This chapter will have very sensitive content of assault so please read at your own risk.

Eden

I woke to the sound of my own stomach growling. I was starving and terribly weak. When had I last eaten? It must have been when I had lunch with Amelia. I would give anything to be back in that overcrowded cafeteria right now.

Trying to get off the ground, colors danced in front of my vision and I wobbled before bracing myself against the wall. I was weak and incredibly sore. Not just in my head, but also in my back.

Pushing myself up onto my elbows, I looked around for Maddox. My own hand caught my vision and I saw how the face of it was covered in a very ugly bruise. At least it wasn't broken.

Looking around again, I saw Maddox in his guards position, his hand resting on the gun in his holster, as if he was ready to shoot someone.

"Can... can I have something to eat?" I called out, hoping for anything, even a scrap of bread at this point.

But I had made a mistake. Maddox wasn't the one standing by the doorway. It was Julius. He turned around, already looking angry from yesterday. I'm fact, it seemed like he was always angry. He swung open the cell door, nearly knocking me on the head with it.

"You think you can just order us around to bring you food? You think we will just obey because you think you are superior? You humans are all the same!"

"What do you mean "you humans"? Aren't you human?" I asked, backing away from him like a crab.

"Oh little lady you don't even know," he grinned, lifting me up by my shirt and pressing me against the wall.

I still couldn't hold myself up, so I was forced to give up. The only thing holding me now was Julius's firm grip.

"Please let me down. I haven't done anything to you! I just want to go home!"

"Hmm, too bad."

He pressed me harder to the wall with one of his arms across my chest. His other arm still sat on his gun.

"Let. Me. Go!" I kicked him in the shin, hoping he'd budge, but he didn't, not even an inch. It only made him madder.

"You are going to regret that," he growled, inhuman like.

He ripped open my shirt, exposing my bra again, but this time he pulled that off, exposing my breasts. I tried to cover myself up, but he held my arms at my sides tightly now.

"What a sight. I wonder what else you humans have to offer." He grinned, manically.

"Stop! Get off me! Please!" I yelled in haste.

He ignored it, only grinning at me. My back began to ache from the heavy pressure he was putting on me. I felt like I couldn't breathe.

"You're hurting me!" I cried. "Please, just stop."

The tears began to spill down my cheeks, as I felt his hand glide to the rim of my pants. Please don't let this happen to me. Please, please. Of all of my fears, please don't let this one come true.

"S-Stop!" I choked through sobs.

He pulled my pants down, leaving me in only my underwear. I cried out again, begging him to stop. But he didn't. He only continued, wearing his sinister grin.

This wasn't happening. It couldn't be happening. I squirmed aggressively in his grip, trying to find any weakness in his hold, but there wasn't one.

"Stop!" I screamed, I cried.

His hand went lower again, as he watched me. Taunting me as I cried. I was terrified of how far he would go. How far would he take this?

He bent towards my ear, an inhuman like tongue snaked around, licking me under my chin. My eyes widened in fright as my tears continued to spill.

What was he?

His skin seemed to bubble and morph. His hair was changing, even his bones seemed to bend and disjoint inside him. I was beyond terrified. Until then I thought everything they had said was a lie. I thought they were all just on drugs or crazy, but clearly I was wrong.

He wasn't human. I didn't know what he was. It was mortifying and terrifying and every other word to describe how scared I was right now.

He licked me again, tongue moving towards my mouth. He pulled my underwear, letting me know what he wanted to do. What he wanted to take from me.

Please just let this be a nightmare. Please.

"Stop!" I screamed again. "Just stop Please!"

Suddenly Julius was yanked away from me, and I collapsed to the ground. Maddox threw Julius against the opposite wall, pulled his gun from his holster and shot Julius in the leg, making him scream out in pain.

It happened so fast I barely had time to process before my own sobs filled my ears. I just wanted to drown in my tears. Had that really just happened?

I do desperately wanted to be cuddled by my mom or my dad or even Carla. I wanted someone to be able to cry out for, someone who would console me, but there was no one.

I felt Maddox grip my shoulder gently, and I tried to shake him off, but he didn't budge. Suddenly he grabbed my other shoulder and attempted to lift me.

"Hey, it's gon–"

"Don't touch me!" I yelled, pushing myself away from him as hard as I could. I pushed myself as far I to the corner as I could get. I wanted it to swallow me.

"G-Get away from me! You are one...one of them!" I sobbed, still trying to process everything I'd seen.

This couldn't be real. Aliens did not exist, and they certainly were not here on earth. I was having a terrible dream and soon I'd wake up.

Maddox

I was on my way to my guard post when I heard it. Her screams. At first I thought she was only pounding on the walls and screaming in anger but as I grew closer I realized something was awry.

Julius.

I rushed to the cell to find Julius, half way morphed into his original form, licking her, undressing her and terrifying her beyond belief.

This shouldn't have angered me. I wasn't supposed to care about the humans. They were ruthless, they were liars. But something about her screams and her facial expression told me that she wasn't lying. That she was truly afraid.

This shouldn't have angered me, but it did. So I pulled Julius off, threw him and shot him before I processed everything I had just done. I guess this is what humans called "acting on impulse."

Julius's screams of pain couldn't anger me as much as hers did. And there she was. Naked. Afraid. Alone. She collapsed onto the floor, covering her eyes. Her loud cries filled the room and I was overcome with emotion. Something I hadn't ever felt on this planet, a place so foreign to me, let alone something I hadn't allowed myself to feel in a long time.

Without realizing it, I'd tried to lift her off the floor, to help her and provide comfort, but she wanted nothing to do with me. She pushed me away, backing up to the wall again shouting at me, "G-Get away from me! You! You are one... one of them!"

She was right. I wasn't a human, so why was I acting as stupidly as one. Soon I would find out it was a simple word, but a complicated thing. I did not yet understand.

I looked toward Julius, so I could apologize for my impulse decision to shoot him, but he was gone and I was left alone with the mess he'd made.