It happened so fast... the bullet flew straight through me... pain shot through as the piercing projectile did. Shot, killed... dead... why am I still thinking... why am I breathing... WHY?! My eyes burst open... I feel as though I'm looking through someone else's eyes... my body is laying flat on a cold table... so very cold... I turn my head to my left... a steel table with cutting instruments laid upon it... the is a morgue... I'm in a biopsy... Then why am I alive... something isn't right... through ragged breaths I call out for anyone. "Hello... someone... what's going on?" No one, I attempt to sit up... I'm tied down... why; they don't tie down the dead... I hear a door open, "Your up, good." I can't see who it is... but it's famine voice... pretty... "I feel... nothing..." Footsteps coming near me, a gentle hand touches my leg... "Your not supposed to." "Why?" She finally comes into my vision, russet hair in a ponytail, calm green eyes... a sweet smile, "Do you know who you are?" I close my eyes trying to remember... I only remember pain... I open my eyes slowly and look up at her once more... "Dead." She tilts her head, her smile still upon her face, "No; not anymore... you're alive." "No, no I'm not... I'm not... I can't feel anything." She just stares down at me with sad eyes... the door opens again... "Is she up already?" Masculine this time, the woman shakes her head yes. "She just woken, everything seems fine." "Of course everything seems fine." He's coming closer; a painful shiver goes up my spine... I can feel a soft growl escape my lips; I can feel rage fuel through out me... but why... He stops, I still can't see him though, "That was an odd response to me coming in." "She doesn't remember anything." "Better if she didn't." He walks into my view... nice cut hair, smells like tag, brown eyes... 33, maybe... he's hiding something... I can smell it. "Hello Aki, how are you?" "Is that my name?" He blinks, "You really don't remember do you?" "...You've done something wrong, haven't you?" Him and the lady look at each other in a quick glance before looking back down at me. "We're going to transport you to your room now, o.k." "Dead people get rooms?" He chuckles, "Not usually, but you're an exception." I just close my eyes... I'm tired now... and soon I fall back into the darkness.
Wetness... water... My eyes open up once more... something wet is hitting me in the face... I look up to see the lady patting my head with a wet cloth. "Hello again." "Hi." "You're propally wondering where you are." I shake my head... I'm still tied down, but to a different bed, in a different room. "This is your room, when I leave, the straps holding you down will release you." "Why?" "Why what?" "The reason for the straps?" She smiles and stands up from my side, "I'll tell you later, I have to go now." Hasty retreat... I watch her leave... and as she said the straps came off. I'm not sure I can move, but I try anyway... and slowly I manage to get out of bed. I feel stiff, like I've been asleep forever... I look around the room... it's simple, a bed, a dresser... a small bathroom... a window with bars over it...confinement. "Where am I?" "This is your new home, Aki." I look up to see an intercom placed high up in one of the corners. "I don't like it, what happened to my real home?" "This is your real home, Aki, we're going to put you through some test, O.K?" "I don't have a choice..." I hear her sigh deeply, "Why don't you explore; I'm going to go get Dr. Chanter." Must be the male doctor, I don't bother asking... I already know... I can feel her presence disappear from the next room... that wall is a two sided mirror... they can't fool me there... yet I'm still the lab mouse being watched by the hawks... waiting to tear into me...