It had been about three days since I had woken up after the wolf incident. K103 hadn't really said anything to me besides telling me what day it was or if it was night and day. Apparently vampires can keep track of the suns progress, guess it comes in handy.
I had stated to memorise the Marta's daily routine which was early mornings were shower time as everyone who came back was wet shivering and a faint smell of soap filled the air. Lunch time then held food, for the wolves it was scraps of meat just thrown into the cages. For K103 and the rest of us…vampires. It was a cold, small blood bag.
I just gave them to K103 with a small smile and went back to sleep, he accepted but never said anything. Then it was testing and a lucky test subject would be dragged from their cage kicking and screaming into the room most of us now called the blood bath. The screams would then carry on until they went quiet and still, then the silver door would once again open and a body would be dragged out dead and paraded around the cages or semi alive and flung back in the cold damp cage it was taken from.
The Matra left at this point until the next morning shower. K103 would always hum a song quietly when I was drifting off to sleep. I would have to remember to say thank you one day.
So here I am awake on my third day, the hunger was getting to me now. My brain felt like someone was squeezing it, my lungs felt like an old air balloon that had a hole in and my stomach felt like I'd had five rounds in a kick boxing ring. Being in pain was ok though. It dulled the voices out of my head. Three days without my medication was enough for the voices to let me know they are still there, and right now pain is just what they wanted to give me.
"You're not doing so good are you female" The voice made me open my eyes and look towards my only if you could call him that, friend.
"I've been better" I gave a small smile that soon fell.
"Come here" My eyes once again met the deep red ones of K103.
"Why" my voice held more curiosity than fear.
"I'm going to help, just come here" I sat up with great effort and slowly crawled my way over to the side of the cage me and K103 both shared.
"How can you help, unless your packing a chocolate bar" There was far too much hope in my voice for the words that just came out of my mouth to be a joke.
K103 lifted his wrist up to his mouth and a sort of popping noise followed by a few drops on the floor instantly had my eyes going large at what he was suggesting. "I can't drink that, its blood" I started to move backwards but his hard snaked through the cage and held the back of my neck, securing me in place just inches away from the bar and his face.
"Female listen to me, for three days now you have been giving me your blood bags, you have not eaten and I may not have met a human in real life but I know you must eat and drink the food of the animals and the wolves. From what I have calculated it will be our turn for the shower today, you will be tested instantly if they believe you are weak, they will find out you are not a vampire. Drink my blood, regain some strength and we will work out how the hell we get out of here, deal?"
I sat looking K103 in the eyes and realised he had a point, I was weak and we both needed our strength to get out of here. "Ok" was all I said before he pulled my face flush against the bars and placed his bleeding wrist against my mouth.
At first my body instinctively started to try and spit out the warm liquid but after K103 keeping his wrist firmly to my mouth my body had no choice but to swallow the blood. The taste didn't have a magical taste like you read in books. It tasted just like it does, like I was drink a penny flavoured drink. Once I had had enough K103 let go of my arm and my neck smiling as he sat back against the wall.
I sat looking at him for a few seconds before my brains kicked in. "Thank you, for helping me you know"
The laugh from his cage snapped me out of my apology. "Sweet young naïve female, I'm not helping you I'm helping me" He looked at me and carried on laughing "I can see you don't understand, let me put it this way, wolves love each other there a pack species, Vampires well were solo even if were bonded it's rare to find a Vampire who wants to spend more than a couple of years at a time with the vampire their bonded too. So don't take it personally but I need you alive to keep getting double the food bags so I can get the out of this place. If you're still alive and fit enough ill help you escape to but after that you're on your own ok?"
My mouth just hung open. Really, I had to be placed with the most selfish Vampire. I would play along until I got out and figured where the hell I was going and how to get home. "Fine, help each other out then solo, I get it" My voice was sharp and to the point, I was sick of people always taking advantage of me or being on the losing end.
His voice was once again soft, confirming that he is indeed a bi-polar Vampire. "Female I did not mean to offend it is just the way of my species"
My head snapped around and I crossed my arms over my chest like a child. "Your all selfish pigs" He laughed and just rested his head back against the wall as his voice grew more serious. "Shower time female" my head went to the brown door opening at the far end and the two Matra's entering.
"Test subject H365 and K103, shower time"
