Authors Notes: I've been asked to make the chapters longer... so I will. I hope this is long enough... but I don't know if the quality is enough.
We're Not Your Lab Rats!
Maddy had been shoved into a small room with only one door and no other way of escape to change into more 'suitable' clothes. Whitewood declared after half an hour that if Maddy did not change her clothes then she would have to stay in the room until she had done so. Then she emerged from the closet in a dark grey vest and black tracksuit bottoms like Rhydians. As Toby went to drag her back to the cage she had earlier occupied she growled at him, yanking her arm away from his grasp. But persistantly he kept on pushing her into the cage. Both hers and Rhydians caeges were on the floor and only large enough for a tall dog to stand in and wide enough for the dog to walk around, but barely enough room for a human. Guess thats why it was called a dog cage. But they could lay down in it... not that either of them wanted to, as it would make them both vulnerable to Whitewoods testing. As the older woman crouched down in front of both cages she tutted like she was annoyed with them both, "I thought I'd told you before. That I'm on your side. All I wanted to do was run a few tests on your family, Maddy. Thats all." She explained to them, reminding Maddy why she had been forced to leave Stoneybridge. She scoffed. Whitewood made it sound like 'running a few tests on someone' was the most natural thing in the world. Aggrivatingly though, there was nothing Maddy could do except growl and reveal more to Whitewood.
"Thats all?" Maddy asked in disbelief and annoyance. Oh, how easy it would be to just kill this woman on the spot then leave and be happy. But Whitewoods facial expression made it clear that she thought this was natural to experiment on her and Rhydian. "You're mad! We're not your lab rats! Me mam told you that! So let us go!" Maddy shouted, she pulled herself towards Whitewood clinging onto the bars of the cage.
"What you don't seem to understand Miss Smith, is that if you and your parents hadn't left in the first place, your boyfriend wouldn't be here and I would go easier on you." Whitewood snapped raising her voice slightly as she stood up. Rhydian raised his head up slightly. Whitewood had said 'you' to Maddy as if she was going to do something much worse than she would to Rhydian.
"Whats Rhydian got to do with any of this?" Maddy sneered glaring up at Whitewood.
Whitewood chuckled, she knew too well that she was aggrivating Maddy and that sooner or later the wolf would be too much to contain and she'd have to transform. She bent over slightly looking at Maddy and cheered, "Because I know he's a werewolf too."
Maddy's blood boiled at the term werewolf, and she began to growl. Rhydian listened to her heartbeat and heard the increase in speed. He had to do something. But Maddy was in the cage at the other side of the room. Whitewood had seperated them. Rhydian gazed around the lab searching his brain for something to do, then he whispered, only loud enough for Maddy, "Calm down, she wants this, this is what she wants, don't give into it, don't give her the satisfaction." Maddy's growling quietened, but it didn't stop. "Maddy." Rhydian warned a little louder.
Her attention snapped back to him and the growling stopped completely. Whitewood noticed the very sudden change in Maddy's behaviour, she turned slightly so she could see both her 'experiments' and smiled, but the smile wasn't warm in any way, it held evilness behind it, and made Rhydian cringe when he saw it on the doctors face. Standing up straight Whitewood clasped her hands together and looked down at the two, "Well, I think I'll leave you both to catch up... seven months is a long time for mates to be apart." She teased, walking out the lab door and locking it behind her. Metal bars may contain them when she's around, but when she's not, a locked door would.
As the soft pad of her footsteps died down, Maddy looked over at Rhydian, his tired eyes looking back at her. A pang of guilt surged through her as she thought of the situation, "I'm sorry." She whispered. He could've been at home, with his foster parents, or anywhere other than this.
"What for?" he simply asked, turning his attention towards her.
"You could be at home right now. You could be with the Vaughns, warm and comfortable. Instead your here." She pointed out to him, lying on her back and using her hands to show how much of a big deal it was. But he laughed slightly and the smile from the laugh stayed on his face, he didn't care where he was.
"Yeah, but I'm here with you. And that makes this dark, cold room that smells like the school science labs, seem... better." Rhydian admitted, even though, even to himself, it sounded cheesey.
"Sweet, Rhydian. Real sweet, but I'm being serious. Neither of us should be here, especially not you." Maddy whispered, tilting her head to the side so she could see him, "Also... you don't suit lovey-dovey sweet talk." She teased giggling slightly. Rhydian rolled his eyes, even though a smile stayed on his features.
"Yeah, I know neither of us should be here, but we are, and we need to figure out how to get out. And at least I make an effort, Mads. I haven't seen you in seven months, I've missed you... and even if we were brought back together by Whitewood, I am really happy to see you." Rhydian told her, though there was hurt behind his words, there was a joke tone in his voice, and the smile that stayed there only helped prove he was having a laugh.
Maddy sighed, looking back up at the ceiling. Then a thought came across, "Rhydian? How did Dr. Whitewood find out your a wolfblood?" she asked, a frown forming on her face as she thought it through.
Rhydian frowned, he didn't honestly know the answer to her question. But he guessed it had something to do with the fact that he'd spent so much time with Maddy in the past that Whitewood instantly jumped to the conclusion that he too was a 'werewolf'. It seemed like the most simplest explanation. Occams razor. And he wasn't doing anything to help prove her theory wrong. "Occams razor, probably. I don't know. You know, the simplest answer is probably the right one. Maybe she thought that since I spent a lot of time with you and your parents. She must've thought I was one too." He explained, it made sense to him as he worded his thoughts on how Whitewood found out. But he had his own question he wanted answered. "Mads? How come your here? If you were in the wild surely Whitewood wouldn't have known where." He asked.
Maddy bit her bottom lip, her reason was that she wasn't with the wild pack. They were miles away when Kyle got her. "Well... I, um... I wasn't with the rest of the pack... I was on me own... in wolf form... and Kyle tranquilized me." She explained, she heard Rhydian groan as if annoyed that she'd done that, but he was here too, "What about you, how come your here? Its a Friday, you should be with Shan and Tom." She told him, she was referring back to when she was living in Stoneybridge and every Friday the four of them would do something.
She didn't realise that when she'd left that 'tradition' ended.
Rhydian rolled his eyes, turning back to facing the ceiling, "I was walking home on my own, thats how Whitewood caught me, because I was alone and vulnerable. We don't do that Friday thing anymore. Because there's no point." Rhydian responded.
"No point? No point in spending time with your mates?" she questioned, the annoyance was in her words and the tone she used. She glared at the ceiling, envying Rhydian so much, it hurt to think about it. She sighed, "I'd give anything to spend time with them now. And here I am, trying to keep calm and not worry about what some maniac scientist is going to do to us." She explained to him, her eyes becoming teary.
"We stopped because it reminded us of when you were with us. There was no point because you wasn't with us... in fact... most of the time we just went our seperate ways." Rhydian turned back round to look at her, he could sense the upset and fear she was feeling right at this moment. "I promise. We'll get out of this, together. We can go back to how our lives used to be. Before Whitewood. Ok? I promise, I'll look after you." He reached his hand out of the cage but for nothing, no matter how hard either of them tried, they wouldn't be able to reach each other. Rhydian gave up and pulled his hand back through the cage bars, "I've missed you, Mads." He admitted.
A small smile formed on Maddy's face as he spoke, she turned her head slightly, to look at him more easier, "I've missed you too." Rhydian smiled back. He opened his mouth briefly to say something else, but stopped when he heard footsteps.
Whitewood opened the doors to the lab and smiled down, lovingly at the cages, "Hello dears." She spoke in a cheery tone. Rhydian and Maddy looked at one another through the corners of their eyes.
"Aren't we allowed a rest before you start testing on us?" Rhydian snapped. Whitewood chuckled in reponse. Pulling out a brief case and placing it gently onto a work surface, Whitewood took out the case two syringes and a bottle of liquid, which was an alarming yellow colour.
"Oh no. I was just giving you time to catch up. Its now time for my first test... its all very exciting." She squealed as the liquid from the bottle filled up both syringes. She walked over towards Maddy's cage and gradually bent down closer to Maddy and with a smirk on her face whispered, "Don't worry, you won't feel a thing." Then with the same amount of force a crazed murderer would use, she jabbed the needle of the syringe into Maddy's arm.
Maddy let out a pained yelp before her eyelids became heavy and she fell back asleep. Rhydian gradually began to sit up in alarm, growling he asked in a furious tone, "What the bloody hell is that? What have you done to her?" he asked in anger and hidden fright. As quick as a wolfblood running Whitewood spun round snatching the other syringe and walked over to Rhydian.
"It's my first test. I need both of you asleep so I can move you into your new homes. We've got you and Maddy special rooms which you'll be living in whilst I do my tests on you both. Don't worry. Most of the tests are safe. Now rest Rhydian. You and Maddy have a very big day tomorrow." Whitewood explained as she gently jabbed Rhydians arm and his eyelids too became heavy and he felt himself being drawn away from Whitewoods alarming words and into a dream. Though his nerves were causing him to become stressed.
They both feared the morning.
Authors Notes: Sorry people, but this story isn't doing as well as my others, I might do a few more chapters but I'm not making promises that I will be able to update every day. If you do, however, want me to continue please tell me.