Chapter 29

Her position is like a robot. Her back was straight, her eyes were not blanking, her face seemed to have no emotion. Caroline felt sad to see one of her students under her supervision behave like this.

First of all, she has to deactivate the chip because if it is active, Dr. Zhang can tracks down Iris and tries to kill her. She was worried if something happened to Iris.

She scanned the chip implanted on the back of Iris's neck using a mobile phone and the data came out on the phone's screen. It is true that she had expected her memory to be blocked by Dr. Zhang. She is also afraid to unblock Iris' memory but she is willing to take the risk that letting of Iris become a weapon for Dr. Zhang to hurt others and continued his research. After reading some instructions on the mobile phone screen, she looked at Iris and said softly.

"I did this all for you and if your memory recovers as it was then there was a unpleasant event or memories but you should know that all this time I loved you. You must hate me after this."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Let it be, later you will understand."

She gently kissed Iris's brow at that moment and pressed the 'Unlock' button on the phone's screen. She watched Iris who slowly closed her eyes and bent her body towards her.

Iris felt hearing the voice of the female mechanical saying 'Unlock the memories and inactive the chip'. After hearing that voice, her whole body trembled and suddenly her eyes went dark and her brain seemed to shut down. She didn't know what happened after that because she felt really sleepy now.

Caroline helped straighten her body lying on the sofa so that Iris was comfortable. She got up slowly from the sofa and went to her room to get a blanket, came back to where Iris was lying and covered her.

She looked at that face lovingly, bent her body slowly, her stomach felt painful but her still held back to see the innocent face that was asleep. She caressed Iris's pale cheek with her long and slim finger and looked at her lips, which had been red for a long time, turned pale. She knew now that Iris was struggling with the memory locked by Dr. Zhang.

Maybe after waking up from her sleep, Iris started to hate her and she also accepted with an open heart. Sarah Thompson, the woman she once loved in silence because not only is she, Sarah's supervisor, but the age gap is also far different.

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Iris who now felt in a very dark place, one by one the situation appeared in front of her like a movie. She saw the character in the film Sarah Thompson who grew up in an orphanage, was bullied by children in elementary school, continued her studies to high school, was excited when she was accepted into X University in the field of medicine, she met a friend close friends, she also saw herself studying at the university, joking with her close friends, having a hard time together. The day she adopted by her close friend parents and never staying at orphanage again. She very happy that day when she and her friend can playing together not like before, where her friend need to come to orphanage when her mother have conducting charity events. Her memory is like spinning showing one by one the events that happened in her life.

But at the end of the round she saw herself walking home from the hospital where she was doing her internship. She walked through a rather quiet road, she could feel her feelings at that moment of fear, worried about her safety, when she tried to go again she was hugged tightly by a man while the palm covered his mouth. She was thrashing about at that moment, her forehead sweaty and in fear. She kicked the man in the thigh and the man sat down moaning in pain. She let go and tried to run away but her neck felt like something poked her, holding her neck she passed out. When she saw the memory playing in front of her, she held back every bit of anger, hatred towards the man who shot her using a tool he designed in the shape of a gun containing general anesthesia. General anesthesia is often used in surgery, it makes a person unconscious and also puts someone to sleep and it makes a person unable to move their body.

She also saw herself chained to the operating bed in one of the operating rooms, there were five doctors involved, only one woman while the other four were men. Only the woman did not help with the surgery performed on Iris, she just stood on the side looking at her with regret, sympathy.

Suddenly she heard her scream at that moment with all her heart and full of hatred. She also heard the voice of Dr. Zhang it was his who spoke to her calmly.

"I will kill you all!!"

"You are Iris, clone."

She also witnessed herself being hit using a syringe filled with general anesthetic liquid to make her pass out.

"I'm Dr. Caroline; we're getting out of here"

"Please hit me with the scalpel."

"I did all this for you; maybe you will also feel unpleasant memories after this,"

"I'll help you unblock the memories and deactivate the chip embedded in the back of your neck."

"I love you, if you hate me even once after this I accept it openly"

One by one, the voices in her memory were heard, lingering in her thoughts. She definitely hates Dr. Zhang, but not the woman who calls herself Dr. Caroline. The person who saved her from continuing to be the sample of Dr. Zhang allowed him to continue his study and kill her if it failed. The experiment failed because it did not work as expected. Dr. Zhang called her a clone. She's a human with a chip, like a robot. It's easy to control through the chip. She did not know why Dr. Zhang was like that; a successful and intelligent doctor, but too obsessed with science and using the knowledge he had to hurt others.

Her head was throbbing that she felt now after experiencing those painful memories, and the back of her neck also throbbed in pain as if it was being torn, poked slowly with a thousand needles and it was very painful. She also felt a warm touch on her cheek. She opened her eyes slowly and saw a woman wearing button-up pajamas, she was fair-skinned, her eyebrows were beautiful and under her pointed nose, her thin lips were colored with red lipstick. It looked very attractive in her eyes. Her eyes are also green and her hair is straight to shoulder level, black.

"You're Dr. Caroline, aren't you?" She asked and raised her body, while looking at the woman. She remembered everything and now her head and the back of her neck were throbbing with pain.

She saw the woman who called herself Caroline smiling but it wasn't a happy smile but sadness was embedded in that smile.

"Yes. I'm Dr. Caroline." She answered slowly and looked down her head. Caroline didn't dare look at Iris's face at this point.

"I used to be Sarah Thompson but now my identity is Iris."

"That's right. Now your identity is Iris. But to me, you're still Sarah Thompson, a medical student doing an internship at B-Technology."

Caroline explained to Iris who was looking at her now. Her face was still pale. She didn't tell Iris that she was also a student under her supervision.

"The chip on the back of my neck, is that still active?" She said as his finger rubbed the back of his neck, feeling a small lump there.

She is worried if the chip is still active and it is easy for her to be tracked by Dr. Zhang, that crazy.

"I have deactivated the chip and all the recorded data has been deleted. Now Dr. Zhang knows that you were killed by me in the operating room."

"The chip doesn't work when the user dies but only Dr. Zhang knows how to deactivate the chip. He doesn't know that I also know how to deactivate the chip. Now in other words you are dead." She explained the situation to Iris who was still confused and looked at her with a curious face.

"You mean, I'm dead but why am I still alive in front, you?"

"You're still alive even though the chip doesn't work anymore. You're just dead in the system made by Dr. Zhang that records all your movements and also your data. Now you live like everyone else except you have a chip embedded in the back of your neck, you."

"Why, the old doctor did all this?"

"I don't know why either. Yesterday I was informed that there was going to be an operation. I thought it was just a normal operation but something else happened."

"That's right. Why did you save me? If the old man knew you must be in danger."

"I saved you because you don't deserve to be treated like that. No one does. I work there and have to follow his orders."

"He's cruel! I'm sure I'm not the first one he's treated like that. You know the doctors who were with him at the time?."

"I don't know them. They are Dr. Zhang's friends who also carry out this illegal operation."

"Thank you for saving me and you also sacrificed your own safety just to save my life."

After saying that, Iris smiled sweetly while looking at her. A light of joy shone in her blue eyes.

"Now you have to have a new identity, Sarah Thompson is no longer suitable for use because to them that person is dead and 'Iris' is also dead."

Iris was silent for a moment while thinking. An idea came to her mind.

"Why don't I still use my name, Iris, but my surname..."

Before she could finish her words she heard a small whisper coming from Caroline's lips.

"Use my surname" Caroline whispered unconsciously but was heard by Iris.

"Right. I agree."

"What do you agree to?" She asked Iris who smiled widely at her.

"I agree to use your surname."

"Iris, but we're not siblings."

"We go to City A Marriage Bureau"

"What?!" Answered Caroline who was surprised and the wound felt painful.

"That's the only way we can have the same surname. Don't you want it?" Iris asked with an innocent face.

She realized that her request was very unreasonable but she should not miss this opportunity. Her crush is in front of her eyes now. "Marriage is no joke, Iris." She advised Iris gently and blush appeared on her both cheek.

"I'm not kidding either."

"I don't want you to marry me because of my surname."

"Who said I got married because of your surname.?"

Hearing Iris' answer, Caroline was silent as she looked at Iris, she tried to observe the face to see if she was lying or telling the truth. Only the light of sincerity was reflected in the eyes that looked at her softly.

"Does Sarah like her, too?" She whispered softly in her heart. There was a feeling of happiness in hers heart, but when he remembered the age gap between them, she began to feel less confidence.

Iris who looked at her without blinking seemed to be able to read her thoughts and explained to her gently.

"I don't care about our age gap. I'm sincere. It is just 10 years different between our ages"

"Alright let's go to City A Marriage Bureau after a week. Let the situation calm down first. Now how do you hide your face because they must already know you."

"I'm sure once they've done the operation, all relevant evidence will be disposed of by them."

"Yes. The evidence can be used to convict and imprison them."

"You're also can linked for all of this too unless you stop."

Iris insisted as she touched Caroline's on her back hand slowly and look serious.

Caroline, who felt the warmth of the palm, felt that her painful wound was now slowly healing.

"Only the two of us know, we will go through it together. There will definitely be a feeling of love between us later. Slowly we explore this path. I hope you stop working for Dr. Zhang because I don't want you to be convicted later."

"I know and I'll think about it later."

This is not the first surgery she has performed with Dr. Zhang. But he didn't explain it to Iris.

A week after that they went to City A Marriage Bureau to register their marriage and Iris surname is now Anderson. Caroline surname is Anderson. She took that surname, not just because Iris didn't have a surname, but because of her love for the beautiful woman next to her now.