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Dimtri slowly woke. "ah...my head hurts like a son of a b****...wait a minute where am I" He looked around the room, he sat up on the hard bed and looked around, his things lay in his bags on the floor, his guitar and amp aginst the wall next to the bed. "atleast you weren't taken" he muttered looking at the guitar. He slowly got up from the bed and went throught his stuff, everything was there. "ok so I wasn't robbed...but why did they knock me out...well all I know is someone's gonna be in the hospital when I find out who cheap shot me".He walked over to the door and tried to open it "Son of a" his temper flared, a jolt of electricity jumped from his hand, he idmeatily let go of the door handle. "what the hell...they got the door volted or something?...but I didn't feel anything..."He was getting confused, He walked over to the bed and layed down. He pulled the head phones out of his coat pocket and pressed play on the MP3 player. I need to clear my head...I'm going nuts.

Alice blushed slightly, why was she so concerned? After all...she had just met him. Could she be...attracted to him? No. Alice brushed off her emotions best she could, she didn't want him picking up on that. s**t. Too late. Jack looked at her with raised eyebrows.
"Quit molesting my emotions!" Alice yelled, smacking his arm, another blush rising on her cheeks.
"And I wasn't concerned." Alice mumbled as she turned away from him, even though she knew it was useless to deny it.
Jack chuckled again, "You where sooo concerned."
"Not uh!" Alice replied automatically.
"Woman I can feel emotions!!" Jack replied with a boyish grin.
Alice huffed and crossed her arms as she slumped on the couch.

Alice paused before answering, why would he ask such a thing? Of course she has tried to escape.
"I have been here for 2 years. I have tried to escape...many many MANY times. But the Dr. is way slicker than he looks. The guards are altered just like we are. But not with powers, but machinery. The nearest village is 7 miles away from the base of the mountain. That's if you get down alive."
"So your saying there is no hope for us?" Jack asked, his tapping on her shoulder stopped for a moment, waiting for Alice to answer.
"No I'm not saying that at all. What I am saying is that the Dr. has gotten cocky and comfortable. He has barely taken any extra precautions. All he has done is upgrade the guards and locks systems. Thats it. He is underestimating us, I know he is. Jack, if we all work together I think we can escape."
There was a pause, Jack had returned to his steady tapping, making Alice fidget with the silver ring on her index finger.
"So what do you know about this place? I mean you've been here long enough to know some stuff right?" Jack asked finally, still staring out the window.
"Oh I know tons of things, like that there are cameras everywhere even in the dorms, but not the bathrooms. There aren't microphones so we can talk freely. The fourth floor and basement are locked, and can only be accessed by key card and fingerprint ID. That also goes for the doors out of here. And as of now I only know of 2 ways off this mountain. 1. the helicopter, but seeing as no one probably has any experience with helicopters i think thats out. And option two, the snowmobiles, which are kept some where outside and are probably highly guarded."
Alice finished as she continued to examine her ring. She noticed Jack had stopped tapping. She looked up to see him looking at her curiously.
"How do you know all this?" he asked.
"It's amazing the things you hear when they think your unconscious. Also I snoop."
"And how do I know I can trust you? And that your not secretly working for Dr. Gerard?" Alice felt a twinge of hurt at him questioning her loyalty, but the hurt faded as she remembered what it was like to first come here, and she couldn't blame him.
"Jack, your just going to have to trust me." She met his golden eyes, hoping that he would some how know that she was loyal.

Charlie was on her way out of the dining hall when Jack nearly ran her over. He probably already knew a little of what was going on because he had tried to warn her about the juice. Did that mean that he was running from his power? Charlie let him run, figuring that he needed some alone time. She would have time to thank him later. Right now, she needed to think.

As she left, she could see a girl dripping water from her face, and one with pink hair caused another girl to scream without touching her. Where does this "doctor" get off doing this to other human beings? He's caused us all enough pain already. Why doesn't he let us go?

I wonder what will be wrong with me. Other than the obvious... Charlie wandered the halls until she found a flight of stairs. She took them two at a tome, hoping that the exertion would take her away from her thoughts. But no matter. Even if it didn't, there was hopefully still a pair of earbuds upstairs that would.

Charlie smiled to herself when she found her mp3 player still in among her things. But she didn't want to stay in her room. It was too sterile, like the half-remembered lab walls she had seen before. Suppressing a shudder, she walked back out of her room and downstairs again, increasing the volume with every step. Ah, that was better. All consious thought was erased from her mind as guitars and screaming took their place.

Once back on the second floor, Charlie wandered aimlessly, lip-synching to songs off of "Three Cheers for Sweeet Revenge." Charlie smirked a little at the thought of sweet revenge. Oh, how she wanted to exact some on the people at this place. But she was still curious about the poison that the "doctor" had given them all. What were they now capable of?

Charlie turned a corner and opened the first door she saw. She smiled when she saw that the walls were lined with books. She could definitely hide out in a library. Even if other people were there, there had to be a corner in there somewhere that was empty. She quickly turned right and went until she hit the other wall, and sat down in the corner with her head resting against the books on the wall.

In truth, Thorn had closed the book for awhile......to eavesdrop on the conversation between "Jack" and "Alice/Wonderland", hearing both of those names. She knew that Alice looked very experienced and must have been here quite awhile, and the conversation only proved point.

First off, she learned all the tricks and lack of tricks that the doctor put, meaning the bathrooms were the only safe place in these walls that there wasn't a camera. Also, Jack seemed to be a bit cocky of himself (grrr!), and she highly wished he hadn't worded it as, and quote: "some ***** doctor did naughty things to my body while I was drugged up on his operating table.” End quote. It sent creeps up her spine just thinking about it. He was too cocky for his own good; she'd have to set his mind straight before they escaped.

So, it was helicopters and snow mobiles, the nearest village being 7 miles down the mountain. Ouch, that wasn't going to happen on foot. Although, part of her would rather die than stay here, seeing as there was no one left to care for her well being......

Clutching the book in her arms, she also realized that the Doctor was also being cocky, and that might bring to his downfall if they all teamed up. Oh goody goody.....

Finally done for the moment, she went back to the wall and opened back to page one; the book was so wonderful already, that the only way she could actually snoop on the conversation was to close it to stop reading more words. She kept her ears open, though, as she began to move to page 2.

Brynn Syvra didn't know what to do. She didn't know her way around and there was barely anybody left in the dining hall. She saw another boy and a guard getting into it, and she decided to leave. Why should I include myself in affairs of people who don't interest me? She decided to follow Dawn, and as she stood outside the dining room and listened, she heard Dawn's quick steps down a hallway to the right. She slipped down the same passageway, ignoring the beautiful sights of the mountains outside the windows as she passed them, her newly maroon hair dragging on the floor. She kept her eyes focused ahead, so she saw the girl with short hair that the boy who'd run out tried to warn about the juice go into a room, and since she saw books, she assumed it was a library. However, when she peered inside the door as she passed, she heard voices. They would want her to talk if she went in there and she did not wish to speak to people she didn't find important, so she passed on. The only sign of her passing to those inside the library was the sound of Brynn's long hair dragging on the stone.
Brynn saw Dawn slip into a room, and she padded silently up to it. She twisted the knob slowly, and looked inside as she slipped in. Dawn was sitting on the floor facing away from Brynn clutching a stuffed unicorn to her chest, but she soon whipped around as she heard the click of the door shut behind Brynn. They locked eyes, and Dawn couldn't look away. Brynn stared back unblinkingly, and then began to speak. Brynn was muttering under her breath, thinking out loud, but Dawn was able to hear every word in the dead quiet of the room.
"For some reason, you capture my interest. Have i seen you before? Do i know you?" Brynn began to move towards Dawn, but she could tell Dawn was torn between bolting and remaining still. "No and no. Why..." Brynn knelt in front of Dawn, never once breaking eye contact, "...do you attract my gaze when nobody else does?" Brynn took Dawn into her arms, and after a moment's stiffness, Dawn clutched at Brynn's sleeve and held on. "Maybe, it's an instinct. I wouldn't know, I don't have any siblings. Yet, you're the youngest here. You still have the courage not to run." Brynn began absentmindedly stroking Dawn's hair, staring unseeing at the wall trying to figure out why Dawn held so much interest for her. "Admirable yes, admirable." They stayed there a while, Brynn holding Dawn and stroking her hair. "I will protect you like no other will." And for some reason, Brynn knew she could keep that promise.

As he was walking along another insignificant hallway, Damien heard the cracking of glass and saw the light dim around the corner, which suddenly triggering another vision. He saw a girl come around the corner, she had blood red hair and striking green eyes. Something told him that her name was Alice. Damien noticed that this vision was completely clear, unlike the other ones before. There was something about this girl, Alice, but he couldn't quite place it.

Damien waited, and sure enough, a few moments later he heard footsteps. The girl rounded the corner, obviously she knew he was there because she immediatly asked if he was looking for the dorms.

"What makes you think I am?" Damien replied. "You look lost." said Alice, "Come on. I was just headed there myself." Damien just nodded and fell in step behind her.