We Are Broken From the Start Chapter 1
In a plain room, only furnished by two beds sat one man. He has short quiffed blonde hair and blonde puppy ears. His blonde tail swished from side to side as he sat on his bed. He didn't move from the bed for the entire day, his ears twitched and flattened as doctors walked in but that was it really. The only people he would see were doctors in their white lab coats. He wasn't allowed to see any other patients, especially after the incident happened a few years ago.
They never used to heavily medicate the male, but they had to now since they felt that he was going to be a danger to both them and the other patients. They had this overwhelming need to control him. He lashed out at them in the past, injuring and even killing a few. If he struck then it would be highly unlikely you would walk away with a little puppy scratch. They were abusing him and he had begun to fight back. The government and the doctors didn't like this, so they ordered to keep him under control. This of course meant drugs.
The male has five friends and they were the only ones who were able to calm him down before medicinal intervention was required. The abuse would freak the male out but his friends would bring him out of the freak outs within minutes if allowed. The owner of the asylum in which all six men where held didn't like that because he was losing money so he ordered for the male to be confined away from his friends. This made the male's friends upset and angry but deep down they knew they could do nothing about it.
The male's name is Daniel Rose Murillo. The youngest in the hybrid group being twenty-four years old. There was a seventh hybrid who hated the Labrador hybrid. He managed to escape the asylum which gave some of them hope for the future. Daniel was never told that the hybrid escaped. He wouldn't have any hope of escaping or making it out alive, the doctors made sure of that with the daily beatings.
"Daniel, it's time for your medicine," a white lab coat clad doctor says, holding the clear plastic cup filled with the meds as he enters the room. They were going to move him into a smaller room but they needed him to be calm the entire time. Daniel shied away from the doctor; he didn't want to take the medicine. "Come on Daniel, I don't want to have to sedate you again," the doctor warns the patient. It doesn't take long for Daniel to give in and take his pills. Daniel really didn't fancy the idea of being knocked out then force fed the pills when he woke up again.
"Good boy Daniel, now we can take you to your new room once the medicine kicks in," the doctor says and leaves the room. Daniel saw one of his friends but Dylan Alvarez would never see him. "Call the doc I must be sick, better get me my medicine," Daniel mumbles sarcastically as the medicine slowly starts to work. Now all he had to do was wait for the doctors to come and get him and take him to this new room he was going to be in. He didn't see much point in being moved but he wasn't the one making the decisions here.
Daniel was very calm and gave no resistance as he was taken from his old room to the new smaller room. They still brought in the biggest guys to restrain him and they did hit him a couple of times to make sure he was compliant and she wouldn't come out. The doctors believed that he'd be safer and unable to cause harm in the room. They had padded the walls and left nothing he could hurt himself with or try and end his own life with. Not that Daniel would try anything; they would probably end up beating him to death at some point.
"You'll stay here from now on," the doctor says and once again Daniel was left on his own. The isolation was slowly but surely turning him insane. He needed saving from himself and soon. Daniel couldn't last much longer. He craved attention and company from nicer people and he knew he wasn't going to get it. There were too many horrible people stopping him from ever being able to see the nice ones. The whole asylum was filled with people who would see the hybrids experimented on until death.
He would have an imaginary friend; someone he could talk to even if it was a figment of his own imagination. He knew he was too broken to have one. Even though he didn't want to kill himself he had no will to life. He knew one day the doctors plan to kill him so why should he make a friend? It'd only tell him things he already knew and he'd loose it when he died. He had lost his mind and through a barred window he'd see the pretty city of Los Angeles, the place he wanted to call home.
There was a new doctor who was just about to take Daniel's case and care on. He was part of the anti-government team which was dedicated to freeing hybrids from asylums then shutting the groups behind all the hybrid abuse down. The six males who have been living here are next on the liberation list. He was about to enter the room and meet Daniel for the first time when another doctor stopped him just outside the door. Whatever she had to say he was going to ignore it, he knew enough about the patient from his file.
He had read that file several times so he was fairly sure he knew all the information on the patient he could be told by another member of staff. "Be careful, inside that room is the most dangerous patient in this unit. He will attack you once his medication wears off," she tells him. He ignores the warning, any attacks which were reported were later found to have been made in self-defence so it never went further. Daniel is the youngest patient they have in the hybrid unit, all the others were in their late twenties and Daniel wasn't even 25 yet.
The new doctor entered the room and found Daniel facing the wall in the upper right corner of the room. He was sitting on the floor and you could see him tense up as the doctor opened and closed the door. "Hello Daniel, I am doctor Fronz and I will be working with you from now on as your main doctor," he tells Daniel. The hybrid flinched when the doctor spoke, he was afraid. All doctors gave nice introductions then turned nasty after a while and the abuse would start. They would never be nice again after that.
Dr. Fronz knew there was going to be a small battle for him to get Daniel on his side. He was going to have to show Daniel that he was a man worth trusting and not a threat. He also had to show that he was going reunite Daniel with his friends and then get the out of the asylum and into the life of freedom. There was another thing that he had to do with this group of hybrids; he had to show Daniel that he was no harm and that he could get him off the pills that the asylum had prescribed him.
This was not going to be an easy task and that was certain from the get go. Daniel had turned around to face the doctor and had backed up further into the corner. He was constantly watching the doctors every move, trying to figure out if he was going to get hurt by the doctor or not. It wasn't easy for him to determine now. The doctor stayed still and didn't make a move to grab Daniel. "Why don't you tell me something about yourself?" Dr. Fronz asks.
Daniel stays silent; the only thing you could hear was his tail against the wall as it moved. Dr. Fronz knew Daniel didn't trust him. "How do I know that you are not going to hurt me?" Daniel asks him, finally speaking for once. He never really talked in front of the other doctors. "I'm not going to hurt you because that is not the reason why I am here. I am here to get you back with your friends and then out of this hell hole," the doctor answers, hoping the patient knew he was speaking the truth and he wasn't a liar like the others.
Daniel moved about an inch or two away from the wall after a little while. He still didn't trust the doctor but he was more willing to give him a chance than he was a few minutes ago when the doctor first arrived. "Why don't you tell me something about yourself?" the doctor asks again, determined to get to know Daniel on a more personal level than a professional one. Daniel had to think about his answer, the doctor knew so much about him from the file. "I like playing the guitar," Daniel tells the doctor who smiles at him. He was going to get through to the patient eventually, he had to.
"When was the last time you remember seeing your friends?" the doctor asks next. Now Daniel had to do some serious thinking, they gave him a clock so he knew what the time was but they never really knew the date, they knew years had passed because of their birthdays, even those weren't celebrated anymore. They only got people saying it to them. "A very long time ago. I've seen them pass by but we never get to see each other to hang out or talk," Daniel replies sadly. He was still reluctant to get close to the doctor. "I have a plan that will help you see your friends but it will take a while," the doctor says.
"For it to work I need your trust before I can get you to see them again soon," he adds. Someone was finally saying the words Daniel had been waiting years to hear. If this doctor was going to be truthful and keep to his word then most things in Daniel's life would be okay again. Finally Daniel had something in his life to look forward to and this ignited some hope in the young man that he never thought was possible. He had been waiting way too long to see his friends again.
"So, if I can trust you, I can see my friends again and then be off the drugs forever?" Daniel asks, sounding hopeful. The doctor smiles at him, it was working he was gaining Daniel's trust. "Well, that is the plan yes. The sooner we can get you off drugs the sooner I can get you all out of here," the doctor says. Even that doctor knew that the drugs were not helping Daniel in any way. That was good since he was the main doctor in charge of Daniel, it would be more likely that he could get the drugs removed.
Dr. Fronz stays for a while, talking to Daniel. He got to know his new patient a little bit better and the trust he was starting to get was more solid. Daniel also asked the doctor some questions; he had to know what this new doctor was like so he could find out if he was going to be a good doctor or a bad one like the rest who are supposedly looking after him. All obvious and immediate signs were pointing to good doctor. This was promising for Daniel and he hoped it was promising for his friends too.
Daniel was being to feel the effects of the pills starting to wear off which meant it was five o'clock in the evening and it was time to take some more. He was afraid that he was going to hurt the new doctor as his instincts to survive in this cruel environment took over. He only attacked to protect himself from the men and women who hurt him on a regular basis for being different to them. His friends never got that treatment, but then again they would just kill the nurse if they dared try. This made them deadlier than Daniel if they got angry.
Daniel is half golden Labrador but the dog they used has a vicious side. That was something that unfortunately Daniel inherited when he was created but he managed to keep it under control. Well his five friends helped him with controlling it. He is the sweetest, most innocent guy until you repeatedly hurt him. Then he will get defensive and strike back. The least amount of damage he has done is a few items of destroyed clothing. The worst he has done is injured to the point of death. So far he has killed two doctors and he felt terribly guilty.
He never meant to kill them either, they attacked him first. Once he was informed of the killings he cried for hours. They wanted to give him a criminal record and press charges against him for killing two people. He would have a lengthy jail sentence if they didn't send him to death row and an early grave. They couldn't do this for two reasons. One all their abuse towards Daniel will be known to the police and they would be shut down. Two, they could rule that Daniel was acting in self-defence because his life was at risk and he would walk free.
Dr. Fronz had noticed a sudden change in Daniel's behaviour. He was no longer the calm shy guy just coming out of his shell. Daniel was getting more anxious and kept looking at the door which was the only way in or out of this room. "What's the matter Daniel?" he asks the patient. Daniel had gone darting back to his corner and his claws were making an appearance. "It's almost time for my medicine and I don't want to hurt anyone," he answers, fear being the most obvious emotion Dr. Fronz found in the patient's tone.
"I'm sure you won't hurt me or anyone else Daniel, just try and calm down a little," the doctor answers. A female doctor, the one who tried to warn Dr. Fronz earlier walks in and Daniel's eyes widened in fear. She was one of the doctors who hit him every visit. She would physiological and sometimes even sexually assault Daniel along with the physical attacks. No one would believe him if he cried rape, it happens to males less than females and this doctor was one manipulative bitch. "Daniel, it's time for your medicine again," she says as Dr. Fronz stood back.
He was prepared to jump to Daniel's defence should he need it. The female doctor would be wise not to attempt anything while he was in the room. Her career would be over before the end of her shift or she knew it had happened. Daniel was refusing the pills in the cup and the food on the plate. He never trusted the food, one of the reasons he was so unhealthily skinny, they poisoned his food once before and that was enough to get him to stop eating three times a day. He'd only eat twice a day if he felt really hungry but they tried feeding him three times anyway. They couldn't have him die on them from starvation.
"Kalum said you were being difficult today," she said, feeling a bit pissed off that he wasn't being the usual submissive little pup today. She had a feeling Dr. Fronz was behind it but it was because of the sudden room change, it put Daniel out of his comfort zone. He growled at her, he didn't like her one bit. She walked closer to him, ready to force feed him the pills then the food. Dr. Fronz took a step forward, ready to intervene and help his patient. "Maybe I'll be more successful with this," he suggests.
She spun around so fast to face the other doctor that she ended up hitting Daniel in the face. Dr. Fronz was not in the least bit scared of her; she could do nothing to him. Even if she did, her career was already over. He was more concerned about his patient's reaction. The claws were still there and he briefly held his cheek as he recovered from the initial shock of being stuck. He was beginning to spiral downwards; he needed to calm the young man down before it was too late.
"And just how do you think you could get that worthless hybrid shit to takes his pills without him fighting you?" she asks, clearly quite angry that she wasn't really getting her own way. Dr. Fronz was calm and stayed calm as she turned back to the hybrid. "Daniel, take your medicine," she says and he refused again. Her patience with the young man was wearing thin. She grabbed his chin and was just about to force him to take his pills. Daniel was getting very scared and uncomfortable. He hated taking the pills twice a day and he hated them. He just wanted to leave that place and be with his friends.
Daniel had finally snapped and he shoved the female doctor out of the way as he tried to run out of the room. He pushed her with enough force to make her fall to the ground. She looked to Dr. Fronz, expecting some form of punishment to be given to the patient from the other doctor. She had a few scratches to her coat but that wouldn't be an issue. Dr. Fronz walked over to Daniel who was in another corner of the room, scared. He gently took the hybrid's hands and took Daniel back to his safe corner after making sure the other doctor was away from them.
He had managed to coax Daniel into taking his pills. He ate some of Daniel's food to prove it was safe and Daniel finished it off. Once that was done he held Daniel close to his chest and said some calming words so the claws would go away. "This is how I think I could do it without him fighting me. He isn't dangerous; he is just fragile and pushed to his limits. Treat people the way you want to be treated," the doctor says. Daniel surprised both himself and the doctors in the room by hugging doctor Fronz.
Dr. Lily was livid. How dare Dr. Fronz just walk in and start fucking everything up. All their hard work on breaking Daniel over the years was about to be undone and destroyed in a matter of weeks. All that time they had put in making sure their abuse wouldn't be found would be wasted. "It's alright Daniel, no one was hurt," Dr. Fronz says while he holds Daniel. Dr. Lily picks herself off the ground as she knew Dr. Fronz won't help. "How could you let that monster near you?" she asks.
Daniel sighs and doesn't look at either doctor. They always called him a monster even though they were the ones who brought out the worst in him. They were the ones who made him this way. "He isn't a monster. The only monster in this room is you Doctor Lily," Dr. Fronz says, as calm as he always is. Dr. Lily says nothing as she goes to pick up the plate and the little plastic cup. She storms out of the room, taking those items with her. Daniel was still hugging Dr. Fronz and it didn't look like he was going to stop.
"I'm sorry," Daniel mumbles which made the doctor chuckle. "It's okay Daniel, you needed someone to calm you down and the abuse really needs to end," the doctor tells him. Daniel rests his head on the doctor's shoulder, something he hasn't done for a long time and he only did it with a couple of his friends. "How do you know about that?" Daniel asks, a bit worried that the doctor knew a lot more about him than he said in the beginning. The doctor rubs his back. "The other doctors don't stop talking about it in the staff room," he says, never letting go of Daniel who had just started trusting him.
He wasn't about to lose that trust now. Daniel made no move to get up and end the hugs either. Well, he did loosen his grip once he had calmed down a little bit. There was a red mark on his cheek from where he had been hit but the doctor was sure that it would fade within a few days. It might have even faded by the time he checks on Daniel the next morning. The silence which fell upon the room wasn't uncomfortable in the slightest. They still need to get their head around the events of the day.
Daniel was still worried and not completely calm. Dr. Lily would tell the other doctors what happened before she got fired and they would do terrible things to him for her. Dr. Fronz is nice but Daniel doubted that he was going to be able to stay all of the time and prevent people from hurting him. He also wanted the plan to work so he could give Dr. Fronz his full trust to a man he only met a few hours ago. This whole day was just crazy from the moment he woke up this morning. He had been moved into a new room and got a new doctor. He was wondering what else was going to be new.
Another doctor walked in, surprised by what he saw. The doctors have never gotten that close to Daniel before. If they did then they would have told the others that they have. "Is everything okay in here?" he asks. Dr. Fronz got up and put Daniel on his bed, Daniel didn't protest this although he wanted the cuddles. "Everything is fine. Dr. Lily tried to force things and did really act appropriately. Daniel pushed her away to protect himself. I calmed him down and coaxed him into taking his medicine and eat his dinner without violence being used," Dr. Fronz replies leaving the other doctor baffled.
"That's good; I've never seen or heard anyone not use violence with him. I have never also personally dealt with Daniel at any point but I am replacing Doctor Lily tomorrow," he says and Dr. Fronz smiles. His plan was working and the takeover was being to work. The doctors that are currently taking care over Daniel were slowly being replaced so they had a team who were going to help Daniel recover enough so he can go home. The years of abuse would end once they had taken over care, well they would have to be around him constantly but it would be a lot better.
The other doctor felt that he had no reason to stay while Daniel was a little out of it. He would do his introductions tomorrow. Dr. Fronz sat on the end of the bed, watching Daniel's movements and behaviours. Daniel knew he didn't hurt the doctor this time but he needed sometime to calm down and to stop worrying so much. He was afraid of being on his own. He was convinced that one of the bad doctors would come in and hurt him. "What's bothering you?" Dr. Fronz asks him. He wanted Daniel to feel safe; nothing was going to happen to him tonight.
"What if one of the mean doctors comes and beats me while you're gone?" Daniel asks. He was sitting with his legs crossed and he was picking the little balls of fuzz off his socks, it was better than him picking at his lips and making a mess of them. He didn't look at the doctor once; he was busy with his socks. "We will get them put away for a long time Daniel, it will stop soon I promise you. Just give me a few days and the mean doctors will go away," Dr. Fronz says and rubs Daniel's arms.
Dr. Fronz had learnt a lot about how badly this place was treating hybrids. He was sure that there were only a few places that actually treated the hybrids well. The treatment that Daniel was going through was the worst that Dr. Fronz has seen his entire career and he has been working for over ten years. He had started to regress mentally, Daniel was very much turning into a child, a child who could pack a punch and his claws were lethal. Dr. Fronz had to tell his bosses what was going on so this place would be shut down as soon as possible.
"I want to be back home Dr. Fronz," Daniel says and the doctor felt his heart break a little bit. Daniel and his friends shouldn't be here, there was no real reason for them to be here. Daniel's mental state was fine until he entered here and even still he was safe to be in the public. "I know you do and it will happen. I will make sure that you go home," Dr. Fronz says being as sincere and kind as possible. The broken young man looks at him with tears in his eyes. Dr. Fronz hugs Daniel once more but this time Daniel broke down in tears, the reality of the day's event hitting him and the impact of the promises which were made hit him.
It had been months if not years since Daniel last cried. He quickly learnt that if he cried around the other doctors that it showed he was weak and pathetic, something he truly believed about himself. He also got hit if he cried which sometimes made it worse and it would become a vicious cycle until he passed out. Dr. Fronz was certainly a different doctor to what Daniel was used to, instead of reprimanding the youngster, he comforted him instead. To Daniel it as certainly strange, since he lost his friends and they were taken away from him no one dare to comfort him in anyway.
The day's events had also left Daniel feeling exhausted and he couldn't keep his eyes open and stay awake for much longer. Dr. Fronz had picked up on this and decided to calm him down, hoping the smaller man would fall asleep. He didn't mind the wet patch on his jacket from the tears as his patient cried himself to sleep in the doctor's arms. It showed Daniel trusted him more than the other doctors. He held Daniel with one arm and with the other, moved the duvet away. He laid Daniel down on the bed carefully and tucked him in without disturbing him. He turned the lights off on the way out, feeling more determined to help the hybrids now he knew how desperate it was.
He had one more stop he had to make before he could go home and start writing his case study for his report. There was a slightly bigger room further up the hall than Daniel's room which was on a long dull corridor. There were two more patients in there and he had been in charge of those for two months now. These two males were hybrids like Daniel, only they were wolf hybrids, not puppy dog. Their names are Jorel Decker and George Ragan. There were the two oldest members of the group and they were closest to Daniel out of everyone.
The two wolves looked up towards the door as Dr. Fronz walked in. They sensed his day had been more emotional than he was showing. "Sorry if I am late, I was getting to know my new patient and things were a little rougher than expected," he explains to his two patients. They were curious to see if they were able to know any more about this new patient. Dr. Fronz had told them of his plans in more detail as they trusted him more than Daniel does at this moment. Any new patient could be the one that they were hoping for.
"Can we know who?" Jorel asks, his ears had perked up at the mention of new patient. All the hybrids shared something else beside their mutations. They were all tattooed, some heavier than others but they got to choose all but one. On the collar bone on the side of the body which they write with was their patient number. If you were left handed it would be on the skin of the left collar bone and it was the same for right handed people. "It was Daniel," the doctor replies making the two wolves gasp. They weren't expecting it to be their friend so soon after the doctor's arrival.
"How is he doing? It has been way too many years since we last saw him," George asks and they guessed it wasn't good when they saw how the doctor's expression changed. "Not good, he is broken. He doesn't trust any of his doctors it seems. I managed to break through to him and he trusts me a little bit but they've been abusing him for too long I can't expect it to last. He told me he really misses you guys and he wants to see you all so badly," Dr. Fronz tells then, not sugar coating the situation at all.
He had decided to explain every little detail to the wolves of his time with Daniel. He started with his first impression when he walked into the room to when he had put the hybrid to bed once he was asleep in the doctor's arms and then him leaving the room without waking the poor boy. The details of how much Daniel had changed in those years they have been separated shocked the wolves who were always concerned for the younger male but they didn't realise how desperate and bad the situation really was. "Poor Danny, when is the next phase going to start?" Jorel asks.
"As I have mentioned it is a little difficult to get him to trust me so I can take him out the room on his own and for him to feel safe but I think I can get you in a therapy session with him sometime next week but I might need your help for that," the doctor replies which made Jorel and George a little excited, they couldn't wait to see Daniel again and hold him tight. "What do you need?" George asks, determined to help. The therapy session with Jorel was a cover up for the meet up, he needed the other doctors off his case until he could present it to the people who would shut this place down.
He would get footage and actually do the session to help keep the doctors quiet but he really wanted an hour in between to get the friends together and talking. "I just need little personal details about Daniel which will can make conversation so he knows I am someone worth trusting," Dr. Fronz replies and Jorel smiles. "First little thing, he would respond better to you if you called him Danny, it would set you apart from the other doctors because Daniel only makes him thing of the pain it seems," Jorel says, he didn't want to come across as mean but he was helping his friend. George was still thinking about other little things he knew Danny would love to talk about as Dr. Fronz took it in.
He left with a lot of tips now saved onto his phone on how to get Danny to trust him more. He knows little details like what his favourite food is, his favourite animal and other things like that. It was going to be a lot easier to get Danny on his side now the therapy session with Jorel could go as planned next week. Well the only thing that could stop him was if something really bad happened to either hybrid. They couldn't be in the infirmary on the planned date or it would set them back a few weeks.
Dr. Fronz was exhausted once he had reached his home but he had one more thing he needed to do before he went to bed. He needed to continue with his hand-written report on the neglect and abuse suffered by the hybrids there. Sure Jorel and George were better off than Daniel but they were still neglected. If he focused on Daniel then they would assume all hybrids are affected and the place would be shut down. As it was a very formal hand-written report he could not write Danny anywhere it had to be the full name. He wrote about how open the doctors were to speaking of Danny's abuse and how the hybrid was affected as a result. He ended up staying up so late writing it that he fell asleep on the book with the pen still in his hand.
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