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I stared at Jeb, completely speechless. But not surprised mind you, however this was pretty insane, even for The School. "So, you're planning to test, on us?" I asked, as if it was any different from before. So just like before, I added a sharp edge to my voice paired with a nice, harsh Max glare.
"No, you'll be the final product. Fang and Jace will be tested on." He answered flawlessly. See this was why scientists were so dim witted. If physics could predict the lottery, why were they still working? However, The School seemed to have a way of defying physics, what with the whole wings on kid thing.
"And what if the test fails after two tries?" Jace spat at him. I could tell by his tone that it wasn't himself that he was worried about.
"It won't." Jeb said blankly. Oh, thank you, that's incredibly reassuring coming from the people who wanted to enhance Iggy's vision. We all know that worked out perfectly. I only sat staring at Jeb, waiting for him to explain but obviously he wasn't going to without a little help.
"And just how do you know that?" I snapped. But he didn't answer me. Instead I got an answer from someone I wasn't expecting to speak up. And when he did, I could feel my heart sinking into my stomach.
"He doesn't I do." A black-haired boy spoke up from his cage. I snapped around to face him, but he was only staring at the mind-reading brat across the room. " I've seen it Max. You're there. But, I don't know about you two." He said blankly. Then a sudden annoyed look came over his face.
The two kids stared one another down as I watched, trying to make sense of it all. Finally, I got uncomfortable with the terror bringing look on his face, nearly matching Angel's demonic look. "Zen, what are you sayi-"
"If you wouldn't mind, I don't feel like sitting here all day." He snapped at Angel suddenly. I think it was around that time when I realised, I'd been watching the wrong kid.
Angel rolled her eyes as she walked over swinging the door open so he could climb out. As he did, he glared at her harshly. But she only glared back, and I desperately wanted to know what they were saying. Suddenly Angel took a step backwards, her glaring simmering slightly.
"I'll see what's taking the Eraser's so long." She said quietly, walking quickly past Jeb, Zen trailing her, but stopped in front of Jeb, letting his head turn towards mine, and catching my glance. I nearly jumped, watching how cold they had become, just like Angel's. It wasn't real, it couldn't be real. It was like I was back on the cliff, the day I ran away from everything, and the day I experienced real pain at the highest extent.
"You seem shocked Max." He said, coldness in his voice as he spoke. But this was different. There was no smile, but no regret. No happiness, but no sadness. It was like he didn't want to leave me, but he didn't care enough to try and change anything that he was choosing.
"And this is something I was supposed to see coming?" I spat at him, watching as he stood unphased by my words. He only turned to face me, like he was a robot. It had to be a lie.
"I could, but that's to be expected." He said, not a hint of emotion in his voice. "I thought that since you'd seen the visions too, that maybe you could've predicted it would come to this." He said. There was something there, but it wasn't something I could've deciphered. "But no, you didn't do anything." He continued and I noticed his finger twitching. "You just sat there and watched." He kept going and his voice got stronger as I finally was able to discover what emotion he was feeling towards me, hatred.
"You watched as I watched all of you being killed over and over again. And you expected nothing to happen?" He shouted, his small fists.
"You're blaming me for this?" I shouted back. "It's your thoughts Zen. Not mine. I may have seen the things you're seeing, but I don't choose how you interpret them!" I didn't want to lose him. I couldn't lose him. "What about your sister, what about Harmony, Zen? Are you just going to leave her alone? To die?" I shouted, hoping to turn him around.
"No one's going to die. Not if I do something to change it. If I change it, then no one will die. "His voice was getting quieter as he lost eye contact with me. His hands unfurled and he moved the tips of his fingers along his leg, slightly nervously.
"You're wrong Zen! If you leave, you're only confirming it. Your right, everyone's going to die if you go with them." I shot back.
"No, you're wrong Max. I know what I'm doing!" He shouted, looking at me again. His eyes were filled with hatred but also blocked out with tears. He stuttered along, trying to find words as he clenched his fists again, dropping his eyes. I watched as Jeb put a hand on his shoulder and felt my own fists curling.
"What did you do?" I snapped slowly at Jeb, but he only looked at me with a hurt expression. "Tell me what you did!" I shouted, driving my knuckles into the bars, letting the loud sound ring through the room.
"I did nothing, Maximum." Jeb said quietly firm in the silence. I could only glare at him as Zen looked away from me, down the aisle and into the darkness where he wouldn't have to see any of our faces. But I could see Harmony's face and the way she looked at him, completely speechless, was ripping a hole in my heart. She just looked like she'd been punched in the stomach, tears pricking her eyes.
The silence was broken as the doors flung open, Erasers filling the room, following the small demon child. The shock was still setting in as my hands started to shake. I squeezed them tighter and turned my head slowly towards Jace. He was breathing heavily with his eyes on Jeb, glaring darkly. His breaths got shaky as he clenched his teeth and hands tight. It had happened to us both before, and now we both had knives in our backs again.
Jeb's hand left Zen's shoulder and flipped the page of his clipboard. "We'll start with experiment C-305 and G-274." He said aloud, reading from a thick file. The Eraser's started to come towards us. "Abilities for extraction, electricity currents and voice manipulation."
"Max..." I could hear Gazzy's whimpers from underneath me as I readied myself. One shot, I had one shot and then I could-
My thoughts were cut off with loud shouts of resistance from Caige. "Shut up you stupid brat." The Eraser snarled as he held his arm, pulling and dragging Caige from behind his bars. I saw the sparks first as they crept up Caige's arm before shooting through his fingers and up the Eraser's arm, making him howl as he tried to get away from Caige. But much to my surprise, Caige grabbed the Eraser's hand, forcing more currents into the Eraser who froze, sparks literally jumping from his body to the ground. But Caige wouldn't let go, not even noticing the Eraser coming from behind.
"Caige, look out!" I heard Scholar yell to him as he spun around, only to be met with a large paw closing around his neck and hoisting him into the air. He instantly gripped at the paw, trying to pull it away while small sounds of choking emanated from his mouth.
"Why do you freaks always insist on causing trouble?" Ari tsked and I realized it was him holing Caige off the ground. My entire body was shaking with rage and I was about to spit something back when Jace beat me to it.
"Drop. Him. Now." He said slowly and I could see the flames heating in his eyes again. Ari only smirked and shrugged.
"Whatever you say." He said snidely before dropping Caige, letting his head, slam on the ground, hard. I flinched at the small crack it had made and grew even more vicious as I saw him shaking, pushing himself upwards weakly, small drips of blood oozing from his head.
Caige slowly started to spark again, like he normally did when he was stressed or afraid. I was aching just watching him quake. "Can your little lightning bolts go through my boots brat?" Ari mocked, bringing his thick leather boot up, stomping and pressing into Caige's hand.
"Ari!" I shouted angrily, my voice barely audible under Caige's screams. And with that, Ari lifted his foot and kicked him hard in the stomach, launching him across the room like a soccer ball till he hit Gazzy's bars. He sucked in a sharp breath, with too little air to yelp, before he fit the ground again, motionless. "I'll kill you!" I yelled fiercely, wondering myself who it was directed to. The insane scientist, the snarling dog, or the two backstabbers who stood still and watched my kid get tortured.