ZERO Down
Chapter Three:
The mask covering Heero's mouth held back a scream, the sedative not being able to muffle the already dulled pain as they continued their little experiment on him. He had no idea where he was, what was going or…or even who he was. Slowly, bits and pieces of the puzzle that made of his life disappeared and he was left lying empty on a bloodied operation slab of metal.
He panted as the doctors wiped the sweat off their brow, injecting some sort of fluid into his body that calmed his taunt muscles and slowed his breathing to a better pace. His vision was already blurry, the pain intoxicating him. For some unknown reason, he felt as if it shouldn't bother him. He had an awkward feeling he had already lived with more pain, or through it at least. The thought quickly died in his mind.
"How are you feeling?" He didn't have enough energy to respond, completely rained. The voice sounded as though it was coming to him from six feet under water, as if he was drowning. Why did it suddenly feel hard to breathe?
Blurry images hovered over him, touching and prodding at his body as a light hung over head, blinding him temporarily as his eyes were constantly adjusting to the light difference. Everything felt so different, like he was a newborn child.
A barely suppressed groan made it's way out of his mouth as he managed to tilt his head to the side and close his eyes as his chest rose and fell heavily with exhaustion. His limbs felt heavy, stiff with…some sort of unknown feeling. He tried to work his mouth, tried to yell at them and scream "what the hell did you do to me?" but nothing came out. Only carbon dioxide came out, and oxygen came back in. Everything was automatic.
"Move you arm." Someone commanded and he couldn't, he couldn't feel his arms. Tiny pinpricks from the needles they were poking him with sent messages from his nerves to his brain…but something just didn't seem right, something didn't feel right.
"Can you move your arm?" He tilted his head once more as if to say 'no'. He blinked his eyes open and tried to fight off the nausea once the blinding light hit him in the face again. He gagged, trying to move his body to the side so he wouldn't choke on his own vomit.
Warm hands lifted his body gently, different from those of the blurred bodies of the doctors leaning over him. An IV was stuck into his arm at the same time as he coughed, vomit mixed with blood spilling onto the floor.
His vision swayed as he looked at the floor and noted it was blue…mixed with red slashes here and there. 'My…my b-blood…!'
His mind reeled and he retched once more and coughed, gagging at the awful taste in his mouth as the hands that helped him up drew circles on his back to try and soothe him. His body shook with each heave and he felt tears rim his lashes when he clenched his eyes closed. He had never thrown up before in his life before, well whatever they had done.
"Are you all right?" A soft voice whispered into his ears as he was eased back down onto the operation table. A girl with black hair and kind green eyes reached his hazy vision and he blinked to get rid of the haze on-slaughtering his mind once more.
His head was lifted up gently, a soft and fluffy cushion put under his head to prop him up a little bit. He sighed in relief, as his body seemed to calm down, whatever drug they were pumping into his body through the drip line was obviously working.
Soothing noises reached his ears and his eyelids felt heavy as he let his body slowly succumbing to the much-needed sleep his body screamed for that was beckoning to him at the edge of his mind. Gentle fingers that reminded him of something, someone else from somewhere he couldn't remember, brushed his hair and wiped the sweat off his forehead with a damp hand towel.
He fell asleep, or unconscious, amidst all the gore surrounding him and the doctors sighing in relief.
"Rei, why are you doing that?" Doctor Heirar, chief of the whole operation, questioned with a raised eyebrow as he leaned against the wall and shrugged off his bloodstained lab coat.
"Do what?" She questioned softly and innocently as she still brushed his hair repeatedly out of his face, the stubborn bangs kept coming back into their original place though. She smiled despite herself and her eyes softened at the innocent look on his face.
"Do that, treat him like a child." The doctor swept his hand to what she was doing, gently caring for him and humming all the way.
She looked up, green eyes piercing into his own and he stared back without a blink before his dry eyes needed to. "You may have turned him into some sort of machine, but he's been signed under my care. I'll treat him the way I want to."
Heirar sighed heavily and ran his fingers through his sweat slicked hair and lowered his head and slumped his shoulders while looking at the stubborn twenty-two year old. "That teen is gonna act like a kid now." Rei didn't reply.
"So it'll be twice that his innocence has been taken away from him." Rei's fingers halted in their movement but continued to wipe away the sweat and blood staining his forehead and she sighed with a great burden of sorrow and pain on her shoulders.
Rei sighed heavily and looked up and the now silent doctor who was eyeing her, curious as to what her next moves would be. "I'm still to train him. He's to be more perfect than the perfect soldier he was acclaimed to be before…this." Her eyes fell to his body, the operation fixing any problems that had happened to his body from the car crash including the broken ribs and internal bleeding.
She lowered her head as the door closed, signaling the exit of the doctor and she sniffled, tears not falling from her eyes as she stared at the youth lying on the slab of metal that sufficed for a bed.
"God, please forgive us…" Silence was the only answer to her plea to the heavens.
TBC
Author's note:
Rei is mine also. Just like Haku. Reviews are always loved and welcomed! Thank you to to people who did review—I'm glad that you like the story! The updates for this weekend will probably be very few, a warning in advance since I'll be going always. Race season is starting again so I'll be busy most weekends.
Thanks to those who reviewed once again :huggles:
Love, Red Tail
