Chapter 16: Prison Life
My claws got Adam in the face, but he got me with a tranquillizer at the same time. I took in the scent of his blood as I went to sleep.
When I woke I knew that I wasn't in Sanctuary anymore and the scent of blood was gone. My sense went a little crazy as they picked up on other ferals…hundreds of them in the area. As I looked around I was safe with three walls and what looked like a prison gate.
"You're going to get it this time Adam" I muttered.
Then I noticed someone was watching me, it was Jesse and Lexa was close behind him. I didn't blame them for being scared in a place like this.
"What? You enjoying this?" I spat then got up and walked over to them. "Tell Adam he's a fucking failure for sending me to this dump!"
Lexa started walking away, but Jesse still stood there looking away, "If you need someone to talk to…just use the comlink alright," he just said and walked away, it kind of made me regret sounding so harsh.
Sighing, I looked down the hall best I could, I saw them…coming for me. Moving to the back of my cell I waited to fight them, I wasn't going to let them touch me. My eyes flashed and pain coursed through my entire body.
I fell to the ground curling up into a ball, "stop" I gasped and I stopped flashing my eyes and it did. "How did you do that?" I asked after feeling no governor at the back of my neck.
The guard laughed seeing my confusion, "the new improved governor, surgically placed beneath the skin to your spinal cord." He picked me up to my feet and told me to walk.
Rolling my eyes I walked outside, rain was coming down in sheets, turning the ground to thick mud. It wasn't quite clear to me what they were going to have me do, but looking up from the ground I saw a guy; I licked my lips unconsciously, he was hot. I took a few steps closer; he was a feral canine and whined like a dog in need catching the scent I gave off. When he took a step closer my governor was activated, making me scream as I fought against the pain and continued walking closer to him. When the pain got to be too much I fell into the mud and it was turned off, but my body continued to shake. I quickly got back up to my feet and looked at the ground trying to get a hold of myself.
Soon after I was taken back to my cell, I wondered how long Adam was going to make me stay here, if he was going to just leave me here. My heart sank suddenly thinking of Lucy. Guess I was turning out to be a mad mother so far. Lying down on cold floor wasn't too bad, we were told to keep quiet.
I looked at my comlink ring, "Jess…how's Lucy?" I whispered.
"She's doing fine Val, how are you?"
I was sorta surprised he answered, "Uhm, good…" I said then added, "I don't like this place, and they implanted me with a governor. Did Adam say when I can come back?" I look around hoping the guards wouldn't me.
"No, he hasn't talk to anyone since…." His voice trailed off. There was some silence for a while; part of me was feeling guilty for what I had done to Adam. "What did they do?" he finally said back.
"Uhm…Just some kind of test. I don't think I did good. That governor hurt like hell." Jesse suddenly cut in, "I'm going to tell Adam, we're going to get you out."
Part of me lit up hearing I could get out of here, "No," I told him, "this is where I need to be. Look what I did to Brennan and to you…" Then I heard a loud noise, something running toward me. "Gotta go…" I told him to end out little conversation. Quickly I curled up and hid in the darkness of my cell in fears it was the guards.
"Val? Where are you?"
I frowned, "Bren?" He unlocked my cell with his powers and came to me.
"Let's get out of here," He took my hand and started pulling me out.
"No they'll see. Stop!" I got my hand back and took hold of him, "You aren't mine, and you belong to Shal. Listen to me," I shook him, "I tricked you Brennan, and I need this place." He frowned and felt my cheek, "baby, what have they done to you?"
The guards were coming closer to us, once in range they activated my governor. Brennan picked me up and started running out seeing me in pain. We got to his motorcycle and he put his hand on my neck:
"It's underneath…" I told him seeing the confusion on his face.
With a tiny bit of electricity he deactivated it. There wasn't much time to relax; he put me on the bike. As I looked back to the compound all hesitation left me, and I put my head against his back as I held on to him by the waist.
"Thank you," I whispered to him and closed my eyes as we sped off.
"No problem babe."
I opened my eyes feeling my comlink ring; I took it off and put it in my pocket. "Give me your ring," I said and added it to my pocket, "Now they won't be able to break us apart again."
"Please tell me you brought cash…." I sighed as we got to the parking lot of a motel that was out in the middle of nowhere.
"Of course I did hun," Brennan said helping me off the bike.
It still sounded kinda funny to hear him talk to me like that…but I was enjoying it too much now to correct him. Now I was going to prove Adam wrong, Brennan was mine and nothing was going to stop us from being together as long as he loved me. It was…I imagined around three in the morning by the time we walked into the front desk to get a room.
"Room please…just one night…" I told him.
It was easy to pick up on him sizing us both up, "it will be fifteen dollars…" he said holding the key up with his hand out wanting the money upfront.
I put it in his hand looking away and taking the key quicker than his eyes could move. Startled he jumped up knocking his chair over.
"Calm down geeze…thanks," Brennan glared at him and we left to go find our room.
"Now…for your reward," I purred holding onto his jacket as he opened the door to our room. When we got inside the door closed on its own and Brennan turned on the light before sitting down the bed.
Smiling, I sat down on his lap pulling off his jacket, "this will be soooo much better than before…" I whispered softly as I started kissing his neck. My eyes flashed and the feeling started to rise to the surface again. As I slipped my hands under his shirt he recoiled. "What's wrong?" pulling back I looked up at him worried.
"I can't….I just can't…." Looking at me he seemed confused.
"Why can't you?" In his eyes I could tell he was starting to overcome the power I had over him, I growled at the bad timing. Brennan moved me onto the bed, got up and walked across the room to the bathroom and shut the door. I laid down and stared at the ceiling while he I could hear him starting to shower. Quickly I got up taking off all my dirty clothes and I opened the door to the bathroom slowly creeping inside.
"Hope you don't mind if I join you…" I said opening the shower curtain. Brennan gave a look of shock seeing me and I pinned him against the wall. I teased him as I pushed my body close to his.
"Brennan, I need you so bad." With the water hitting my back I picked up on another strange sound. "No….no…that's impossible!" I growled pulling away from him. "The helix…" I hopped out of the shower and headed to the door opening it just a tiny bit; sure enough the helix had landed just across the street from the motel. Quickly I shut the door. "We gotta get out of here…" I scrambled to dry myself off and get my clothes back on. "Come on hurry up!" I called to him not knowing how long till they would find us…If Shalimar was with them it wouldn't be long. Brennan tried breaking a window that was in the bathroom but there were bars on it anyways. "Damn…" I cursed. Then noticed they had reached the door, I grabbed the lamp and was ready to fight. "We meet at the bike alright?" I said to him and he nodded.
The door flew open with Shalimar kicking it then charging in. I managed to bring her to the ground hitting her with the lamp. But Jesse massed in the doorway making it impossible to get out. "Brennan, help me!"
I looked over at him and he seemed really distant as he looked down at Shalimar then up to me, "Shalimar?"
I growled seeing him start to get control of himself again. My hair was grabbed from behind by Shalimar and she threw me across the room. I pushed off the wall and flew at her feet first, but she grabbed one foot and tossed me again into the dresser. After hitting the ground I was starting to get really pissed off, my eyes were a brilliant blue as I got up.
"What Shal? Pissed off I took your man? It's nothing personal…besides…he's not really your type in the first place" I laughed and dodged one of her punches. "That all you got?" When she tried again I managed to grab her wrist and twist it a little getting her by the neck.
"You belong in a kennel," she fired back and I tightened my hold on her neck.
"Stop Val…" Jesse said keeping to his post at the door.
"She deserves it," I growled at them but Shalimar managed to elbow me in the chest causing me to lose grip and she elbowed again at my cheek making my mouth bleed.
When I got up we started to throw kicks and punches till she managed to get me in the head making me fall back onto a short glass coffee table falling through it and into the center of the wood frame. I remember the free fall; it seemed to be forever until I hit the glass then all the cuts on my arms and my back as I hit the broken glass on the floor. When I tried to get up I realized I couldn't move…and I tried to call Brennan but I couldn't speak…I panicked and blacked out.
