All her life Maya has only ever known these four white walls. Ever since she could remember she had been poked and prodded.
Her father Kermit is a scientist. He always said she was special.
Maya has a brain like nobody else's. She could lift things up with her mind and she has picture-perfect memory.
She has longed to see outside. She remembers trying to sneak away once. How stupid she had been.
Her father was furious with her. He gripped on her arm hard making her porcelain wrist red.
She was crying profusely saying she was sorry. He threw her in the punishment room.
He locked the door shut. She tried to get out but her father had injected her with some serum that weakens her power.
She was shaking and hugging her knees to her chest. She starved there for three days straight.
One of his workers finally opened the metal door. He took her from her fetal position on the bed.
Too weak to care she gripped the man's chest. She then was placed in the cafeteria.
She started to eat. Her father came through the doors and she was shaking. He sat next to her and stroked her hair.
Maya tried hard not to flinch away. "This is what happens when you disbehave. Don't ever do that again!!" He whispered harshly in her ear.
She immediately nodded her head. "I won't do it again." she said robotically.
"Good." Kermit said standing up. "Finish your food we'll start testing immediately."
He ordered two of his workers to follow him out the cafeteria doors.
That was 10 years ago. Now she is sixteen. She is more mature and had developed a more foolproof plan.
She waited until the workers left on their lunch break and then she proceeded with her plan.
She caused a " fire" in the room when she wafted the hot food near the smoke detector. Then she waited five minutes for the fire alarm to start and the lights to turn red.
She then pushed the bed frame to the door so the worker wouldn't come in. She turned the wooden dresser into a ladder and climbed the ventilation shaft.
When she was put in the punishment room she seen one of the new workers slip a paper under the door.
She immediately crawled to it. It was the blueprints of the whole facility. She didn't know who the man was but he had kind blue eyes and brown hair. She looked at the nametag it said Shawn. She'll remember him.
She then climbed the wooden ladder and crawled as fast as she can. She heard her bedroom door bust open.
She heard her father's cruel voice yell "Don't let her escape!"
She looked back and saw one of the workers crawl after her and shoot a tranquilizer dart.
It frightened her. She didn't look back and kept on crawling. After about two to three turns she stopped to catch her breath.
Her heart was pumping a hundred miles a minute. She kept on going hearing the workers gaining on her trail.
She was almost home free. But then one of the vents pop open and she saw a worker grab her right leg.
She kicked the guy with her left foot. His head slightly pushed back and loosened his grip.
She then crawled again. It made the guy even angrier and he lifted his elbows and began crawling after her.
She then tried to open the vent but it wouldn't budge and the worker lunged and tackled her.
She tried to squirm away. He then brought his fist down to her left eye. He then punched her hard on the lip making her mouth taste her blood.
He then went to punch her again when she used all the power she had with her mind and pushed him back to the far side of the shaft hitting the other two workers.
The keys had slipped out of the man's pockets when she pushed him back.
She used it to lift the vent. She then dropped on the grass feeling grass for the first time.
She didn't have time to reflect on it and seen many workers shooting her with more guns.
Her nose was bleeding having used so much strength. She slightly felt lightheaded but kept on going.
The electric gate was almost closing. She ran with all her might and slipped through.
She seen her father fuming pointing at her. The workers hurriedly trying to open the gate.
She kept on running and running in the woods. She coughed up more blood. She scratched her right side on a sharp tree branch. She bit her bloodied lip to muffle her scream and kept on running.
She finally stopped when she saw a street. She turned back around seeing no sign of anyone. She leaned on a lamppost. She lifted her shirt.
It was a purple bruise forming on the left side of her waist when the worker had tackled her.
The right side of her abdomen was bleeding and leaking on her shirt.
She was bruised and beaten but she was alive. She gasped for breath.
She had to keep going. She lifted herself on shaky legs and her body tried to protest.
If she didn't get help she would bleed to death and all of it was for nothing.
She touched the pendant her mother gave her. She died when she was three.
When she discovered what he wanted to do with their daughter she lost all love for him.
But before she could take her daughter away from him she fallen sick to a virus.
She didn't understand why her mom was always in bed all the time. She remembers the last moments with her mom vividly.
She was pale and her eyes had bags on them. "Mommy this is you and me!" She said jumping on the bed. She had drawn her Mom a picture of a her mother and her holding hands and a big heart around them.
Maya had brought pictures of drawings everyday hoping her mom would get better.
She seen her mother smile weakly. "It's beautiful." She said picking up her three year old and laying her on her lap.
"Maya, I want to give you something." She rasped out.
She reached over the bedside table and picked up a small wrapped box.
Maya was super excited she loved gifts. She was clapping and asked in a cheery voice "What is it!"
Her mom had opened it. "It's a present from me."
It was a golden heart-shaped pendant. Maya said "I love it!" "It gets better." She said and she opened the pendant for Maya.
The words inscribed in it said Just know I'll always be here with you - Love, Mom. It then showed a picture of her and her mom on her first birthday with blue frosting on her face laughing.
"But Mommy, my birthday is only a month away. Just give it to me then?" Maya said confused.
Then her mom started to cry and hugged her daughter. "Mommy I'm sorry I hurt you." She said and started to sniffle.
Katy laughed. "You didn't do anything wrong."
"It just that mommy will go away for awhile."
"What do you mean will you come back?"
Maya said looking up at her with big blue eyes.
"Right here." She said touching her heart. She then lifted the necklace and wrapped it around her neck. "Never take it off okay. Will you do that for Mommy?"
Maya nodded "I promise." Katy then kissed her daughter one last time and closed her eyes.
Maya had closed her eyes wiping her tears away. She had to fight for her Mom and for herself. She then saw two blinding lights.
Lucas was cursing himself as he had a flat tire. Great just what he needed. He was supposed to go to his internship at the hospital.
He pushed his beat up car to the side of the road. He checked the time. He was going to be late. He sighed and took out the flat tire.
He just about fixed it. He turned the headlights on when he saw a figure on the lamppost.
Her blonde hair was muddy. Her white outfit was ripped and dirty. She had a black eye and a swollen lip.
He immediately ran to her. She was about to fall when he gripped her waist. "Help please." She said in a weakened voice.
He immediately ran to his car and propped her against the backseat. "Keep your eyes open okay. Stay with me!" He saw her bleeding from her abdomen.
"Shit!" He immediately took off his shirt and wrapped it tightly around her stomach. She tried to keep her eyes open as best as she could.
He changed tactics and put her gently on the passenger seat. He ran to the driver side and reversed the car.
When he went to make a U-turn what he didn't expect was a gunshot flying past his head.
"What the hell!?" He said and then another gunshot hit his taillight.
"Drive." With that one little word he drove like a madman.
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