Chapter Eight

Dilandau took a deep breath and stepped backwards until he was at the cold metal wall. A tall well built man walked in. He was much taller than Dilandau.

"You? Who are you?" He asked immediately. Dilandau shook his head and refused to talk.

"Answer me!" The man said.

"Tobikuma?" A second man walked in to the room. "Tobikuma what's wrong?" He turned and looked at Tobikuma. Tobikuma was still looking at Dilandau. The second man looked at Dilandau.

"What the fuck? Who the hell are you?" He started to walk towards Dilandau. Dilandau stayed silent and wished he could walk further back. The cold metal stopped him. It was very cold. He could feel his hands that were behind him going numb, he felt as though he was leaning on ice.

"Get him out of here!" Tobikuma demanded, he was frustrated that the girl was no longer in the room. The second man walked towards Dilandau and grabbed him by his arm.

"Out you come mate." Dilandau was dragged along and out of the room. Tobikuma watched him walk all the way out of the room. He wanted to punch him and hit him and spit on him. Dilandau looked back to the man. They then both looked away.

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Dilandau squinted as he was taken out in to the sunlight. It was an image he had never seen before.

"What's your name?" The man asked. Dilandau shook his head.

"Can't you talk?" Dilandau mind started to tick and his shook his head again.

"Damn. Well you were supposed to be some girl but she had an operation ... so did you yeah?" The man looked at the bandage on Dilandau's head. Dilandau put his hand to his head and then nodded. His head was aching horribly. He closed his eyes for a minute.

"Well sorry about all this hassle. I'll walk you as far as that ward over there. The nurses are hot if you know what I mean." The man winked and smiled. Dilandau nodded and turned away. The man loosened his grip on Dilandau's arm.

"Sorry about that. If I wasn't rough with you I'd get my nuts kicked in by Tobi, he's aggressive like that and mad that you weren't that chick." Dilandau nodded to show he understood. It was tough being a mute, he wanted to say that it wasn't okay and that he didn't appreciate being pulled around like that but he wanted to stay silent, he needed to stay silent in order to get out of this place.

"Come on mate lets go." Dilandau gritted his teeth. Mate? They weren't mates. They were far from it. They walked towards the next ward.

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They reached the ward and the man handed over Dilandau to another nurse. She was young but skinny and nervous. She smiled at Dilandau.

"It must be tough to stay quiet." Dilandau shrugged. Whatever. He thought. He wouldn't be a mute for much longer anyway.

"So how did you get on to that ward? It must have been scary, that's where all the … well … I guess I can tell you, you aren't going to tell any one are you?" She laughed to herself. Dilandau shrugged again. She steadied herself.

"I'm sorry, but it's my first day. I'm just a little nervous and my super has just gone off and left me here." Dilandau sighed, getting impatient and wanting to get out. "So, that ward? That's where scientific experiments are. Led by a strange doctor. I don't know his name." Dilandau's heart sunk. A name would be just the thing he could work on. "They're trying to find a young girl that they let g a few years ago. Well by that time she was actually a he, it's quite strange really. I think they must have changed her name.

"Well they've heard news that she's come back and is no longer him any more and they want to get her back and do another operation…" Operation? Dilandau listened carefully. "…so as they can make her just one person again instead of some schitzo person. That's all I know for now. They don't tell me that much. Only that I have to look out for a suspicious looking female. They know that she can change from herself to the other man and it's the other man they want to get rid of. He destroyed entire cities and he didn't care. I've been told to look out for him though but they haven't told me what he looks like. Maybe because if I saw him I'd maybe let him go."

Dilandau's heart rose again. A person that actually had a heart and cared?

"I mean, it's not his fault he was part of a science experiment that they messed up." For a second Dilandau felt like un-muting himself to tell her everything. But then again maybe it was all a trick, maybe she had a gut feeling that it was him all along.

"You haven't seen anyone suspicious looking have you?" She asked

Dilandau shook his head and turned away.

"Ok, thanks any way." She smiled at him.

"So lets see who you are…" She turned to her computer. "I guess you can't tell me your name … so lets go by … can't talk… " She typed letters in to the computer and Dilandau stood and waited. What would happen? She wouldn't find any one on her lists and sooner or later the men at the other ward would realise that he was Celena and Celena was him and they'd come after him and probably kill him. In front of her as well. She would feel bad.

Dilandau shook his head. What a sensitive thing to think.

This is all you're doing Celena. He though. There was no response. His mind was silent.

"So?" The nurse said. "You're mister Kita? You're I wonder how you got out of bed?" Dilandau shook his head and then pointed to the bandages that were wrapped around it.

"Amnesia?" Dilandau nodded. "So you don't know your own name?" Dilandau smiled to himself. This was all too easy. He nodded.

"That's tough. Well if you'll just stay here a minute I'll go and get my super and we'll have you back in you're rightful ward in no time at all." She raised for her chair and walked away.

Dilandau smiled and turned to the main entrance doors and walked out.