Holy Crap! Chapter 7 already!

I've got way to much free time.

Any who…I still do not own Shugo Chara

This still sucks

And since no one has any snarky comments to add

We can start!

Ikuto: Wait!

Me: What?

Ikuto: You hit me. Say sorry

Me: …really?

Ikuto: Yes

Me: sigh I'm sorry

Zane: What a prissy brat

Ikuto: What? Me: No fighting!

Me: Haru158 it's hard NOT to abuse

On with the chapter

Chapter 7

An impossible Choice

The doc was always pulling this crap.

At the beginning he always was sure to give us our shots on time. Then he just got lazy and started to skip doses, and deny us if we did something wrong. He was always abusive, but it was at its peak now. It used to be just verbal, but the scars on my arms prove that's not all he does. I could hear him mumbling to himself as I descended. His main lab and our rooms were down here. There was a special door that sampled your blood and then allowed you inside. It only approved Zane's, mine, and the doctor himself. But since he hardly ever left, he didn't really have a problem with it. I placed my hand on the door, which had no handle. I felt a little prick and then the door buzzed and swung open. I sigh and head down.

The doc was sitting at his desk.

It was off the unlit corner of the room. In the center there was a large table with thick straps used for holding people down. A shiver runs down my spine at the site of the blood stains on them. Most of that was mine. A tray with different syringes and vials was next to the able. Off to the left were two steel doors with tiny windows at the top. Zane's was closest to the stairs. Mine was closest to the table. As I got closer to the doctor I could make out what he was saying.

"Damn it! Their no good now. Need a new test subject. But who else has an animal like shugo chara?"

I stopped when I heard animal shugo chara. Kitsune had been animal like. Suzaku had been to. I grab my left wrist (not the bloody one) and trace the tiny stone that was embedded in it. It failed to calm me like it usually does.

"Hey doc" I call out uncertainly.

He swivels around in his chair and fixes me that classic mad scientist look.

"What the hell do you want? Didn't the boy tell you not to come down here?"

I gulp.

"I uh…need my shot doc."

He eyes me a second and then he turns back around.

"Too bad, should have gotten it earlier with the boy." He says dismissingly.

His answer doesn't surprise me.

He skipped my last three doses of serum, and it was starting to show. My stomach was hurting again, and my vision was even worse in the terrible lighting.

"Doc I really need it." I mumble.

I hate begging, but there wasn't much choice. He sighs and faces around again.

"Why should I? You're fading fast girl. The shots are losing there effectiveness. Soon they won't make a difference. That boy is doing better and I know I screwed him over. Why waste the shots on you when you're dying anyway?"

I break my gaze. The shots weren't helping as much as they used to. It was true. But I still wanted them.

"Isn't there anything I can do to get you to change your mind?" I pled.

He stands up. And strokes his scraggily beard.

"You know that Ikuto boy right? Or at least you used to."

I look up, startled.

"Yes…I actually saw him earlier." I say hastily.

"He has a shugo chara, correct?" the doc continues.

My guard goes up. "Yea…what about it?"

"Is it animal like?"

My eyes go wide with realization.

"You can't use Ikuto in you experiments!"

My reaction surprises him.

"Why not? He's a perfect candidate. A boy your age with a animal shugo chara. What's even better is the fact using him would really stick it to Easter." The doc says smiling.

"But…you'd… you'd kill him!" I exclaim.

"And what difference does that make to you?"

"Doc please! Use me! I'm already dying!"

"I can't use you. You've already been screwed over. You and the boy are useless to me now." He says coldly.

I can feel the tears prickling at the corners of my eyes. I break my gaze so he doesn't see.

"I'll make you a deal though."

I look up. "What kind of deal?" I ask warily.

"You get me Ikuto, and I'll keep giving you and Zane shots until the day you die."