EPISODE 3: QUESTIONS

DISCLAIMER: Please refer back to Chapter 1.

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Jondy's condition had improved overnight and she was moved early the next mourning to another room. She was taken off all machinery and now lay chained to a bed in a cubicle just like the other captured transgenics.

Since her condition had improved she was now deemed ready to see White. She didn't exactly know who White was, but she did know that he hated her kind and that scared her. But there were more important things on her mind.

She tried to think about normal things, like school and her friends and family, but she couldn't keep her thoughts about Brad away. The fact of the matter was she had loved Brad and up to three weeks ago, was convinced that she could possibly get back with him. But Brad wasn't who he appeared to be, and Jondy's misjudgment had meant paying the price.

Brad had once been the centre of her world. Brad was absolutely gorgeous with his brown hair and rough punk look. He was constantly working out, playing football with the Uni football team and he used the University sporting facilities every day. Brad's body was one to die for and he had the most intense brown eyes. The first thing Jondy noticed about Brad was his brown eyes, and every time she saw him and made eye contact, her stomach felt ill and her heart would beat quicker. But the fact of the matter was Brad was working for the people she despised and was a complete jerk. He was evil.

But that didn't change any of the feelings she had for him in the past. The way he had once made her feel. The moments shared and the attraction that they shared for over a year.

And Jondy had heard every word Brad had said when he spoke to her in the crate. And she remembered the night he spoke about. It was the night they first made love, the night she lost her virginity. Jade could still remember how gentle he had been and there were other moments just like that she could remember. Brad had taken her into a New World and brought out the women she really was.

But he had also exploited that and he was only pretending. He was trained at manipulating people. And he had raped her, but luckily for her she didn't remember it. Brad had sedated her and then did his dead, showing the cruel and cold person he really was.

"Sit up!" A man came into her cubicle with a silver lead and attached it to her hands. He then bound her legs and she walked with chained legs into the eating area. She sat down next to a man with brown hair and women with blonde hair and tried to eat.

Speaking wasn't permitted but the transgenic's silently communicated between them selves.

"Your new aren't you?" the girl sitting next to her asked.

"No, not really. Just been in recovery!" Jondy answered hesitantly, afraid of her fate if she were caught talking.

"So, where had you gone?" the guy on her other side joined the conversation.

"Australia 10 years ago!" Jondy replied.

"That means you had to be one of to escapees in 09! But that was 12 years ago?" Jondy nodded and the guy was stunned.

"So what's your name. I'm Kelly and this is Andrew!" Jondy smiled a greeting and introduced herself.

"I'm Jade-Jondy, well I go by Jade nowadays but back at Manticore I was nicknamed Jondy!"

"So that accent is different. Is it an Australian accent?" Andrew asked Jondy.

"Yeah. So, does everyone here have to face White? And does anyone know anything about him?" Jondy asked, clearly wanting to know what she had in store.

"Yes and no one knows anything about him accept that when you face him, you don't come back here!" Kelly spoke while eating and Jondy cringed with the knowledge that no one had come back to tell the tale.

A soldier came up to Jondy and told her to stand. "On your feet!" The soldier demanded and Jondy stood up strait looking ahead. She felt like she was back at Manticore now.

"You will come with me." The soldier led and Jondy followed.

The soldier led Jondy into an office and she was told to sit down, the man restraining her to the floor and the seat. Then a door opened and a man came out whom Jondy recognised.

"Agent Grillo, I have the prisoner you requested!" The soldier informed Brad who sat down immediately and Jondy finally took the time to look at the name plaque on the desk. The plaque read Brad Grillo!

"Thankyou soldier. Can you please leave us two alone!" Brad ordered the soldier.

"Yes Sir!" The soldier left and Brad and Jondy were alone.

"So lover, we need to talk!"