.
I start to walk around to get a feel for my surroundings even though my eyes haven't quite adjusted needing to do something and hoping I can find a way out.
Then I hear a chain rattling. I freeze my heart almost beating out of my chest as I listen for someone. I hear nothing for a while and my heart slows down as I feel a cool metallic ring and feel a new weight on my right leg and realize the chain I heard was attached to my ankle.
I relax slightly though terrified and curious why they need to chain me-and a little proud they find me a threat-but I shake away that thought and try to relax and get my head together.
So, I test the chains distance. I can almost walk to the mouth of the cave. I walk and feel around memorizing my surroundings. But as I start to walk to the back to plan my escape, I notice something I didn't see before.
Something catches my eye and I walk over and pick it up bringing it closed to my face I try and find out what it is.
A small plastic water bottle, probably only about eight ounces, and a mini bag of Doritos. I walk over to the back and open them and think. First, I plan my escape, but I realize that I don't have enough information to escape yet.
I will need at least a week, better vision, and inside information, which means a guard. So, not bothering with planning yet I imagine being free and the twins safe far way. I eventually fell asleep and dream of a wolf.
I am awoken by footsteps nearing and multiple voices growing louder.
One of them is familiar, it's the guy from the old gas stop. The other voices are unfamiliar must be his boss and another follower.
I try to listen to what they're saying but I only catch bits and pieces. "Strong lineage… wolf… antidote… strong… powers" gas stop guy says. "19-year-old girl… test subjects… any family?" The first unfamiliar voice says.
Oh no, siblings. Please do not know about the Azazel and Mel.
I listen harder.
"Yes twins, on their way here" says the guy from the gas stop. My heart stopped for a second as I heard that.
The world spun around me, my thoughts on Azazel and Melisande and then I collapse, and everything turns black.
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I had this weird dream about a silver-white wolf that looked like moonlight itself that I have been seeing a lot recently (when it's not a nightmare/memory).
I woke because of a burning pain coming from the side of my neck. It took a second for my eyes to adjust but then I could see the stronzo who captured me standing at the cave entrance.
Next to him a middle aged, short, skinny, dark man with glasses standing closest to me and though there was nothing especially creepy or suspicious about him he gave me a weird feeling to attack him or run the other way but he was standing just out of my chains reach, and a large guy that looked like the older version of my kidnapper standing behind the short, raccapricciante-creepy-, man.
The man behind the glasses looked at me with sick interest and the old man behind him clears his throat and starts talking "I'm the leader, John Lawson," he tells me like we're old friends. "This here is my son his name's Elijah," he points to my kidnapper, "and this here is who we call Doc." he waves his hand at the bastardo inquietante in glasses.
Then John starts talking again "We-well Doc- thinks he's found a cure or an antidote to the Guillotine-V, so we are finding test subjects who have a special something, and your one of them so that's why we have you and your siblings." He tells me in an almost southern drawl that you can tell is fabricated.
So that answers my question about why I'm here but what are they going to do to me?
Then I am zapped to attention by something in the back of my neck. I reach back to rub it and I feel a metal disc but then my hand is burned. I yelp and jerk my hand away.
Doc jerks me up and explains "Elijah put it into you when you were captured it will zap you if I press a button so don't do anything stupid. Now get your lazy ass moving." I sigh and follow silently.
We arrive to a bigger cave that has four other people in it, all of them shackled to a wall. Among them are my famiglia, il gemelli (family, the twins). I feel a little relieved that they are okay but terrified because they are here. How long will they last here? Doc and John leave and put Elijah in charge of shackling me. After he finishes, he whispers in my ear "Hey kitten, try and survive for me okay because I like seeing your pretty face-especially alive?"
Then he leaves silently, and I'm left feeling confused and a little terrified. Then my piccolo angela, Melisande comes running over to me and starts sobbing in my shoulder. I stroke her hair and try to calm her down.
When she finally calms, I ask her "Hey Mel are you and Azazel okay?" She sniffles and nods.
Then Azazel runs over from where he was napping "I'm sorry Mé, we got bored and I convinced Mel to come with me on a walk but then we played tag and got carried away. That's how we got caught. I'm sorry it's all my fault." He tells me with a guilty tone.
I hug him "It's not your fault fratellino. I'm sorry I didn't protect you guys better," I tell them sadly. "I'll protect you guys as much as I can here though." I hug them and for a while we stay like that until the twins calm down.
Then I notice the other prisoners and I walk over to them, "Ciao, hey, I'm Alcmene. Call me Mé. What are your names."
The first one I see is a short, toned girl with wild auburn hair and a dark tan and golden and blue eyes with a friendly smile. The other test subject is standing right behind her but still seems defensive and is a tall, lean boy with unkept chocolate brown hair and pale skin and amber and green eyes.
The auburn-haired girl speaks first "I'm Persephone and this is my childhood friend, Matt." She introduces to Matt who waves, "Hey."
Then Persephone walks closer to me and shakes my hand "Welcome to our cave prison, Mé." She tells me. "There is another girl, Lillith or Lillie. She's being experimented on right now she'll be back later but won't be physically able to introduce herself, so we'll wait 'til tomorrow." Then Matt starts to teach us the ropes and what to expect about life here, but I only catch bits and pieces, but they are the most important parts.
A meal twice a day, they only do experiments on one prisoner at a time, the experiments only take half a day or less a person-they think because they can't actually tell but it takes two meals and assuming they give you three meals a day it takes half a day so you get back to sleep and if you're conscious dinner-, you are unconscious the whole time so you don't remember nothing.
They can read your thoughts and talk to you mentally using the metal disc implant and it has a tracking device. After he finishes, I think and eventually I start to doze off still cuddling with the twins.
Later that night I am suddenly awoken because I hear footsteps and a thud. I jump up and walk over curious to see what it is. I see and unmoving figure and for a second I am worried it's dead but then it breathes releasing the tension from my body. I step closer to get a better look and I see it is a girl. It must be that girl, Lillith, that Persephone was talking about. I see that the guard already chained her up I wonder if it was Elijah and I look up and nobody's there and I feel strangely disappointed, but I shake that off. I look back to her and she is asleep so I can get a good look at her.
She isn't fully extended so I can't get a good guess of height, but I would say she is about average height maybe a little taller.
She has wavy black hair (that looks surprisingly well kept) and dark olive skin. I walk back over and lie down again as Mel starts whimpering and she calms down at once.
I fall into a deep sleep before reliving the memory of my mom's death then the dream morphed into the wolf dream again though the wolf has large leathery wings, and extra-long bloody canines this time.
Then I hear my name, and someone shakes me, and I open my eyes it's Azazel he looks really worried "What's wrong? Are you okay?" I ask he nods
"I'm fine but the stronzo who shackled us told us to eat and then you have to go with him. Are you going to be, okay?" He whimpers and I see Melisande is still sleeping next to me
"I'll be fine," I assure him. "Let's listen to him, 'kay? And language fratellino." He nods and tries to scowl through the fear at me calling him little and we both know that I'm where he learned the language from.
"Wake up Mel and go eat." I walk over and eat quickly. Then I talk a deep breath letting the fear wash over me and leave before I walk over to Elijah, no reason to let this drag out any longer, and nod at him.
He quirks an eyebrow at me "Ready kitten?" he asks.
"Ready." I answer with a firm nod not conveying the dread I really feel.
Then I follow him down a maze of halls and almost get dizzy with all the turns knowing the figlio di puttana was trying to confuse me I almost snarl after walking the twentieth hall but then we turn into a room that is at least ten degrees cooler than the prison and I almost am relieved if only my instincts weren't screaming at me to get the fuck away from here.
The room we walk into has three beds and an examining table all pristine and white even though we are in the middle of a desert in Arizona in a cave. The room is brightly light almost blinding compared to the rest of the tunnels with a few dim lightbulbs lighting the paths and the prison cell cave with no light at all.
There is a deep stainless-steel sink by a white counter and many wooden cupboards and a metallic tray full of sharp looking medical tools. I'm guessing this is Doc's room/office. I'm proven right when Doc walks in and his whole face brightens in malicious delight before he puts on his surgical mask.
Then Elijah walks away and exits rather quickly as if even he didn't want to be around Doc, and I question my chances of running after him.
My chances of survival are most definitely better with Elijah I'm not sure I can charm him into not giving me back.
Then I realize, Uh oh, the last witness just left and there is no justifying that dangerous shit the 'Doctor' has in here, I mean what does a doctor need a cow's needle and a butcher's knife for, better yet POISON, seriously what are doctors these days?
Then Doc points to a medical chair in the corner near a table and the counter further away from the exit. I walk over and sit down using almost all my energy to not fidget with my hands. I keep my face blank.
Then Doc snaps his gloves on slowly and I swear he snaps it so hard it must hurt just to scare me letting the anticipation build, but I'll never let him know it worked with my heart beating a million miles an hour until all I can hear is my own heartbeat in my throat and his slow footsteps as he walks to me and even though he's wearing I mask I swear I can just see that creepy malicious smirk and then he holds up a large needle.
Holy motherfucking shit, that is not a needle. That thing would be a knife to the dinosaurs. He can't be seriously touching me with that, that would kill me. There's not even a syringe what could be possible use that for.
Look, I'm not afraid of needles but that isn't a fucking needle, that's a motherfucking blade. Then he jabs me with the skinny knife (I refuse to call it a needle) and puts an aerosol mask on my face and I smell a strange scent almost like bitter almonds.
Cyanide is a poison found in bamboo, cassava, lima beans, fruit pits, and almonds. It can be a powder, pill, or… a gas, it has a bitter almond scent. Can kill victim in seconds. This fact I remember from my poison studies as he takes the cattle needle out.
I breath in and out before I fade into oblivion hoping I come back out.
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Elijah Asminioslykos
I leave the new girl in the room with Doc feeling almost guilty.
Me never, no emotions-ever especially for some bitch who is soon to be dead.
That thought sends a wave of pain over losing her which is stupid because I shouldn't feel anything not after…
I wake chained to the wall again and he walks in and I smell alcohol and I know it will be horrible. I briefly remember the good days when mom was still here, and he would hug me and play catch with me and smile.
Normal father and son things. Now he drinks and teaches me to become stronger which translates to him torturing me.
Then as he gets closer I see him with no bottle or weapon, and I get hopeful but that soon vanishes when he smacks me and I whimper.
"Never show fear, boy" before kicking me in the gut. That time I steeled myself and didn't make a peep.
'There you go you're learning'. After about an hour of punches, slaps, kicks, and a few broken fingers I pass out and he sends me to Doc rewarding me for staying silent…
I shake my head almost running into a wall trying to get rid of the memories and get somewhere else away from her and the memories.
I get outside and sit in the sun and no matter what I do neither will get out of my head eventually my head drifts to the girl and that forces my childhood out. I remember the fire burning in her eyes and her actions, only she would support two kids and not move to the city and still not show any fear.
I remember her mouth shouting those words at me in both languages and I looked up what she said to me…she's got fire. And she was hot.
Worse than that she had my heart acting as though it forgot how to beat always stopping, jumping, and racing when near her.
At first, I thought it was the fun of the chase and the amusement any sicko got out of capturing a new toy. Now though I am not sure if I am actually catching feelings-god forbid-or haven't been laid in a while and while I am leaning towards the latter I am starting to have some doubts. Either way I am really starting to feel desperate for something.
I have started to have a staring problem and noticing every move she makes.
Her mouth shouting profanity at me and her tall hour-glass body it was perfect and had mini(but not so little)-me standing to attention.
She's a prisoner asshole, even if she wasn't off limits she will die soon.
I know that my head is right, the one holding my brain anyway. I growl in frustration at myself and go back to pick her up, readying myself for her body either dead or close.
I walk through the maze of tunnels before walking into the medical ward and caught unprepared for what I find of the new girl…