I see my mom step from behind David's chair, she's alive! I look in every direction, the air has escaped my lungs and I feel a warm, hopeful feeling flood my insides. I stretch out my arm to grasp her gray abnegation dress, still stained with the blood that haunted my dreams. But my arm never seems to reach her. Instead, my image starts to quiver, like the ripples of a lake when you throw a stone in its center.
No. this must be real! I close my eyes, hoping that I can grasp onto her image, that maybe, just maybe, my hopes have finally been fulfilled. I feel the salty tears run across my cheek and open my eyes, half expecting to still see the image of David and my mother. But instead, I lie facing up on the floor in the room I was a few minutes ago. The first thing I see is Caleb's tear eyed face inches away from mine. I move my hand toward the back of my neck, which seemed untouched, no wound whatsoever.
"Beatrice, Beatrice!" Caleb's voice is raspy yet still cracks. He hugs me, pulling me towards his chest. "You're awake, alive!" I see that his shirt is torn starting from his neck down to his forearm, and blood follows the scars on his ear.
"What happened?" it sounds more like I was talking in my sleep then a question, but Caleb still answers.
"I saw you collapse, and rushed in to get you, after the poison left the air." He says it stopping every few minutes to let out a stifled sob, like he has never seen me in pain before, or on the verge of death. The first thing that enters my mind is the memory serum, and I push myself up, ignoring my body's painful protests. The expression on Caleb's face tells me he's confused to why I'm rush towards the door to the weaponry lab.
"The…the serum" I say, trying to explain, and realize that I sound like a young girl, but I don't care. I open the door and see two guards running from the opposite side of the room when they see my shadowed face.
My first instinct was to grab a gun, but I realized that I didn't have one after reaching to my back pocket. So instead, I lunge to the switch, grasping its handle, I pull it down. I see the serum being dispensed from the small capsules attached to the ceiling. The two guards stopped at their tracks looking around the room like two clueless newborns. I let out a small giggle, since I have been inoculated. Small burst of triumph run through me, I did it. (I'm really bad with ending sentence, ok!)