Febuary, Chapter 8

"We got her!" Someone yells. I look at my injured arm and close my eyes. It looks really bad.
"Good! Bring her back in." Another voice says. I should not have tryed to escape.
Arms wrap around me and lift me up. "Never try to escape again, or else it will be much worse than this."
How can anything be worse than this? My arm is, like, dying right in front of me! "Can... you... help... my... arm...?" I manage to get out. No one answers. Then I close my eyes and pass out from pain.

. . . . . .

My eyes flutter open and I find myself in a white room with beeping equiptment. I have to be in the medical room.
"Good. Your awake." a soft voice says. I look around, but somehow that hurts my arm when I do.
The voice laughs a tinkly, happy laugh. "Don't strain yourself any more than you already are."
"Who are you?" I ask suspicuously. My arm doesn't really hurt now, but it does when I move it.
"Dr. Xyaccallne, but everyone calls me Dr. X."
"Well then, Dr. X, can I leave any time soon?" I ask.
Dr. X does her tinkly laugh again. She seems a little too cheerful, so I hate her. "No, no... well, you can if you'd like after you give us some things we want... but, until then, no."
Great. They prlbably want information. "What do you want?"
"Information." See? I knew it!
"What information...?"
"Where is Katrina and Summer?"
I stare at her. I'm not telling her that!
"Why do you want to know that...?"
"Oh, because we want to kerp them safe." Seriously, I'm not that dumb!
"No."
"No what?"
"No, I'm not telling you where they are."
"Okay. We'll just keep you here until you change your mind."
"Wait!" There was an Eldonist agent living in the United States across the street from us, right? "They were in the United States last time I checked. Can I go now?"
"No. We already know that. We need an exact location."
"Well..." The state we were in was Indiana... I think. "They are in Indiana!"
"We know."
"Umm..." How many abandoned houses are there in Indiana? A lot. "We stayed in an abondoned house.."
"Exact adress?"
"No idea."
Dr. X sighs. "When you are ready to tell us what we want, we will let you go. Until then..." Dr X walks out the huge medical room and turns off the light.
I'm going to be stuck here forever.
"You know, they will threaten you soon." A weak voice says from across the room.
"What? Who is it?" I ask, ready to fight, even though my arm is injured.
"I'm Nikki. I got captured when I was little, and they wanted information like they want from you. I didn't know, so then they threatend me, and now I'm here." Nikki lets out a raspy cough.
"You... You... How old are you?"
"Seventeen." No way. She's been here since she was little, and now she's seventeen? "Do you know what information they want?"
I shake my head, then remember that Nikki can't see me. "No."
"Then you'll have to escape, or else you'll end up like me."
"But I already tried to escape, and that's why I'm here!"
"Exactly. So, since you already tried to escspe, they'll think that you won't try again and won't watch you as close as they were."
"They weren't watching me at all at first!"
"Or were they...?"
I think back. I remember that right after I got out the door, security guards started chasing me. And did the red flashing lights that were screeching 'Escape! Escape!' really start when I ran outside? Or did they start before that?
"You're right." I answer.
"You'll have to plan really well, though. Eldonist is really good at catching the people they want."
"Talk about it." I say, thinking about how an Eldonist agent was across the street from us.
"Can you keep it down over there?" An irritated voice yells from across the room. I didn't know there were more people in here.
"Sorry Deedra!" Nikki answers the voice. "Goodnight. Don't forget to plan." Nikki tells me.
"Goodnight." I close my eyes and start to plan out my escape from Solo Everon.