Logan
"Come on Kelsey," I said cupping Kelsey's face as Carmen felt her pulse. She's been passed out for five minutes now. Her blonde hair sweeps across her shoulders and her body curled in a fetal position on the train car seat.
"You scared her to death!" Carmen shrieks.
"Well i thought we were having show and tell time!" I snap back locking with her icy fake colored eyes. Carmen huffs.
Suddenly Kelsey's eye flutter open and focuses on me. Her green eyes like a snakes and suddenly her eyes turn into snake eyes with slits for pupils but other wise normal eyes. I gasp and jump into Carmen's hovering face. "OW LOGAN!" She shouts.
Kelsey's eyes turn back to normal and she slowly unfolds herself. Her face flushed from embarrassment. "I-I'm sorry I don't know what came over me. I had like a blackout," she says as she pulls wavy blonde hair behind her ear and sits up.
Carmen's face becomes incredulous. "Did you have a flashback or something?"
Kelsey becomes flustered and says, "No I just like zoned out that's all." Carmen nods slowly with a look in her eye that in any other situation I would've laughed.
We all settle back into our seats. "I guess you guys are wondering what my ability is," Kelsey says. "To be honest I don't know. I know my cells regenerate faster than the average human being. Like you saw back at the…warehouse. Everything else I've been told that it will eventually come. Um did you look to see if it was on that page you took about me?" she asks.
Carmen frowns. "I never thought to look," she says. She digs through the leather bag and finally pulls out a rumpled piece of paper with clips of the pictures i found and the sticky-note I wrote. "It says:
Subject has responded to mutation different from others. Is more defiant and mouths to guards. The more she trains the more worried we get that she will eventually escape like boy from England. Seems to have trouble sleeping. Screams in sleep often but never cries. Guards have seen the eyes affected as predicted. Soon will be able have strength of viper, poison bite when needed and snake-like attacking features. No idea when subject will fully be developed. However speak is developing has seduced guard into more food once. Other mutations have not been developed. Update next week." Carmen finishes looking up at Kelsey who has leaned forward in anticipation. "It also has a bunch of chemicals…..they injected into you since last week."
Kelsey sighs avoiding eye contact. "I'm really tired….I'm going to crash in the cart next door," she says wrapping her arms around her barely covered stomach suddenly self-conscious of only her sports bra, shorts and tennis shoes.
As soon as the door close Carmen lets out a breath. "I just can't even imagine what she's been through…..and i didn't show her the pictures that you had accidentally grabbed," Carmen says handing me about 10-12 pictures of Kelsey sleeping, eating, training, working, one of her eye forced open by a machine showing the snake-like eyes I had seen. One of her stomach and abs. Another of the back of her neck where a tattoo has been placed. A circle with a X through it except it doesn't look imbedded in the skin through ink but burned. She was branded. I rub my hand along the stubble of my jaw in distress. This girl was just an experiment, a project to them.
"Don't do that ,"Carmen suddenly saw in a husky whisper as though she was parched.
"Don't do what?" I saw tearing my gaze from the pictures.
"Rub your hand along your jaw and jut it out," she replies.
"Why?" I ask in confusion accidentally popping my jaw out of habit.
She scowls. "It's distracting."
I suddenly understand as she grips the other papers hard and refuses to look at me. I creep closer so that she can feel my breath on her neck. "Is this distracting?"
"Yes your breath stinks," he replies trying to be mad but it comes out as the opposite. I chuckle and kiss her neck. She sucks in a breath as I trail kisses up her neck to her jaw and on to the corners of her mouth. She moans and then I kiss her on her on the lips in awe of her beauty.
She kisses me back and suddenly I forget that we're on a train in Russia and plan on stopping an entire army. I forget that i have to protect these two women. I forget everything and suddenly all I remember is Carmen. All I see is Carmen. All I hear, smell, feel and taste is Carmen. Carmen is suddenly all I know.