The Blood Experiment

She turned swiftly when her eyes caught a movement in the darkness. "Who's there?!" Her voice echoed down the dark tunnel. The only answer was the sound of dripping water landing on the pavement. The lights on the walls didn't help, a couple flickered on and off, and the others gave so little light the blub didn't even glow. She swallowed her nervousness and started on her way again, traveling deeper in the tunnel. Tired, weak, alone, and cold; she wasn't sure how long she could make it without another feeding. Then again she didn't care, she let her instinct take over her too many times in the past couple months. Her foot steps stopped when she heard a whimper come from the darkness around her. "I know you're there! Who are you? Where are you?"

"Help...Me..." The voice was faint and bearly audible, but she heard it and she knew where it came from.

She felt her way around the darkness until her hand touched skin. Skin that was lossing heat. She quickly removed the jacket she was wearing and put over the person's body. "Everything will be ok, just tell me what hurts" she whispered to the stranger.

There was a pause, "it's my shoulder...I think I got shot..."

Her eyes widened slightly, "ok, lets get you somewhere into the light so I can fix you up" The smell of blood was almost overwhelming. It took all her will power to not bite the stranger and drain them of they're blood. She walked for half an hour, carrying the stanger, before she found light on an abandon subway station. She laid the person down, which she now knew was a girl. She studied the wound, "It looks like you were just grazed by a bullet, just needs some bandages." She looked up at the girsl face and saw the cat ears, as dark as midnight, towards the bottom of the ears they faded into a brown, which was the color of her hair. "What's your name?" she whispered while still staring.

"Ashley" The cat-eared girl replied through clenched teeth. "What's your's?"

"It's...Lamia" she answered. She started wrapping a cloth, that she had ripped off her shirt, around Ashley's wound.

"Lamia? Thats not a name you hear often, what does it mean?" Ashley sat up slowly and leaned against the wall.

Lamia studying her work on Ashely's wound, "you don't see people with cat ears often either, but you don't see me asking you about your's now do you?"

The girl's cat ears twitched and she looked away, "good point..."

Lamia sat down next to Ashley and pressed herself back against the wall, "The Institute or The School?"

Ashley's eyes wided and she stared at the dark haired girl next to her, "how do you know about them?"

"Talent. now, which did you escape from?"

"The Institute...someone let a whole bunch of us out...I was in that bunch"

Lamia's eyes narrowed in thought, "who was the 'someone'?"

"There were more then one, there was about six of them, and they had wings"

She looked at Ashley, "wings? like birds?"

"Yea, just like birds, do you know who they are?"

"I know of them, but I don't know them"

"Who are they?" Ashley's ears perked up to listen.

"They are experiments who escaped from The School in California, they are human-avian hybrids who stick together like family. No. They are family"

"Family? I wonder what it would be like to have a family..." She turned and gazed at a wall. "Lamia, do you know what it's like to have a family?"

Lamia smirked, "no, I can't say I do..."

"Do you ever wonder what it's like? you know, to be surrounded by people who love you"

"Do you know what love is?" Lamia turned and studied Ashley.

Ashley bit her lip, "well...no..."

The young dark haired girl stood, "Then how do you know it's a good thing?" She started walking away.

Ashley stood up and followed after her, "Where are you going?"

"I'm getting out of NewYork"

"But, uh...Can I come with you?" Both girls had stopped walking now.

Lamia thought silently to her-self for a moment, "why do you want to go with me?"

"Well...I don't really have anyone else...and I don't have anywhere to go, so...please?"

Lamia looked away in thought, maybe it will be a good thing..."Alright, you can come with me"