Thanks again for all of the reviews…and now here is chapter 8. Once again if you haven't seen the movie and don't want spoilers don't read. If you had I tried to incorporate a scene in a different way. I hope you like it.
Chapter eight: Answers
Lily's POV
She really hated this house with all of the bad memories and hurt that went along with it. So watching it burn was somewhat liberating. Yes a physiatrist would find her way of thinking alarming but that was that. What surprised her even more was the fact that Aaron had come for her. He didn't remember but he came. That meant that somewhere in the back of his mind he remembered something. As he lead her from the farmhouse through the woods all she could think about was that she was essentially following a government trained super soldier and she was going to disappear. She worried how they would survive, she worried that they would be found and she worried what he would do once he found out what was really going on.
He had led her to a clearing in the woods, off from the highway to a black SUV. He put her bag into the hatch back and escorted her to the passenger side helping her in. It floored her that he was so calm and collected and yet she could since a storm brewing just beneath the surface. The first part of their car ride was silent, too silent. He was thinking things over and trying to figure her out and yet she still didn't say anything. She really needed him to remember, to start to undo what they did to him.
"So I have question and I need you to be absolutely honest with me" He spoke so suddenly that it startled her for a moment.
"Okay" she stated, here it comes she thought to herself.
"Do you know where I can get more chems?"
"I'm sorry, what?!" Not what she was expecting. He suddenly seemed exasperated.
"You know, the chems that are given to me every day, the ones that keep me, me. Where can I get them?"
"I promise you I don't know where or even why you would need them." Not only was she riled up she was starting to get slightly annoyed.
"They only gave me enough for the day, I need those chems Doc" he was becoming increasingly agitated.
"Well I hate to disappoint you but I don't have any and I don't know where to get them" She was starting to get a little angry. She had just been shot at, twice, burned down her house and now she was being questions about the one thing that was a hot button topic with her. "You need to pullover for a minute" He looked at her funny and said.
"Pull over!" It came out more forcefully then she intended. "I need to think, I need some air." The minute the car stopped she was out and walking down the road only to turn back and walk back to the car to where he was waiting, watching her with concern.
"Which chems are you on? Blues, greens, which ones?'
"Just the blues, they stopped giving me greens a while back"
"Let me guess about four months ago" He confirmed with a shake of his head.
"You shouldn't be on them to begin with."
"So are you going to tell me what's going on or am I going to have to shake it out of you because we are running out of time. Have you ever seen an agent come down after not getting chem, because I have and let me tell you Doc it's not pretty?"
"Okay, okay" She said putting her hands up in a defense mode. She took a deep breath and started. "The chems that you take to enhance your physical and cognitive skills; they were originally designed for something else." He stood beside the car looking at her trying it figure out what she was talking about.
"So what were they met for"
"The original formula was support to help people with different genetic disorders. Like autism or schizophrenia. It was created and bought by a company that was supposed to mass produce it, get it out to the public, to help people. Instead the tweaked the formula and used it to physical change someone's DNA. They then decided to sell it once again to a private contractor who used it to create super soldiers" She paused for a moment.
"So you think I'm a super soldier, huh?" He asked with a slight smile. She blushed slightly and he loved it when she did. She blinked several times before she continued.
"Yeah, well I don't know what else to call it, since they found a way for you to be completely connected to them. As long as you take those chems, the more power they have over you. You're off the greens so that makes the physical enhancements permanent."
"Okay Doc then How do we make the others permanent because I don't know about you but I don't want to be connected to them in any way."
"Well, that's the thing. We would have to viral you off which means introducing you to the original virus that helped in creating all of this and the only place that does that is a facility in the Philippians." He motioned for her to get in the car and spoke.
"So let get there then, if we hurry we might be far enough under the radar that we can get out of the country before they realize we are not really dead. When she didn't move to get in the car he asked her. "Hey what's wrong" She was so scared to answer that question that she froze for a moment before she started to speak. She cleared her throat and said
"There are two things you need to know before we go." He came to stand in front of her and looked down into her eyes.
"Okay, what is it." She took a deep breath and started.
"First, the reason you don't remember me, is because one of the side effects of the chems is loss of early memories. It's their way of keeping you in the here and now. It's their fail safe device to make sure you have no outside interference. A control this if you will." He looked at her searching her face trying so hard to remember but knew questions would have to wait a bit longer.
"And what is the second thing Lily?" He asked her
"I'm the one responsible for the creation of all of this to begin with"
So sorry if this chapter seems slow and a bit confusing but it's one of those things that needed to take place until the next step. Please give me feedback. I love it
