Authors Notes: By saying my stories aren't doing that well, I mean that I re-read it and didn't like it myself. And nobody who used to review my stories haven't reviewed this story... yet.
We're Not Your Lab Rats!
Suddenly, she felt comfortable. Not so cramped as it had been last night. Though her eyelids still felt slightly heavy, she could open them, slowly she did. Taking in her surroundings. There was no more bars, instead she was in a grey room, like a prison cell, the only difference being that there wasn't any bars. There was a dog bowl in the corner of the room full of water, and a plate beside that with raw meat, and Maddy remembered that she was still in Dr. Whitewoods lab, not at home. The meat was nice, the fact it was raw was cruel... Maddy preferred her meat cooked. And the dog bowl was just insulting. Gradually she stood up from the mattress which was placed in the corner of the room. A room, which was big enough for a human to walk around and to stand in. But that was it. It wasn't a five star B&B. But it was much better than the stupid cage. Only problem is Maddy couldn't see Rhydian when she looked around. There were three brick walls that surrounded her, one with a very tiny window, the remaining wall was just glass, and on the other side of the glass was Dr. Whitewood, flicking through some paperwork. Maddy walked quickly over to the glass wall and smashed her fist against it, "Whitewood!" she screamed. The older female looked up from her paperwork and at Maddy. Slowly and teasingly Whitewood made her way over to the cell.
"Morning Madeline. Did you have a nice sleep?" She asked in a hauntingly happy voice. Maddy pounded her fist against the glass wall again, hoping to break it. Whitewood laughed, "Oh, Miss Smith. You can't break this glass. So stop trying." Whitewood started off all sweetness and kind, but as Maddy continued to hit the glass she snapped.
"Where's Rhydian?" Maddy asked in a growling voice. On the other side of the glass the voice sounded harsh but the words were muffled by the glass, the volume of her shouted question had died down and didn't sound like a shout, instead like an annoyed child demanding for their toy. "What've you done with him Whitewood?" Maddy asked, hitting the glass with both her fists, then she heard something... or someone saying her name. "Rhydian?!" she shouted hoping it was him that she heard.
"Maddy?" a response came. Maddy rushed towards where the sound had come from, one of the brick walls. She started scratching at the wall hoping to achieve something... anything.
"Rhydian!" Maddy screamed. Suddenly she heard a wooshing sound coming from behind her, then a click afterwards, she twirled around to see Whitewood in the room with her, with a syringe in hand. Maddy panicked and began to growl, "Stay away from me! Your mad!" Maddy declared.
Whitewood tilted her head back and chuckled, "Oh, Maddy. Rhydian is fine, but what you need to worry about... is yourself. This here," she starts then points towards the syringe full of a clear liquid, "This contains wolfsbane, and when I inject it into your system, you won't be able to stop the beast from coming out. So stay still and then this won't hurt... well, not as much." Whitewood explained getting closer to Maddy step by step.
Rhydian listened in on their conversation through the wall. Hearing what Whitewood had with her he began to panic too. He remembered very well what wolfsbane had done to Maddy in the past, and if Maddy was in a similar room to the one Rhydian was in now, she could hurt herself, and who knows what Whitewood would do when she see's Maddy tansforming. "Whitewood, leave her alone! Test me! Whitewood! Test me! Not her!" Rhydian shouted as loud as he could. In his room stood a a foldable chair, he roughly picked it up and swung it against the glass wall.
It crashed.
Pieces of shattered glass was spread all over the floor. In anger he dragged the chair along with him as he walked toward Maddy's cage, he watched as Whitewood got closer to a panicky Maddy. He picked up the chair over his shoulder again and swung it against the glass wall of Maddy's cage. Snarling he told Whitewood, "I said, leave her alone."
"Rhydian?" both women asked in shock, but Maddy was more relieved. Rhydian kept growling as he got closer to Maddy and Whitewood, Whitewood backed away from him and Maddy in fear.
"Leave!" Rhydian demanded. But instead of obeying what the angry teenager said, Whitewood looked at the syringe in her hands and the two people in front of her. Running forward she jabbed the needle into Rhydians arm, injecting the fluid containing wolfsbane into his system.
"Rhydian!" Maddy shouted, as he pushed the woman away from him. Pulling him away from her Maddy grabbed onto Rhydians shirt and dragged him out of the lab. As Rhydian began to start changing, Maddy pushed him into the care-takers closet, "Rhydian, you need to fight it." She told him. He looked up at her, his eyes had already changed and his veins were beginning to follow. Then the voice of that dreaded woman started getting closer.
"Oh Maddy, Rhydian... where are you?" her voice sang. Maddy looked at Rhydian before standing up.
"Maddy don't." Rhydian warned. Maddy leant down quickly and kissed his forehead before walking out the door and locking it behind her – the key had been foolishly left in the lock – she took the key with her. She'd come back later for Rhydian. If she could. As she looked down the corridor she saw no Whitewood, on both sides. Her heartbeat quickened as she saw a swish of a lab coat and the doctor standing at the other end of the corridor. Smirking, Maddy turned in the other direction and began to run.
"Madeline Smith! You come back here now!" Whitewood shouted as she began to run after the younger female. Of course she knew that since Maddy was not entirely human she would be too quick for the older woman to chase.
"Come on Whitewood! You don't honestly think I'm going to listen to that, do you?" Maddy shouted. If only she could use eolas in the building. Her heartbeat was racing as she raced through the corridors, she constantly looked behind to see if Whitewood had caught up. Reaching the end of the corridor she stopped and waited a moment for Whitewood. She arrived at the opposite side minutes later, "You give up Whitewood?" Maddy asked in a teasing tone. The woman looked up the corridors with a glare. "I'll take that as a no!" Maddy shouted, smiling once more before beginning to run again. But as she ran she heard a howl. She gasped stopping in her tracks, "Rhydian." She groaned silently, glancing quickly over her shoulder to see Whitewood beginning to run down the corridor towards her.
"You give up Miss Smith?" Whitewood mocked as she continued to run down the corridor towards Maddy who threw her head back in annoyance. Does that woman ever give up? Maddy smirked, turning back round, she heard Whitewood mumble, "Obviously not then."
Maddy's small bare feet padded quickly through the corridors until she saw the doors in the distance open, and in walked Toby, with a blue plastic bag. Maddy groaned as she saw the assistant and went to go in another direction, but it was no use, as she turned to go in the opposite direction, or any direction she saw Whitewood emerge from the corridors and into the little reception area. Maddy growled slightly as they both closed in on her, she looked Whitewood, sweat dripping down the womans forehead and her breathing was rapid, she smirked slightly, "Your fast for a woman in her fifties." She teased, the cheek of her words aggrivating Whitewood to the max.
"How dare you! I am only thirty-two." She snapped, she raised her hand when Maddy wouldn't stop laughing and slapped the younger girl on the face, leaving a red hand print. Maddy looked back at the woman in fear and shock, "Oh dear," Whitewood sneered smugly, "Oh well." She added as if it didn't matter. Tears began to blur Maddy's vision, though she refused to say it was because of the pain. Toby gently picked her up. He seemed too kind for Whitewoods willing assistant. Whitewood slowly began to make her way back to the lab. Maddy was gently dragged by Toby following Whitewood. As the scientist started to make her way down the corridors she stopped, turning on her heel to face Maddy, "I almost forgot, where's Rhydian, Maddy?" Whitewood asked, Maddy's attention had been on the floor until she heard Rhydian's name. She looked up with a smug smile, for a moment, before the realisation dawned on her, pushing Toby off of her and past Whitewood she ran to where she had left Rhydian.
"Rhydian!" Maddy shouted as she ran down the corridors, towards the cleaners closet, she knew Whitewood and Toby would be following, but she didn't care, at the moment, without Rhydian, it was two against one, and Maddy was not going to let her wolf take control when there was humans involved... even if one of them was a crazed lunatic. Reaching where the door was supposed to be, Maddy panicked, it had been ripped off its hinges, "B-but... I didn't hear anything." She stuttered trying to figure it out.
A low growl was heard from behind her, she whipped around and saw Rhydian, with his veins ink black, his teeth rotten and his eyes yellow, he was crawling towards Maddy, "Meat!" he growled.
"Well I'll be, this is extraordinary." Whitewood said in shock pulling out a voice recorder and talking into it, "The males response to wolfsbane seems to set off his transformation, he seems to crave meat. And doesn't seem to realise what he is doing." She added a dramatic feel to her voice as she spoke. Maddy got angry, she whipped her round to Whitewood her own eyes glowing the pale yellow colour they always did when she was angry or felt threatened.
Growling both wolfbloods got closer to Whitewood and poor Toby.
"Did you not hear him, Whitewood?" Maddy sneered as she and Rhydian got closer, her own veins beginning to change, "Meat!" Maddy demanded. Whitewood however didn't seem phased by Maddy's threatening demand, instead she pulled out yet another syringe from her pocket filled with a yellow liquid like the first one and she got closer to them.
"Oh, Maddy, I wouldn't threaten me if I were you. Your boyfriend doesn't realise that his little act earlier doesn't really help either of you, it just proves that you are not human." She sneered, she pointed to Rhydian motioning the state he was in at that moment, with black veins covering his face and arms.
"He's hungry. He needs meat." Maddy explained in a more quiet tone and with a sense of defeat. Her head dropped and she felt Rhydian beside her, his nails had become longer than usual and they scratched the floor making a cringeworthy sound. "Just, give him some meat and then take us back." Maddy pleaded, bending down to pick Rhydian up. She looked only briefly into his pale yellow eyes. Instead of allowing her to pick him up Whitewood kicked Maddy away with her foot.
Maddy looked up in shock, her black veins beginning to return, "I want to see him transform fully, Miss Smith, don't worry, once he's transformed I'll feed him. Then you'll be able to see him, but until then..." she trailed off looking back at Toby expectantly. "Toby, dear. Please take the test to the cell. Oh and be careful, the male smashed all the glass." Whitewood warned, as Toby led Maddy away.
"I-I'm s-s-sorry." Toby whispered to Maddy as he led her away, he clutched the blue bag to his chest.
Maddy looked at him skeptically, his heartbeat was racing, but it was always like that. Was he lying to make her feel a bit more at ease around him, or was he actually sorry.
Authors Notes: So basically, forget what I said last time, I will continue this, I have planned on another story but that'll come after this one, and that one will be related to my other stories. So there is a twist with Toby, you'll see that later on.