Nine days later

It hurt so badly and I just wanted to die already, my skin was as pale as a vampire's, my stomach growled in agony but I knew if I ate something I would just puke it back up, the chemicals won't allow me to eat. My head pounded as I curled up into a ball in the corner of my room until the door opened and Arlo walked in making me groan, "hello Sharlet, let us get down to business shall we," he said as he grabbed my weak body and dragged me into the sample room where they strapped me down to a chair and started giving me doses of stuff that made my body go numb so it wouldn't hurt as bad. Then they started picking at my skin, scraping tiny peices of skin cells off and doing other things. After awhile of doing that they wrapped my arms and legs up, then took me back to my room and left me alone with my thoughts like normal.
Why me, why does my life have to suck so badly? No one even came to find me, they didn't really care about me apparently, I really was just a problem to them and this solves it I guess. I started to cry as I painfully moved my arms up to cover my shaking body slowly drifting off to sleep.

I slightly woke from the sound of the door as I groaned in pain and backed up a bit in fear as a person in a lab coat slowly walked in and up to me, my mind still coming in and out of consciousness. They bent down in front of me causing me to whimper in fear and pain until I felt them softly touch my cheek and I heard them whisper, "Sharlet, hey Sharlet can you hear me, come on lets get you out of here alright," they said but I didn't indicate to them that I heard them because my body still felt a bit numb. Their voice sounded soft and caring, it was a faint but familiar feeling as I felt my body gently being picked up into their arms.
They were so warm, why was it so familiar? As they picked me up I started to whine in pain, the sudden movement hurt and scared me as I struggled a bit to get out of their grasps, they seemed confused as they tried to calm me down, "hey Sharlet it's alright calm down your safe now, I'm gonna get you out of here alright come on calm down," he whispered softly but I could barely see and couldn't tell if it was some sort of test or something so I shook my head no and finally made it out of their grasps falling to the floor and backing up into the far corner of the small room.

I heard him sigh as he walked up to my shaking body, I held my head in pain as I tried to stay conscious, my vision starting to fail on me, I felt him pull me into a hug surprising me as he spoke, "I'm so sorry it took us so long to find you, I should have never gave you up like that, please forgive me Sharlet, if you can hear me this is Optimus, I'm gonna get you out of here alright," he said and when I heard who it was I felt relieved but also mad, he left me, left me with these people and told me that I just got in the way. It made me so mad that my blood boiled as I looked up at him and slapped him, he didn't even flinch he knew he deserved it, I went to do it again but he grabbed my hand and looked directly into my enraged eyes with sadness, this caused me to feel a bit guilty as I started to cry and he hugged me again. I sobbed into his holoform as he just rubbed gentle circles on my back. I heard footsteps as I suddenly stopped crying and gasped looking at the door, this confused Optimus as he turned and stood up looking at the door aswell getting in a protective position.
Just then Arlo walked in talking, "alright Sharlet it's time for your next session so le-" he looked up and saw Optimus standing in front of me as confusion swam across his face, "who are you and why are you in here?" He said crossing his arms, "I'm sorry I'm new here, I was told to come get her for her next session but she didn't want to come," he said as he looked at me and gave me a wink then looked back at Arlo who didn't look so convinced, "hmm well that isn't good now is it, Sharlet you know the consequences if you disobey me, after all I am your father basically," he said making a shiver run down my spine.

He walked up to us and I noticed Optimus start to get even more protective but Arlo didn't seem to notice as he walked up and pushed Optimus out of the way then bent down to me and without looking at him spoke, "so what's your name newbie?" He said to Optimus as he responded with, "my name is Orion." Arlo seemed to perk up at the name and continued, "Orion, that's a pretty name, well Orion go set up the experiment room, I'll handle her" he said as he started to play with my black hair in my face, then he stabbed me with a syringe and I saw Optimus hit him over the head and Arlo fall to the floor unconscious. I fell into Optimus' arms as he grabbed my face and tried to keep me calm and awake by gently hitting my face a few times. I didn't feel good as I pushed myself off him and started to puke, my vision going blurry again. Tears started to well up in my eyes again as I held my neck and was shaking uncontrollably and gasping for air, Optimus picked me up and ran out the room then sirens started to go off making me scream out a little in pain until my hearing went blank and I started to pass out.