My Blood

Hesitation is death

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One second Leoni was dying in Indie's arms and the next she was on a smooth floor being sprayed with some sort of white fog. she wriggled around in it trying to see but it kept coming. when it stopped she dropped her cheek to lay on the cool surface and caught her breath before looking up in order to find Octavia

"Miss Blake and...another?" a man greeted. Leoni swept her hair out of her face and looked up at an older man with piercing blue eyes, short, snow white hair dressed in white robes, looking down at her and Octavia curiously. Leoni reached out for Octavia

"why did you do that?" the brunette hissed

"i'm not loosing you again! plus i didn't think that dagger would turn out to be some sort of portakey!" Leoni whispered back and Octavia's angry look faded. she reached out to grab Leoni's hand and the two looked at each other warily ready to take on whoever this threat was. the man walked over to inspect the two girls carefully. his eyes widened at Leoni when he saw her black blood

"get them both to medical. the blonde stays for now, she is an ancestor of Miss Franco. I want them back in M-cap by the end of the day. we are far from finished" the man ordered two guards and then walked out of the room. Leoni was wildly confused as one of the men picked her up and started carrying her away

"no stop" Leoni wheezed weakly as she reached out for Octavia who was being picked up by a second guard

"it's ok Heda i'll find you, don't let them see your memories. focus on a phrase keep your mind closed! hesitation is death!" Octavia called in their own language. Leoni didn't understand what was happening and before she could register it the guard had stuck a needle into her arm and put her to sleep.

When Leoni came to she was strapped down to a medical bed and there was a device wired into her head. a microscope like telescope was right above her face, staring into her mind. instinctively she tried to get free from the cuffs on her hands and ankles but with every move she made something tugged on her very brain causing unimaginable pain to pulse through her so before long she froze in place

"ah Miss Kane. you have woken. there's no need to panic we're just going to run through a few simple exercises to get your brain warmed up and then we'll begin" a man spoke slow and clearly. he seemed confident and sure of himself. instantly Leoni's mind flicked to Octavia's words

"hesitation is death" Leoni whispered and turned her mind to Kidra's face. to the first time her commander ever uttered those words to her
"hesitation is death" she repeated and the man started to loose his cockiness
"hesitation is death"

"no no no don't close off your mind- stop that!" he demanded as he waved his hand over her eyes trying to break her concentration but Leoni had grown up with Kidra as a mother. if you didn't concentrate on your attacks you didn't eat.

"hesitation is death" she repeated calmly
"hesitation is death hesitation is death hesitation is death" and that became her life. for the next 45 days Leoni repeated that phrase making it impossible for these strangers to learn anything
"hesitation is death hesitation is death hesitation is death" she repeated night and day, every second of every hour, week after week.
"hesitation is death hesitation is death" the men that belonged to the establishment she was trapped in, prodded and electrocuted her trying to get her to break but she didn't. she never did. she thought of nothing but her commander. if she had given in and stayed in her right state of mind what she would have registered was the constant nausea, the ever so slight growth in her stomach, how she'd missed her period...
"hesitation is death hesitation is death"

45 days later

"hesitation is death hesitation is death"

"i found her! she's in here!" Hope called to the others and they all rushed in