Chapter 17
Skye follows a woman dressed in a white lab coat. She had frizzy hair and crooked teeth. Whenever she spoke, some sort of New York accent would come out of her mouth. Luckily she didn't speak much. Skye pulls along her small duffel bag, filled with some clothes, and her few possessions she had gotten while at the orphanage.
The woman stops in front of a grey door, the white hallways growing more grim by the second. "This is your new home for the next while Mary." She tells Skye. Skye frowns as the woman opens the door.
Walking inside Skye finds four beds, with I.V's beside each one. Some pink carpet was on the ground, and a few Barbie dolls were lying on it. "Girls this is Mary." The woman introduces to the three girls in the room. They were all dressed in pajamas and all looked about Skye's age. Skye takes a step forward. "You can put your stuff under your bed Mary, and talk to the girls for a few minutes. I'm going to let the doctors know you're here." Skye watches the nurse behind her walk away, closing the door, and clicking a lock shut. Skye looks at the camera's overhead. There was at least six watching them.
Skye walks over to the neatest bed in the left corner and puts her duffel bag there. Skye looks at the two girls on the other side, they both had black hair and seemed to be of Asian descent. The girl on the bed next to her had tan skin, and pretty long brown hair. She walks over to Skye. "Do you speak English?" She asks bluntly.
Skye nods.
"Good, because Chun and Song don't speak much English." The girl holds out her hand. "My names Ciel." She introduces. Skye backs up on the bed, a little bit nervous, but after a second she offers her seven year old hand.
"Mary." She replies. Her face blushing from nervousness. Skye tries to say something else. "I like the name Ciel." She says.
"Thanks, I chose the name." Skye's eyes go wide.
"You can do that?!" She gasps with her tiny voice. "I wish I could do that, I hate the name the orphanage gave me." Skye bites her lip, irritated by the name Mary-Sue Poots.
"Hey I don't have any parents either!" Ciel explains. "Maybe we're sisters, and that's why they brought us here." The little girl speculates.
"I don't think so, Sister Ava told me I was here because I'm sick with Cancer." Skye explains to Ciel.
"Oh yeah, we're all sick." Ciel says. "Song and Chun are as well. Doctors do tests on us all the time." Skye looks over at the two Chinese girls, in hushed conversation. "They say their making us better, but it doesn't feel that way." Ciel kicks the side of the hospital cot that Skye was now going to have to call a bed.
The grey door at the front of the room opens again. The nurse with the New York accent is back. "Okay the doctor is ready to meet you now." She explains. Skye frowns. "Well come on Mary, we don't have all day. If you're a good girl, maybe the doctor will let you come back early to hang out with the other girls."
Skye walks towards the nurse, turning around she sees Ciel waving. Skye follows the nurse down the hallway.
She is brought to a room where the nurse gets Skye to change into another weird hospital outfit. Skye is than lead into a room where a man in another lab coat is reading over some files. "This the girl?" He asks the nurse, not even paying attention to Skye.
"Yes, this is her." The doctor gives Skye a nice glare.
"Sit her on the table." The nurse lifts Skye up, and sets her on the table. The doctor grabs a needle. Skye squirms, but the nurse holds her shoulders down.
"Maggie, what is the point of even testing this one. The three we've narrowed it down to seem like the 0-8-4 were looking for. Why even bother adding another candidate when we just narrowed the list from 57 to 3?" The doctor walks over and sticks the needle into Skye's vein without warning. Skye squirms, and lets out a cry. The doctor doesn't seem to care as he extracts the blood. He takes out the needle, and doesn't bother offering a band aid, like all the other times Skye had gotten shots.
Tear begin to form in Skye's eye. "That hurt." She mumbles with her childish tears.
"While you probably won't have to get used to them, you're most likely going to be gone in a few days?" The doctor tells Skye bluntly.
A few days? Skye didn't have to be here that long? Maybe after they cured her they could put her with a real family who wanted her?
The doctor does a few things to the blood sample and gives it to the frizzy haired nurse. "Give this to the lab, and drop the girl off at her other testing's. I want to confirm she's even worth researching."
Researching? Is that how they were going to cure her? What did researching even mean? The seven year old ponders.
"Come on Mary." The nurse says to Skye, picking her up off the table and taking her hand to lead her out. As soon as there in the hallway she lets go. Skye's arm still hurt from where the doctor had poked her. Skye cried some silent tears, but she kept her cool to not make a large disturbance. She looks back at the doctor leaving the room she'd just been in. He doesn't even bother looking at Skye as he turns and heads in the opposite direction.
Skye is brought to another room, where doctors and nurses do multiple x-rays, and take more blood. Except these doctors gave her a lollipop, that made Skye really tired and want to cry less. After a really long time Skye was lead back to the room where she'd met Ciel. One of the Chinese girls wasn't there anymore when Skye entered, and Skye was curious where she could have gone.
The other girl was in her bed asleep, and Ciel was playing with the Barbie's on the ground Skye had seen earlier. The girl smiles when Skye enters the room. "Mary." She says dropping the dolls and rushing over to Skye. Skye hears the door shut behind her and the lock click shut. "I waited for you to come back, I was worried they might not let you come back tonight?"
"Not let me?" Skye asks while rubbing her eye, still tired after the lollipop they gave her.
"Yeah, sometimes the doctors take you overnight for testing, and you don't come back for a while. Chun left this time, usually it's always one of us they have to do tests on." Ciel stretches her hands. "There used to be a lot more sick girls, but they all got cured and I haven't seen them since." Ciel explains.
"The doctor said I could probably leave in a few days." Skye explains, not sure why, but hoping saying it will make it more of a reality.
Ciel frowns, but then smiles. "That's cool, you weren't here before so they probably don't think you're that sick." Ciel says. "We should probably go to bed soon, they brought a tooth brush for you, it's in the bathroom. You can also change in there to some pajama's" Ciel points to a door at the edge of the room.
Skye nods, and heads into the bathroom. There was another camera in the room. Skye frowns. Brushing her teeth quickly, she puts on a large t-shirt that she used as PJ's. She comes back into the hospital smelling room and see's Ciel get into to her bed. A new nurse with long red hair was now beside her. She had a glass of water and seemed to be giving Ciel medicine.
"Oh Mary." The nurse says. "I'm Margret, I'm here to help you whenever you need me. There's a button on the wall over there, and you can use it whenever to call me." The nurse hands the water to Ciel, who drinks some.
"Does Mary take medicine?" Ciel asks the nurse.
"Not today." She explains. "Tomorrow we're going to set her up with some medicine to make her healthy thought." Skye frowns. "Now time for bed." The nurse puts the water beside Ciel's bed side table and goes to turn off the lights. Skye puts her feet under the covers and can't help but feel uncomfortable on the cot. Even her bed at the hospital had been better.
"Psss." Ciel says to Skye over from the bed beside her. "Even if your only hear for a while, I'm happy I have a friend for a few days." Ciel explains.
Skye rolls over and looks at Ciel's face in the dark. She doesn't say anything and rolls over again.
"Night" Ciel says.
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Skye wakes up in her bed at the academy, tears clinging to her eyes from the memory. She runs over to the bathroom and puts her head over the toilet ready to let go of her dinner. But after a few minutes Skye knows she's fine. Skye gets up and looks at herself in the mirror. "Ciel…." She cries, as she leans over the sink. "Oh Ciel….." The memory still fresh in Skye's mind.
Okay so this chapter is basically a memory chapter. If you guys like these chapters please say something, because then I'll do more, but if you find them annoying, I'll just do the necessary ones to move the plot forward. Review please :D