A/N:Chapter 12.

Never Give In

Chapter 12

271

The punishments stopped eventually. 271 knew it was more for their sake's then her's. They still needed her even though she was very much expendable. She was lead back to same hallway she had to go through every time she was punished. The white door opened and she saw the the same two people in white coats that treated her since day one of her being here.

271 heard the door slam and she was made to strip, the two people in white coats started to fix her broken skin. There was stinging more often than not but she remained silent. She had learned quickly to be quiet. Hours might have passed and she would not know. The dull buzz of machines working on the surface of her body was the only thing that kept her grounded to this place. Her mind had floated elsewhere. She watched one of the white coats spoke and the other left.

271 observed the remaining. Their jobs were to keep her alive, and she could easily destroy that by grabbing the scalpel near her bedside. In one quick motion she could be free. She was about to when she heard someone speak to her.

"Savannah."

"What?" She said in spite of herself. The white coats never spoke unless it was to give her an order. She shouldn't care. But she did. Every name she could put to a face was something. Even if the people were evil and the world was cold.

"My name is Savannah," the white coat said. 271 observed her. A dark skinned woman with curly brown hair and blue eyes. In another life it would be exquisite. She knew from the numerous times that she had been here Savannah was a doctor or at least knew enough about the human body and how to medicate it.

"I don't care," She said rather forcefully trying to convince herself. But it seemed liked her statement did not do anything to deter Savannah from speaking once more.

"I am going to get blood samples from you"

"Like that has never stopped you before," she watched the doctor's mouth turn into a thin line. Why had that statement made any impact? Hadn't countless others told them that they were cruel? 271 watched the doctor grab a needle and jab it into her arm. Her blood came out, it was red, a red that she had seen multiple times in the period of her punishments. Without thinking she spoke, "Why are you here?"

That made the doctor pause for a moment at least. The syringe was filled up and she felt the doctor pull the needle out. The doctor applied pressure to the area she just jabbed.

"You ever heard of missionaries? Those people that go out to foreign lands to help people out," Savannah said, "Actually I think the term that better describes it is humanitarian. I want to make things better"

She gave a cold laugh. Was this woman actually deranged? Did she really thinking she was some sort of hero in all of this.

"You've been watching us suffer and giving injections and what not how could you possibly know anything about humanity?" 271 said bitterly.

"There is a world you don't know about. You are still young," the doctor started only to be cut off

"And yet I will never meet that world because I am here. Does this place give you some sick sort of contentment?"

The doctor was silent. Maybe she has taken to ignoring her again or pretending that she was just an experiment.

"Remember early on I asked you for help, you did nothing," 271 said. She could still remember the earlier times when she was brought in. She had cried, screamed and begged to no avail.

"There is one other person who has escaped. His name was Ethan he didn't make it," The doctor finally said.

Poor Aiden was her first thought. Stop, she shouldn't think that way. Aiden was free, she was still in hell. So what if he never found his brother. He didn't have to watch 265 die. Aiden was selfish, if he had to live his whole life trying to find his brother, he deserves that.

"Someone else you wanted to make better," 271 said her voice coated with malice and steel. She cannot afford to break at whatever the doctor would be saying next.

"Faye," The doctor said, "265's name is Faye."

Faye probably had a family, friends and maybe a lover. She could have gotten out of highschool and go into college. She could have gotten a job she hated and wondered what else life had to offer. She could have aged and look back and say that her life was well lived. But Faye didn't. That will never be her story.

Something broke inside her.

"Why are you telling me this" She whispered. Her heart was broken and she can no longer keep the tears at bay. The emotions that she tried to block out finally broke through. The grief, anger and pain. The knowledge that even if she was free from this place, she will never be free from her memories of it. Dr Savannah replied as she moved to brush a strand of 271's hair behind her ears, a gentle gesture that was so foreign to her, "Because at this moment you get to be human without anything or anyone watching."

Okay so this by far the shortest chapter I ever wrote but I think it would be appropriate to end here. As you are reading this, I am probably thinking of things to include/disinclude the following chapter because trust me the next one is going to be longer than this. I will try my absolute best to post it up within a week or two. I know that I have not been updating as much (a lot kinda happened) and maybe I'll explain another time. My mantra for the past few months has been; be positive. Until next time :)