Here is another chapter of Saving Hope. Things are starting to happen. I will have another chapter up soon and hopefully Eternally. Tanks for reading, and enjoy.

HopePOV

We had been hooked up to those IVs for five hours and it was hell. You'd think after a while that the pain would die, even slightly. But if anything, it got worse over time.

When it was over, Shane unhooked us and sent us off to our rooms. Surprisingly though, the pain died almost as soon as the drip ended. Walking back to the room, I felt lighter on my feet (and not from happiness). I followed Sheila and Beth into one of the rooms. There were four bed in the room, so we each crawled into one and went to sleep.

Different. I couldn't pin down how but somehow I felt different but that's how I felt when I woke up. It like the way I experienced the world had changed but I wasn't sure how or why. Looking around the room, I felt disappointed that yesterday wasn't a dream. But, I was still in a room with two girls I barely knew, wearing my grungy gym clothes. I wondered how many people noticed our disappearance.

If it had have just been me, I don't think many people would have noticed, but five of us disappeared from school. Something like this was going to be noticed.

"Wake up, it's time to eat!" a voice said for outside the door. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. Beth and Sheila got up and walked to the door. I followed them, wishing I had something to put on, because the clothes I was wearing STUNK! I didn't think I could produce such a foul smell.

Outside the room, a table was set up with pancakes, bacon and eggs. Part of me was worried about there being something in the food, but the logical part of my brain told me that their already pumping us with god-knows-what, so what harm could food do?

Once we were all seated with plates in front of us two red-eyed men and a woman walked in the room.

"Eat up, treatments start in an hour," one of red-eyed men shouted. I felt a chill travel down my spine at his words.

"What are they doing to us?" Beth whispered, between bites.

A few of us shrugged, but I'm sure we were all wondering the same thing. We knew it was an experiment, but what kind.

The food was actually pretty good, considering it was made by maniacs. It wasn't long until a red-eyed man walked in, scrunched up his face and walked out. I knew we didn't exactly smell springtime fresh, but wasn't that a little extreme.

Shane walked into the room, followed by two red-eyed men. They each had clipboards looked like med students.

"Okay, lineup please," Shane instructed.

I got up and followed Sheila to the middle of the room. In a few seconds, all of us were standing in line, except for Jack.

"Excuse me, Jack, please follow the others," Shane said.

"No, I won't," Jack said, sinking lower into his seat.

For a moment, Shane stood like he was processing what had just been said to him. His expression remained neutral but I could tell by his posture that he wasn't happy with this reply.

"Frederick," he said simply to the red-eye to his left.

Frederick walked over to Jack and with a motion too quick for me to see, broke Jack's pinkie finger. Jack cried out and everyone in line stood just a little straighter.

"Get in line, Jack," Shane repeated. "Or Frederick will break your wrist."

Jack practically ran to the line, biting back tears.

Before they took us into the medical lab, they took our temperatures, height, weight, and blood pressure. They wrote their results in a file with each of our names.

Once in the medical lab, they hooked up the IVs once again and the treatments began.

The treatment went on again for five hours, it was the same as yesterday. Though, I could tell that a lot of us were trying not to scream as much or as loud as yesterday. This treatment, was horrible but left no effects afterwards. It almost made me wonder if they were torturing us for the sake of torture.

When we were done, we had our vitals checked again and we were sent back into the lounge room. This was the pattern we followed for a week. The treatments never got less painful but still managed to go by quicker.

In the week we had been here, we had become paler, and quieter, probably from lack of sun.

By the third day, we saw our faces on the news. We were officially missing persons. The police requested anyone with our whereabouts talk to police. Interestingly enough, they didn't suspect foul play.

The only good thing that has happened so far was they gave us clothes to change into, so after showers, we were finally clean and wearing new clothes. I think they might have burnt the ones we were wearing, not that I was complaining.

I was lying in bed, after another treatment and thinking about my family. For some reason, my mind jumped to that Seth boy I had met and for some reason, I missed him too. I barely knew him, but I still wished I could see him.

Before I knew it, my body felt light and my world started spinning. I closed my eyes to try and even myself out but suddenly, I was on my feet.

I felt light and weird, like I wasn't attached to anything. I opened my eyes and I was in a room surrounded mostly by glass. It was beautifully decorated and the furniture inside was expensive and elegant.

Sitting on a sofa with a vacant expression on his face was Seth, beside him was his sister Leah and Renesmee and ! I took a step towards him and called his name. They all looked up at me with shocked expressions but before I could say anything, I back in the bed at the lab.