dazed [ITSV x OC] (ongoing)

Lyric Chai

On February 26th; 

Soft snores are heard throughout the dim room as a woman in a hospital bed slept to rest after giving birth to her first baby girl.

The door silently opened and the room slightly lit up as the lights outside peaked through the now closing door.

A man silently stepped towards the bassinet beside the bed, where a small newborn lays asleep. He gently picks up the baby to not make it cry and disconnected all the monitors from her. 

The baby started squirming, suddenly feeling the slight pain and light tugs, whines echoed throughout the room as the man silently panics making the mother of the baby wake up and groggily look around.

The man then decides to make a run for it, shouts from the mother were heard after she finally noticed the strange figure carrying her newborn.

The man ran past nurses, doctors, visitors, janitors, and patients, knocking into them as guards raced behind him. Then he ran out the hospital, running as he wrapped the newborn in the swaddle blanket he took and pulled the baby closer into his chest as he walked into an alleyway.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a walkie-talkie.

"I've got her.."

He whispered into it, not wanting to attract attention of the people passing by.

"Good.. Just wait for the car.."

A deep, manly voice answered from the other side and the man puts away the walkie-talkie and looked down at the tiny baby's face, whose nose is slightly red because of the cold temperatures.

The man feels a sudden pang of sadness, knowing this baby will soon meet it's tragic fate without him being able to help.. Afterall.. He was only told to take and go or else.. or else he'll get killed by.. Him..

*BEEP BEEP*

The man looks up, startled, and sees a black car waiting at the entrance of the alleyway. The man shook his head and quickly jogged to get inside the car. The car door slammed closed as he got in.

"Gender?"

The driver asked as the car began to move faster and the man's breathing slower.

"Girl.."

"Name?"

"Lyric Chai.."

"Hm.."

The driver drove towards their destination, Alchemax Labs, as the whole car fell in silence.

Timeskip>>

The man covered the baby as he got out of the car, he looked up at the building..

He sighed and clutched the newborn close and went inside, passing through scientists, some looked at him, some ignored him, some nodded to him, and some who asked him questions of what he was holding or seemingly hiding. Answering the questions with lies, he rushed towards the elevator as another small group of scientists got out of it and pushed a button to the basement.

He sighed of relief as the elevator doors opened, then he got out and he walked to a door at the end of a dimly lit corridor and knocked on it three times.

"What?"

"Err.. It's traffic lights"

*Creakk..*

The man stepped inside to see an abnormally large man clicking a pen nonstop while sitting behind a desk. He bit his cheeks and sat down, opened his jacket to reveal the baby.

"Here she is.. Just like you said.."

The large man stared at the baby then at the man, pointing towards the female scientist that was beside him.

"Give the baby to her.."

The female scientist stepped forward, but the man hesitated then obliged otherwise.. The female scientist took the baby out of the room and into another.

"Now, where's the money?"

"What money?"

The man's eyes widened with anger and stood up, slamming the desk.

"The money you promised to give me as return for the babies!!"

The large man's piercing eyes narrowed at the man and pulled out a gun, pointing it to the man's head.

"I don't need to give you money.."

*BANG!*

The gunshot echoed through the walls of the room and corridor but it never reached the floor above..

Five babies, including Lyric, wailed at the sudden loud bang from outside the room the female scientist went in as each of their caretakers calmed them. Lyric and the other babies slowly calmed down, the caretakers sighed in relief, grateful for the fact that the ceiling above them is thick enough so that the basement was soundproof.

And each of them had already committed to the duty of taking care of these babies until they were ready for.. The experiments..