One week without food and water only getting a shot of a yellow liquid everyday - the first phase of the training. Dr. Hummel had set Diana in a dark cage, with only hard wooden bench so the prisioners could stay out of the ground where the usual insects would roam. The guards walked by the cages with food in their hands. You could hear the others gasp and walking to the bars begging for food. The guards would laugh and eat in front of them - a type of torment and torture. On the first two days, Diana had begged for water to the guards but she quickly gave up and her hate for the guards was starting to grow at each day that passed.
"Very good, Ms. Petrov, it's your turn.", Said Dr. Hummel grinning at the starving girl. "Get her.", Ordered to the two guards behind him.
The two men - one blond and the other dark-haired - entered the cage smirking at Diana with shackles ready for her. She sat quietly in the bench until they got to her. She kicked the larger one in the stomach but was quickly caught by the blond. The dark-haired man grunted and stood back straight, slapping Diana with the back of his hand before shackling her wrists.
"Yes, yes, this one will be perfect...so much stärke [strength]!", said the excited doctor looking at Diana with a grin. "Take her to the laboratory."
As she was dragged through the dark hallway, the dim lights shun on the other prisoner's faces. Boys, girls, younger, older, all different but all of them shared the same expression - fear and sadness. Although, one of the cells didn't have a face coming out of the bars to see the new victim. Instead, the yellow light shun over a lifeless body of a toddler - too young to survive such treatment. The bright light inside the laboratory distracted Diana from her train of thought. The doctor ordered the men to restrain her and they tightly trapped her hands held up on a pipe.
"Let's get started, mein schatz [my treasure], I don't want to waste anymore time.", Said the doctor snapping his fingers so that the two men went away to be replaced by other two men in white coats.
"What are you going to do?", Diana asked looking confused and terrified to the men.
"We're going to release your value, of course...", Said the doctor as he and the other two picked up electric prods. "But, how do you say...to make an omelette, we'll have to crack a few eggs.", Continued grinning as he approaches Diana with the prods
A few seconds later, the girl discovered that her mother was wrong - she was not strong and the electrical strikes caused her screams to echo through the hallways and cages.

"For you, мое сокровище [my treasure].", Said her father handing her a medium sized pink pearl he had found while working on a seaside house.
"It's beautiful, father.", Cheered the 5 year-old Diana carefully holding the pearl and smiling at Michael's loving eyes.
"Wait, I'll make it so you carry it everywhere...", Michael said taking the pearl from her giving it back half an hour later.
He had managed to encase the pearl in a necklace.
"Here...", Said Michael putting the necklace around her neck kneeling in front of the little girl. "Beautiful, as always."
Diana wrapped her arms around her father's neck for a tight embrace. The warmth calmed her and she smiled on Michael's arms.
"Good memories won't help you, mein perle [my pearl].", Laughed Dr. Hummel and resumed torturing her - 'training' he called.

Diana ' s body had been worked on for a year now. Her clear light skin was now covered with bruises and cuts. Hummel joined by Joshua and Viktor were her personal demons - each time they seemed to outdo themselves. At night, the crying had diminished, many of the young prisoners had succumbed to death and we're rotting in their cells - the smell filling the air being itself a manner of torture. The ones who still managed to survive sobbed all through the night - a lullaby to the guards and doctors. Diana couldn't cry any longer - she had spent the first month crying and now there were no more tears to spill.

Memories were her only defense - she escaped to them during the sessions - her mother, father, friends...they were all there to greet her with open arms and a smile in their mouths. Dr. Hummel wanted her to think of his little organisation as family but Diana wouldn't leave her real family, dead or not - this type of behaviour excited the doctor making him spend most of his time taking care of her.
"Be strong, Диана [Diana], make us proud...", Diana tried to obey to her mother's words but each time it was getting harder and harder.

"My name is Diana, и ты [and you]?", Asked the 4 year old holding a hand-made rag-doll.
The two children in front of her were fighting - typical brother-sister behaviour - and they looked at her silencing themselves. Diana had seen the two of them playing before from the window of her room - the silver-haired boy always messed with the dark-haired girl.
The twins looked at her and the girl smiled forgetting about her spat with her brother.
"I'm Wanda, nice to meet you.", Smiled the girl and followed Diana ' s curious gaze to the boy behind her. "And this is my brother, Pietro."
"Yes, yes, can we play now?", Asked the blue-eyed boy seeming restless to which his sister rolled her eyes.
"Can I play with the both of you?", Shily asked Diana looking up at them.
They seemed to be one or two years older than her.
"Of course.", Replied the girl smiling wide imitated by her brother.
"Thank you.", Said Diana smiling back.
"So einfältig [naive], you really think we can't break you?", Asked the grinning doctor and laughed. "We've wasted too much time to give up now, mein liebling [my darling]...", Continued to what Diana spit as a response.
Slowly, the doctor cleaned his cheek creating a sense of fear in the girl but she kept her strong expression. Then, in a sudden movement, the man whipped her leg causing Diana to scream.
"You'll learn how to respect your new family...", Whispered threateningly Dr. Hummel close to her ear. Takes a syringe from his pocket and injecting her - the liquid made her not feel her body, the only relief she had after her times with the doctor even though it was only for a minute. "Take her to her cage.", He ordered to the guards. "We'll see if in the morning, you'll be more cooperative."
Joshua and Viktor took her to her filthy cage, throwing her to the wet floor where she stood until the effects of the liquid wore off.
"Happy Birthday, Petrov.", Joshua said laughing as they left the cage and locked it.
18 years old, the first birthday she spent without her family - she wept for the first time in months.
That night, she fell asleep holding her own body as she laid on the bench and dreamt - the only thing she could do in that hell./p

Diana ' s father and mother sat at the table smiling at her. In front of her a cake with ten lit candles. By her sides, Pietro and Wanda stood quiet - the blood dripping from their heads seemed to be normal for the family.
"Blow the candles, маленький ангел [little angel]...", Said Katrina softly smiling at Diana.
"Yes, yes, we have presents, mein schatz.", Said Michael with darker hair and hollow eyes but still he smiled.
Diana blew the candles and looked at the cake - the words 'Happy Birthday' were written in black on a red background.
"Welcome to your new family.", Father said making her look at him - Katrina, Pietro and Wanda had been replaced by guards and doctors in white coats.

Diana woke up screaming with balls of sweat on her forehead - it was starting.

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