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Chapter 16
Kira groaned before opening her eyes, taking a moment to adjust to the darkness as she registered being back in the cell. She frowned as she noticed she was laying on the bench in the cell and she had a blanket over her. She sat up, shivering slightly as she looked around and froze when she saw Zeltrax sat on a chair outside the cell.
"I scanned you." He said, as she swinged her legs off the bench and pulled the blanket, wrapping it around her shoulders to try and protect herself from the cold.
"And?" She asked, a frown on her face.
"You're ill." He said, making her roll her eyes.
"Did you not realise that when you came looking for me at the hospital?" She snapped.
"What is it?" He asked, clearly not bothered by Kira's snapping.
"Cancer." She replied with narrowed eyes.
"I didn't realise Cancer made you pass out." He said.
"It doesn't. But the chemo does." She said, wondering what he was doing. "It's blood Cancer. The Chemo causes my blood levels to go down, which causes the heavy breathing and the passing out."
"What do you need?" He asked, standing up and pacing slowly in front of the cell.
"Why do you care?" She asked with a frown as she watched him. "I thought you were only filled with hate?"
"I don't want an ill hostage." He snapped, making her stand up and glare at him.
"Well tough." She snapped, making him stop and look at her. "I have Cancer. And unless you want to give me a blood transfusion, you're going to have to deal with the possibility of me passing out."
"I don't like your attitude." Zeltrax grumbled as he walked out of the room, leaving Kira looking after him in shock. She grumbled as she pulled the blanket tighter around her, shivering slightly. She paced the cell slowly, trying to flex her fingers without dislodging the blanket.
She guessed that she had been pacing for a few hours before the door opened and Zeltrax walked in with a bag in hand. He deactivated the sensor on the cell door and opened it walking in and looking at Kira.
"Sit." He snapped, putting the bag on the floor. Kira did as she was told, worried about what was going on and not wanting to aggravate him. "Do you have a line?"
"What?" She asked, frowning as she saw him pull a bag of blood connected to a line out of the bag. "What are you doing?"
"You said you needed a blood transfusion. Do you have a line in your arm?" He snapped. She pulled her arm out of the blanket and her jacket and lowered the bandage so he could see the PICC line in her arm. He hung the bag of blood on a nail in the wall and connected it to her arm.
"How do you know how to do this?" She asked as he made sure the blood was running. "And how do you know my blood type?"
"I scanned you." He said as if it was obvious. "I knew someone that was a nurse." She watched him carefully as he stood.
"Girlfriend?" She asked, making him freeze. He walked out of the cell and locked the door, ignoring her question. "Thank you." She said as he left the outer room, seeing him stop again and look back slightly as the door closed.
Kira looked at the line connected to her before looking back at the door, wondering what was going on in Zeltrax's mind. She wondered if she was finally starting to see Smitty coming out, and had a feeling she was getting somewhere with him.
Xxx
Tommy sighed as he took his glasses off and rubbed his eyes, looking around the lab with a slight frown. Conner had fallen asleep on the sofa, a notebook on his face. Ethan and Trent had both fallen asleep on the floor, various pieces of paper surrounding them. Hayley had left a while ago and Anton was sat on the other chair, fighting back a yawn.
"Why don't you head home?" Tommy asked, making Anton look at him. "It's late. We can carry on tomorrow."
"Are you sure?" He asked with a frown. Tommy nodded and turned back to the screen. "Do you mind if I leave Trent here? He'll want to stay."
"Sure. I'll wake them up soon and get them in the spare room." Tommy murmured, Anton stood up with a sigh, putting his hand on Tommy's shoulder.
"Kira's a strong girl. She'll be alright." He said, making Tommy give him a small smile.
"Thanks Anton." He mumbled.
"Get some sleep. Don't stay up all night." He said as he left the lab, leaving Tommy looking at the computer with a sigh.
"He's right." Tommy jumped and spun around to see Ethan walking up to him. "Kira will probably just annoy Zeltrax into letting her go." Tommy laughed slightly as Ethan sat down next to him.
"Don't let her hear you said that." He laughed, making Ethan shudder slightly. "I thought you were asleep."
"I was. Conner kicked me." He replied with a smirk before giving Tommy a calculated look. "How are you?"
"Worried." Tommy replied with a sigh. "Kira's been gone for over 10 hours now. Who knows what's happened?"
"She didn't look injured during the fight earlier." Ethan said as he looked at the computer. "She was more worried about you before Zeltrax took her back."
"What did he say after I was knocked out? Hayley said he said something to Kira but she didn't know what." Tommy asked. He frowned when Ethan looked down. "Ethan? What did he say?"
"That he said he'd let her see you one last time." He muttered, looking up to see the worry on Tommy's face.
"He said he wanted her to see us fail." Tommy mumbled. "He's going to try and kill us in front of her. But why?"
"I think I might know." Ethan said as he stared at the computer in front of him. "Well, maybe not the killing bit, but I think I've figured out why he is so interested in her."
"What is it?" Tommy asked, wheeling his chair closer and looking at the screen. "Is that a picture of Smitty?"
"This is something Kira was looking at before he took her. It's an article about the project Smitty was working on." Ethan said, zooming in on the picture. "Look at the woman next to Smitty." Tommy looked at the picture and froze.
"She looks like Kira." He mumbled as Ethan nodded. "Who is she?"
"It says she was Smitty's girlfriend. A former nurse working with him on a lab experiment." Ethan replied as he typed away. "I don't think she's related to Kira, but you can't deny they look pretty similar."
"Do you know where she is? She may be able to help us reach Smitty." Tommy said. Ethan shook his head and pulled the article back up.
"She died in the accident that Smitty was injured in." He said, making Tommy frown as he read the article.
"They found her body, but didn't find his." He mumbled.
"I'm guessing they saw how badly burnt and injured she was and assumed that they'd never find his body." Ethan sighed as he looked at the time. "Go to bed. I'll wake the others up and get them into the spare room."
"No. I want to keep looking." Tommy said, making Ethan give him a look.
"Tommy, there is nothing else we can do for now and you have work tomorrow. Go to bed and get some sleep." Ethan said as he stood up. "And if you even think about calling in sick, I'll call Hayley."
"Why do you all use Hayley as a threat." He grumbled.
"Because the only person scarier than Hayley is Kira, and Kira would just get angry at us if we called her all the time." He said with a laugh as Tommy grumbled, but left the lab anyway. "Stay safe, Kira." Ethan whispered before attempting to wake Conner and Trent up.
Xxx
Kira sat still as Zeltrax disconnected her from the empty bag of blood, already feeling better than she did before.
"Why aren't you trying to run?" Zeltrax asked as he moved away from her, noticing that she hadn't moved.
"I don't have the energy." She replied, pulling the blanket back over her shoulder. "And I don't really fancy fighting my way out right now."
"I thought you were the difficult one that kept escaping." He grumbled as he chucked the empty bag into the black bag he had brought in with him.
"I was healthy then." She muttered. "Why are you doing this?"
"I told you. I don't want an ill hostage." He snarled as he walked out of the cell and shut the door.
"If that was the case you'd have found a way to swap me for one of the others." She replied, making him freeze with the key in his hand. "You wanted to kidnap me specifically. Why?"
"I want you to watch your precious Tommy die." He snapped as he locked the cell.
"Then why are you taking care of me?" She called, making him freeze again as he was about to walk out of the outer room. "You stopped me from hurting myself when I fainted. You put a blanket over me so I wasn't cold. You somehow got a unit of blood when you knew I needed it. Mesagog wouldn't have done that. And neither would Elsa when she was evil. So why are you?"
"My reasonings are none of your concern." He hissed, turning back to face her. They stared at each other for a few minutes before he turned again, his hand on the door before he spoke. "I'm sorry you're ill." He said, making Kira's eyes widen in shock. "No one deserves to go through that."
"You knew someone that had Cancer, didn't you?" She asked, standing up and walking to the door of the cell. "Before you became Zeltrax. Who was it?"
"My mother." He said after a moment of silence. Kira knew that if he could show emotion, he voice would be soft. "She died."
"I'm sorry." She replied. "You're looking after me because of her, aren't you?" He didn't respond, but turned to look at her again.
"You remind me of her." He said quietly, almost as if he was talking to himself.
"Your mum?" She asked with a frown.
"No." He replied, shaking his head before turning around and opening the door. "Get some sleep and shut up." He snapped, leaving the room and slamming the door, making Kira jump.
She sat down on the bench, deep in thought. Zeltrax said she reminded him of someone, but it wasn't his mother. She thought back to when he was searching for her in the hospital and had a feeling that he was interested in her for a while. She frowned when she thought of an article she read when she was doing her research before getting kidnapped and looked at the door in shock, remembering a picture she had seen and realised why he was intent on kidnapping her, and now why he was taking care of her.
She lay down and pulled the blanket around her, looking up at the ceiling as she thought about Tommy. She let a tear fall down her face as she thought about seeing him laying on the ground unconscious and the slight nod that Ethan had given her, letting her know that he was still alive.
"Please be alright, Tommy." She whispered as she closed her eyes, falling into a restless sleep.