The Creation Of A Cure

Chapter Twelve- Testing

You step out of the shower in your office and wrap a towel around you. The tendrils shake much like a dog in order to dry them selves off. It makes you smile broadly as you then look around for your clothes that Dr.Ottoman was suppose to get for you. Sighing your shoulder sag when you can't find them. Stepping out of the very small bathroom and into your office you stop dead.  049 was sitting in your chair writing in his leather bound book, his back to you. He was humming softly as he wrote.  You knew the song well it was created during the black plague. A child's song disturbingly enough as the lyrics spoke of death.
         
         Ring a Ring o'rosy
          Pocket full of posies
          A-tishoo A-tishoo
          We all fall down
  
  Your eyes soften as your think of the devastation the black plague brought to the world. Millions of people died, their corpse thrown onto fires and into mass graves. Yet 049 swore to you his pestilence was worse, that it had killed more, that it had brought more destruction to man. What was this pestilence? You knew it must be real why else would he sacrifice so much for it. Why would he give two lives to finding it.
    "You shall catch your death of cold should you remain like that." 049 said unmoving.
    "Sorry I was lost in my thoughts." You confess. "I was thinking of the great pestilence." He laughed sadly, knowingly his back remaining to you
   "It haunts me as well but rest easy my dear I shall destroy it. You have my word." 049 said
  "I believe you. I just..want to understand it better. I have this need now to comprehend it." You say sighing resting your head against the slight ajar door. "I worry that I may never understand it. I worry I shall disappoint you despite my efforts." 049 pushes out the chair and stands, turning toward you.
   "Your efforts are most refreshing. It had been quiet sometime since one wanted to understand the great dying as you have." 049 said to you. "Sense one has believed in my work." You notice his eyes move over you briefly as he clears his throat. You blush but smile coly,
   "Is something the matter, 049?" You ask.
   "No...yes...you." 049 fumbles lightly for words. Your smile grows as his eyes fail to meet yours. You take a step forward,
    "Am I being too care free with my lack of dress perhaps?" You ask.
    "Dr.Ottoman shall return shortly with proper coverings." 049 said coughing lightly.
     "I beg pardon then." You tease stopping infront of him. "Shall I return to the other room."
    "Please..I fear a loss of control should you not." 049 said swallowing thickly. You pull down his cowl and whisper lightly upon his lips,
   "Maybe I wish you to." You bend your head sideways and kiss him longingly but softly denying him to much friction or touch. Stopping suddenly you turn and head back to the bathroom. "But I shall do as you wish." You say over your shoulder. Your blood pumps loudly in your ears as the taste of herbal tea lingers from his lips. Entering the bathroom, you splash cold water on your face reaching out blindly for a hand towel. The smell of spices tickles you, your body suddenly heating up as you feel the brush of leather on your back.
    "You are a wretched tease." 049 whispers lightly nipping your ear. You bite your lip as his hands grab your hips roughly. The cramped bathroom dose not allow you to turn and face him. So you look briefly into the mirror to see him descend upon your neck. A gasp escapes you as you feel his lips brush the sensitive skin there, before laying many a passionate kisses. You feel the cold tip of his beak firmly pressing into your skin on your opposite collar bone. The tendrils apon your head coo lovingly as you grip the sides of the sink.
    "049." You call wraping your arm around his neck. You hear a quiet groan emit from him as he lightly bites your skin sucking the tender flesh. His hand move up slowly feeling the curve of your body. You almost curse when you hear footsteps approaching.
    "It seems we are no longer alone." 049 sighs into you shoulder. He quickly moves away leaving you trembling.

   You feel exhausted as you slide down the wall of the testing chamber.
      "Can I have a minute." You ask
      "Of course Dr.Crow." Dr.Right says. Your head still throbs from where they cut off a strand of hair. The pain had been unbearable and soon after you had lost consciousness. Your blood still covered the floor of the testing chamber and parts of your head.
    "I am so tired." You sigh your eyes feeling heavy. Your body had already healed itself and the strand had regrow. No one however dared entered the chamber now. The tendrils had proven themself hostile. "Sorry about the shoes Dr.Bright." you say softly
     "You better be! They were brand new, I had just broken them in!" Bright yells over the com. You roll your eyes and try to stand back up. You struggle but by leaning on the wall you manage it.
     "Okay what is next."  You ask
     "Were sending in a D-Class." Dr.Right says. The door opens and a thin man balding man steps inside,
     "D-456 please step toward Dr.Crow." Dr.Right says.
      "The fuck is she?" D-456 asks.
       "D-456 step toward Dr.Crow." Right says firmly. The man takes a couple of tentative steps towards you and looks nervously around. The tendrils sit quietly atop your head, you can tell they are waiting and watching. "Move closer to Dr.Crow." Dr.Right says. He takes three more steps, and gives you a very awkward smile.
    "I am not going to hurt you." You say. He nods slightly you can tell there is no way in hell he believes you.
    "Excellent D-456. You can leave the testing area." Dr.Right says. You watch the man practically run out of the testing cell.
     "Can I get something to drink?" You ask.
     "Of course." Dr.Right answers. The door opens and a large built D-Class enters the room with a cup of water. You walk up to him and grab the cup drinking it very quickly.
    "Thanks." You say crumpling the cup. He gives you a very unsettling smile causing you to walk backward toward your spot against the back wall.
    "Begin test D-99." Dr.Gears says. The man grins broadens and he pulls out a concealed shank from his sleeve.
    "The fuck is going on.....Gears!" you yell. D-99 charges toward you, quickly you side step and throw your elbow behind you striking him hard in the back of the head. D-99 stumbles forward swearing loudly. "I suggest you stop before I hurt you ." You say firmly. The man laughs darkly before coming at you again swinging the knife in broad arches at you. You jump back avoiding his manic swings.
    "Stand still." He yells at you. Great a brain dead, blood happy convict you think. Grabbing his hand you slam it several times against the steel wall causing him to drop his weapon. In a swift downward strike you brutality snap his radius and ulna causing him to fall to his knees screaming in pain. You lowered your guard for a moment. When D-99 grabs your leg pulling it out from underneath you. Your head slams hard against the steel grated floor and you see stars for a moment.
    "Bitch your going to pay for that." D-99 growls. His good hand wraps around your throat his thumb pushing into your windpipe. The cry of barn owls fills the cell and you bring your knee up and connect it to his groin. You scrabble free running to the opposite end of the cell. You can feel the tendrils atop of your head swaying aggressively as a black red fluid falls onto the ground. The fluid hiss as it eats away at the metal flooring. "The fuck are you." The man says his eyes transfixed on the tendrils. His body is frozen in place his eyes wide in fear.
    "Dr.Crow call your pets off." Dr.Bright says. You close your eyes and focus on a single thought, stop! You feel the tendrils slow down at first then eventually fall silently back into long stands of hair. You open your eyes and see D-99 still frozen in place.
    "Dr.Crow stay where you are we are sending in security." Dr.Right sighed over the com. Your body shivers as another wave of exhaustion washes over you. Leaning over you vomit up the water your drank and stomach bile. You can hear the security team pull D-99 out of the room.
    "Dr.Crow." Dr.Bright said. You look up drowsy and sore. He kneels infront of you and hands you more water.
   "I am so tired. I need to sleep." You say taking small sips. "Please."
   "Alright. Get 049 down here and bring in a cot." Dr.Bright orders. "Look Dr.Crow I just wanna say you owe me new shoes." You burst out laughing,
   "Damn it Bright." You say. Once you see the cot you stand shakily but Dr.Bright stops you from going toward it.
   "Wait 049 is still enroute. While we're waiting do you wanna tell me about what happened yesterday." Dr.Bright said laying down on the cot.
     "Jerk. Do you mean the incident with SCP 049." You reply.
     "Ya that one....right Cogs!" Bright yells out.
     "Fuck sake Jack read your paper work..and yes that is the correct incident." Dr.Gears replies.
    "I was laying in my bed," you begin wrapping your arms around your self. "When I wondered why SCP 049 eyes looked sad." You cough as a dizzy spell hits you. Swallowing hard you try and not vomit again.
    "Okay what happened after you called your pets off." Bright asks
    "I saw memories I think." You reply "an answer to my question perhaps."
    "What did you see Raven." Dr.Bright asked sitting up. His face was unusually serious and stern.
    "I.." you faulter your head telling you to cooperate and your heart telling you what you saw was very personal and private.
   "Dr.Crow answer Dr.Bright question." Dr.Gears says over the com.
   "I saw him come into being. I saw him in Alagadda." You reply trying to please both parts of you.
   "So 049 is a citizen of Alaggada." Dr.Bright asks. "Ya! You ducking bitch take that." You jump slightly as Dr.Bright jumps up in victory while holding his phone.
     "Bright put your phone down." Dr.Gears yells over the com. "Did you just destroy my village?"
    "Mwaha haha suckers!" Bright laughed maniacally. "So what was SCP 049 like back in good old Alagadda?"
    "He was a doctor there to something known as the Hanged King." You say. Your answer is meet with complete and utter stunned silence.
    "Are you completely sure?" Bright asks.
     "Yessss....why?" You reply now nervous you just got 049 in trouble.
     "Like 100 percent, if your wrong you'll fuck Clef in the cafeteria while covered in green jello sure." Bright says seriously.
     "Who is Clef?" You ask.
     "Some one you don't wanna fuck on or off." Bright replies. "now are you sure?"
    "Yes." You reply. "But I doubt he remembers."
     "Why is that." Dr.Bright asks. You look away remembering his anguished insanity.
    "He was quiet insane when I saw him." You answer softly.
    "Fuck a duck with a truck." Bright says messing his hair up.
    "SCP 049 E.T.A. is less then two minutes Bright." Dr.Right says over the Com. "And I saw what you did to my village Jack, so suck on this."
   "Oh no you did not!" Bright yells. He runs to the doors pulling out his phone. You stand and slowly make your way to the cot.
   "Raven?!" 049 says alarmed. "You are bleeding. What has caused this."
   "Just standard test." You say. "I shall be fine I just need to sleep." He sighs and walks over to you embracing you briefly before you lay down. You hear him remove his medical bag. Your eyes close just as he begins to treat the wound on the back of your head.