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Chapter 11

Flashback

Eva raised her eyebrows. "Stan, be realistic."

"I am Eva! If the Drudger's blood could take out a full-blood Nourasion.." Eva cut him short. "Then they'd probably kill the humans who have the poison."

Stan sighed. "Eva, we could at least try it."

Eva knew where this was going. Stan was their leader, and though he always asked her what she thought of it, he'd do it anyways until Eva came with a real good reason.

Koji shook his head to Eva, trying to reason her. Eva closed her eyes. "Stan, I ask you, please don't even try it. Who knows what will come from it."

"Nothing will go wrong, Eve. You know me!"

End, chapter 5

Eva suddenly sat up and poked Aikka in his ribs rather hard. Well, for her it felt hard – she rubbed her fingers in agony – and he just looked at her.

"That race we held the other day… you could have won it! You're a vampire, you've got super speed!" She exclaimed. Aikka grinned his fangs bare.

"I cannot believe I didn't figure that out…" She knocked her own head with her hand. Aikka pulled her down to the grass again. "I was starting to wonder why you never used that one against me…" He murmured in her hair.

Eva sighed and closed her eyes. "I don't need to know why, so don't bother."

A few minutes later, Eva decided it was best to return to the base. They would be wondering where she was… After she finally escaped his grasp she winked at him and ran of to the opening.

"Stan?" Eva asked carefully. She overheard a small meeting from him, Koji and Jessica. Jessica had left, and Koji was sitting at the table sipping tea.

Stan grinned widely at her. "A few hours ago I talked to Isa, of our medical department…" she nodded. "She said she wanted to help us experiment."

Eva frowned. "Experiment? Experiment what?" Koji shook his head in disapproval at Stan and shot her a doubtful look.

"With the Drudgers blood of course! We already got some tubes with the poison of a Nourasion we caught…" He explained. Eva interrupted him.

"What?! So you are going to inject that poison into someone and add the drudgers blood with it?" She choked out. Stan nodded proudly.

"Stan, I thought we had already gone through this! What does the rest of our team says? I mean, you can't just endanger someone's life!" She rattled on.

Stan, of course, ignored most of her comments. "Calm down Eve, we wont do it recklessly on someone."

"Then on who? Let me guess..." She suddenly murmured. "People who were going to die anyway?"

He nodded. "Not in those words, but we got a lot of patients in our base that aren't going to make it. They already said they agreed to it. Makes them feel useful…"

Eva scowled. "They are not animals! Even animals don't deserve to be experimented on! You sure you didn't force them?"

Stan shot her a dangerous look. "Don't get that mouth of yours too far Eva. I'm still the leader of this team and when I get their cooperation I can still progress this idea."

Eva took a deep breath. "I won't help with it. You know that." He nodded. "When are you going to… do it?"

Stan shrugged. "As soon as possible. Maybe this night. Isa is already preparing. We'll keep some people in the room, so that they can help when something goes wrong."

"Stan, please…" Eva tried. He shook his head. "Eva, no more word about it. We'll call you when it succeeded or failed. Okay?"

She nodded sourly and followed Koji outside. He confidently winked at her. She smiled back slowly, nodding. Koji would help too. Ever since she was small and joined this group, she had always seen Koji as her big brother. She could trust him…

Taking the hallway to the bedrooms in the base, Eva threw open the door to the room she shared with Jessica and sat down on the bed.

Jessica looked up from a magazine she managed to sneak out of a shop and smiled. "I knew you would hate the idea. I don't like it that much either… But honestly, what could go wrong? The people could die… but they would die anyway and this way it's faster for them." She said.

Eva nodded, though she couldn't be thrilled with the idea that they would already be dead anyway even if they didn't inject the poison. They weren't Croggs…

"So, you got anything planned tonight?" Jessica asked sweetly. Eva shook her head. "Not really…"

"Wanna get drunk and pass out?" She asked excitedly. Eva laughed. "They already hid the alcohol since the 'accident' two years ago."

"But I have an idea of where it could be…" Jessica wobbled her eyebrows. "Why don't you go steal some? I know I get caught by Stan when I go, he must have put this thing on me he can know EXACTLY where I am." Eva said seriously. Jessica chuckled. "If I do it I'll make too much noise. I guess that doesn't mean getting drunk… I haven't tasted sake or beer since Koji's birthday two years ago!" She complained.

"God, Jess you're not even old enough to drink!"

"War makes us old enough. Besides, it's not like I got any parents to scold me. Stan won't throw us out of the group, you know that." She murmured, while biting her lip a little. Eva nodded. Two years ago, at Koji's birthday, they all got horribly drunk and Eva was so stupid to go home afterwards. She wasn't allowed to go on missions for weeks from her dad. He was so angry…

"Besides," Eva said, "maybe it's better not to waste the alcohol. They could better use it on patients as a drug for the pain."

"True." Jessica admitted. "But isn't the pure alcohol the thing for that? They wouldn't use beer would they…"

Eva shook her head, wondering why they were even having this conversation. "Well maybe they will."

Jessica sat up triumphantly. "I'll get wounded so I can get some!!" She exclaimed.

"I heard that!" They heard someone saying and Jessica broke down in a fit of giggles. Eva grinned widely and shooed the person away.

"Oh well..." Jessica said. "Hopefully the war will end soon and I'd be legal enough to drink, as a war-hero!"

You hope. Eva thought bitterly. Jessica jumped down on Eva's bed. "So, I heard something from Jordan… Who's Nathan, sugar?"

Eva recently heard that Stan was busy injecting the poison and blood. Jessica had made a face about it, but avoided any further conversation about it.

Two hours later, Eva turned around again. She couldn't sleep. Maybe she could go check on them… next to her Jessica turned around in her sleep and sighed, her hair falling in her face, her hands before her chest.

Eva blinked to see her a bit better and then turned on her back, looking at the ceiling.

No one had tried to wake her to inform of the casualties. She knew Stan wouldn't dare to wake her when she was finally sleeping again.

She turned to her side again and turned her hand into a fist. But still… Jessica mumbled something in her sleep.

Sitting up, Eva decided she could just check on it. Just to see if they were okay. And to punish Stan if the experiment failed.

Putting on a shirt and jeans Eva scurried down the hallways softly, so she wouldn't disturb anyone from their slumber.

She passed Stan's room and peeked in. He was sitting at his desk. Upon hearing her, he turned around and smiled. "Nightmare?" He asked. When she was small and she slept here, she always came to Stan's or Koji's room when she had a nightmare.

Eva smiled and shook her head. "I wanted to check on you and the specimen." She said sarcastically. Stan ignored her comment and nodded. "Yes, I should go check on them too, now. They didn't wake up immediately, nor did they die, so we left them alone for an hour or two."

Eva blinked a little wrong the wrong situation she felt while walking towards the medical rooms with Stan. He assured her with a ruffle on her head that it would be all right, but it didn't felt like that.

Walking into the department, Stan opened the rooms separated from the others.

Eva walked in quickly, and coughed from the smell. "What the…" She heard Stan say. Eva looked up. Right in front of her eyes there was a horrible dead body. She could see the throat was torn open, there were holes in the stomach and a piece of the flesh on Isa's head was missing.

Confused and slightly disgusted, Eva looked around the room. There was a dead man lying on the ground, and she could see the holes of bullets. He had his eyes and mouth wide open. Eva noted his eyes were grey and he had a mouth full of sharp teeth. She gaped.

Stan called for help on his beeper and stared at the big hole in the wall that leaded to one of the openings upstairs.

Eva coughed again. "One of those things… managed to get outside?" She choked out, immediately feeling fear for Koji and Jessica, who were probably sleeping.

Stan frowned and didn't respond; instead he walked out the other way. He motioned for her to follow, but Eva scrambled out of the large hole, into the hallway that leads outside. Koji's room had to be near…

Running down the hallway, Eva passed Koji's room. She didn't decide to barge in when she saw the door was closed. It meant he was probably still asleep.

Following a little trail of blood down the hallway, Eva heard Stan call for her. She frowned and hoped it didn't get outside.

"Eva, come back!" she heard Stan call. Eva didn't turn around. "I told you, you would fail!" She shouted back to no one in particular. She knew he would hear her. "I told you, asshole! I TOLD YOU THERE WOULD BE NOTHING BUT DEAD PEOPLE!"

Angrily, she stomped her feet and puffed her cheeks out. She told him… why he didn't ever listen to her… In the end, her ideas always worked better.

She heard a faint scream and some thumping from people running down the hallways. She faintly heard Stan ordering them something… probably to get back to their rooms or to get weapons.

When Eva was nearly outside, she remembered. After all, she was a huge klutz. Widening her eyes, Eva realized she had no gun, no knife, nothing. She just got out of bed after all.

And of course, when Eva wanted to run back for a gun, she felt something pull at her shirt. She felt a whoosh of air, and suddenly a sharp pain in her back and head. Eva gulped in the fresh night air while the offending rock she was thrown against shove a little. Lying still, Eva tested for broken bones. She didn't seem to have anything broken…

That was, until she heard her wrist snap. "Yara?!" Eva shouted in surprise as a middle-aged woman who was taken in the medical department because she had a tumour in her brain was on top of her.

Yara opened her mouth but no comprehensible sound came out of it. She pushed harder down on Eva. With all her might, Eva tried to push her back, to get the woman off from her. "Get off!" She breathed with difficulties, because Yara was pushing down on her chest and throat.

"Eva?" She heard Stan and Jessica – she probably woke up from the fuss – call for her. She opened her mouth to yell at them, but she could only get a choke out of it.

Trying to remove Yara from her body, and the hands of her throat, Eva blinked and tried to breathe as little air as possible, while Yara's other hand tried to scratch at her, leaving marks at her arms.

"Get…off…" Eva murmured, her broken wrist releasing Yara and trying to search for any stone or sharp stick she could hurt the woman above her with.

She yelped painfully when she felt her throat cut open; the nails of Yara's hand tore it open. Can't breathe…Eva thought helplessly, while she got hold of some sand she could throw in her eyes. Before she had lifted the hand a little, the woman above her had pushed it back with such power Eva wondered if all her bones hadn't been crushed. Needless to say, it hurt so much she didn't dare to move it anymore.

And then she was off her, and Eva felt yet another whoosh of air as Yara was thrown backwards, on the ground. Eva winced at a snap she heard, and gulped in as much air she was allowed to.

She looked to her side carefully to see the silent steps of Aikka, who was walking to Yara. She didn't even need to see his face to know his eyes were oil black. Wincing as she sat up, Eva closed her eyes a little at the speed Yara was using, until she heard another snap. Aikka hissed as he threw her body aside.

Clutching her broken wrist, Eva stared up at him. She knew better then to be afraid of him. What she was more afraid of, were the three people standing behind him.

She saw the annoyed look in the Prince's eyes as he turned around swiftly. His position got more relaxed though, and he didn't bother trying to attack. Stan held up his gun, Koji was grinning a little, and Jessica ran over to Eva to help her stand up.

She had a lot of explaining to do…

Short, but mighty. I don't get much ideas often…

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