Eve stands before a group of children holding her hand to the old maps behind her as she usually did. “The new land was different, harsh and primitive, and the people could not so drastically change-”
A child that had wandered from the group calls back to the others while pointing down the hall he had come from. “You guys!! They got real live bugs here!! Come see!!”
The kids all scream in excitement as they run in the direction of the other to check it out, their teacher following after them to try and get them to come back.
Eve lets out an angered growl as she watches them leave, the scene all too familiar. “Those stupid bugs!!”
Fitz turns a corner coming to a stop when he sees the very angered expression on her face. “Hey Eve, you look like the incarnate of evil more than usual today.”
Eve lets out an angered growl as she glares over at him. “Fitz, you have five seconds to get out of my sight. If in those five seconds you’re still stupid enough to be near me I guarantee that you’re quickly going to find yourself in the hospital.”
Fitz stares back at her while Eve glares back, Eve speaking up bitterly. “Why are you still here?”
Fitz scratches his nose. “I kind of wanna stick around and see how this is going to turn out.”
Eve turns away from him storming down the hall and grumbling angrily under her breath, Fitz calling out to her. “Hey! I thought you said you were going to send me to the hospital!”
*******
The day passes and Eve starts her work at the military labs, finding herself sitting at a table across from Yula, a bored look on her face as she asks him the same question she always did. “Did you have any strange dreams?”
Yula shakes his head. “No.”
Eve nods her head having expected as much. “That’s it for today, Miss. Conner will escort you back to your room now.”
Eve lets out a disappointed grumble as she props her elbow onto the table and rests her head in her hand. It had been two weeks since the subject had supposedly had that vision of his, and not once since having it had anything significant ever happened again regarding him. “It must have been Conner or Anderson’s influence…”
She had to admit it was very disappointing, only two weeks ago it seemed as if her job might actually start to get interesting, even if it was a hoax pulled by the old guards her subject had. Her thoughts are interrupted when she hears arguing coming from the hall, she getting to her feet and leaving the room to check it out, finding Yula and his new guard Miss. Conner in an argument.
Yula speaks with his voice slightly raised, though he wasn’t used to and disliked arguments he couldn’t let this continue as it had been for the last two weeks. “I’m not a prisoner alright! That means that I can leave my quarters and wander just as long as you’re by my side! As long as I don’t leave the building I’m fine.”
Dolly Conner stares at Yula with arms crossed, she a lot stricter when it came to handling Yula then Teddy ever was. “I know my orders, and keeping you safe and making sure you don’t run away is a lot more effective when you’re confined in a room.”
Yula frowns at her. “Teddy let me leave the room, he said it didn’t make his orders any more difficult because I was so cooperative and behaved.”
Dolly grabs onto Yula’s arm dragging him back to his room. “Well I’m not Teddy now am I?”
Eve sighs as she intervenes speaking to Yula. “Don’t be difficult for Miss. Conner. She’s just doing her job in what she feels is the most effective manner, if you ask me Mr. Conner was much too lax when it came to keeping charge of you.”
Yula seems disappointed to hear this, he now allowing Dolly to pull him along, Eve looking away from them and heading back to her office to fill in her report for the day, another scientist in the building calling over to her when he sees her, getting her attention. “Hey Eve! Just the gal I was looking for! I’ve hit a wall in my project, I was wondering if you could give me a hand after you’re done work.”
Eve smiles at him happy to be of assistance. “Of course, I’ll pay you a visit as soon as I’m finished.”
*******
Yula is once again confined in his room, he looking out the window on his door over to Dolly. “You know believe it or not Teddy said you were a nice person.”
Dolly frowns as she glances over to him for a moment. “Teddy and I haven’t spoken in years, he has no idea what kind of person I am anymore.”
“Well you’re a mean person!”
Dolly lets out a tired sigh. “Aren’t you supposed to be around three hundred years old? Why does it feel like I’m dealing with a six year old?”
Yula turns away from her, walking back to his bed and flopping down on it. “I’m not talking to you anymore!”
“Good, that will make things easier for me.”
Yula sighs sadly at the response as he hangs his head. Hardly a minute of silence passes between the two of them before Yula once again speaks up. “So how come you don’t talk to Teddy anymore? The two are brother and sister right?”
Dolly sighs to herself as she pulls a gun from her side and begins to look it over in her boredom. “I thought you said you weren’t going to talk to me anymore.”
“I changed my mind.”
Dolly responds in a sarcastic tone of voice. “Lucky me.” She sighs to herself deciding to answer Yula’s question, she having nothing better to do right now anyway. “It’s not that I hate him or anything like that. It’s just what happens when you move out and live a life of your own, you just don’t find the time to keep in contact.”
“Doesn’t that make you sad?”
Dolly shakes her head no. “I can honestly say it doesn’t really affect me.”
Yula seems surprised. “Really…? I would think you would be upset. I mean, Teddy always spoke so highly about you.”
Dolly turns back to the room that Yula is in. “Did he?”
“Yeah, he said all kinds of nice things, I was really looking forward to meeting you because of it. I’d say he really respected you.”
Dolly thinks over what Yula was saying, a smile crossing her face and she places her weapon back to her side and gets up from the chair she is seated in. “Alright kid you win.” She approaches the room that Yula is in, using a card in her position to open the door for him. “Let’s go get you something to eat.”
Yula excitedly gets up. “Really!?”
Dolly nods her head. “Nothing puts me in a better mood then hearing my brother admit that he looks up to me.” The stern look returns to her face. “You had better behave yourself though, or else you’re never leaving that room again.”
Yula nods his head. “Yeah of course! Don’t worry I’ll be really good I promise!”
Dolly shakes her head as she watches him run out the room and look about him excitedly. “You know you really are like a little kid… are you really some all knowing creature that can see the future?”
Yula turns back to her, even he not sure about that. “I don’t know… I mean I’ve never seen the future… at least I don’t think I have. Maybe I’m supposed to do something special or something before I got to sleep.” He thinks back to a week ago. “I keep trying to think if I did anything different that day I had that dream about the white wolf… but I really can’t remember doing anything different.” He stops talking for a moment to think something over, he looking back to Dolly. “Hey, how did you know that I’m supposed to see the future?”
Dolly shrugs her shoulders. “It’s more of an assumption really… you have white eyes right? My parents would always go on about how those with white eyes have the power to see the future.” She looks around at the building they are in. “And though you’re regarded as a test subject they never actually do any tests on you, they just ask you about the dreams you had. I just put all that together.”
Yula walks alongside her. “Wow, I didn’t figure it out until that one day I actually had a different dream. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why I was here.”
*******
Across the city in the main facility Zack tries to stop a bloody nose while Teddy leads Iuana into a room that they had been called to bring her to, Teddy sighing as he mumbles over to Zack after several guards take Iuana from him, closing the door and keeping her two guards out. “You know I’m sure that wouldn’t have happened if you were a little bit nicer to her.”
“Don’t lecture me Conner.”
Teddy is about to say something else but stops immediately when he sees General Mort approaching them. The two of them quickly composing themselves and standing in attention, Mort looking the two over before approaching Zack and speaking to him. “Come to my office when your shift ends. I need to speak with you.”
Zack lets out an aggravated groan at the order, he quickly brings his hand back to his nose when he feels blood run down his muzzle. “Yes sir.”
Teddy frowns as he watches general Mort leave. “Don’t be surprised if you’re in trouble because of how harsh you are on her.”
Zack grumbles to himself, Teddy looking away from him and towards the room that he had brought Iuana to, this one was different from the rooms he had brought her to before, up until now Iuana had only been questioned. This was the first time she was ever taken to a room where something else happened.
The room in question was one that did very light medical procedures, health checks, small checkups, an injection, little things like that, nothing to really be alarmed about.
He looks back to Zack questioning him about this. “I don’t quite understand the situation with her. They keep trying to get answers from her but the military is being so light footed when it comes to questioning her, after two weeks of this you would think that they would start getting a little more drastic with her.”
Zack shrugs his shoulders, he not knowing a thing about it. “I see where you’re going, that fact confuses me as well. They have to have some reason for not pushing any harder than they have with her though.”
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