Chapter 14: But the Truth Still Remains….
Sydney opened her eyes and found herself in a mysterious white room. She noticed there were no windows in the room and the door could only be accessed from the outside. Also, a one sided mirror was held on the left wall, on the other side held The Official, Eberts and Hobbes, who were watching the scene unfold like a police movie. They hoped that Darien could coax information about the deadly medicine she had been taking. Looking around, she heard faint conversations around the only door that led out of the room. The door opened and she was met with Darien, who closed it quickly.
"What's suppie?" He grinned foolishly.
The woman rapidly moved away from him, straight into a corner. She just stared at him, remembering the terror he forced upon her.
"Get away from me…" She pleaded to him.
"It's ok…I'm going to hurt you."
"Oh no, you just tried to kill me, remember?"
"That wasn't me…" Darien tried to explain.
"That's true, you're not who you said you were. It figures, everyone betrays me in the end. When I finally thought I found someone who understood what I was going through, they backstab me." She muttered to herself and then said, "How dare you disguise yourself as my deceased friend?!"
"I was there to save you from killing yourself…I'm sorry that I…"
"You don't even know what that word means…" She paused for a brief moment and wondered, "How can you disappear like that?"
"Let's just say it's a gift."
"Some gift."
She fidgeted around and nervously got up from the bed. The Keeper came in and closed the door behind her, gazing at the teenager who stared back. The woman shrank herself in a corner and just watched the scientist move toward Darien.
"How is she?" The Keep wondered.
"A little pissed off but she's all right." Fawkes reported, "What else did you find?"
"Just the same as I found in the rats: enzymes that attaches itself in her system. Poor thing."
"I don't want to be the object of one's pity." She glared at Claire.
Sydney admired her wounds on her arms, which the observers looked at carefully.
"Is there anyway to get it out of her?"
"Not yet. If she discontinues taking the medicine there's a slight chance that'll work." The Keeper suggested.
"Over my dead body." Sid shook her head in disagreement.
"That could be easily arranged." Darien said to her, attempting to release the tension that was held in the room.
Unfortunately, that wasn't helping the situation at all. The female just sat down with her head in her hands, just thinking things over in her mind. Closing her eyes, she thought of relaxing objects…Syd stared down in sadness, she felt like she was trapped inside a twisted world that she didn't know how to exist in.
"Where am I or better yet, who are you?"
"You're at a different hospital that you were previously admitted to. You will be held on a suicide watch for seventy four hours and your relatives have been informed of the news." Claire said.
"What do you want?"
"Did Harper Pharmaceuticals do this to you?" Fawkes asked her.
"Why do you want to know that?" Sid inquired, glaring straight at him.
"Because it's extremely important." The scientist reminded her.
"No, they didn't." The woman said, staring down at the ground.
"Then who?"
"Not going to say."
"We can't help you if you can't help us." The Keeper attempted to persuade the information out of the young woman.
"No can help me anymore…I'm in too deep." The female murmured, while continuing her stare on the padded floor.
Darien and the Keeper left her alone as Sydney just watched them leave. She was exhausted as well as frustrated. However, she couldn't sleep but only watch if she was going to be harmed in anyway.
Darien and Claire walked out into the lonely corridor and hiked back to the lab. They met with Hobbes, who was playing with the Keeper's equipment.
"I didn't want to say it in front of her but the girl's right…nothing can help her. The medicines that Sydney Miller has and the information Mr. Harper gave you don't match up. Whoever made this enzyme wasn't from Harper Pharmaceuticals but some other company. Judging by the complexity of the medicine, I doubt that I will find a cure for her. If she continues to be difficult, I don't know what else I could do for her." The Keeper enlightened while showing the two the results.
"There's no way to counteract the enzyme from her system?" Darien expected for an answer of some type.
"Nope, I have tried everything on my test subjects…and nothing could detach it. We need to find whoever made this enzyme so they can possibly tell us how to extract it. But for now, I can try to have her withdrawal the medicine, it might wash itself from her blood naturally."
"But she rather die than do that…there must be another way."
"I can't think of anymore suggestions from the top of my head but for your sake, Darien, I will try everything I possible can."