I ran away the summer before senior year and the Circle caught me. They cut me. They shot me. They injected me. I never fazed. They stopped everything for a week but after that I was getting the worst torture they could possibly give.
Around two months after they started their new methods of torture alarms were going off. The base had been infiltrated and I passed out.
I woke up screaming, in what felt and looked like a hospital bed. A man walked into the room holding a clipboard wearing a uniform.
"Please calm down Ms. Morgan I'm here to help." He said.
"Please don't hurt me as much as last time. I'll be better I swear." I begged him.
He slowly walked towards me picking up a needle on the way and I panicked. He stabbed the needle into my arm; I screamed and then passed out.
When I woke up screaming again because my dreams were plagued with him, with Riley. There were nurses rushing all around me.
One cautiously stepped forward and introduced herself. "Hello Cameron my name is Sarah. I'm CIA." She held up her badge so I could see. "I'm also one of your nurses."
"But Catherine. Riley. The Circle." I was so confused and tired.
"It's okay honey. You passed out while you were being saved but everything's alright now. We're at Gallagher. Everything is okay."
I broke down in tears and she pulled me into a huge hug. The man I saw earlier came back into the room but introduced himself before he got too close. He explained that he was my doctor and they were going to run some standard tests on me. When they were done I was taken back to my room where I fell asleep.
When I woke up I was panting with sweat pouring down my face. I opened my eyes and not even 3 seconds later people were crowding around me. It seemed as of they were trying to squash me but my mind couldn't work as fast as they were moving.
"Please don't hurt me." I cried and everyone froze. "Please. I swear I'll love him, but please don't let him in." I screamed and passed out again.
I woke up and Sarah was going over some paperwork in the chair next to my bed. I noticed that my right arm, and both my legs had casts and my left hand had a wrist brace.
"Sarah?" My voice came out raspy and quiet. She looked up at me and smiled.
"Yes honey."
"Can you get me some water please?"
"Sure darling."
She came back with my water and a straw but didn't sit down again. I noticed I flinched whenever she accidentally touched me. She said that I needed to tell her everything they did to me in the past month. I lied because I didn't want to re-live what happened. Before she left she turned on the TV and gave me the controller. About 5 minutes later Dr. Gardener came in with an upset look.
"Ms. Morgan you have a broken arm, sprained wrist, broken leg and a sprained ankle."
"That's not all is it?" I could tell he was hiding something from me.
"Did you tell Sarah everything that happened? You didn't leave out anything did you?" I stared down at my hands which were in my lap. "Please Ms. Morgan, this information is critical." I responded but my voice was barely above a whisper. "Could you speak louder?"
"He raped me!" I shouted but when it was out I couldn't stop what came next. "They were horrible! About two months ago he came in and told me my life would be better. I was treated like the queen of England. One night he came in and tied my hands to the bed frame and he was kissing me and touching me everywhere. I tried to get free but he pinned me down. He raped me! Is that what you wanted to know? Are you happy now?" I screamed.
My mom burst through the door with tears streaming down her face. "My baby girl."
"Mommy."
She ran over to my bed and hugged me. I never wanted her to let go but all good things come to an end.
"Ms. Morgan, Ms. Morgan." Mom and I turned to face Dr. Gardener. "There is one more thing you might want to know." We looked at him with worried expressions. "I'm sorry I have to tell you this but you're pregnant."
"But I. We. He. It." I didn't know how to finish any of those sentences but I burst into tears.
Mom sat on the bed and pulled me into her lap, stroking my hair like she did when I was little.
"It's okay. Everything will be okay."
I calmed down but she never let me go.
"Do you know who the father is?" I nodded but looked anywhere but my mother's eyes.
"You remember my first boyfriend, Josh Abrams, right?" She nodded but didn't speak. "He is next in line for the Circle. His real name is Riley Cavan his father is Dr. Steve Sanders, his really name is Ethan Cavan. Catherine Goode married Ethan a couple years ago. Ethan and Catherine are the leaders and Riley gets whatever he wants. He wanted me.
"The torturing stopped and I was properly taken care of. They did their best cleaning up my cuts and bruises. I got an actual bedroom. I was well fed, well dressed and everything. After about a week Riley came in and told me what I had to do. I could either marry him or go back to being beaten. I said I'd think about it. The next night he came into my room drunk. He tied me to the bed frame and raped me. Once I tried to escape so he broke one if my legs and when I fought back he broke my arm.
"Catherine realized that was a great was to torture me so she took away all the things I was given and thrown back into my cell. He would come in and rape me and I slipped information a couple times but it was never big. You want to know the one thing I was thinking through all of that?" I glanced at her before I looked back down at my hands. "All I thought was Zach is going to hate me."