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I sat in an uncomfortable leather chair with the all too familiar feeling of wires being attached to my body. Sam was trying to explain what everything did but I wasn't listening, something I did to him a lot. I was scared of the questions they were going to ask me; you'd never realize how scary it was to be taking a lie detector test until you were sitting in the chair.
"Tony, trust me it will work, I made it," A familiar blonde sat in front of a machine and a computer, trying to push Tony away from the area. "Abby I'm just making sure, I don't want her to get away with anything."
Abigail rolled her eyes at the man, her eyes gazing back to the screen. "Give her a break, Tony."
"You understand?" Sam asks, this time a little louder causing me to drift from the background noise. I nodded with a small smile, looking around the room trying to calm my nerves. The well-known group scattered around the group, all staring at me like I was some pray, which didn't help.
"Okay, you ready?" Abigail asked, Tony, standing behind her; his arms crossed over his face plastered with skepticism. I nodded, my leg shaking uncontrollably, Sam's hand landed on my thigh, with a nod of reassurance.
"Anyone want to start?"
Tony was the first one to jump at the opportunity, he had previously written a full page of questions but shortened them down to four.
His lips curved into a small smile reading the first question. "Do you work for Lucius Tyrell?"
Just his name had frightened me. Lucius had believed that I walked on this world because of him, he couldn't help but gloat about the lives he had saved. I shook my head, Tony turning back to Abigail, she nodded to him, "That is true."
Tony's small smile turned into a frown, his plan of exposing my true intentions had been ruined.
"Do you work for Dee Dee Rose?" If I had the chance I would. She and George had continued to save people from the facility. With the number of wrongs she had done or committed, the good would always counteract the bad. Though I didn't find a source of trust her, I still knew the good she had done.
I shook my head, looking down at my lap. Tony jerked back to Abigail, a smile formed on her face, chuckling to herself. "That is true." Tony groaned, rubbing his temples. He wanted a reason to hate me, something that I couldn't understand but I didn't want to figure it out.
"Are you afraid to talk?"
Unwillingly, I nodded my head. I didn't want to admit the fear I had in my stomach but either way they would've figured it out. I was afraid that if I talked I would end up in the sanitation room, something that had always scared me even though I had never been in the feared room.
Everyone's faces turned into pity, looking at me like I was a child who scraped my knee. They all turned to Abigail waiting for her response. She looked terrified herself but I didn't know why, she nodded at them, an uncomfortable tension grew through the room, everyone sat sporadically amongst the room, not knowing what to do.
"Does he make you scared to talk?" Tony broke the silence, everyone turning to him - their eyes widening at his question; they looked more offended than I was. Just the thought of him made me nauseous, the fact that I lived my life under his imaginary control had made feel useless. I nodded at his question, trying to look anywhere other than Tony.
"Oh bollocks, Eliza. I've done nothing to you, stop lying to them to make you seem innocent" Lucius rolled his eyes, sitting in the corner. It had taken everything in me to stop from running at the man. My hands clenched into a fist, my knuckles turning into a pale white. A cold hand fell on mine, the calming feeling of Remi's hands.
"See, now you got everyone believing that I'm a bad person!" He threw a jar off of the counter causing me to jump. Everyone looked in the direction of my eyes, looking at each other with their suspicions. "What is wrong with you Eliza? Are you thick in the head? I thought I taught you better than that." He did teach me better or force me to do better but I couldn't care to listen to him, at the time.
"El you okay?" Sam reached out his hand but I quickly moved away, although I wish I hadn't. Carolina stood by his side, stroking his arm slightly, though Sam didn't seem to care at her efforts of trying to calm and care for him. I ignored him, trying to continue on with the questions, something that should've kept me from thinking about Lucius but failed.
"Okay, well I have some questions if that's okay?" Natasha spoke, standing up from the comfort of her chair. I nodded, motioning her to ask. "Is it true that you were a wild child before the incident? That you were involved in some things that you probably shouldn't have been?" She was very blunt and didn't care how I felt about the twitch the started forming in my body. I nodded, slowly, not wanting my past to be true but I couldn't escape it.
"What about the night of April 24th, 2012, is everything written here true?" I stared at the writing, flipping through the pages that only held the truth in them. A tear slipped down my cheek, I didn't bother to wipe it before it fell to my shirt. I handed it back to her, trying to avoid her venomous stare. I nodded at a slow pace, biting the skin off of my lip.
Everyone reached out for the folder but Natasha took it from their grasp. "Nope. That's for me and Eliza to discuss. We don't need anyone nosy to look at it." Her eyes fell directly on Tony, smiling sarcastically.
"I have a question!" Carolina exclaimed, jumping from her spot into the chair that sat directly in front of me, with her big brown eyes. "Have you ever fallen in love before?"
The subject had made me tense, my jaw clenched looking at her. Leo Mason. The boy who broke my heart because he preferred to love drugs instead. He had died of an overdose, I had gotten the call the next morning and unfortunately, it didn't' surprise me. I told him to stop because I had the gut feeling that something would happen, every night that he went out I could only think of the worst. Carolina couldn't help but smile at the frustration I was in, I had the urge to remove the wires and run from the scene but I couldn't.
"Carolina, I don't think that is relevant" Sam spoke up from his chair but she had just shushed him. "Sam, Eliza is a beautiful person, someone, of course, had to fall madly in love with her, right?"
I never knew if Leo had actually loved me, he would continue to say he did but I had never believed him. At the same time, I never knew if I loved him the way I wanted to love someone, back then, I didn't believe in love, I thought the feeling was artificial. I only wanted to feel love because I wanted to replace the missing affection my mom had never given me.
I ignored her question, trying to remove the wires. Sam jumped to help but I pushed him away, after the things that had to be revealed, I had no wants to be around anyone but that wasn't his fault because he was just trying to help.
