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They were there again. Their masks dull and their breathing heavy, arms reaching out towards her. Her body flinches backwards only to find herself strapped down to a large metal chair. Her eyes widen at the sight of her body and limbs in leather bindings around the chair, shaking her head and willing to wake herself up from this awful nightmare. The people around her disappear, and the girl stumbles over her own feet, suddenly finding herself back on solid ground.
Taking her time to look around her, brown walls and dim lighting seemed to be all that surrounded her, rusting chairs and iron scaffolding. Blood. She jumps back instinctively ass soon as she takes notice of the familiar substance.
Clenching her eyes shut, she buries her fingers in her hair, tugging at her own roots. Tears slipped past her eyelids involuntarily. This isn't real, wake up. Wake up. However her eyes open again to reclaim the same eerie surroundings. The lump in her throat only grows, her confusion spiraling like a snowball going downhill.
She takes a few steps forward, moving toward a strange tube situated in the middle of the room filled with a green liquid. The girl barely had time to blink before it all washed away and fades to black.
Her condition is stable. Subject reached.
•••
Venus' eyes open to a searing white light, her head continuing its regularly scheduled pounding as she attempts to sit up a little too quickly. Her increasing heart rate causes the EKG she was attached to to speed up, subsequently alarming the sleeping man by her side and the teenagers stood outside her door. Alexander's head immediately lifts from his arm, his gaze shooting straight towards his daughter.
"Oh, thank God." he breaths, reaching out to grasp her hand in his own. His response wasn't met so gratefully though, her breathing only becoming more heavy and unsteady, the heartbeat monitor beeping more rapidly. "Vee, sweetheart, you're okay. You need to breathe."
The door bursts open, Melissa making her way in, eyes immediately landing on the panicking girl. Right outside it stood Isaac and Stiles, each of their hearts in their throats as they worry over the girl in the hospital bed. Melissa and Alexander speak in hushed tones over Venus, trying to figure out what was causing her to panic so much.
"Someone was here." The brunette whispers, her blue eyes swirling with panic as she looks up at her father, the boys by the door listening in. "I- I heard them. They were s-standing over me."
Alexander shares a concerned glance with Melissa. "Sweetie, no one came in this room today except us right now."
Venus shakes her head rapidly. "Someone was here."
"You could have dreamed it." Melissa suggested. "You were out of it for a while."
The girl remained unconvinced by their pestering, her gaze shifting to the three boys, noticing the cuts in their clothes. It all came rushing back to her then, Tracy and her night terrors, the police station, Lydia.
