Prince Darrius

Part 2 Chapter 29

I hold my breath and keep down the urge to throw up at the antiseptic smell combined with what I see at the end of the lab.

Cages.

Small ones.

And inside?

Starved, pale, thin bodies of supernatural creatures. I know this because each cage is labelled 'vampire' 'werewolf' or 'witch'.

I don't get too much time to focus on that disgusting sight of poor innocent people locked up in tiny cages. Because everyone in the room goes silent as they see me and Jay enter and halt in the entrance. I nervously grab my elbow with one hand and look to Jay to see his eyes also locked on the cages, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"We didn't tell you to come in here," One woman steps forward, looking pissed off with narrowed squinty eyes piercing Jay with a glare through thin spectacles, "We said to bring the delivery to lab room A, not -"

"All the doors were closed, madam," Jay snaps, smirking only to piss her off even more, "Here she is, where is the money? I'm collecting it for the team."

"Your dead team?" She snaps, raising an eyebrow at him.

"What are you talking about?" he snaps back, his voice dropping an octave. As they converse I see a couple of scientists slowly making their way towards me, looking me up and down like I am an animal they are appraising before they decide to cut me up and inspect what I'm made of. I just glare back at them.

"We had you all monitored with the chips in your arms," she replies, "The rest of your team is dead, approximately three minutes ago. You obviously want the money for yourself... at least you got the job done. Follow me and I'll transfer the money now into your account. This way."

I look to Jay who seems a little shell shocked at the news his team was dead. I just think in confusion as to what the hell had happened. Was Caitlin dead too? Had there been some terrible accident?

Or was she the one to kill them?

"Smaller than subject X," One older man comments near me to his friend, "Less blood to sample from her then, what a shame."

"Yes, it's disappointing," his younger male co-worker replies before giving me a small, emotionless smile and talking to me directly, "Welcome to our lab, Jennifer, we are a small team of scientists dedicated to save the human race from extinction."

"Nice to meet you too," I say sarcastically, taking a step backwards when he comes closer towards me, wanting to inspect me further, "Thanks for kidnapping me here, if you wanted me so badly to help with your plan to save the world, why didn't you just ask for me to come?" My voice wobbles a bit because I was honestly terrified.

"In order for our operation to go unnoticed, we don't do things the normal way," the scientist replies, writing notes onto his note pad he is holding with him as more scientists come to gather around me.

"Oh?" I ask, not sure what to say.

"The more secret we are, the better. We apologize for the way you had to be transported here, Dave," he turns to the older man, "Set up the chair so we can start sampling her blood."

"Maybe I don't want to co-operate?" I snap, trying to move away from all the scientists huddled around me, but I was trapped in the middle of all of them.

"We just bought you for twenty million, it's not a fair world out there, you'll soon realise that. Just take comfort in knowing that what we do here, will save millions of lives," the young man explains before ordering someone to bring over a white robe for me to wear.

"Will you hurt me?" It's the question I need the answer to.

Except he doesn't answer, he ignores me and walks over to the chair that the older man is setting up.

"Here is the robe we need you to get into," a younger girl ushers me away from everyone to a room labelled for toilets, "Get dressed into this in thirty seconds or we'll have to intervene."

She pretty much pushes me into the toilets and closes the door for me.

Shaking, I struggle to get the job done in such a short time span. I only manage to shuck on the white robe as the door is swung back open and people usher me out again.

"Thank you for co-operating, if you made it difficult for us, we'd have to drug you," the girl explains, emotion free and cold to the point that I wonder if all these people had souls or not.

"Umm..." I don't know what to say but I see the woman scientist with the spectacles, leading Jay out of the lab room. He locks eyes with me for a moment.

Then he is gone.

"Hurry up, we need her blood, this is what we have been waiting for," The guy from before rushes me over while I try not to shake with every movement.

As I'm ushered over to a scary as-fuck chair, which is elongated and vinyl with shackles on the legs and arm rests... I see what it is facing.

The cages with the near-silent supernatural creatures huddled inside.

It was so quiet it was as if they were dead.

But I see one move an elbow and I realise they are definitely all alive.

9, 7, 2, 5, 3.

9, 7, 2, 5, 3.

I repeat it as my mantra.

It might be my only way out of here.

***FINALLY, I'm updating again. I've also planned the rest of this book and the ending and I'm super excited about writing it. Sorry for taking so long to update, I was finishing uni, I had started a new job, was dealing with a recent heartbreak :'( AND to top it off my laptop broke... so I bought an awesome new one which I am using right now! I can't set a regular pattern for updates but I can confirm that I will be updating this story and 'Abducted by a Hot Vampire with a Sense of Humour: Maximus' the most for the moment as they are both coming close to the end! Thank you for waiting patiently for me to get back to writing, you have no idea how much I've missed it. Can't wait to give you guys more exciting stories you'll hopefully grow to love xxxx***