Josh hopped off the medical bed and strolled over to the others. He was a little light headed after having his blood taken. Who knows why they'd taken so much? Ciaran stood with the doctors reading over files while Skylar slept in the corner. Freya turned to the other recruits.
"Hey… does anyone have a pen?" She looked at them with a mischievous glint in her eye.
"Ask the medi' staff, they'll have tones." Josh smiled slightly oblivious to what she was planning while Claire sunk down into her chair shaking her head. The other two girls gigged to themselves before Aster pipped up.
"Come on Freya, you're not serious right?"
"His own fault for falling asleep." Freya smirked at turned and looked for a pen. A black felt tip lay on the work bench. She looked around making sure the doctors were not looking. Her grin widened as she crossed the room, towards the sleeping Skylar. She knelt down and started to draw a moustache on his upper lip that swirled out onto his cheek. She drew circles around his eyes as if they were glasses and finally in capital letters was the word SUCKER on his forehead. Josh glanced over and covered his mouth with his hand trying to contain his booming laughter while the others sniggered and Freya hid the pen and scurried back to her seat.
"Claire can yo…" Ciaran looked up from the clip board and stared at his brother then the recruits. He grinned and kicked his brother's leg.
"Don't shoot! I'm up!" Skylar lunged from his sleeping spot and looked around surprised before reality set in. He flicked his hair and stood in a calm nonchalant pose. "I wasn't sleeping… I uh… took a time out that's all." He looked at everyone oblivious; the doctors sniggered slightly then continued their work while the others faced away trying desperately not to laugh. "What…?" What happened?" He looked over himself then behind him and found nothing out of the ordinary.
Ciaran cleared his throat and shook his head, intending on leaving Skylar to find out what they'd done on his own. He always did enjoy tormenting his big brother.
"Uhh… Yes Claire can we have you over on the bed again… we have a few more questions." He smiled and handed Skylar the clipboard. Claire stood and wandered over then hopping up onto the bed.
"We've already established that I can't remember my past. What do you want now?" Claire grumbled, feeling like a test subject. Skylar looked at her, curiosity waving over him before he turned to the others. "Ok you lot are with me. Um… Josh; Heidi; Aster and Freya, you guys have nothing more to do here." The four looked at him. Josh smiled widely still trying to contain his laughter. Skylar looked at him confused before looking at Josh as if he was crazy. Josh had burst out into laughter and hid is face in Asters shoulder who now was trying not to join in and laugh along with Josh. She patted his head gently and looked to Freya who stood up with a blank expression on her face ready to follow along behind Skylar.
Ciaran and Claire watched as the group left.
"Is he always this clueless?" Claire asked as she continued to watch after them. Ciaran shook his head and smiled amused as he started to mumble under his breath.
"And that's coming from the amnesiac…" He smirked and looked to the nurse who stood by. "Right Claire we need to take a blood sample. Is that ok? It's to help us understand more about you. Ok?" Claire started to look uneasy. She stared at the needle in the nurse's hand.
"No way… No mother fucking way… You keep that shit away from me!" She stepped off the bed and backed away from the nurse. Ciaran and the nurse looked at each other and then back at Claire.
"Claire. Don't be afraid. We're not going to hurt you, ok?" She looked at them terrified.
"Look, if I don't know anything you'll not learn anything! I'm not an animal!" She yelled as she backed herself up against the wall.
Skylar guided the group through the corridors. He started getting really frustrated with the odd looks his co-workers were giving him. Must be the new recruits, he though.They walked passed a group of lieutenants.
"What is wrong with you? You were new around here once too! Stop laughing!" He shouted at them only causing them to laugh more. Josh and Heidi stepped forward and placed their hands on Skylar's shoulders and guided him forward and Aster and Freya giggled behind them.
"Skylar did you look in the mirror this morning before coming to work?" Freya sniggered. Skylar stopped and turned around.
"Sweetheart, I probably spend more time looking in a mirror than you do in a life time. I mean… come on, look at me." He smirked and gestured over himself and lifted his shirt slightly showing of his perfectly chiselled abdomen. The four looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"All right pretty boy. Come with me." Josh smirked and looked for the male toilets. "Let's go find you a mirror to admire yourself in."
"Fuck that, Josh. I'm not going anywhere with any man who talks like that…" He stepped away from him and pulled out his phone to look at his reflection. "I might be gorgeous and all but sorry to burst your bubble but I don't swi… Oh no… Oh… hell no!" He lifted his hand and traced a finger along the pen lines as the others burst into another fit of laughter.
Claire opened a single eye to see the nurse walk away with the needle. The syringe filled with her blood.
"There that wasn't so bad now was it?" Ciaran smiled as Claire started to relax.
"Bring a needle near me again and you'll lose your balls." She glared at him. Ciaran stepped back with his hands up in surrender.
"Feisty one she is." One of the doctors murmured to the nurse who was trying to test the blood type. The machine buzzed and the word ERROR flashed on the screen.
"This can't be right…" Both doctors started trying to figure out what was wrong with the machine then tried to test again but again… ERROR… "Ciaran…"
"What? What's wrong?" He watched the two of them.
"She has no blood type…" The three turned to look at her.
"I what…?" Claire stared confused. Just then Ciaran radio started bleeping before Skylar's irritated voice followed.
"We're in training room four. Get here now before I kill one of them…" He growled through the radio.
"Well he found out what you guys did to his face." Ciaran chuckled and ignored Claire's confusion. He walked out the room and nodded to the medical staff then lead Claire down the hall. Ciaran watched her as they came to a halt next to large double doors. It's rare for us Guardians to not have ANY blood type. It's weird for anyone really. I guess… only time will tell before we find out who and what she is. Ciaran shook his head and pushed open the doors and lead her inside only to hear the doors slam behind them and bolt shut with six large automated locks designed to withstand bazooka's.
Claire spun around and stared with wide eyes.
Trapped?