Chapter 15: Illusions
Sydney paced back and forth, like a caged animal. Her eyes were bloodshot due to the lack of sleep she have had. The woman felt like she was being watched almost every second of the day. The door opened and Claire entered, staring at the patient who was pacing. Sid just watched her enter, gazing into her blue eyes.
"Hi there, Sydney. I'm Doctor Claire Keeply and I will need you to come with me for your check-up." Claire sweetly asked her.
"Finally you gave me your fucking name…why should I come with you, so you can kill me?"
"No, I don't want to help you but I do want to help. Also, I wouldn't want to send in those nasty guards to drag you down there. Will you do me a favor and play nice?"
Syd sighed in repugnance and accompanied the woman out of the room, with any resistance. The female walked down the cold corridor and followed the Keeper down to the cave.
"What college will you be going to in the fall?" The Keeper wondered.
"UCLA." Sydney told her, her voice stilled with no emotion.
Sid saw a familiar face breeze by her…to her; it resembled the face of her deceased sister Jaime. Jaime's eyes grinned at Sydney and vanished down the hall.
"Jaime?!" The woman shouted in disbelief.
"Who?" Claire asked, extremely mystified.
The patient ignored her question and started after the mysterious figure. Syd's companion held her back but that couldn't stop the one being restrained.
"Please…I just wanna tell her that I missed her."
Her pleas were left unanswered and she desperately pulled away from the Keeper, breaking free. The scientist chased after her, who ran down the corridor searching for 'Jaime'. The woman accidentally bumped into Fawkes, who walked inside the entrance with his partner.
"Easy there, Sid." Darien stopped her.
"I have no time to stop and chat…I've gotta catch up with Jaime before I lose her." Syd stopped her hastened pace and told him. Joy filled her eyes.
"What?"
"Who's Jaime?" Bobby glanced at both Miller and Fawkes, "A new chicky in your life, Fawkes?"
"Her dead sister, Hobbes." The invisible man placed his hands on her shoulders. "I know you don't want to believe it but she's dead, Sydney."
"No, she isn't…"
Darien grabbed her shoulders as she tried to escape from her captor. He had a firm grip on her while he wrapped his arms around her waist, holding down her elbows. That position locked her hands down, letting her hardly move at all.
"Don't dare do this to me, you bastard!" Syd's eyes released tears as she screamed. Naturally, she still struggled and started to yell repeatedly.
The male that was holding her stepped inside an elevator, as well as his partner and The Keeper. All Hobbes could do was press the down button on the elevator as Claire just watched Fawkes backed the patient in a corner.
"Keep, what the hell is going on?" Fawkes shifted to her, "Why is she acting like this?""
"I believe that she is going through withdrawal…it's been four days since she last took her medicine. Obviously she's hallucinating and will experience that until…"
"'Until' what?" Hobbes asked.
"She kills herself." Claire looked at Syd, "That what happened to the rats when I discontinued their dosage. There's no hope curing her, nothing I've tried has worked. I can't help you any further."
"Well, then you keep trying." Fawkes said, adamant to save Sydney's life.
Dinging open, the elevator stopped and the student resumed her determination to escape, with the repeated grasp Darien held. The female ceased moving and became extremely sluggish. She started to faint when the male holding her loosened his grip on her. Sydney shoved the male's hands off of her and jabbed Darien in the stomach. The woman didn't notice that Hobbes was by her side and she felt someone place pressure on her wrist. That someone was Bobby and the young woman immediately stopped running.
"Ouch." She endlessly repeated.
With pressure still on her wrist, the group finally visited the cave. The Keeper scurried around the lab, readying a syringe.
"Are you going to play nice now, Sid?" The paranoid male questioned.
"Yeah." She said and then was released, cupping her wrist in comfort. Sid the turned to Darien, "Why are you ruining chances of being reunited with my sister? How could you do this to me?"
"I hate to break it to you but Jaime's been dead for a year." He told her as if he was attempted to distract her.
"No, she' not!" Syd yelled at him and the found Claire coming towards her.
Before she could run off, Darien picked her up by her tiny waist and headed towards the chair in the back of the room. The rest of the gang there followed him as Sydney bit Fawkes.
"Ouch! What the hell?" Darien ceased holding her in which she fell on the chair. "She bit me!"
Claire set the syringe on the nearby table and strongly held down Sidney's legs.
"Bobby, get the arm restraints on her!" Claire shouted, placing the group bracelet's on the restrainer's feet with the help of Hobbes.
Fawkes hurried and clamped down her shoulders and Bobby held down to place the restraints on her wrists. Once doing so, the woman restricted still tossed and turned. With force, Darien gripped her upper arm and her struggle ended. The Keeper handled the needle, dotted the Sydney's arm with an alcoholic pad and then sunk the instrument in her vein. Her blood gained asylum in the object as the vial was loaded with her blood. The scientist placed a band-aid on her arm and rushed to find sedative medicines. Discovering them, her other arm (held down by Hobbes) administered the medicine. Miller was released and she felt the effects of the medicine flowing over her. Her eyes closed slowly and she entered sleep.