Chapter 16 - The Laboratory

JASMINE

I looked around and the place was starting to look quite unfamiliar. I knew the place quite well like the back of my hand but I could not shake off the feeling that this laboratory was not here today to be familiar with. Something was sinister about the place though I had been there countless times.

There were added instruments on the table, compared to the familiar instruments they used it. I knew today's experiment was going to be different and I figured that meant worse for me. My body may not be able to handle whatever it is they were going to do and there was no way I could prepare my mind for it in only a few minutes.

I turned around and realized that the bed was also shorter than usual and it made my heart beat faster. There would be no way for me to rest my back even if I wanted to and there would be no way for me to stretch my legs. 

The lights were brighter than usual and it got me off too. There were a lot of answers answered without the presence of anyone and for a minute, I looked forward to whoever was going to come in so they could explain to me what was actually going to be done.

I knew I could not ask questions on the other hand so I would have to figure it out along the way and I just hoped it was not something that would break my bones before I was able to get the answers I so deliberately needed.

I turned my head as I heard the sound of the door and I quickly made to dive my head when I noticed who had walked in with the pack doctors. With a quick glance, I saw all the pack doctors come in as opposed to when they came in singly when they had to carry out an experiment. My suspicions were being confirmed. All the pack doctors were here for this experiment and the Alpha of the pack himself. The dots were being put together and it only got more scary as it progressed.

"Here, Alpha." I recognized the voice of one of the pack doctors.

I let my head remain down. I was not ready to stare at the Alpha as that could make him decide to make the punishment or the experiment worse. I continued wondering what this particular experiment was that made all of them come here.

"She still looks okay and I hear she walks around school like there is nothing wrong with her. When this thing started, I told you I wanted life sucked out of her and I was definitely serious when I said that and my mind has not changed concerning that.

"Suck life out of her so much that she cannot even walk. If she is still alive from all the excruciating experiments you claim to be carrying out on her, then she should not be alive now. I expect this particular experiment you want to carry out today to be the peak of everything you have been doing and I hope I do not have to come back here to remind you of that again." 

The pack doctors responded one after the other before I heard the door open again. Judging by the voices I now heard in the room, the Alpha had left, leaving me with the pack doctors who now had instructions that could lead to my death.

"You heard the Alpha. We have to do this and do it well if we do not want to be in any trouble with him." One of the pack doctors said.

The others responded in what were rather murmurs and whisperings.

"Jasmine. Raise your head and stop all this pretense. Nothing you do can change the fact that this is happening."

I stared at the doctor who made the comment and something about him had always put me off. Of all the doctors, he was the one that had never shown any form of pity to me. His heart was as cold as the Alpha's and he knew nothing except to make things hard for me. 

If he was here and if he was leading the experiment, it was not going to be good.

Before I could complete my line of thought, I heard him speak again.

"Lie down." 

I stared at the bed and then back at him. "The bed is very short, I can't." 

"Do what you are told and stop talking back. There is no time to waste and you do not even have the right to talk back, I hope you know that." 

"But the bed is short and I can't lie down like you instructed me to. I just wanted to let you know." 

Before I finished talking, I felt different hands on my face and the impact of the slaps was enough to make me quiet and to lie down the way they wanted.

There was no redemption coming and I saw it. They knew this too and I could read it in their eyes. It was obvious this was the experiment that may lead to my death and I began to make consolations with myself.

I had not lived a very good life but I had done well and I had done good by having a friend at least, Finn. Thinking about him brought a smile to my face and I felt relaxed knowing my life was not so empty after all and somebody had counted me worthy enough to go through a lot of trouble to be my friend.

My legs dangled off the bed from my waist which held me from falling off the bed. I counted the ceilings as the doctors tied me to the bed and injected me with a number of things I couldn't figure out. My eyes closed and I purposely made sure to see the most beautiful stars I had ever imagined in the laboratory before I succumbed to the power of whatever they had injected me with.