Iggy's head was leaning to one side, he didn't look awake. Or alive. But I could see his chest rising and falling. "Yo Ig, can you hear me?" I was barely able to say that much, fearing he wouldn't respond in anyway, but I was lucky. "fang?" he panted, "fang?", I was so close to crying, he was a child, a very dangerous child, but a child, he was covered in bruises, and his left arm looked broken, I couldn't see his right though. "I'm here Ig. I'm here". "You need to listen to me", what did he just say? "Max and Nudge are in trouble. We were attacked, and…. Angel she. She ran. I tried to follow. But she had an advantage over me. And Max, I don't even know where she is, she could have been taken as well, or worse. Fang, I'm sorry…." I wanted to say something, anything, but I couldn't. the words that I wanted to say were lost in my thoughts, like a man lost in a maze to which there is no exit. I was like a robot, the words weren't mine, or at least it felt like they weren't, "it will be ok, it will be ok".
"Its time to turn up the heat Doctor" she was staring out of the window, " Doctor may I ask a favour?". My heart fell. She asked for a quick word, and now a favour. 0h crap. "Anything ma'am" I answered just like the obedient dog I am. "I need you to get the specimen to trust you, it wont be easy, but I can ruin hundreds of experiments, but I'll never know what it thinks. That's why I need you to, get inside its head, not literally, mentally." Well that was a surprise, it was worse then I expected, this meant close quarters with It. I couldn't, after what I nearly did. "0h, and Doctor, lets not let your close personal friendship with Jeb get in the way of any of your work." How the hell did she know I knew him! "I wouldn't ever dream of it ma'am". "Your dismissed, and I'll trust you not to mention this conversation to any-one." I was trained not to disobey any orders from a superior, but I had to contact Jeb, he was Its only chance of escape.
I couldn't sleep, but what's new? Well lets recap the situation, chained to a fence, its raining(not that I minded), Ig arrived battered and bruised and told of Max(oh how I miss her) and there is a very peculiar man walking toward me. Could this day get worse?
"Fang I believe, a pleasure". I wouldn't give this man any ammunition, I wouldn't talk not for anything, then he took out a note…. "now I'm not here to mistreat you, I cant talk to you in a cruel way at all because everything I say is monitored" he gestured toward the note that he held at his chest level, I know jeb, im a friend, not an enemy. If there is any-one you can trust here, it is me. And only me. "My name is Doctor Hoffman, what my field is is needless to know" he pointed to the paper again, I'm just over paid, no-one important, I was an assistant to Jeb. " Over the next few weeks I will be dropping by to monitor your progression, it wont be anything your not used to" I will warn you though, the boss, she is out to get you. If you ever scream loud enough I will be summoned to inspect you, check what's wrong like. If you need me, you now know how to find me. "I had better be going, it was a pleasure Fang"…
Did he just say he knew Jeb? And that that was a reason to trust him…. 0 boy, the bad guys are still stupid beyond belief.