Chapter 17 - Recovery

Mrs Verdensel Quickly grabbed towels and laid them out on the couch for Klyde to lay on it, Maddy helped Klyde take his clothes off while her mother grabbed medical equipment and medicines.

Everything is spinning, my body wanted to give way but I wouldn't let it, I have no idea how I made it home without crashing but I did, Maddy helped me inside and helped me get my clothes off so they could tend to my wounds. I stayed conscious for about five minutes but couldn't keep it up, I passed out as they were cleaning me up.

I was terrified as I saw the blood spilling from him, I got him inside as quick as I could and told my mum to get the medical supplies, she layed out towels on the couch for him to lay on, he passed out as we started cleaning his wounds. Whatever he had been up against it had clawed into his back and sides, bruised his head, arms, legs, back and chest, surprisingly he still had all his teeth in mint condition, all-be-them covered in blood. No doubt he had alot of internal damage. He awoke as we were finishing the bandages.

"Klyde what happened?" I asked.

"A.. couple, I think they were on steroids or something, the man was like a bull and the woman was just, inhumane." Was his reply, I was shocked.

"You were beat by a couple on steroids?"

"I think I have footage, that's if my camera isn't damaged."

Klyde pulled a chip out of the goggles and put it in a small USB box that he plugged in to the tv. Sure enough his explanation was not at all exaggerated, the man was ginormous and unnaturally muscular and the woman just looked crazy, but hot, why am I getting annoyed? Does it bother me that another woman, and an attractive one, wore something that revealed alot of her chest in front of Klyde? Am I, flustered?? No no no stay focused, anyway, ahem, the two were pummeling Klyde but he kept fighting, after watching this I don't think I want him going out there but, I can't stop him can I? There was quite a bit of blood and I think at one point a tooth was flying, there were brief glimpses of the children watching in awe and shock. Then he stopped the footage.

"Yeah I believe you now." I said.

"Yeah.."

"Is it hurting anywhere?"

"Only everywhere."

Oh, right right, heh.."

My mother came in and gave him some pain relief, he nodded in thanks them swallowed them, wincing a little as they went down.

"You lost alot of blood, so make sure you drink enough fluids to get your blood levels back up." He gave me a nod, took a drink from the bottle of flavoured water next to him and laid himself back down before looking down.

"Why am I only wearing underwear?"

"Um, we kinda had to take your clothes of so we could tend to your wounds? We're also not sure how to clean them so they're just on a towel there."

"You can just pop them in the washing machine."

"Ohhhh."

"It's kinda cold."

"Oh right, sorry sorry." I grab him a blanket and tuck him in."

"Thank you."

"Huh?"

"Thank you, for helping me, again."

He had such gratitude and shame in his eyes.

"I-it's no problem I'm happy to help you." I realised I was starting to blush and looked away. Why is this so embarrassing? Gosh I need to calm down, I know I have a crush on him but I've never felt like this before. I shook it off and continued tending to Klyde. "He's so humble" I thought to myself.

I lay silently on the couch as Maddy looked after me, I felt, relieved, having her here helping me, I also felt ashamed that she needed to. What was with that couple though, the whole thing just seemed, unnatural.

"Hey Maddy?"

"Y-yeah?"

"Could you get some samples of blood from my suit and run them on the machine in the bedroom?"

"Oh yeah of course. Why though?"

"Some of it is theirs, I want to see what they had in their system."

"Gotcha."

She ran off and did as I asked as I lay there, unable to move, pondering. Could it have gone better? Did I mess up somewhere causing me to get more harmed then I needed to? I needed answers.

"Tests are running but it says it'll take a couple hours to complete." Maddy said as she re-entered the room.

"That's ok, the longer it takes the more accurate the results will be."

She sat beside me as I drifted off to sleep...

Morning came and Maddy startled Klyde awake as she was preparing for school.

"Don't worry Klyde, mum's gonna take me to school today, you rest."

He nodded and pretended to fall asleep again. As they left Klyde got himself up and went to the bedroom, results were up, perfect. Their blood composition definitely was not normal, he did searches and alot of the compounds in their blood were artificial or drug related. He then began tracing the compounds and found that alot of the artificial compounds originated from the same company that were behind all the incidents he had dealt with over the last year. Every movement was painful but this stuff needed to be done and he was the only one capable of doing it. It was all starting to make sense, every incident was linked, every kidnapping, death, disappearance, escape, experiment, all of it.

He slowly took himself back to the couch and laid back down as Maddy's mother returned.

"I'm afraid I can't stay long as I have work soon, you gonna be alright on your own?"

"Um, yeah I'll manage."

"You're a tough kid, take it easy today alright?"

"Will do."

She quickly raced to her room, changed, grab food and her keys from the kitchen and sprinted out the door. Klyde lay silently for a while, not sure what else to do in his current state, he just contemplated everything, continuing piecing everything together in his mind. "What is there goal here?" Klyde wondered. "What's the end game?"

I was awoken abruptly as Maddy came through the front door yelling my name cheerfully announcing she was home. I didn't realise I had dosed off for half the day, at least I got some things done, I could rest somewhat easy for a bit.

"Welcome home Maddy." I said, slightly wincing at the returning pain.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, just need another dose of pain relief."

"Your last dose was this morning yeah?"

"Yeah about half an hour before you went to school."

"Okay so you're all good for more."

She grabbed the box of pills and popped out a couple, the grabbed a drink and sat down next to me.

"Open wide!"

I did so knowing if I didn't willingly she's force my mouth open. She popped the two pills in then gently tipped the cup into my mouth for me to drink. Her hand gently pressed against my face, it was relaxing. She saw my calmness and smiled, then blushed as she looked away. She thinks I'm not aware of her crush on me, in all honesty though, she is quite pretty, her long blonde silky hair, her emerald eyes and sweet and comforting smile. I was surprised she didn't already have a boyfriend honestly, or a girlfriend, everyone wants her, yet she chooses to spend her time with me. I don't always feel like I deserve her attention but, I'm glad she's here for me. She sat there next to me and put a movie on, after a little bit I dozed off...