A/N: HIYA!
Yes, I have a Littletale!Fate, and she is precious.
This is the start of her story, so no hate please, because I will point and laugh.
I'm gonna put up a TRIGGER WARNING right here, right now. See that Trigger Warning? Yah, look at it. This could be a pretty triggering story for some people, so please proceed with caution.
I got this idea randomly a little while ago and decided to finally write it.. And share it. So, please, enjoy~
'Everyone dies alone, in cages… broken.'
'… Am I going to die, too? Alone… broken…'
"You're saying that it hurts?" A Human man questioned, writing notes down on a piece of paper clipped to a clipboard. A small cat Monster, no more than a little kid, sat on a bed across from him, only in a torn blue dress besides 3 necklaces and a multi-colored bracelet, and she nodded a little bit. "I see… Well, you have my apologies about that, AM-EK."
AM-EK… That was her experiment name. It was how they told her apart from all the others, whom she never met or heard about, or anything of the sort. It was her name, Ame, and the first letter of her last name, Konno… and she hated it, but she didn't dare to say so.
"You seem to have grown since your last physical exam. I'll adjust your painkillers—"
"No…" She said suddenly, cutting the man off. He looked up from his papers curiously, waiting for her to explain herself. "I'm not in pain in that way. It hurts… on the inside."
"… Is this a joke? It isn't funny, AM-EK. I must admit that your intelligence and observational skills make you more mature than appreciated… However, we're not here to be your little problem-fixers, got that? Just deal with it and soon enough, we won't have a need for you anymore."
"Dr. Torres…?" AM-EK asked softly, gaining a bit of attention from the man. She had a book in her lap and was sitting in the corner of the room, her head down with her gaze slightly up. "What did you mean about not having a need for me anymore…?"
"We scientists get bored… I'm not gonna lie, but you'll probably be thrown out like trash." Dr. Torres replied, making Fate sink into the corner a little bit. "If you don't mind, I'd like to focus on my work rather than your little existential crisis, AM-EK."
"… What are you working on?" She asked. Her voice was even softer than before as she sunk into the corner further than before, shaking as soon as his hand slammed again his working space.
"I do not need to share that information with you, AM-EK!"
"… Y-Yes, sir… I-I'm sorry…"
Her door opened slowly, revealing Dr. Torres as her plain expression went even blanker upon seeing him, lab coat and all.
"AM-EK, are you awake?" He asked cautiously before seeing her on the floor with her book. It was the one thing she had to escape that hellhole with, so she always kept it with her and read it slowly, never wanting to finish it although she was curious as to how it would end. "Good, come with me."
"Sit down, AM-EK."
She paused, swallowing uncomfortably for being back in the office before she was mentally prepared to be, before sitting down on the bed across from his desk. He casually strolled over to her after closing the door and she settled into a slightly panicked state, watching his every movement closely. Things were going to go wrong fast… She knew they would.
Her wrist was suddenly grabbed and her arm was slammed down, bringing the rest of her body with it as she let out a scream from the action. He wrapped a restraint around her wrist, tightening it to the point where she could barely feel anything, before doing the same thing to her other wrist, both of her feet, and her head for a reason unbeknownst to her.
"This may hurt a little bit, AM-EK."
She didn't say anything because her throat had closed up the moment this all started. He put something on the top of her eye and another thing of the same kind on the bottom of it, making sure she couldn't close it no matter how hard she tried to do so. Tears started to cloud her vision moments after, but Dr. Torres didn't stop or even pause for a moment.
She watched as he held her head in place with one hand and put a needle close to her eye with his other, the liquid in it being a bright and strange color to her. She let out more screams because she was terrified of needles and it was so close, but couldn't squirm because her body had frozen up.
"Be quiet!" He yelled at her, making her break down into tiny sobs and sniffles. "Stay still, you hear me?"
She did as she was told, even as she felt the needle against her eye. One of her sobs was a little louder than the rest of them as the needle entered ever so gently and she felt the liquid starting to pull in. Everything started to go blank before she suddenly couldn't feel anything except the pain of whatever Dr. Torres was trying to do.
So naturally, she screamed and started to struggle against the restraints, squirming even under his grip as he tried to make her stop. She could feel blood pouring from both of her eyes and screamed louder, more in fear than anything else at that point. It only increased as she heard him curse, removing the needle and starting to wrap bandages around her head, covering her eyes with them.
It was the only injury he had ever bandaged instead of just stitched up, in which she didn't know how to react to it. She wasn't sure if she could because even though she could still think clearly, she had lost nearly all control of her body otherwise.
"It's okay, AM-EK! You're fine, just take deep breaths! Breathe, AM-EK, just breath…"
'Is this what it's like to really go numb and not feel anything…? I don't like it… Everything should hurt… I'm so tired…'
"AM-EK, are you listening?"
'I can't see anything except how dark it is. I don't want to be here.'
The bandages were removed and yet, she still stared ahead without blinking. She hadn't gone blind, had she? Nonetheless, Dr. Torres took notes while he observed her. He noticed that she hadn't moved at all and he put his clipboard and pen down, gently patting her head. She didn't even flinch.
"You'll be okay." He stated, turning to go back to his work before suddenly freezing upon hearing her words.
"You did this to me." She reminded him, speaking for the first time since the big experiment. She blinked once and then twice… and then she started to blink normally again. Her eyes and head moved as if she was looking around, but you wouldn't be able to tell if she actually saw anything because she didn't give off any signs of such.
"Y-Yes… b-but I only did because I-I was sure you would get bet—"
"You're bad at lying, Dr. Torres."
He was suddenly pinned to the wall with black and white arrows and within seconds, they didn't shatter as they had many times before. The experiment had made her stronger and because of that, he was now in trouble.
"I-I'm not…"
"You are not permitted to speak." She stated, her eyes piercing into his. She didn't even have to raise her hands and she wasn't shaking… How had such little time changed such a little girl?
"Y-You really are… c-cursed…" He muttered before letting out a pained scream that was muffled moments later due to little arrows sewing his lips tightly together.
She got to her feet cautiously, trusting the waters, before looking around for something… so she could see again despite her eyes still being slightly bloody. She grabbed one of Dr. Torres' tools off of his desk and examined how sharp it was before looking up at him, hearing him scream even though it was just sound vibrating in his throat due to having nowhere else to go.
"Be quiet." She ordered, slightly mocking him. She then smiled a little bit, walking closer to him as he squirmed against her magic.
"Stay still, won't you?"
And then piercing screams rang out through the building, soon followed by alarms.
