Chapter 10 Waking up again

Paige managed to open her eyes again, she didn't want too but she had no choice in that. It was like waking up in the middle of Torrinco lake all over again, her memory was gone, replaced with nothing but a deep blanket of nothing. She tried to move but couldn't even do that. Paige sank down and tried to remember how she got here and who it was that bought her here. For some reason all she could remember was that stupid mostache, it twisted up his face like an evil mad-man from the twenties. Paige's eyes were working this time, they flicked to her arms, bound with a thick leather strap with gauge marks, someone else had been tied down in this device. Her neck still hurt, that's when she remembered the prick, someone had struck her with something, something to make her forget.

"You're awake" A dark yet cheerful voice cut through her, Paige looked to him instantly, not that it helped, she couldn't see much of him except that creepy twisted mask.

"How are you feeling Paige?"

Paige couldn't say, her words wouldn't come, her brain hadn't kicked in yet. His blue eyes peered at her from behind the mask, probing her right to the soul, he pulled on some latex gloves, they didn't quite match the rest of him. Instead of the usual Dr's garb, it was weird red and black attire teamed with an apron used for butchering animals, Paige supposed that's all she was now, an animal readied to be slayed.

"Who are you?" She finally managed to push out, not that it helped, she knew that knowing who this monster was wasn't going to save her and every second she spent with him, she knew that Raven wasn't coming to save her either.

"Who I am is none of your concern Miss Knight." He fiddled around with some instruments before relenting, it wouldn't matter if she knew his name, no one had escaped him before and they weren't about to start.

"My name is Dr Kane. Would you like to inform me on how you died"

"I'm not dead" Paige stuttered out, she was right, knowing his name didn't change anything. Dr Kane gave her an eerie smirk, like a cat playing with an almost dead mouse.

"Miss Knight, we both know that isn't true or else you wouldn't be here. Now again, how did you die?"

Paige didn't answer, she didn't want to say anything to this man, not that she had a choice. Dr Kane picked up a very sharp schapel,

"Now we both know you can't feel pain" He cut a large gauge in her arm watching the congealed blood ooze onto his clean floor, Paige let out a demented scream making Dr Kane laugh,

"Or perhaps you can, see Paige this is covered in a special chemical that makes the brain re-act how it's meant too. Now unless you want your pretty little body covered in my cuts, you will tell me how you died"

Paige didn't answer, hoping that she could out last his torture, Dr Kane drew the schapel up her body until it was resting on her eye socket, a little pressure downwards and Paige would be blind yet again.

"Tick tock Miss Knight, are you going to co-operate or do I have to cut out your pretty eyes?"

He drew it nearer until Paige screamed in terror "Wait!"

"All right Miss Knight, I'm listening."

"I woke up in the bottom of the lake"

"How did you get there?"

"I jumped"

"And the fall didn't kill you?"

"No, I sank to the bottom and three days later I woke up"

Dr Kane processed what he was being told, he certainly wasn't suprised at her words. He said nothing else as the door opened again and Paige was greeted with another scary voice.

"Analysis Dr Kane?"

"Another suicide Sir"

"Have you taken your samples?"

"Yes Sir, nothing out of the ordinary"

"Apart from the fact that she is meant to be dead and yet she isn't"

Dr Kane finally smiled, "Apart from that Sir"

"Is she the one?"

"No Sir, her cut hasn't regenrated yet,"

"What about the others?"

"All the same, suicides then awakening, all young girls that have no connections except the obvious"

"So you're telling me Dr Kane that these young girls killed themselves and then came back?"

"Yes Sir"

He said nothing more, his dark eyes just looking at Paige with wonder "Have you taken her blood type?"

"Yes Sir, it's Type-A"

"Nothing strange then?"

"No Sir"

He pursed his wrinkled lips together, "Well Kane you know what I expect of you, data it down and then dispose of her"

Paige started shaking, she didn't understand most of what was being said but she got the word dispose. Paige wondered if she could even be disposed of, she had all ready tried it once. The strange figure left pulling Dr Kane's attention back to Paige. Her lovely young body quaking beyond belief, she had no idea what was going to happen now and she knew that there was nothing she could offer the man to let her go. He over looked her for a moment, deciding to go on with his notes, the dull scratching of his pen was like a white hot needle digging into her skin. When he had jotted down what he needed too, he finally looked back to Paige. Taking a long pipe, he went to her mouth.

"Is there any chance you will make this easy on yourself?"

Paige clamped her mouth shut in defiance, Dr Kane easily pried it open and shoved the pipe down her throat, ignoring the fact that she was choking, he pushed it down until it couldn't go any further. Soft liquid trailed down her throat and on her own accord, she swallowed it, a distinct sweet flavour with a hint of coconut if she was right. It kept coming down until finally he was satisfyed with it, Paige could still feel the burning but the moment he took away the pipe, she felt the burn dull down. Dr Kane referred back to his notes, his voice cutting Paige even deeper.

"Well you have survived drowning twice Miss Knight, well done"

"Please why are you doing this?"

"Doing what?"

"This" Paige flung her hand around, a dull clattering in her ears as she realised that there was no where to go.

"We are trying to find something, something we believe you...things have"

"I'm not a thing"

Dr Kane suddenly grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled her head until all the bones in her neck cracked, logic told him that he had just broken her neck, and yet her vibrant eyes were still on him, still alive and wanting more.

"You are a thing, but luckily for you, you're make-up can be used, we're just trying to figure out how to use it"

"I'm not the first one?"

"No and you won't be the last Miss Knight, unless you want to tell me how it is you came back from the dead, not once, but three times?"

"I don't know, I really don't know"

Dr Kane said nothing else as he went about his tests, taking blood and tissue samples. Noting things down and making his observations, Paige thought she was through the worst of it, until he started cutting her open, she screamed as the blood flowed and he did nothing but laugh. Paige didn't know when she crossed the line but eventually as Dr Kane kept hacking away, her luck finally ran out. Paige shut her eyes and for the first time in a long time, they didn't open again.

After the impromptu surgery, Dr Kane grabbed the now finally dead corpse, looping her easily over his shoulder, he carried her to the chute. He wasn't sure how much longer he could on failing, he had hoped that Paige was the one but it was just another failure. She didn't even survive the minor surgery, she had been doing so well until he shoved that peice of metal in her skin, her cells just couldn't even handle a useless scrap of metal. Paige was shoved carelessly down the chute as though it was nothing, before her pale frame slipped away forever, he caught a tattoo on her wrist. Five simple letters carved into the pale skin, Raven. He didn't know why it mattered but it did, he knew that. Paige was left to fall onto the many other women they had tried to carve up.

Kane watched her body tumble out of sight, he knew that for this to work they needed someone stronger, they needed Raven.