Only Then

Chapter Twenty

A/N
I was listening to Adele while writing this chapter, so don't blame me. Blame Adele.

I woke up in a weird room. The walls, the floor, and the chair I was sitting in were all made of the same kind of wood. I struggled, trying to get out the knife on my metal hand, when I realized my metal hand was missing. My real hand was there. The one with skin and blood and bone. "Hush, my dear. Please stop struggling." A voice came from above me. I looked up into blinding light. In the top of the room there was a hole. And in that hole, a head. It was very bright and my eyes couldn't adjust, so the face was more of a blob. "It's okay. We can help you." The voice said, but quickly the voice faded and I opened my eyes. I was laying on the ground with Bitz and Sammy standing around me. "Ugh, did you have to knock me out? Again?" I had forgotten about the dream for now. I stood up. I felt fine. "We've lost a lot of time. We need to move fast if we want to get out of here." As if to prove my point, a wolf howled in the distance. We started the long trek on a small deer trail I had found. It lead us down and away from the hospital, or so I hoped. As it got darker the wolves howls got more and more frequent. I heard some rustling behind me. I jumped up, knife out with Bitz and Sammy behind me, just to see a hound wolf pup stagger out. His eyes were still sealed shut, so he must have been only a couple hours old. It was amazing he could even walk. He was bleeding from his sides and I realized he had emerged from a large wild raspberry bush. I looked over the bush and on the other side there were three other pups, laying dead. Not far off I saw what I expected to be his mother, also dead, covered in scratches that obviously came from machinery.