4
The doors of the Area A building flapped open allowing entrance. Bosa walked inside and pinned his badge to his coat pocket.
"Bosa!" shouted a gray man.
"Yah Jay," he replied back.
"You're here early," said Jay.
"I need to get into the lab and check up on Alice's condition," Bosa breathed out with a yawn.
"So, you do know?" Jay asked curiously.
"Know what?" Bosa looked back at Jay and stared at his unshaven chin bristling thick and messy.
"Gill's got her awake right now," Jay had a frown on his face, "She's meeting Lady today, I believe. I bet that…."
Bosa looked towards the hallway of labs that run around the facility and walked away without another word. He walked with his unpolished shoes clicking quick and loud to Alice.
Bosa punched furiously at the keys and locked his key into the door as the spiral opened. He rushed inside Room B. "Alice!" he yelled out. The chair was empty. He went behind the bed where a hidden hallway connected to one of Lady's rooms. The door was already opened and he quickly walked inside. His eyes frantically searched for Alice, his little girl. As he got closer to the end of the hallway he felt a soft hand brush his cheek and then he fell. His head hit the ground hard and everything felt dark.
Time had passed before Bosa's eyes rolled. Blood! He can taste it in his mouth like copper. He tried to touch where his lips were supposed to be. He felt something soft and warm, but not his lips. The soft hand loosened its grip. He took a deep breath and lifted his weight with the heels of his palms pressed to the floor. His head burned and throbbed painfully. He softly ran his fingers through his hair and spat out a little blood. Then Bosa looked up into a pair of yellow eyes under enlarged lashes and then it was gone.He was alone in the dim hallway and stumbled onto his feet with his hand pushed against an empty white framed canvas and he could hear the faint laughter of something quite sinister.
Bosa heard footsteps ahead and then the figure of a darkly suited man with white hair combed back and a pair of green glasses.
"Dr. Gill," Bosa called out to the doctor.
The doctor ran with his boots echoing the dark halls. Dr Gill helped Bosa to his feet and walked him away from Lady's corridors.
"It's too late now," Dr. Gill said quietly.
"I saw something. I saw yellow eyes, but nothing else it was here and it took a hold of me..." Bosa trailed off as the doctor did his best to drag Bosa out of the tunnel. He could hear the doctor groan from under his weight.
Bosa tried to fix himself up and they both walked stumbling into Alice's room. Bosa laid out heavily on the floor and Dr. Gill leaned on the bed.
"My Alice," Bosa breathed out.
"I said it was too late. It was too late when you first brought her here and you know that. She isn't yours anymore. She can not even possibly recollect anything in her former life, you are no longer her father," Dr. Gill said.
"I know. I don't regret bringing her. This project was what brought her back. It's just I wanted to see her alive again," Bosa breathed out.