"What did you say?" he asked me, leaning forward and spraying saliva all over my face. His German accent twisted the 'w' in the word 'what'.
I was standing amongst a group of male soldiers; we had just finished our training for the day.
"I said, I was the one that stole another meal package". I looked the man in the eye.
One of the men beside me gave me a worried look but he was unable to do anything without getting himself in trouble along side me.
The man's mouth twisted into a cruel smile. "You know what happens to assets that disobey".
The next thing I knew, I was a bloody mass lying on the ground. I felt a metal bat come down on my arm and I knew with absolute certainty that it was broken.
The bat came crashing down again and again until I could no longer count the number of beatings my body had taken. I remembered being roughly lifted and than thrown out of the room.
I gave a small groan but remained still. I stared at the ceiling, trying to focus on the flakes of paint that were peeling off. I stared into the bright lights but they began to go out of focus.
All I could see was white. White like the clouds that I saw in the sky on the few occasions that I went outdoors. It felt like colour had bled out of the world and left behind a blank canvas.
Suddenly, I saw blue. Blue eyes stared into mine, they were filled with worry and fear. Blue like the sky that swallows the clouds. The blue like the murky seas that hid entire worlds.
I felt movement on my right and suddenly a hand began to wrap a bandage around my bloody arm. I felt the bone being pushed back into my skin, I assumed that it must have been extruding earlier. I didn't make a noise at the sudden pain, but I held my breath until he was done.
"You're a fucking idiot" he said to me.
I gave a weak grin. "That's what I get for covering your ass all the time?"
"I never asked you to steal the meal package for me" he said.
"I know you didn't. But you need to ea and the way they were feeding you, I'm surprised you even survived this long".
He finished wrapping all my wounds and clenching my teeth, I used my good arm to push my back off the floor to sit against the wall. Looking at him in the eye, I realised that he was a lot more worried than he seemed and my expression softened.
"I'm fine, alright? Give me a couple of hours and I'll be as good as new." I flashed a grin and he gave a small smile before his features twisted into a frown.
"Don't you ever pull something like that again, do you hear me?"
"I make no promises but I'll try". I have him a cheeky look. "Face it, you wouldn't last one day without me".
He opened his mouth to argue but I cut across him.
"Oh Noble, how can I ever survive without you?" I spoke in a falsetto.
He punched my good shoulder and I pretended to rub it in pain.
"You dare hit a lady?" I asked and he stuck his tongue out at me.
"One day, Summer, karma will come and get you".
Just as I said that, an alarm went off, a loud blaring sound that supposed to warn of invaders but just blew out the eardrums of everyone in the building.
"Invaders" Summer said grinning at me.
"Come on!" I said springing to my feet and ignoring the pain in my arm. "If we're lucky, they're taking prisoners!"
We never pretended to normal human beings.
Then again, nothing about Hydra was normal.