Authors Notes: Whitewood sort of reminds me of Umbridge, but not entirely so I will be making her a bit more crazy ass bad woman.
We're Not Your Lab Rats!
They huddled together, the coldness of the room causing their damp forms to become almost frozen, her hair was plastered around her face whilst his hair slowly dried. They'd done as Whitewood ordered, showered after their exercise. For Maddy it was a relief, but now both were freezing in the cold lab. If either moved the other followed. Trying their hardest to keep warm. "Tr-transform." Maddy stuttered in a whispering order near Rhydians neck, her warm breath nice on his damp cold skin. Then Whitewood walks in, just as they are about to part and transform, but noticng her entrance Rhydian pulls Maddy closer to him as if it scares him that Whitewood has come in. The woman chuckles at the shivering teens on the floor. She tilts her head to one side as if questioning why they are huddled so closely together like they are, Maddy looks up, "Wh-what do y-you want?" she shivers, trying her best to sound strong and brave, but the coldness makes her sound weak, and of course this is an advantage to Whitewood.
"I guessed you and Rhydian were cold. So I decided to give you some warmth, now since the lab in here does not have any heaters, we have something better... just don't go playing with it." She warned before dropping a pile of logs on the floor scrunching up paper and pouring some clear liquid over the wood and paper, at first Rhydian and Maddy frown, but as Whitewood pulls a matchbox out of her pocket, they panic. Whitewood notices, "Oh... does this scare you? Thats very interesting, I hope you don't mind fire, its the only way you can keep warm."
They growl. Standing up and backing away. Never mind the cold, that subsided when they saw the match. And slowly Whitewood swipes a match across the box, lighting it up, it causes Maddy to flinch and back away even more into the wall. Whilst there, and in the moment between Whitewood swiping the match across the box and dropping it in the fire she see's a window, its not huge, but big enough to get through, especially in wolf form. It had been covered by a board and table that supported the board. Then the match is dropped, and the fire is light. In instinct Maddy and Rhydian fall to the ground, crouching, supporting themsleves by their hands and spreading their fingers out, both growling at either side of the fire.
"Well, stay warm." Whitewood coes watching them as she leaves the room, leaving both wolfbloods alone to deal with the fire. And looking around, Rhydian cannot see a fire extinguisher.
"You'd think with this being a God damn lab they'd have a bloody fire extinguisher!" Rhydian shouted in fear and anger, he walked towards Maddy, still in crouching position, and as far away from the fire as he could. "Mads? Mads you alright?" He called.
"Rhydian! We need to transform... but first we need to move this table and board." Maddy orders shouting over the loud crackling of the fire, smoke starts to fill the room, but they both ignore that fact, Maddy urges Rhydian to get a move on and help her move the board and table, he frowns confused. His gaze flying between the dangerous flames of the fire and Maddy with her urgent look.
"What are you talking about? Why do we need to? We can't do nothing! We're trapped!" Rhydian announced in defeat, pointing at the camera's in the room, and the fire blocking the door... of course, because Whitewood just had to put the fire in front of the door.
Because she was crazy. Crazy people make bad descisions.
"Well, you get rid of the camera's and I'll move the table." Maddy pushed, shoving Rhydian a bit urging him to get a move on, but before she could rush off to the table he stopped her, tugging on her wrist and pulling her into him... accidentally? Maybe.
"You may be an alpha, but I do not follow orders Maddy, you should know that. We're a team and we'll work together." He told her in more of an aggressive tone than she had given him, the fire had warmed up the room, but was causing both young wolfbloods to feel stressed and scared. Maddy's eyes glowed a pale yellow involuntarily, as did Rhydians.
"Ok... well come on!" she ushered toward the camera, her veins beginning to turn black, his following soon after, crawling up their necks as they got near to the fire searching for something to get rid of the camera's with, then there, in the other corner of the room, beyond the fire, they saw a broom. Maddy, bravely leapt onto the table running briskly across it and jumping off at the other end swiftly snatching the broom from where it had been perched and turning back round.
"Mads! Don't get too close!" Rhydian shouted from the other side. She hadn't really calculated how close she would get by recieving the broom. She was very close, and more of her wolf tried to get out, she flung the broom over the fire, Rhydian caught it with ease, but Maddy stayed put, her heart racing, "Mads? Come on, you'll be fine. Just come back over here." Rhydian told her, trying his best to stay calm and hope Maddy would be calm too and listen to him, not that she ever really did. In the mean time, he hadn't yet gotten rid of the camera that was watching their every move. No doubt watching what they were doing.
"Its a little difficult Rhydian!" she shouted growling as her gaze did not leave the fire. "Just get the God damn camera so we can get out of here!" She demanded, her teeth had become rotten.
Rhydian rolled his, but followed her bossy demand, knocking te camera once. Nothing. Twice, it wobbled, but didn't break. Then with a final blow with much more force than before he whacked the camera and it fell, with a single spark from the wires. He smiled triumphantly punching the air. "Mads, I've done it! Mads?" Rhydian asked in concern not being able to see her other the burning flames of the fire. Then, as if answering to the name, a short brown wolf walked out in front of the fire, growling. Rhydian tilted his head back and groaned, "Maddy."
Pushing past his legs, Maddys wolf began to scratch at the leg of the table that supported the board , that covered the window. The short brown female wolf looked up at Rhydian expectantly. "What do you want me to do? I don't understand 'looks' Maddy." Rhydian said in a sarcastic and annoyed tone. She growled threateningly in response.
Just then, the door swung open, Toby was the first to enter with a fir extinguisher in hand aiming it at the flames. Foam covered the fire and the light and heat that had come from the fire vanished, but the smoke still filled the room, now all that was left on the floor, where the fire had once been was a mess of foam. Not long after did Whitewood enter, tutting, "I give you warmth, you destroy my camera's. Typical. It goes to show that you really are beasts." She said with a sly tone, that made Rhydian clench his fists, Maddy's wolf growled, lowering herself to the ground before beginning to run over to the scientists.
"Maddy! No!" Rhydian shouted, but it was too late as Maddy pounced on Whitewood and growled at her, baring her teeth and restraining herself from killing her.
"Toby! Toby restrain her!" Whitewood demanded, shouting in panic as Maddys teeth clashed near Whitewoods face. Toby looked at the Dr and wolf mortified, struggling to think of a way to restrain such a beast from the Dr that had been helping him so much.
He looked around the room three times frantically, "H-How?" He stuttered panic causing him to stutter more than usual.
"Tranquilise her! Distract her! Do something!" Whitewood ordered as Toby stood there dumbfounded. Rhydian looked at Maddy, mumbling to himself an apology as he picked her up off of the evil woman, though deep down he wanted Maddy to rip that crazy witches head off, it would put an end to all the testing, but he couldn't let Maddy do that. So after picking her up and getting her away from Whitewood, Rhydian pleaded with his eyes for her to stop, to think about what she is doing. She growled.
Rhydian was too focused on Maddy to have noticed Whitewood getting out a syringe and picking up the extinguisher. Both wolfbloods were too busy focusing on each other to notice that Whitewood had slowly walked to wolf Maddy's side. But Maddy had been too late to realise what Whitewood was doing by lifting the extinguisher over her head and bringing it down onto Maddy's wolf head.
The small brown wolf fell to the ground unconcious..
"No!" Rhydian shouted, rushing to the fallen wolfs side, his eyes turning yellow and his veins black ink crawling up his arms and neck. "I had everything under control, why did you do that?" He asked in anger as Whitewood pushed the syringe into Maddys furry neck.
"Oh, please. If you call growling at one another having 'everything under control'. I only done it, to calm her down, make her go to sleep easier." She explained pulling the syringe out after plunging the liquid into Maddy, Rhydians worried expression did not change though. "Oh for goodness sake. Stop worrying, your little mate is fine. Give it ten or twenty minutes and she'll be awake and complaining as usual." Whitewood snapped annoyed with Rhydian.
"We're not mates... well... not like that, anyway." Rhydian protested, Whitewood raised a quizzical eyebrow at the young man.
"Could've fooled me." She remarked, before throwing Rhydian a squeaky toy and pushing Toby out of the room. Rhydian looked at the squeaky toy with an intense glare, like it was someone who'd called him 'Leek Boy', or 'Welshie'. The realisation stung though. And he ignored Whitewoods angry shouts and screechs at poor Toby. He ignored, and watched protectively as Maddy changed back, though she didn't wake.
He stroked her chestnut hair and smiled. Maybe one day.
Authors Notes: Bad chapter I know, but it was better than my last one, Chapters are getting longer... slowly, maybe its just not the best time to have started writting this I don't know. But hey what do you all think... I swear to God I will do my absolute best to make a brilliant chapter next time.