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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:07 pm
"Those ******** doctors," Kaveri hissed, narrowing her eyes and glaring off to the side, "they probably gave me bad weed."
She shut her mouth to listen to the string of questions Emelyn fired at her, chewing on her lip. "I think I'm fine... just can't explain the ********... blood in my mouth... maybe I just bit the inside of my lip or something." Shifting in place, Kaveri got to her knees and then slowly stood up, smoothing out and attempting to dust off her mud-caked jeans.
"Huh," she murmured, looking down at herself before crossing her arms and giving her shoulders a brisk rub. "The last thing I remember, I wasn't even wearing any clothes..." Kaveri looked towards the body again, her brows furrowing with concern.
"She doesn't look alright..." The long-necked woman looked over herself again - her arms, her belly, her legs - and realized that she seemed not to be injured or harmed at all. "I guess I should count my blessings that I'm not in as terrible a shape as her..." She walked over and squatted by the body, her hands on her knees as she stared with what appeared to be morbid interest.
She knew that face. That argument was still quite fresh in her memory. This was the girl who was yelling at Sabin...
...And the bite marks. A ghastly realization came to her when she saw the bite marks, and her teeth begun to chatter as she wiped her chin again, looking at the fresh blood smeared on her fingers. Was it... did she... no, she just bit her own lip... right?! A distraught look crossed her face as her mouth hung open. "No!" She cried out, jolting up and furiously rubbing her hand on her pants.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:11 pm
There was no stopping her- no dissuading her from walking over to Aubrey, and no way to turn the woman around before she'd realize what Emelyn had already realized upon seeing the blood upon her lips.
"You don't know what happened," Emelyn said quickly, her eyes focusing on the edge of the clearing, her attention rapt like a meercat watching for distant prey. "And even if... what you think happened- there's no way that could be enough to cause all that blood. She's practically swimming in it..." the nearly dead-silent air unnerved Emelyn, and the infant spines on the back of her neck stood to rapt and terrible attention.
"Stay here with Aubrey. Try to see if you can help her. ...I'm going to the labs. Someone has to be able to help."
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:16 pm
When she got to the labs, Em was greeting by a posted guard. "Whoa there,young cirtter," the larger man said, making sure she got a good veiw of the weapon he was carring - it looked like some kind of rifle. "Where do y't hink you're going?"
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:19 pm
She couldn't miss the undeniable flash of weaponry and that- coupled with the surprise of the unfamiliar man- stopped Emelyn in her tracks, several feet from the massive gate.
"I'm not going anywhere. I just have to contact the people inside the labs. Someone has been hurt. Badly hurt. ...It's one of the doctors."
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:20 pm
The man looked surprised. "One of the... doctors? Now miss you need to calm down.. I ain't allowed to let anybody inside ya'hear?"
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:24 pm
"I don't have to get inside," Emelyn said, her voice as even and soothing- yet insistant- as it had been while talking to Kaveri, explaining to the man quickly yet thoroughly.
"I just have to get to the intercom there on the gate to let someone inside know. If you'd like, you can do it. Hell, I'll even get on the ground face down if you're afraid I'm going to do something as stupid as rush you when you have a gun. Just call someone inside." Even with the cursing, her voice was even and low.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:26 pm
Kaveri whimpered, holding out the hand that was not covered in blood. "No, don't-- I don't want to be alone here, no... Let me go with you..." Her voice was small and fearful, and by the time she had finished what she was saying, the hedgehog girl was gone. She shivered and gave Aubrey one more nervous look before taking a few steps back.
This situation honestly couldn't get any better. Kaveri was alone. She was alone with a potentially dead staff member with incriminating bite marks. She was alone with blood on her chin and in her mouth, a taste she hadn't had in all the years of her life spent living on a vegan diet. She shuffled over to a nearby tree, leaning against it and sliding her back down its trunk to sit.
She had never felt so scared before. She knew nothing good would come out of this. A staff member was dead, Kaveri didn't want to be a murderer - she just wanted to act like an a*****e and pull pranks on them with bullshit letters! Killing them wasn't a part of the plan! Drawing her knees to her chest, she buried her face in between them and began to sob, wrapping her arms around her legs in a fetal position.
Kaveri wanted to run, but she couldn't. She was frozen there among the cold mud, rain puddles, and thick blood... she didn't know where she was, nor how to get back to the village. She didn't want this at all.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:29 pm
"Allright lady, calm down. I'll call a Jeep." The man pulled a walkie-talkie from his belt and clicked the buttom. "Heya, Redge. Can you and Markerson get down here with a Jeep? One of the subjects is claiming somebody's hurt pretty bad."
There was a crackle on the other end, then a voice responded. "Yeah, be right there."
The gaurd, which Em now saw his nametage said Becker, looked back down at her. "Got a car commin', okay? Can you remember where it was?"
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:31 pm
"Yes." She could have taken him there with her eyes closed. "If not... all we have to do is follow the stench of blood."
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:34 pm
The man just stood there in awkward silence. A few minutes later, a big Jeep pulled up from around the back of the lab complex. Becker let the gate open to let the vehicle through. "Show these men what you wanna," she said, opening the back door for the hedgehog woman. "They'll be able to help." For her sake, Becker thought, she better not be crying wolf.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:39 pm
Emelyn crawled into the jeep, giving Becker a sage nod before the Jeep barreled into the jungle upon her insistance. "Thank you!" She didn't know if he'd heard- she'd called it out as the wheels roared through the muck and off down the way to the clearing.
The smell of blood was temporarily overpowered by the feeling of the wind in her spines- the speed of the jeep, and upon focusing her attentions to directing the driver to the scene of the carnage. She'd forgotten how good it felt to travel at such speed, and, were the situation any less dire, she would have allowed herself to be diverted from the heat and the stench by the cool breeze.
"Here. Right here!" She finally called, going up into a near-standing position as the jeep pulled to the clearing's edge.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:42 pm
"Oh my god..." the guards said in unison as the scene came into view.
"Is that Dr. Lockheart?" one of them asked. The other looekd to shock to answer.
They jumped out the Jeep and went immediately to her, carefully lifting her up and crying to get her to the car. Aubrey's head swung back limpy, big globs of blood and... something else (viscera? skin? mud? No way to know...) fell from her body as they carried her.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:49 pm
Kaveri heard the jeep rumbling close to the clearing, and she slowly looked up with tear-filled eyes and turned her head to watch the guards pick up the body. As whatever it is falls off of Aubrey, Kaveri lets out a startled cry, her chest heaving as the odd, clumpy thing landed on the ground with a wet smack.
She couldn't bear to look anymore, and she swung her head in the opposite direction. The sight, scent, and sound made her feel sick, a horrible feeling settling in the pit of her stomach. She hoped the guards didn't see her.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:52 pm
Emelyn made a beeline for Kaveri, and wrapped her arms around the woman in a compulsory hug, watching over the long-necked one's shoulder as the stunned guards loaded Aubrey into the jeep. She hoped only for the best- but worried that she'd done something unspeakable in giving Aubrey back to the lab. True, there was a chance that no one had been watching the monitors- and that Moreau was unaware of what had happened to his beloved...
But there was still that twisted fear in Emelyn as they carted Aubrey away... that she may have returned the woman into the arms of something foul.
"Shh... I'm sorry," Emelyn said, whispering to Kaveri- her eyes focused on the disappearing vehicle.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:54 pm
The Jeep sped away, leaving the two girls. The guard that wasn't dirving was barking something into the radio as they dissapeared towards the road.
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