Chapter Eight

Danni's head swam. Drugged, but by what? She could hear breathing.

A heavy door swung open. Light tapping foot steeps followed. The smell of roses filled the room. Let's hope that it's a woman, Danni thought.

She slowly opened her eyes. The florescent lights made the metallic tables shine brightly into her eyes. Blindness was going to set in soon. No offense, Iggy.

The scientist was around 5 feet 4 inches and blond. Red glasses that looked as if they came out of a fifties movie framed her green eyes. She wheeled a cart up to the cage that contained Danni.

"What are you doing?" Danni asked. No fear, that was good. Never show fear.

The woman laughed. It was rough but soft. "Just making a few preparations."

Iggy had wakened and was just sitting there.

Hello anybody home? Aghh, not again!

He moved his hand while the doctor wasn't watching. Danni looked hard. Sign language. Thank you mom, she thought for her mother forcing her to take lessons.

They're about to perform an experiment. That was very helpful, not.

Danni sighed. What could she do? He couldn't see, hate to keep bringing it up but it was the truth. Sign language was useless on him unless he knew Morse code. Danni just hoped that the scientist didn't know what she was trying to say.

She rapped her hands in a pattern. His head shot up. Yep he knew it. He hand signaled back.

"Please stop that rack it," the scientist growled.

Danni snarled her lip, but stopped the rapping. Iggy didn't know what they were planning. They were sitting ducks.

The door opened again and in came the president of the School, Mr. Jensen. He had a smile on his face that reeked of a self-serving bastard.

Iggy heard the door. He stayed still hoping that he would be able to hear it if they whispered. He was glad that Danni knew sign language and Morse code. If she hadn't they wouldn't be able to communicate. When the scientists left they would be free to signal each other's hearts away. Until then they had to settle with silence.

Mr. Jensen was standing back from the triangle created by to the two teens and Serena, the scientist. He was watching what Serena did. If she made a mistake he would catch it. He reminded Danni of a hawk.

Serena turned around to Danni with a needle in hand. It was filled almost all the way with a murky fluid. She opened the door in Danni's cage. Her hand slowly came in. The needle got closer.

Shit, Danni thought. The needle slipped through her skin with a pinch in her arm. The liquid was emptied slowly into her system.

"What the…" Danni couldn't finish the sentence. A burning sensation flooded her body.

With the last of the fluid out of the needle Serena closed the cage door and walked out. Mr. Jensen was left watching the effects. His smile had widened.

Iggy could hear someone leave. A cage was rattling. Danni? He signed.

"I'm sorry, but the girl is…having a private revolution," Mr. Jensen laughed at his cleverness. He was alone with his laughing.

Danni was shaking as if she was having a seizure. She felt as if her blood was evaporating and fire was replacing it. Was she dying? Dang and she still had fifty pages left in the book she was reading.

AN: Thanks for the reviews. Also I'm putting this chapter and the next up so the next list of thank-yous will go up on chapter nine.

Kool-Wolf - Thanks for the reviews. Can't wait for the sequal in less than a year. Also hope they don't kill the book with the movie. Also I know in the last chapter I didn't say who they took, guy wise, but that was on purpose, you know suspense. Maybe it didn't work as well as I would like or maybe I knew what I was planning.

kyden6979: Thanks a lot. I'm glad you like it.