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Chapter 3
Olivia lay there, she was trying to store everything she had seen already inside a corner of her memory. She couldn't forget it. Wouldn't forget it.
She had been dragged through endless corridors, each one containing several locked gates. Each one had a code but she had been unable to see what the code had been when their 'tour guide' had punched them in.
On through another gate and more corridors, then stairs. The stairs were steep and like the rest of the place made out of old concrete. The place was damp and the stairs were covered in slippery green stuff. The men, who wore big black boots managed them easily but, thanks to being bare foot, Olivia slipped on them. The back of her ankle grated along two of the steps before one of the men caught her.
It hurt like hell and she would have happily spent the next five minutes muttering every cuss word she knew, but wanting to keep a brave face she simply chose to grin and bare it. She kept turning around to check Alex was ok. She had yet to gain consciousness so one of the men had her draped over his shoulder like an old carpet that was about to be thrown out. She had been so busy watching the man carrying Alex that the had not been concentrating on the steps and once again slipped. This time her feet came from under her and with a hard crack she fell back, hitting her head on a step, knocking herself unconscious.
That had been then and this was now. She pushed herself up from off the small cot and looked around her. She had done so once already but her head had felt too fuzzy so she had lay back down and drifted off again. But now things felt clearer and as she looked around she took the sight in. The room was long, the ceiling high, very high. The floor was lined with two rows of cot beds. There must have been about 50, if not more, and almost every one had a woman lying in it, cold and most of them crying. At the end of the room was tiled shower cubicles, the walls only high enough to hid half the body, they looked dirty and Olivia wondered if they even worked. Just beyond them were some toilet cubicles.
The cots were cheap and uncomfortable, the mattress beneath her was thin and stained. At the end of each bed was a metal chest, she had taken a quick look inside. All that was in it was a towel, face cloth and three pairs of what Olivia could only describe as hospital scrubs, dark red clearly second hand. There was also a plastic bowl, spoon and cup, all of which look like it had never been properly washed.
Trying to forget her surroundings, Olivia limped over to the bed next to her where Alex lay, she had been slowly coming round for a while. She sat down next to her and gently brushed her hair back out of her face. Then she took another quick look around the room. It was dark, only two big lights hung from either end of the room were lit up, and both looked like they could do with some more bulbs. She wondered if the other lights even worked. The walls showed sign of damp and all the coughs and splutters from inside the room backed it up. The place was like a freezer.
Olivia shivered at the thought and knew Alex must be feeling it too so she carefully began rubbing her hands against the bare flesh on Alex's arms, trying to warm her up. She felt like stone.
"Liv." Alex moaned.
"Yeah, sweetie I'm here."
"Where is here?" Alex asked groggily as she tried to look around.
"I have no idea." Olivia replied.
They were both brought out of their thoughts when the sound of a big metal lock being turned echoed around the room. They watched as the women all got up, and like something out of the army, stood at the end of their beds. Neither Alex, nor Olivia moved. The other woman who had been brought in with them copied all the other women and stood at the end of the bed that she had been sat or lay on.
Four men walked into the room, all wearing puffy black jackets and black trousers and heavy looking black boots, all of them had a riot baton strapped to their belts. The men split into two groups and began walking past the women. They looked like they were inspecting the women, and for all Alex and Olivia knew they were. They both remained seated.
Another, somewhat bigger man then walked in. He too was dressed in black but the clothes where slightly different to the other four men. He silently stepped between the two rows of cots and looked around. His eyes fell right on Olivia's and suddenly he was making his way over to her.
"Get to your feet!" he ordered.
Neither Olivia or Alex did, Alex was still feeling groggy and doubted whether she'd be able to stand.
"She needs a Dr." Olivia said matter-of-factly to the man who stormed his way right over to her.
The man didn't answer her, instead he reached down and slapped his hand down against the back of her head and pulled her to her feet. He could immediately feel the goose-egg sized bump on the back of her head. "What happened here." he sneered, staring down at her, she seemed tiny compared to him.
"She slipped on the stairs, bumped her head, stupid bitch knocked herself out cold." one of the men informed him.
"Then she'll just have to learn to be more careful, won't she." he said looking at her for a moment before, without warning, he let go of her hair and stepped away before swinging round and connecting the back of his hand with her face. Her lip bust right open and she fell down onto the cot
The man grabbed a handful of her hair again, pulling her up slightly before letting go, letting her fall to the floor, where he delivered her a hard kick to her side. She yelped in pain as her ribs cracked. Agony.
"Get away from her." Alex yelled as loud as she could, standing up and trying to push him back but only pushing herself back down in the process. Her head began to spin. She grabbed hold of her head, praying the spinning would stop, or at least slow down. She too was not expecting the mans next move as he pushed her to the floor too.
"I suppose I should fill you both in on the rules." he said as he stood in front of them. They both remained on the floor. Both in too much pain to want to move.
"First, you do what you are told when you are told. There will be no second warnings. If you don't do what you are told you will be punished. Good behaviour will not be rewarded and will not buy you an early release. You're here for life." he told them as they looked up at him from the floor where they both lay in pain. "Welcome to The Domain."
TBC
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