Paul snickered as he lifted me up bridal style and carried me out of the room, "Guess you didn't know." He said.
"Jerk." I mumbled. He just ignored me and brought me back to the room where I'd been strapped to the table. I groaned and Paul ever so gently dropped me on the table and backed away. I looked up at him, confusion clouding my face. The straps that had been on the table had miraculously disappeared.
"Aren't you going to tie me down?" A second later I realized how stupid I sounded and proceeded to clamp my mouth shut. Paul looked at my bruised and broken form with something like pity, but not quite.
"No one deserves to be chained like an animal."There seemed to be a whole other story behind his sudden…for lack of a better word 'kindness'. Immediately his expression went blank and he told me to wait here and that he'd be right back.
"Oh and if you try to escape, you'll end up just like that guy." He pointed to a man I hadn't noticed before, he was laying on a table across from us. Covered in blood, there wasn't a single space on his body that didn't have a tiny needle sticking out.
'Acupuncture gone wrong,' I thought, shying away from the corpse. I backed up into Paul who grabbed my arms and pulled me against him. My face heated up when his hand slid under my chin and he forced me to look into his cold eyes.
"This is what happens when you get on the "Good Doctor's" bad side. All that man did was wander a smidge too far and look what he got, a lethal dose of "Dr. Gottreich"." Paul grimaced. Whoever this doctor was he had certainly hurt a lot of people including Paul. Why did that matter to me? I have no idea.
Once Paul left I did what any sensible person would do…I ran away. Of course I had no idea that this would be what he expected and that he would be waiting outside the room for me. So I did something really stupid, I kicked him in the crotch and ran. I could still hear him gasping in pain as I made my escape.
About an hour later I was good and lost. I had come into the realm of the living once again but there was no one who could see me.
A nurse directly in front of me shrieked when she was a little blood and fainted. Her body passed right through mine. I felt tears come to my eyes, I couldn't feel anything.
"What am I?"I wondered out loud. My answer came when a small child's hand gripped mine.
"You're one of us now" The voice came from a monstrous anteater sitting on its haunches next to a girl half its size. Smiling sweetly the little girl led me into a vacant room with a few chairs. She sat me down on one.
"My name is Mary," she smiled sadly,"Welcome to Kingdom Hospital."