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Eridian
I was in Freedom Two, the meeting was lasting forever.
"I already released it, theirs nothing you can do now." They all looked at me with stunned expressions. I examined my finder nails and waited for them to say something. They all wanted to close down my Freedom, all my work. They didn't even know half the stuff that was going on there though. A few of them were looking at me with their jaws dropped, another ran a hand through his hair.
"When did you release it?" Asked Freedom Threes Prime Maker. The other leaders nodded at his question and waited for my answer. I huffed and answered:
"Two months ago, and everyone is still there. It was released to everyone." I smiled at my genius idea with the trackers. Now everyone would die and the leaders would see what I was quite capable of handling a city. One leader sputtered in search for an answer. I was the only female leader and they all doubled me from the beginning, "But, i do have a solution to the virus." A look of relief then confusion passed across their faces.
"What is it?" One of them asked me.
"Batch #1372; Member #9," They all waited for me to elaborate, "The experiment, the red head'; she's what will save us all."
"We need to get to her."
"Hmm, you're forgetting that none of us can enter the province without catching the virus, oops." i smirked at them they all thought I was useless, now who was useless? They all glared at me and I smirked back at them, "But, I want to see if they can make up a cure themselves. We've, sorry, I've done enough for all of them, they did nothing to repay me. They ran away or joined the Rise. They don't deserve our help." I spat out. A few of them nodded their heads and the stunned face was re-plastered on some of them.
"Okay, we don't have to help them, but we all have our own provinces to care for we can't have the virus spreading. We have to do something!" Markum, Freedom Four's leader, exclaimed. Everyone nodded and I sat back and folded my arms in front of me. I could tell they were waiting for me to say something, I shrugged. Markum threw his hands in the air and let out an exasperated laugh, "We can't just do nothing."
"Why not, why let the live?" I said to them. This meeting was going nowhere, "When you figure something out please inform me." I stood and left the room, all of their eyes followed me out. I went into the hall way and waked through the pristine halls. I went to the elevator and pressed sub-level 5. I knew this was where they kept their surrogates. This province was my favorite in the way they handled their surrogates. When I got my province back together i was probably going to use this method.
I opened a door that led to the holding cells. I looked through the bars at the bald young girls. They were almost of age to get remade. Instead of using the rebels they use their batchers to produce a new batch. Since they had the memories of it though, they had their memories of the birth taken away right after. So, no one would remember anything about it. I paused before one of the cells and looked at a girl with freckled skin. I knew who she was, and i knew she'd never stop being a surrogate. Ever since the story of Nine spread out Markum locked her up for good. I remember when Nine was made, how I exchanged some of the sperm with the other provinces.
I looked in at the girl, she looked at me with fearful eyes. If she ever got out though we'd all be in trouble. Because her sister is enough trouble. Nine is enough trouble.
Nine
I walked into the lab room, It wasn't Setia this time. It was Theron. I sat down on the paper-covered bed and ran a hand over my stomach, a habit I'd recently had. I smiled as my baby kicked my hand. Theron turned and smiled at me.
"I'm not sure we can keep testing on you for much longer," He told me, "Your pregnancy will definitely affect it." My face fell, We needed to find a cure. The people weren't showing any signs of the virus but it was still there.
"No," I complained, "We need to keep going, we need a cure." Theron folded his arms in front of him and looked at me.
"Nine, if we keep testing it could affect your baby, and the results we could get might be unclear." I bowed my head so he couldn't see the tears well up in my eyes. Part of it was form being pregnant and the other part was from feeling useless. Theron could tell what was going on though. He wrapped his arms around me and my hands clutched his shirt. All the worries of being a mom flooded back to me. I could feel the tears running down my cheeks and i pulled away to brush them off. Theron leaned against his cane.
"I should probably go," I looked at my hands in my lap, "Thank you." I stood and left without saying anymore. I walked down the street and saw Pua coming towards me, well, coming towards the hospital. Towards Theron. She saw my expression and immediately knew something was wrong. She swept me into her arms. I let the tears spill and she held me tighter. We stood there for what felt like ages before she pulled back.
"Hey, what's wrong?" I shook my head and she knew what i meant, "Hey, if anyone can handle all of this it's you." I smiled at her and she grabbed my hand and pulled me down the street. She pulled us into a building I recognized. I remember, before all of this, dancing here with Theron. The wild music was long gone and their were cots lined up along the walls, the Healers doing their rounds. I looked to Pua, not sure where she was going with all of this.
"Nine, Look at all of these people, " I did as i was instructed, "Well, not their injuries and things. But without you,, and the Rise, they'd all still be under Eridian's thumb. I know you're just looking at these people like the ones who are injured because of you. But they look to you with hope, you've given them that hope. The hope for a better future." I smiled sadly, I was just Nine, I wasn't some savior. I remember when I was on Mahawai and Kai telling me I was so brave, that I was so strong. Did everyone look at me like this?
After a while Pua took me back to my apartment, she cut up some fruit and i ate it. We were running out of fresh food so we were starting to ration it out. Kai came home from the battle planning he had with some of the other rebels. He ate some food and we both collapsed into bed. He wrapped me into his arms, which was getting harder with my stomach. I told him what had happened that day and he let me cry into his shirt. His hand brushed down my hair and places kissed on my face, my hair until i fell asleep.
I'm hoping to lengthen my chapters a whole lot more, but i think this chapter had a lot of content in it. I hope you enjoyed it! Please don't hate me if you find any typo's, i'm really sorry. I'd love for you guys to comment on my chapters and give me feed back. I'll probably post everyday, so this story will be dome pretty soon. Bye!