Chapter One- Meet Experiment One

Drip...Drip...Drip....

I listened to the water dripping from the ceiling of my cell, or home however you want to put it. I tapped my fingers together and cocked my head to the side listening to footsteps coming near my cell. From the gait of the steps, I would say that Mr. Finlay and Miss Miranda were coming to collect me again for some more tests.

Now I wasn't always like this, I use to live in a home with my mom, dad and three older brothers. Though one day I was extravagantly idiotic and decided it was a good idea to go skate board in the middle of the night. I don't know I have always felt a better connection to the night than I do day, so that's why I thought it was a good idea. Well it was in the beginning, but I ended up being knocked out while I was getting water and when I woke up I was here.

Where is here? Well it's a scientific lab of sorts, I'm not certain of the name because I was never told what it was or where in the states it is. I am hoping it's still in the states though. The first day they put me in a tube with some kind of blue liquid that burned my eyes and made my body feel like it was in acid.

I was pulled out of my thoughts when my cell door opened, I blinked my eyes open and stood from the corner I was sitting in. I looked at the two scientists, the woman, Miranda had blond hair that was pulled in a severe ponytail making me wonder if her hair was in pain, she had black rimmed glasses that went over dark brown eyes and she was wearing the normal scientist attire, with the black slacks shirt and then white lab coat. She also held black clip board that had a pen attached to it and a few pieces of paper hooked onto it.

Mr. Finlay, I suppose would have been a good looking man if he tried, but he didn't so he had black curly hair and light blue eyes that were icy cold when they looked at me. His skin was sickly pale which probably meant he didn't go outside much and he wore the same attire as Miranda. He was also pretty skinny as well.

They both looked at me, for myself I have no idea what I look like anymore from all of the experiments I've been put through for the last year or so. I lost count of the days and I know Miranda and Mr.Finlay won't tell me the day or year, so I gave up. I did know I was sixteen when they took me though.

"Come along #1."Miranda demanded, stepping aside away from the cell door. I glanced between the two of them. "Hurry up I don't have all day !"She snapped at me, I nodded quickly and walked out of the cell. Mr. Finlay came up behind me and pushed me down the hall to the door that exited the cell room. It seriously reminded me of those dungeons in Pirates of the Caribbean, you know that part when Jack Sparrow gets caught and imprisoned. Yeah those ones.

When we exited that room everything looked relatively normal like we just stepped into a time warp, or something. We walked to what looked like a bathing room, and Miranda opened the door and Mr.Finlay pushed me in telling me to get cleaned up because I stunk.

Well it certainly wasn't my fault I stunk now was it? I pouted at that thought then turned to look at the open cuticles or shower rooms, I made a face at the fact there was no privacy whatsoever. Although that shouldn't surprise me much, the floors looked relatively new, and so did everything else. I glanced around the room once more to see if I can find soap and shampoo as well as a towel. I smiled when I found the items that I was looking for and went to a small metal rack . I picked the two small bottles up along with a smaller towel, or rather washcloth if you want to be in correct terms. I walked to one of the shower facets, and frowned looking for the knob where you turn on the water.

I quickly took off my clothes when I found the knob, I threw them away from the showers more toward the entry door. I stepped up and turned on the water, I shivered when cold water hit my skin, but it soon turned warm. I smiled at the feeling of water, it felt so different now than before. My skin was a lot more sensitive to touches and feelings now. It was really strange too, I looked down at my blue nails that weren't anymore the normal skin color. It looked like I painted them that color, but in reality they turned that color themselves.

I closed my eyes for another moment enjoying the feeling, but realised I should start washing because I didn't know when they would want me out of the shower. I also didn't know when the next time I'll be able to shower would be. I quickly washed my body with the soap and the wash cloth. When I finished that I put a large glob of purple shampoo on my hand and rubbed my hands together really quickly. I brought my hands up to my hair and started to wash my hair.

Before I came here my hair was pretty short, but now it was almost shoulder length making me be able to see that my hair had also turned color. It was no longer blond like it had been, now it was a deep maroon color. It was strange even to me, I wasn't sure how I liked these alterations to my body, but at least I wasn't dead...Yet.

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It was an hour later when the scientists came in after I was finished dressing, and ready to do whatever experiment they wanted to try on me next. Half of the time I wondered if they were actually trying to see how many times they could stick needles in me and inject me with stuff and see if I could survive. So far I have.

Miranda looked my body over and gave me a nod, "Come along." She said in a stern voice she always used, at least it wasn't that shouting voice I heard the first few months of living here. I was extremely stubborn and didn't take well in being told what to do when I first got here, but I learned to nod and follow orders after numerous beatings.

I followed quickly after she snapped her fingers a few times to pull me from my thoughts, "So what are we doing today?" I asked following a little behind her.

"Glad you asked." She smirked and fixed her glasses, "You're meeting someone new, and maybe we can go forth and make some more interesting discoveries with our experiments."

"Who's the someone?" I questioned.

"You'll find out Number One." She told me.

"I do have a name." I pouted looking at her, she just rolled her eyes and we continued to walk down the hall.

It was a few minutes later when we arrived at a room I remembered well, it was the room of when I first came to here. It was also after they pulled me out of the tube thing they put me in. Miranda opened the door and pushed me in.

I glanced around the room and realised everything was the same besides one thing,there was a boy around my age sitting on the examination table. The boy looked at me curiously, he had big emerald green eyes that were very vibrant that they almost looked like they glowed. He also had dark purple hair, he was probably a little smaller than me, but not to much. He watched me carefully.

"This is experiment two." Miranda told me, "He will be staying with you in a different room where we will evaluate you two, to see how you react with living with each other." She walked over and pulled out two black bands and took Number Two's arm and hooked it onto his wrist. She walked over to me and did the same thing.

I cocked my head wondering if he has always been here with me or is he just new, "Come boys, we're wasting time." Miranda demanded when Mr.Finlay came to the door, he glanced over us then looked at Miranda.

"Code One is commencing ?" He asked Miranda, she nodded, "Oh good, let's get on with this research."

Miranda nodded and told Number Two and I to come along again, I swear that is her favourite phrase, 'Come along, my darlings come along and I will make you some cookies.' I giggled under my breath of the thought of the stern woman saying those things. God I was so immature.

We came to a metal door, and Mr.Finlay opened it, "You will have meals brought to you every three hours." He told us when we walked into the room and shut and locked the door behind us.

I glanced around the room curiously, the room had carpet, a living room with a T.V and a large black leather couch, a small kitchen. It looked like there was a door to a bathroom and then two other doors that were across from each other. I walked over to one of the two and opened the door, I peered in curiously. My jaw dropped, it was a huge room with a large bed in the middle that looked really comfy. I was excited to sleep in it to be honest.

"So." Number Two said behind me, "It looks like we're sharing this room along with the bed because the other room is a huge gym." He told me.

"Really?" I raised my eyebrow.

"Yeah look." He pointed into the other room, I walked up to it and looked in.

"Damn." I said, "They expect us to train?" I asked.

"I guess so, I don't know the first thing when it comes to exercising." He told me, "So what's your name?"

"My number or the one I was given by my parents?" I asked.

"Your name from before you came here." He said.

"Oh,Um."I scratched my head, "It's Eldric."

"Really?" he asked, I nodded. "Cool I'm Remedy."

"Remedy..."I raised an eyebrow, "and you thought Eldric was weird?" I asked with a smile.

"Yeah." He made a face, "So how long have you been here?"
"A year or so." I said walking into the living room, "You?"

"Same, they probably got you first considering you're Number One." He commented following me into the living room.

I sat on the black couch and curled up my legs against my chest and rested my head on my knees, "So how old are you?"

"Probably seventeen or eighteen now." He told me, "probably closer to eighteen now."

"Same." I said. And looked up at the ceiling, I silently was counting how many cameras they had in just the living room. I think I counted ten before Remedy asked me what my favourite color was.

Such an original question, I thought. "It's blue." I told him.

"I like red." He told me.

"Interesting." I said looking away board of this talk so I started to space out again after he turned on the T.V.