A/N: T for mild refrences to intercourse in the doctor part XD

Running up a staircase, I could feel my heart beating in my throat. As I saw the top, I saw the fire escape door was locked. Quickly, I launched myself at the bar and it swung open. My feet kept pounding on the concrete as I ran across the roof.

Everything below the roof was on fire.

The city was burning, the building was burning.

That was when I saw him where I always saw him. Cold, silver hair but red, crimson like the flames caressing my legs. The moment almost froze and he stepped towards me. I felt the pain in my burning leg amplify as his cool skin touched my warm, red face. He then smiled, and then everything faded to black.

"Elizabeta! ELIZABETA!" I could hear Kat screeching at me, shaking the chrome bunk bed. I shuddered awake, my leg that I swear was on fire a second ago cool against the metal bars.

"Wh-" I began

"You had another nightmare." She sighed, sitting on her bunk below me. Natalya and Lily were sitting up in their bunks the other side of the room, sleepily looking over at me. Lily looked more concerned than the girl sleeping in the bunk above her, who seemed kinda angry.

"Again?" she asked me. I exhaled softly. "You should go see someone about this, Liza."

"I don't know." I blinked, swinging down from the bunk to the wardrobe and swinging it open.

"Maybe Nat's right?" Kat asked. I shook my head.

"I don't want them to call me insane or anything. Another day and we're out of here okay?" I hissed to my room mates. The four of us were more like sisters. Lumped together as newborns and raised in the same room, if one of us had a problem all of us had a problem.

79 years ago the world was destroyed by a disease called Influxlin. Minor cases made you bleed under your nails or cough up blood. Major cases made you bleed from every orifice, your eyes, ears, mouth, even the roots of your hair. Your insides turned into a congealed red mush, your body to jelly.

79 years ago a race of highly intelligent aliens decided to take over the dead world, before discovering almost a 1600th of the population remained. 1600th of the population were immune. About 4.3 millions - less than the population of Hungary, which is where the aliens say I was born. Of course, in the remains of the old country.

The aliens, called Dathroka's, decided to repopulate the world with humans, and for us to forever be in their debt. We'd be a colony, but 79 years ago the remaining people were too weak to fight, and signed a treaty allowing the Dathroka's to own us for the rest of eternity. In return, all newborns would be taken from their mothers and raised on a ship orbiting the earth. 2 ships - one for boys, one for girls. On your 18th year on the ship, you were tested for any higher level of immunity, any thing special. Nobody ever had anything different, except for one boy who's red blood cells had been shaped like squares. He was taken for testing and never seen again. |I didn't want anyone else to know about the nightmare that I'd been having for nearly 14 years as then I might get dragged in for extra testing. If/when you come up normal, as 99.99999% have been, you're set up with someone who you'd never met before, sent to earth and told to start repopulating. You're usually set with someone from an area similar to you, given a house, given a job, given a life. You can go meet the parents you'd never met, meet the older siblings you didn't know existed. Have kids of your own and send them up to this floating cage. Its a vicious cycle, to repopulate an already flawed world.

Slipping my grey uniform on for the day, the dark red stripe down the side told any passersby I was in my final year. The Red, White and Green stripes on my left breast told people where in the world I was from. The other three also slipped out of bed and into their grey dresses. The cut was an unflattering knee length, with full sleeves. Paired with a jacket with the same stripes as my dress and dark boots, it'd always looked horrible on me. All four of us pulled our hair back with black alice bands and made our way out the door and towards command. On the way down, we ran into the girls from the room next to us. If the girls from 22161 were my sisters, the girls from 22160 were my cousins. Alice, Amelia, Fantine and Maddy. Amelia and Maddy were actually sisters, "twins" as the Dathroka told them. The two of them looked similar, blonde hair with bright eyes. Alice and Fantine were also blonde, but those two bickered alot and almost always tried to not get associated with each other. Tomorrow was "pairing day, where we met our future husbands. Today was "testing day", where they tested us to see what our bodys were like. If we passed the tests, which were incredibly likely, overnight a pair would be formed and tomorrow we'd be joined. The eight of us made our way to a bench on the outside of the atrium - a huge, high ceilinged room with windows looking out to the dark space around us; with the blue and green planet to the left of us and a bright white rock to the right – the moon. I'd always wanted to learn about the big, chunk of rock we saw on a regular basis, but our teacher, Miss Europe, told us that our job was to learn things like cooking, sewing and health. I liked health the best. As the room filled, the only "male" I'd ever seen walked onto the stage at the front. His name was Roma, and he was the human race's ambassador to the Dathroka.
"Hello, beautiful girls." He greeted, smiling. "Today as you know is a very important day! As we call your name, please enter which door lights up and go through. Your tester will meet you inside. This might take a while, but if you stay patient things will run smoothly. Once you're done, you may head back to your room, pack whatever items you may have, and then go to the communal areas to do chores. Tomorrow, you will meet here at 6am to fly to the middle ship, between us and your future husbands. You will then join them and travel to earth, where you will help regenerate the human race." He smiled all throughout the speech. "Now, let us begin." He opened up an envelope and cleared his throat. "Maria 22562" A blonde haired girl stood and walked to a door on the left that lit up. "Katyusha 22161" Kat stood, shaking and made her way to the door next to her. It was completely random.
It was 3 hours before "Elizabeta 22161" was called. By then, only me, Fantine and Lily remained. They waved me off as I stumbled towards the room recently vacated by "Isabel 22568". I pushed open the door, slipped inside and a man in a spinny chair spun and faced me. He had bright, blue eyes and slicked back blonde hair.
"Hallo, I'm Ludwig Bielschmidt and I'll be your tester today." He smiled. I shivered. "Come, take a seat, Elizabeta." I sat on the large chair in the middle of the pristine, white room. "Now, what do you know about what's going to happen to you?"
"I know that you're going to test me, and then tomorrow I get married to whoever is my best match, right?" I blinked
"Good. Do you know how to repopulate?"
"…No…?" I blinked, the same tone I'd had before
"Ahh, your husband will know exactly what to do. He will go inside you, and then 9 months later a baby will come out." He answered quietly. I nodded.
"Do you know about the disease?"
"Yes."
"And what you should report if you spot it?"
"Yes."
"What should you report?"
"Coughing of blood, bleeding under nails, any bleeding from no cut."
"Smart girl." Ludwig grinned. "Now, I'm going to take a blood sample and then we'll test it, then you can go." He moved closer to the desk. "You may want to shut your eyes." He warned. I nodded, shutting my eyes. I felt a sharp pain but after that nothing else, opening my eyes I saw a needle extracting some blood from my arm. "Now I just smooth it out onto this, and we get a result." The doctor smiled, pouring my red liquid onto a white disk connected to the computer.
His eyes widened, and he quickly wiped up the white disk and unplugged the computer from the wall.
"Whats wrong?" I breathed.
"You…you have an abnormal result."
I felt the blood rush to my ears.
"W-what..?" I exhaled.
"Yes, you have double the amount of Influxo acid." He breathed. "My brother had an abnormal result too, and I never saw him again." He sighed. I felt tears welling up in my eyes. Ludwig stood in front of me. "22161 look at me." I raised my green eyes to his blue ones. "I've erased the sample from your file, that's why I unplugged the computer. You can't tell anyone about this. Ever." He growled. I nodded. He walked back to the computer, rebooted the system and started typing. "I'll hand enter the details. I've disconnected the reader from the computer which means I'll have to hand enter my next twenty patients, but if it saves you then I'll do it."
"Why are you doing this?"
"So that I can save your life" He breathed. "No go on, get out of here." I stood and made my way out, turning to thank him on my way out. "One last thing." He asked.
"Anything?"
"I saved your life. If you can find out where my brother ended up, I'd save it tenfold." I nodded. "His name was Gilbert 34123, or now known as Bielschmidt. You get a surname when you leave, I don't know about him though." I opened the door silently.
"Thank you, Doctor." I sighed as I left.

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