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Shinji woke up to the sound of the door upstairs being unlocked. The beam of light that struck his eyes blinded him for a moment. He heard Doctor say in his wheezing voice,
"Today is your enrollment day sonny". Shinji eyes fluttered open to see the blurry image of Nurse opening his door and Doctor in work gloves with some long metal pole with something red at the end of it. His vision slowly adjusted to the now lit room and Shinji got a clear look at what Doctor was holding, a red hot branding iron. Shinji scooted back as far away from Doctor as he could, but Nurse grabbed him by the leg and started to pull him out.
"C'mon now kid" she said without a hint of sympathy. "The quicker you stop squirming the quicker we will be done cataloging you." Doctor grabbed Shinji's leg with his other hand and successfully pulled Shinji out of the cage. Now out of the cage Shinji broke out of their grasp and ran straight for the staircase. The other kids in cages watched in awe as Shinji made his daring escape. He was up the fourth step when cold steely fingers wrapped around his ankle and pulled him back. Shinji tripped and his face connected solidly with a wooden stair plank. A loose nail made a vertical gash right below Shinji's left eye causing blood flow over the left side of his face.
Nurse's grip on his ankle was unbreakable as she pulled the bleeding five year old between herself and doctor. She then forced his arms apart and weighed down his left arm with her knee. The kids in the cages watched with intensity as they saw their hero kicking and struggling for his freedom. Doctor grabbed Shinji's right arm and pinned it down to the ground with his foot. Doctor raised his hot iron and slowly he lowered it down onto Shinji's forearm. Everyone in the room could hear the sizzle of the hot metal scarring Shinji's skin, but not even the kids already branded could image the pain Shinji was feeling. With Shinji's struggling Doctor had to apply even more force than usual this was without a doubt the deepest scar he had ever left, this one would clearly be seen in the photo he would take later for his medical records. Even with the numbers zero, one, nine, and two burned deep into his skin Shinji grinded his teeth and fought back every tear that came to his eyes.
Nurse rose to her feet and straightened her clothes. With his hand now free Shinji clasped his free hand onto his burning flesh trying to relieve some of the heat. Doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead and wheezed,
"Ok, now to get to the surgery." Doctor and Nurse grabbed Shinji and carried the struggling five year old like Dyne and Doctor had with the dead boy the night before. Up the stairs Shinji could see that the stairway was right in their kitchen. They carried him to the right of the kitchen into a living room, everything was clean and tidy. Shinji would have been glad to have called this place his home if it were not also the place where he was supposedly going to see his doom. Doctor led them into the room and leaned against a wall with a picture of a sunflower in a vase, the wall gave way and Doctor's secret laboratory was revealed.
Nurse flipped a switch and blinding fluorescent lights illuminated the room. A table stood in the middle of the room with many carts used to hold tools and sterilize equipment. Nurse and Doctor placed Shinji in the middle of the table and strapped his arms and legs down with thick leather straps. Nurse walked over to a table and picked up the tools she and Doctor would be using. Doctor opened a closet and rolled out a gas. Nurse picked up the mask attached to the tube and said to Shinji,
"Alright you little worm breath deep." Shinji held his breath and shook his head violently from side to side, anything to make their work harder. Shinji could barely see out of his left eye now, his blood and dripped all over his chest and he could taste his blood. Doctor walked up behind the table and grabbed both sides of Shinji's head to steady him. Nurse placed the mask over Shinji's face and held Shinji's nose, forcing him to take a deep breath. "Nighty Night you little fucker" smirked Nurse as Shinji drifted off.
Four Hours Later
Shinji woke up in his cage again. He felt agonizing pain all through his body. He groaned and felt a cold shiver shoot through his body over and over again. He put a hand on his chest to steady his thumping heart and felt stitches. He looked down to see a horrible zig zag scar going down past his ribs. He felt another one on his right side and saw a hideous scar that crept from his hip to his ribs. He traced the scars with his finger and winced when the ungodly sting hit him. It stung even worse when he heard the voice of Nurse say,
"Wakey Wakey hands of Snakey little boy" Nurse turned on the light walked up to Shinji's cage and crouched there staring at him eye to eye. "Admiring your beauty mark there? It is a nice one, a very clean cut. I'm not surprised; today's surgery went off without a hitch. And we found something else pretty interesting too tiger." She turned around and picked up what appeared to be a drink cooler. She opened it up and showed Shinji everything she had removed. In the box contained was seemed to be his kidney, part of his liver, and what appeared to be his pancreas! Shinji could feel the vomit build up in his throat but was not close enough to aim at Nurse so he kept it down and stared on. "Ya see when we removed your kidney it was an easy slice, completely severed it and got it all in the bag, then we moved on to take part of your liver. That is when we saw something at the end of the severed artery where we cut your kidney. We thought we may have left some of it on by mistake but once we moved on to your pancreas another kidney had already replaced the one we cut off!"
Doctor walked down the staircase with some files in his hands and set them on the cooler. He squatted down with Nurse and looked Shinji in the eyes with a fake smile and said,
"We also took a look at your ticker there in your chest. Your heart is quite different from normal ones young man, while normal human hearts have many ventricles and arteries coming out of it you just appear to have on artery pumping blood into your heart and one pumping blood out. Your heart itself has a very hard casing and is as hard as a rock. It almost looks like a beautiful gemstone giving life. We think it maybe why you were able to regenerate your kidney and at such an astonishing speed. I was wondering if you would do me a favor." Shinji clenched his jaws so hard he felt blood pooling around his tongue. Shinji gave Doctor an icy blue glare and said,
"A favor?" Doctor nodded and offered,
"If you could tell us anything about that heart of yours we could make your stay here very comfortable, we would even let you stay on the couch upstairs." Shinji leaned forward in his cage and said,
"Really? On that nice comfy looking coach upstairs! And could I use a real toilet instead of going in the hay around my cage?" Nurse nodded and said,
"Yep, you will get all the perks kid, but we need to know about that organ you got there." Shinji nodded and motioned for them to come closer. Doctor and Nurse being hopeful that he would cooperate inched forward till they were face to face.
Shinji suddenly let loose a torrent of vomit and blood he had stored up in his throat. He had seen a little girl do something like that in a movie. Nurse and Doctor wiped their faces off and spat furiously at the ground. All the kids in the basement let out howls of laughter and giggles as their captives tried desperately to clean themselves. Nurse let out a long growl and kicked Shinji's cages angrily.
"Alright piss ant, we tried being nice." Nurse pulled out an electronic device, stuck it through the cage and shoved it into Shinji's chest. Shinji felt all the hair on his body stand on end as Nurse tazered him with the cattle prod. Nurse kept up with a barrage of strikes from her prod until her arms got too sore to hold it anymore. Both she and Shinji were breathing hard. A loud knocking erupted from upstairs at the door. Doctor and Nurse went upstairs to answer it. Shinji heard a familiar voice coming from upstairs.
"Yep, gotcha another one." said Dyne. "Another Doc downtown hasn't been payin his protection, so we took this one here when she was at the store." Dyne walked down the stair case carrying a little girl with Doctor. She had black hair and brown eyes and looked to be about seven or eight years old. They placed her in the cage previously occupied by the dead boy and locked it tight. Dyne took a look around and saw Shinji. Dyne mused,
"Well hello there little birdie! How are you doing?"
"He is being a little shit bird as usual" answered Nurse giving Shinji's cage another kick.
"What a shame" smirked Dyne. "Where's my money for the girl Doc?" Doctor handed Dyne a wad of bills from his coat. Loud sniffling could be heard from the girl. She begged,
"Please let me out of here. My father will pay you! I promise. Please I need to see him again." Dyne walked up to the cage and said,
"Ahh don't worry honey, you will see your daddy again. Hell he might actually be the one who gets to transplant your organs into someone else! Hahahaha." Thunder could be heard outside. "Well I'm gonna get going, I don't want to be caught in a lightning storm. Seeya Doc." Dyne went upstairs and left out the door. Nurse said,
"Do you want to brand the girl's number in now? We will need to do it eventually so we can start documenting and cataloging her body now." Doctor shook his head,
"No, we will do it tomorrow, I want to get the rest of this crap off of me. I can't believe you puked on me you little bastard." Shinji looked Doctor in the eye and with his icy blue death glare said,
"Your not going to brand that girl. You will be dead before the sun comes up." Doctor raised an eyebrow and asked,
"Oh yeah? And how exactly do you know this?" Shinji displayed a blood chilling glare and answered,
"Because I am going to fucking kill you both."