Authors Notes: So, if people want to give me idea's then that is always welcome, but if they don't fit with the plot then it ain't happening... lol.
We're Not Your Lab Rats!
The glass on the floor was just a painful reminder of what had happened. The pained howls were just adding to the pain she was feeling. She covered her ears but that did nothing to help, darn wolf hearing. A tear escaped her eye as she thought it through. If Rhydian hadn't saved her that would be her, not him. He didn't deserve this, and who knew what Whitewood was doing to him. No wonder why Maddy's mum and dad had wanted to keep 'the secret', secret. Rhydian and Maddy weren't humans no more, or people in this womans eyes, they were animals, lab rats, products of her experiments, and it didn't matter if the experiments she tried on them were fatal, because they were monsters and monsters don't have feelings. Thats what Whitewood saw them as. Monsters. Lab rats. Experiments. But then there was Toby, quiet, nervous, kind Toby. How did he fit into all of this? He seemed like the perfect mummys boy. He was watching her now. Scratching the back of his neck and flinching everytime Rhydian howled in distress, and every time Maddy growled he'd panic.
Then another howl was heard and Maddy began to growl, when Toby panicked she didn't care, she walked over the broken glass, wincing in pain as it cut her feet, she growled sniffing the air for Rhydian. He was close... of course he was close. But when Maddy entered the other lab, where Whitewood had wolf Rhydian and was treating him like a circus animal, whipping him every time he moved closer to her, and e'd either whimper or howl, Maddy's growling intensified, she looked at Whitewood who stood only a metre or two away from her and an exhausted looking wolf Rhydian who stood beside the window.
"Leave him alone." Maddy sneered when Whitewood extended her arm to lash the whip at him once more, she turned to Maddy and cocked her head to one side as if to say 'what?' Maddy growled even more, "Leave him alone!" Maddy shouted, running towards Whitewood pouncing onto the womans back and reaching for the whip.
Whitewood somehow managed to throw Maddy off of her and onto the ground, Maddy looked over at wolf Rhydian before back up at Whitewood, "You know, this would be a whole lot easier if you and your family hadn't done a runner in the first place." Whitewood told Maddy leaning down over her. Maddy glared up at the woman before spitting at her. "Oh, how childish!" Whitewood screeched as she wiped the spit off her face. Maddy smirked.
But Whitewood also had a smirk on her face, she reached into her pocket and pulled out another syringe, Maddy mumbled to herself in shock, "How many bloody syringes does she have."
Whitewood, obviously heard Maddy's mumble and smiled, "I'm a doctor Madeline, I always carry spares." She had a cheery voice, considering Maddy had only just spat on her, it was pretty surprising how quickly her mood had changed.
"Do you have a spare mind in there, because you've lost yours!" Maddy shouted, with panic rising in her eyes. She glanced back over at Rhydian, who was still in wolf form and then she smiled. Whitewood had already seen Rhydian change, so Maddy didn't have to hide it and two wolves working together was better than one. So as quick as she could manage she began to change, feeling her entire body change slowly she quickly scurried away from Whitewood and over to an injured Rhydian.
"How sweet. Gone to protect your precious mate have you Maddy? Well, you've only gone and made it easier for me." Whitewood sneered, she imagined Maddy responding with something witty along the lines of 'we'll see about that'. But Whitewood was sure that she had the upper hand in the situation, what with syringes and the whip.
The smaller brown wolf looked back at the male who was weak after his battle with the whip. The female stood in front of him protectively, she looked at Whitewood and growled at her. The bigger male wolf nudged her back legs slightly with his nose, as if telling her to move out of the way before she gets hurt. But the female ignored the warning and his constant nudging, continuiing to bare her teeth and growl at the insane 'doctor'.
Whilst tackling Maddy earlier, Whitewood ad dropped the whip, she slowly bent down, looking at both wolves cautiously as she did, before moving her hand swiftly to the whip, picking it up before re-standing straight and giving both her captured 'test subjects' a dangerous look. She lifted her arm high in the air, readying herself to hit Maddy with her first blow of the whip. Maddy's wolf tried its hardest not to look scared, not to cower away from the whip, she backed away slightly closer to Rhydian's wolf, before turning her head to the side and preparing herself. Then...
... Nothing, no sting from the whips lash, nothing. She dared herself to look back up at Whitewood, who had surprisingly been stopped by Toby. He hard a strong, brave, hard expression on his face as he looked at Whitewood and demanded, "Enough."
Whitewood was just as shocked as both the wolves below her, one already in pain and the other in fear of pain. "What?" Whitewood asked shocked, she blinked twice trying to register what this cowardly man had just demanded, of her, his boss. When Toby did not back away or his expression did not falter, Whitewood scoffed in disbelief, "You do know who you are talking to, don't you Toby?" she asked, still in disbelief, but with anger in her voice.
"Yes, I-I know. B-but you h-heard wh-what I said, e-enough." He stuttered, though his expression hadn't changed, his grip on Whitewoods arm didn't loosen, he glanced at the whip then back at his boss. "Dr-dr-drop it." He demanded.
Whitewood too glanced up at the whip, as she looked back she scoffed shaking her head. Toby's grip tightened. She let out a pained whimper, then groaned dropping the whip.
"Why did you stop me?" Whitewood asked quietly, but loud enough for Maddy and Rhydians wolf ears to hear. But the she-wolf ignored the question walking towards her injured friend, she nuzzled him slightly urging him to get up so they could run, so they could leave, his breathing was fast and so was his heartbeat.
"B-bec-cause y-you were h-hurting th-them. Y-you prom-promised y-you wouldn't h-hurt th-them." Toby stuttered. Both wolves attention was quickly turned to him, why did he believe Whitewood, surely he knew that she wanted to test Maddy and her family, why would he believe that Whitewood 'wouldn't hurt them'? But his eyes showed not only anger, but betrayl, disappointment and fear, the same fear he always had in his eyes.
Whitewoods eyes softened, a flase smile of comfort spread across her face, she placed one hand on his cheek, "Oh, Toby dear. They don't have feelings, they're monsters. Remember, I promised your mother I'd find a cure for your condition, the only way possible is for me to test them. I am only preparing them for the big one. The big test. Don't you worry, they are only pretending to be hurt, pretending to feel the pain a whip would cause such beings like you and me. I promise, they don't feel anything." Whitewood explained, stroking the mans face slightly, he looked over toward the two wolves on the floor, both had their heads up looking at him in curiousity.
Condition? What condition? He stuttered, but surely that was done to fear.
He had something wrong with him, and both Rhydian and Maddy were Witewoods test dummies, the creatures that didn't feel anything, the wolf in both of them slowly began to fade.
Toby pulled away from Whitewoods caring touch, "M-my mo-mother also said, you sh-should ta-take my de-decisions int-to con-consideration. Wh-what if th-this doesn't wo-work. I'm j-just y-your test du-dummy. L-like th-them." He said pointing back at the two wolves who were slowly changing, "I-I sa-said I wo-wo-would h-help in an ex-experiment if no-nobody got h-hurt. Y-your h-hurting t-them." He said in a new anger, his stuttering still strong as he said it, though it didn't take him as long to correct his words. He moved swiftly towards the wolves.
"Toby." Whitewood laughed, moving closer to him, he moved back both the wolves growled and she stopped in her tracks, Maddy and Rhydians transformation turned them back fully into wolves. "Toby, step away from the beasts, they are dangerous." Whitewood warned.
Toby scoffed, "Th-they w-wouldn't h-harm m-me. I-I'm tr-trustworthy." He stuttered boldly. Maddy's wolf boldly stepped beside him growling at the woman, she laughed, throwing her head back at the humor of it, to her it was ridiculous, them? Not harmful? Ridiculous, they were animals, wild, they're instinct was to harm humans.
"Don't be ridiculous Toby. They are animals. Both of them, are wild. One born into the wild the other became wild." She sneered, Maddy bowed her head, Rhydian looked away. "See, you cannot trust them, their instinct is to kill, to harm. Move away from them Toby, and you'll be safe. Quick!" she demanded. Toby seemed skeptical, but as he looked down at them a new fear replaced the old, he saw their horrid rotten teeth, the yellow in their eyes, the claws of their paws, and any memory of them being the kind humans he knew they were, vanished. To him they were no longer the kind, frightened, harmless people, who were in love and were being hurt by this woman. They were beasts. His heartbeat raced as he saw how close he had allowed himself to get to these wild creatures and he swiftly walked away from them, as if just being near them was going to kill him.
"I-I-I'm s-so s-so-sorry, R-R-Rebbeca." He stuttered, moving as far away from them as he could.
"Don't worry Toby, they can't hurt you. Not while I'm here." Whitewood comforted him as he stumbled out of the room, a smirk had formed on her lips as he left the room in fear of the two beasts in the room. As he left she chuckled, "you see, Maddy. Now Toby knows your secret, he is frightened of you. When the rest of the world knows, you'll be hunted down. You should think yourself lucky that I'm the one testing you before the truth gets out." She sneered crouching down to the level both Rhydian and Maddy were at.
Maddy cowered back into Rhydian, barking at her as she got closer and then letting out a howl. The howl wasn't to scare Whitewood off, it was to inform the pack where she was.
Whitewood chuckled as Maddy's howl came to an end, and slowly her and Rhydian transformed back to human form, they looked at one another, Rhydian pulled Maddy closer to him, despite his wounds and the pain it caused him to move. "Welcome back. Now lets get you to a more suitable container, shall we?" Whitewood asked, her question was obvious to not needing, nor wanting a response.
"I'm not leaving Maddy." Rhydian told Whitewood, Maddy whipped her head round at Rhydian and gave him a questionable look. Whitewood too had turned to look at him, she considered his request for a moment, seeing how Maddy too was reluctant to leave his side she sighed in defeat.
"Fine. But that doesn't mean I won't be testing you." She told them.
Well at least that was something. Wasn't it?
Authors Notes: So Toby changed his mind, I haven't yet figured out what is wrong with Toby, other than the fact that he stutters a lot (due to fear), but if you have any suggestions I will take them into consideration... there is a good chance I will include them; but they have to be really bad... like cancer... maybe thats what he has, but which one? Also, I might start mentioning names, to those who review. WHAT DID YOU THINK?