The Victim

He passed the hot coffee in his hand to Alec as he sits down. He starts the conversation by introducing himself. Dr. Scott, a graduate from one of the most prestigious medical school in this country.

"..."

"im sorry about what Jason did to you. It's my fault I didn't stop him"

"do you know my parent?" he mumbled under his breath.

"come again?"

"do you know my mom and my dad?" he huffed.

"of course i do" he said sipping his coffee. He shockingly tilt his head slightly upwards upon hearing his words.

"tell me... What do you know about them" He grinned after hearing what he said.

"of course. I'll tell you on the way"

"where are we going"

"you'll know.. now let's get going" Dr. Scott gets up from his chair and leaves the cafeteria. Alec follows behind.

"well, to be honest.. your dad was patient, no. He was our first human experiment here in this lab"

"what?"

"yeah. He was diagnosed with ocorophelia. I believe you know what that is?" Dr. Scott asked.

"yes, i know what that is. There's currently no cure yet for the disease"

"well we have it"

"you what?" he said in disbelief

"yes, we do have the curer. It's with your dad"

"my dad?"

"but that brat somehow got away" he said annoyed.

"but.." he stops. He turned around and face Alec closer to his face.

"we have you now. He's dead" he said turning back around and continue to walk.

"what's with me". Dr. Scott opened the door for him and ask him to come in. The room was dark with a single chair in the middle of it.

He slowly lifts his feet and starts to walk inside. There was barely any light source except for the open door, so he can hardly see anything. He touches the chair and the door was shut from the back.

It was aggressively pushed, making him startled. Lights suddenly starts opening, flashing his eyes. After he adjusted his eyes with the surrounding, he noticed a mirror Infront of him. He stared at it, so as his reflection.

"Alec, we need you to sit on the chair". A voice echoed through the room, it was Dr. Scotts'.

"what's the meaning of this?!"

"haa.. you remember when I told you about the cure is in your dads' body? Well, it's now in yours. we've prepared for things like this. We made the curer to just pass and pass through its owners' DNA. And, ugh... because of you, another bitch got into a hospital"

"elena... YOU MEAN ELENA?!" He snapped punching the mirror.

"yeah, that ele something"

He starts to shout and tries to break the mirror with his fist, muttering his regrets. Dr. Scott do nothing except asking for guards to come and force him on the chair.

Two of them came in, dramatically crushing the door open. Alec turned his head to them. The guards positioned was as they were ready to catch a fierce predator.

Alec took a step backwards and starts to run towards them. Showing no fear on his face, he took a leap and plant his shoe on one of the guards' face. He fell down, following a loud thump.

The other one starts to doubt his fighting ability. He took a glance at Alec under his black glasses. He was looking straight at him. The guard flinched.

Alec was about to release a punch but was stopped by the guard that he kicked. He starts to grip Alec by his armpits with his big hand. The other one took the advantage and punch him straight on his stomach.

Alec groaned. He kicked the guard but with little force as he did not have much energy. The guard that was gripping him on, drags him on the chair. Punching him on the face before tying both his hands and his legs on it.

Dr. Scott just watches the drama over the mirror with a straight face. He caresses his lips before ordering one of his minions to shoot the drug in him.

-- 7 years later

"how is the specimen doing today?" Dr. Scott asked from the back to his worker. He flinched as something bad has happened.

"why are you so frightened?" he asked before looking at the cctv live footage. His eyes widened.

"HOW IS HE GONE?! HOW ARE YOU DOING YOUR WORK?!" he snapped.

"IM SORRY! IM SORRY!" He said kneeling down, begging for his life.

"AARGH!" He slammed his fist on the table.

Over the past seven years, the Ocorophelia curer has been received from Alecs' body. It requires very hard work because he did not simply cooperating that easy.

Dr. Scotts' name became big after he releases the news about the curer. He got rich in a blink of an eye. Because of greed, he insisted on keeping Alec for more research, hoping to achieve another big things.

He even abandon his family for this project. Only he knows how long he has not come back at his family embrace.

He suddenly becomes quiet, as if he knows where to go. He rush to his room and snatch his car key and drives to Bryce's house.

He arrived infront of his door, banging in furiously until Bryce open the door. Bryce widened his upon seeing him standing Infront of his door.

"Scott..?" he trembled.

"WHERE IS ALEC?! I PAYED YOU MY, MY SALARY TO WATCH OUT FOR THAT KID" He busted, choking his neck. Bryce struggle for air, slapping his hand, trying to get it off.

"I... Don't.. know..where he went.." he groaned. Scott force himself to let go of his neck. Bryce lets out a sigh of relief.

***

- a few months before escaping

The hall was quiet. If a key falls to the ground, the sounds will be as if a bomb has exploded. Alec took a glance at the metal door with only small holes on it. He got up from his bed and walk towards it.

"hey" Alec called out to the guard who was guarding his room.

"you look awfully old.. are you forced to work here?" he asked through the door small holes.

"don't disturb me." he said in a firm tone.

“i was here for seven years. How about you?”. The guard was taken aback. Seven years? That's so long ; he thought.

“i just came in two years ago.. and I'm not old” he said slowly.

“two years eh? Can you get out of here?”

“no... I got signed this job when I was desperate because I had no money..”

“you have a wife?”

“yeah, and two daughters”

“what if i said i can get you out of here?”

“really?” he said with a slight of excitement hidden behind.

“yeah. All you have to do for me is too watch the guards schedule in out from here to the front door and gate”. He took his time thinking about the offer.

“deal.”

***

He was running through the bushes and the trees surrounding the humongous lab. The guard went separate ways right from the front gate.

He runs and run until he found a road at the middle of the forest. A truck flashes its light and horn after Alec decides to walk down the road.

His life, begun.

- to be continued -

Hiatus 7/11 - ?/12