Thanks for all the comments guys, I'm not used to it!
Hope people don't like this too much at the moment actually, there's definitely an angle to this story that hasn't come through yet...There's a fair few hints to it in this next one though!
ShikyoxYaiba - Thanks a lot!
Just hope you stick around though! lol
ringo-hime - I'm sure that right now Ai wouldn't find it quite so cool being a cop!
JFC - Don't worry too much just yet...
writerjunkie - Hope I don't disappoint you in future chapters then!
Fenrir - It seemed like the role Koharu was born to play!
lil_hamz - You won't be finding out too much just yet...
Chapter TwoGlaring lights invaded the officers eyes when she attempted to force them open; she quickly shut them again to avoid the stinging pain. She lay there for a moment, her face scrunched up in an attempt to block out the light further, the darkness seemed comforting somehow.
It took a her a little while longer to realise that he entire body was aching and she had a banging headache. The headache she could understand, but even she was surprised about just how much energy her running had seemed to take out of her.
She tried to lift her arm to shield her eyes from the light as she attempted to open them again but found that even this wasn’t an even task. She could only raise her arm partway before it seemed as though something was pulling back on it, something quite painful. Raising her head was no good either, her neck was strapped down to whatever it was she seemed to be lying on.
It was at this point that she began to panic, wherever she was she wasn’t leaving of her own accord which probably meant that the one whom she’d confronted earlier had taken her somewhere. Raising her other arm seemed slightly easier, the aching was still evident but nothing seemed to be holding it down and so she frantically try to pull her other arm free; something she wasn’t finding easy to do with her eyes closed.
“Easy now, you don’t want to be doing that.” Came an unfamiliar voice.
Takahashi froze instantly in fear, was she going to face some sort of punishment now that her captor knew that she was trying to escape?
“Just give yourself a second and keep calm okay?” Whoever it was speaking to her the officer found it hard to believe that this was the same person she’d seen earlier, they had a naturally soothing voice, certainly not one that you’d expect to belong to a thug.
Soft hands took hold of her arm and lay it back down to her side without any show of force.
“Where am I?” It seemed the natural thing to ask and a slight amount of courage had returned to her.
“That isn’t really relevant right now, even if I told you you’d be none the wiser. What’s your name, can you tell me that?”
“I’m Officer Ai Takahashi, and I don’t know what you people think you’re doing but you’re in more trouble than I think you know. Taking an officer as a prisoner is a very serious offence-”
“Let’s not get carried away, shall we?”
Takahashi couldn’t believe what she was hearing, this person was clearly not worried about whatever repercussions they may end up facing, and they were taking on a very similar tone to one she would adapt herself when talking to the likes of Koharu.
“I don’t mean to degrade you or anything, but take my word for it when I say that you’re in a situation of which you have no control over. If you listen to me then I’m sure you’ll get out of this the best way that you possibly can, okay?”
Either this person was patronising or was genuinely concerned for her safety, and Takahashi certainly didn’t think it was the latter.
She forced her eyes open and felt a pain far greater then she expected, the dazzling rays seemed to be burning right through to the back of her skull. Still, she persisted in trying to rip the bonds away from around her neck; when she realised this wasn’t working she looked down at her arm and saw it injected with several needles attached to wires which seemed to be pumping several fluids, all varying in colour, into her body.
“Don’t touch those!” the strangers voice sounded panicked and a silhouette came in to view and places its arms over Takahashi’s.
Trying to fight back proved useless as the free arm that she did have felt like jelly when trying to push them away.
“At least….turn the lights off.”
Takahashi closed her eyes again and before long from behind her eyelids she could sense the lights go out.
Slowly opening them again there was a welcoming darkness surrounding the room now and yet everything seemed much clearer.
“You really are fragile at the moment aren’t you?”
This time she could lean her head over and see where the voice was coming from. To her surprise there stood a small slender girl, wearing a doctors coat standing where she’d expected to see a much more menacing figure.
“Is that better?” the girl smiled.
“Yes, thank you.”
The girl went over to a desk at the other side of the room and sat down behind a computer.
“So, Ai Takahashi was it?”
“That’s right.” came the weak reply.
“Well Ai, like I said there isn’t much I can really tell you at this point but when your strength returns I’m sure you’ll be filled in on everything.”
“You must know something. Like, what the hell was that thing that attacked me?”
“Thing? Why do you say thing?” The girl started to head back over to where Takahashi was lay.
“Whatever it was not human…”
The girl remained silent.
“I know it sounds crazy but, there was something about them, some sort of presence that wasn’t….wasn’t natural…and their face…”
“What was wrong with their face?”
“They were bleeding….no, they weren’t…but they their face was covered in blood.” She was struggling to remember exactly what she’d seen despite it being so vivid at the time, she cursed the paint can for knocking her memory from her.
“There was blood all around their mouth, but they had no cuts on their face. It must have been from the person they attacked but, what where they doing? Eating them?”
The girl let out a small laugh that sounded a little forced.
“Well Ai Takahashi, you have a very colourful imagination I have to say.”
“Look who are you really? You must know something about what I saw.”
“Me? I’m the doctor here, Risa Niigaki.”
“Here? Where is here?”
“I told you,” Risa sighed, “all that will be answered in time, she rest for now, please. Trust me, it’s for your own good.”
“I suppose I’m not getting out of here without you letting me am I?”
“It’s not me you have to worry about…”
“Maybe not, but it’s the police that you and your friends will have to worry about.”
“I doubt it.” Niigaki said sombrely.
“And why’s that?”
“Well, if you really want to hear it…”
“Go on.”
Niigaki took a deep breath and took a few steps away.
“It’s been two weeks since the incident you’re speaking of; the police aren’t likely to do anything because you’ve been declared as Killed In Action. I’m sorry you have to hear this now-”
She swung her head around as she was interrupted by a thump behind her.
Takahashi had managed to free her arm and neck and was on the cold stone floor. Risa darted to her side and attempt to help her up.
“I’ve….had enough. Let me…out of here”
“You don’t have the strength to escape; even if I let you go and you got away unnoticed you’d never last long enough to get to safety, you hear me?”
Mustering all of her strength Niigaki managed to get Takahashi’s body partly onto the bed that she’d been lying on.
As she did she Takahashi noticed that she’d paused for a moment and appeared to be staring at something on her neck.
“What are you doing?” Takahashi managed to whisper.
“Nothing.” Niigaki replied with a sorrowful tone and one more push to help Takahashi back onto the bed.
She carefully started to clean and then reinsert the needles back into Takahashi’s arm that was now letting the fluids that had been pumping into her spill back out.
After tending to her patient's wounds Niigaki headed back over to her desk and let out a long sigh.
“Please, for your own good, rest now, okay?”
Takahashi had already fainted from exhaustion.
Topic: Pulling Teeth [Chapter Three] (Read 7333 times)