Sorry for taking a while! Anyway, you're going to find out some interesting things this chapter, it's full of plot points and stuff! eh... not that you'll understand a lot of these things till later. Oh! And tell me if you guys can figure out a few clues I left for you *wink* I made references to both the books and the movie in this chapter, see if you can find them! Anyway, enjoy!
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DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING. Except Anne of course
WARNING: this first scene may be intense for some readers, and contains mention of blood and very gruesome things, so if you have a weak stomach, I suggest you skip the first scene. Also there will be a few flashbacks throughout the chapter, and some of these flashbacks may be pretty intense
Blurred faces, bright flashing florescent lights, screams., at first that's all she could see. Her eyes open, and she finds herself laying on a cold, clinical, operation table, everything is white, a bright florescent light shines above her. Panicked, she tries to sit up, but she can't move, glancing to the side, she see's her arms and legs are chained down..
Her eyes zip around the room, nothing but medical supplies and operation tables surround her, all sorts of drugs and tools sit on the table next to her, Then suddenly the two double doors opposite of her open, and a young boy is wheeled in, trying to scream, but a cloth is stuffed into his mouth, the nurses wheeling him in, stop just to her right. Looking at him, she notices he has stitching all over his torso, arms, and legs, the sheet under him stained with blood, he turns to face her, blood flowing from the empty sockets where his eyes should have been, covering the sheet in even more blood. A doctor then turns, noticing she's awake walks over and injects something into her arm, the world starts to spin as they wheel her out of the room, she struggles weakly, a doctor looks at her, and even with the medical mask on, she can feel the evil grin behind It as he speaks to her "Ready for a Makeover?" she struggles harder against the chains, trying to scream, but one of the nurses put a hand over her mouth, when they stop in a room, everything starts to go black, and before she passes out, the last thing she see's is a Doctor moving towards her with a scalpel in his hand "Okay, it's time to start the procedure"
Anne jolts awake, stuck in a cold sweat, her eyes quickly zip around the room, looking for white walls and florescent lights, but she relaxes when she finds nothing but the dark old wooden room she went to sleep in. Turning to her side, she checks to see if Winston's awake, luckily, he's a heavy sleeper, so the boy remains asleep. Taking a deep breath, she slips out of the hammock and tip-toes out of the room. The floorboards are creaky, but being extra careful not to make much sound she leans against the rail as she walks downstairs, quickly sneaking out the door and sprinting across the glade. After her long run through the deadheads, she collapses against a tree, her limbs shake, eyes wide. Her eyes squeeze shut, tears poring down her cheeks. Curling into a ball, she tries to muffle her cries.
Anne jumps when a hand rests on her shoulder, as if the simple touch had burned her. Backing up against a tree, she glances up to see a surprised, and slightly hurt looking Gally
" G-gally?" looking up, her eyes wary, and face sticky with tears, she slowly, and shakily pushed herself to her feet
" Shuck kid, you look terrible" The boy shakes his head, walking up to her and wiping some of her tears away. She responds by quickly wiping off her face, making an attempt at a joke
" At least I look better than you on your first day..."
" Yeah" the boy gave a laugh, "that's probably true" he slowly helps lower her back into a sitting position, rubbing her back to help her calm down. They're quiet for a while, before Gally finally speaks up "You're still not gonna tell me what the dreams are about are you?"
" No" Gally only sighs
" Kid, I want to help you, but I can't do that unless you help me. What's going on?" she only turns away from him
" I told you, I can't tell you" He turns to her, eyes starting to flicker with frustration
" Anne, I'm serious here!"
" -And so am I!" she turns to him, eyes blazing with bits of anger and determination, hardening her face, and causing the boy beside her to jolt backwards. Her expression softens, turning into a sadness of sorts "I'm sorry... I can't tell you..." Gally pushes himself up onto his feet, sighing
" Fine, but if it gets in the way of work or your health, I'm doing something about it. Promise me you'll take care of yourself? You haven't had a decent nights sleep in days" the boy helps her up, rubbing a bit of dirt off her cheek
" I'll try"
" No Anne, don't try, promise" The girl sighs
" Okay, I promise"
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Anne wanders through the Forest, rubbing her head in thought That dream last night was... her eyebrows scrunch together Odd... while wandering, she got very tired, and decided to sit down for a bit, she didn't have the appetite to eat breakfast, and couldn't get much sleep last night either. Come to think of it... I haven't eaten or slept sufficiently in a while... Nick really won't be happy huh? With that on mind, exhaustion slowly takes over until she slowly falls into a deep slumber
A younger looking girl, about six or seven, is curled up in the corner of a very bright, white, and sanitary room, a room in which many other children seem to be eating. The very young and skinny looking girl simply takes little nibbles of her lunch, doing nothing to help her already dangerously underweight figure. A boy, not much older, seems to notice her eating all by herself, and ventures over to sit next to the girl " hello, my name is Aiden, what's your's?" The girl pauses and looks at the boy
" You're... talking to me?" she gives the boy an almost astounded look
" Yeah... is there a problem with that? If there is I can just go back to my table" When the boy makes a move to stand, the girl quickly grabs his arm
" NO!" When realizing her rather hasty actions, she flushes and quickly yanks her hand away from him, as if burned "Sorry! I mean... it's just no one ever talks to me..." his eyebrows scrunch up
" Well... why wouldn't they do that? You seem nice to me" he tries to look into her eyes, but she simply looks away, mumbling under her breath
" Because I'm a monster..."
He looks at her, eyes wide " …..What...?"
" You heard me, I'm a monster, that's how they created them" She refuses to look at him, pulling her sleeves down to show him long scars that stretch down her arms "I'm just some sick experiment for them... they don't care about me, or you, or anyone here... not even my own father cares about me..."
" Well... I don't think your a monster..." she looks at him, a curious look
" You... don't even know me..."
" Doesn't matter, I know you well enough to know you'd never hurt anyone intentionally" He smiles "Besides, what's a couple scars? They can mess with your body, but not your soul"
" Well... uh.. thank you" she flushes "No one's ever said something like that to me before..."
" No problem" he laughs "Soooooooooooo..."
She raises a brow " Soooooooooooooooooo...?"
" You know my name, but I don't know yours" He smiles
" Oh!" she flushes and scratches the back of her head "Well... uh... it's Amelia... actually.."
" Woah..." His smile widens "That's a really pretty name"
" Thank you..." her face darkens even more, Aiden only laughs
" If you keep flushing like that you might just pass out" her face flushes even more, and punches his shoulder
" Shut up! You're not helping..." He only laughs, taking her fork from her, and feeding her some food
" Eat up, it's pretty good today. 's my favorite. Potatoes and gravy" she flushes, chewy her food slowly
" It is pretty good... I suppose..." she takes her fork back and starts to eat "I guess, I kinda do like mini sausages though..."
" See!" he smiles "food can taste pretty good huh!" she laughs
" You're ridiculous"
" That I am" He grins at her "Now, after you finish eating, what do ya say I introduce ya to some of my friends?"
"-id! KID!" With eyes snapping open in shock, Anne jumps to her feet in an instant, nearly making her loose her balance and fall on her face, but Gally caught her arm "Woah, calm down little beanie"
" Wh-" Anne groans, placing her hand on her head. A horrible headache overtaking her conscience, her vision blurring and the world spinning "my head..."
" Careful there kid, you shouldn't stand up too fast, don't wanna pass out do you? He gives her a little smile "You were really zoning out huh?" she sighs and nods
" Yeah.. sorry... I was just... thinking" he hums
" About what?"
" Eh, just..." she shrugs, looking at the ground "Things..." her gives her a look
" Um... okay...?" she shrugs, scratching the back of her head
" Uh... anyway... got to go, bye!" she quickly sprints off, sighing when she gets a distance away, and leaning against a tree, her head spinning dizzily What is going on with me lately...?
The girl looks a bit older now, she's poking at her food again, still snacking on some of it though Where's Aiden...?
" Hey Mia!" Amelia glances up in surprise, a smile on her face
" Oh, hey Will, what's up?" The boy sit's next to here
" Eh, nothin much, Do you know where Aiden is?"
" Naw, I was just waiting for the Brit, think he's speaking with the boss man again?" Amelia shrugs
" Probably, they've really started to..." her nose scrunches up "Get along..." the boy shrugs
" What do you expect? He was chosen because hypothetically he'll get along with Snooty-mc-can't-have-fun after they've lost their memories"
" Yeah..." Anne sighs "That's true... doesn't mean we have to like it though"
" Yeah, well-"
" Subject A0 and B0" a voice rings throughout the voice com, causing her to flinch "Report to the Lab please, Subject A1, A2, B1 and B2 would like to go over another structure and stress evaluation with you"
" -EN, MINI BEAN!" she jolts and looks at Gally, who seems to have a worried look on his face "Are you okay...? You've barely touched your lunch... You've really been Zoning out a lot lately, are you feeling alright? I think it may be about time for you to take a rest..."
" No!" she shakes her head "I-I'm fine, just a bit distracted..."
" Okay... if you're... sure..." his eyebrows scrunch up, Anne just pushes herself to her feet and starts to walk away
" I've lost my appetite... I'm going for a walk"
" Amelia! I was wondering... if it isn't too much trouble, Me and Will were wondering if you'd like to play a game of GaGa with us, you in?" Said boy, and speaker, waved the girl down as she walked briskly down the hall
" Sorry Aiden, sorry Will, Me and my brother are having another evaluation, I do wish I could join you, but you know how strict... He can be" both boys sighed
" Well... Okay... if you're sure, just come and play with us later, Okay?" The girl smiles at their hopeful looks
" Of course, I promise"
Anne shakes her head, waking herself up from another daydream this is getting ridiculous! She thinks to herself, before she hears Winston scream to her
" Subordinate! HELP!" looking up at the boy in surprise, she see's him being chased down by a huge Bull- the biggest one in- uh, from the barn to be exact " Bulls out!" laughing at his misfortune, she chases down the little bugger
" I can see that!" They continue to chase the bull around for the next half hour, making sure to stear it away from the gates every time it gets close, but soon, Anne feels her vision blurring, she tries to blink herself back into reality, but she feels herself zoning out No... not again, Not now!
The girl is older now, just by a bit, sitting in a chair, right in front of a desk at which a woman who's face seems very familiar, just like all the other faces she's seen in these strange dreams, but also like the others, she can't identify the features of the woman's face
" Miss B0 I'm delighted to inform you that you have done extraordinarily in all your tests and though your brother- and counterpart hasn't been doing quiet as well as you, he's still been doing rather well, so we've decided to put you in the trials sooner, so the other subjects may have more time to grow closer to you in the trials, isn't that lovely?" Amelia clenches her fist, having to resist the urge to grind her teeth, or slam her fist into the table, for that would be quite... inappropriate of her, and she's not in the mood to deal with another disciplinary action
" Yes Ma-am, quite extraordinary, it seems the trials may go faster then planned" The girl forces herself to straighten under the watchful eye of her elder, making sure to not do anything she would disapprove of
" Also, I'm delighted to inform you that do to recent studies, We decided to switch you and your brother's places in the trials, we thought it would be... wonderful for new reactions, I do hope you don't mind, miss A0" the girl stiffens
" I see, that is quite alright with me Ma-am, quite alright indeed" The woman in front of her hums and nods
" Indeed, you may be excused now"
" Yes, thank you Ma-am, I'll Excuse myself right away, good day Ma-am" she pushes herself to her feet, trying to to let it show how much she's shaking
" Good day to you too A0" After leaving the woman's Office, Amelia punches the wall in anger, feeling fury running through her veins. And though these walls are still supposed to withstand the power of a cannon ball, she still manages to dent the thing
" Damnit all..." she tries to ignore the way tears start to well up in her eyes, as she squeezes her eyes closed in thought It said on the evaluation test the one who goes to group B will most likely... die... no, No, NO! I was prepared to die, I just can't let them do this to him...
" Such language is not permitted to be used A0, I suggest you keep that in mind before you're punished" the girl felt her heart sink into her stomach. fear and the memory of painful tests causing her to freeze
" I apologize A2, I will avoid doing it again"
" You better, don't want B0 to suffer for it... do you?" suddenly, rage and horror overwhelmed her, causing feeling to come back to her limbs, and her body to shake again- only this time, it wasn't from fear
" How did you know that? They only just changed it. Only me and the higher-ups should know that" She turns to the boy, he appears to be about her age, dark hair, fair skin, deep brown eyes, this is HIS fault " You did this! this is because you're mad at me aren't you!?"
" Upset that I asked Miss boss lady for you to switch places with your brother?" the boy gave her a taunting smirk, stepping closer to her
" Just like you were upset I told your little girlfriend you tried to come on to me?" The boy clenches his jaw, grabbing hers and pulling her face up to his
" Shut your mouth, or do you want your little Boyfriend to also die in the trials?"
" I hate you." she clenches her fist, the boy in front of her only smirking, and starring deep into her eyes
" Oh I know you do, that's why I'm going to make your life a living hell from now on" she pushes him away from her, clenching her jaw, and turning to walk away "And I suggest you act a little kinder to me Miss frank, it might just save someones life"
" Shut your mouth Dylan-" she takes a deep breath "-and I told you not to call me that" the boy scoffs at her
" Yeah, well that's your name- Oh, and stop calling me Dylan..." the boy clenches his jaw "I should never have told you that idiotic name my mother chose to give me"
" It's such a shame, I actually liked the side of you that still missed his old life..." Amelia glares at the ground "But now you're just like THEM"
" KID! WATCH OUT!" Anne jolts back into reality just in time to see the bull speeding at her, she quickly jumps out of the way, letting the bull stampede by. She then turns to see who called to her, only to see an enraged by slightly relieved looking Gally marching up to her "You. Bed. Now."
" I didn't realize you were that forward" she grins at him, giving the boy a mock wink
" JUST-" he takes a deep breath to calm himself "I'm serious, go lay down, you're too unwell to be working out here, especially with a wild bull rampaging around"
" Gally, I'm fine-"
" ''FINE'' people don't almost get trampled by a ragging bull" he gestures at the animal that the boys are currently attempting to wrangle back into the cage " Go. Sleep."
" Gally-"
" This ISN'T up for discussion, GO. NOW." said girl grumbled and stomped off to the Homestead, to take refuge in the Med room once again
" Stupid Gally and his stupid obsessions with me sleeping and eating and wheather I do or don't tell him stuff..." she huffs " I mean... I get his point and all, but seriously, he needs to calm his jets! Almost a month in this Glade and he's already becoming all uptight... like Alby..." she huffs again, stomping into the Med-room, and past Clint, who tries to say something as she walks by, but she simply, angrily flops onto a bed. Clint, getting the message, leaves her to rest, with a simple grumble that sounds something along the lines of 'must've had another fight with one of her boys again'
" Mia... I don't want to go into the Maze, it scares me... it really, REALLY, scares me" said girl sighs and pulls the boy next to her in for a hug
" I know Adam, it scares me too, but we've got to do our best! You're lucky they're letting you go as Adam instead of Smith" the boy cuddles into her
" Sis... are they putting me in the girls Maze because I'm so wimpy? I can do better! I really can.."
" No Adam, no, it's just..." she takes a deep breath "They thought it would get better reactions out of the Subjects..."
" It's because of that Nasty Goody-two-shoes kiss up isn't it? He's always been their Favorite! And now he's using it against us... because he's jealous of Aiden and Will right? He's never liked them... and now that you chose them over him..."
" Shhh, Adam, it'll be okay" Amelia rubs the young Boy's back "He made his choice, and I made mine, he chose to change His real name to his Subject name, just as I chose to reject The name Father gave me when I was born, I hate my trial name, because it means they own me, that's why I made the Name Amelia, because I'd rather be Mia, then-"
" WAKE UP!" Jolting from her sleep, Anne's eyes blow wide open, head jerking to the boy who woke her up, she groaned in frustration at not being able to finish her dream
" Dangit Gal' what is it now?" He put his hands on his hips in agitation
" You've been sleeping for hours, and you were having another nightmare!" Anne sighs and rubs her face
" What's the big deal? So I've been having nightmares, so what? I'm not the only one..."
" Yeah" he Glares "But you're the only one who doesn't talk about them"
" I don't NEED to talk about them" the boy only scoffs at her
" Really? Because from what I've seen it seems to be putting you in danger and getting in the way of your work, a LOT"
" Shut up!" she glares "I'm fine, it's none of your business"
" I'm your best friend, AND the only one who knows about you, I think that's reason enough"
" Just leave it be!" she starts to feel frustration bubbling up
" NO!" he raises his voice "Why don't you just trust me!?"
" I DO trust you" she groans in annoyance, did he have to bring that into this?
" Oh?" he scoff "Then why don't you tell me what's bugging you!? This has been going on for weeks!"
" This isn't about trust!" Anne screams in frustration
" Then what is it about Huh? Why won't you just TELL ME?" he slams his fist into the bedside table, nearly causing her to flinch
" Because! I'm trying to protect you!"
" Protect me from what!?" his voice raises even more, escalating the situation
" I CAN'T TELL YOU!" Anne suddenly has the urge to punch something, but resists
" Then why don't I just add it to the list huh!?" he runs his fingers through his hair in frustration " I just want to help you!"
" Well DON'T!" She screams loudly, causing both to jolt, and Gally recoils at the words, his face hardening, and regret instantly squeezing Anne's heart painfully
" Fine. Then I won't" with that the boy stomps out of the room and slams the door, causing Anne to cringe
Look what you've done now idiot... you've gone and chased off your best friend... With that Anne pushes herself to her feet and walks over to the med-room window, opening it as silently as possible and slipping out into the dark night air
Anne wakes up a while later, finding herself in her little hidden wall hole again. And sitting right in frount of her she see's the Beetleblade from a while ago "Oh, Slicer, it's you again" she pets the little things head, sighing in contentment "Have you ever had a fight with your best friend?" she sighs at the things silence, before it makes some kind of cooing sound in agreement and rubs it's head against her hand "hmm... yeah, at least I have you..."
After sitting around for a while, she slips out of the hole, climbing down the vines to see it's dark again. After entering the Glade she's swarmed by Worried boys and others, once again she apologizes, realizing not as many freaked out this time, and they were starting to get used to her disappearing. The Girl can't even quite hear what the boys are saying, it all comes out in a blur of words, all she can see is one boy, standing away from the group. Gally. The boy looks like he wants to say something, but he simply walks away, looking at the ground as he goes, Anne feels kind of guilty, but a feeling of numbness covers her It's better off this way, You'll just be a bother to him anyway Anne slowly makes her way back to the Homestead, but after walking upstairs and down the hall, she soon realizes she's been followed. With hand on the door handle, the girl turns to face Nick
" Yes...?"
" Did you and Gally get into a fight?" she simply shrugs
" Probably" Pushing the door open, she simply gives him one last tired look, before closing the door. She curls up into her hammock, looking across the room to see a sleeping Winston in his, before slowly drifting off to sleep again. One thought left in her brain Are these visions I've been seeing real, or are they just Nightmares?
Small authors note, GaGa is the funnest game, EVER.
~ SAKURA A. K.