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It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
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“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
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There was a brief moment of silence as the knife was pushed up against Zvikas’s neck and Kelly’s demands were made clear enough, neither of them making a move. Being in such close proximity of him now, the aroma of his aftershave filled her nose, which had the slightly familiar, yet pleasant scent of rum spice and bayberry leaves. Certainly not a widely used combination among men she had met, but generally preferred by those of European descent and a more classical taste.

“This is absolutely not the way I intended for our meeting to go, Miss Denver.” The doctor’s tone came very even and calm, showing no signs of hostility or apprehension. “However, you are in control of the situation now, and so I will do as you ask.”

Doctor Zvikas slowly raised his arm and gave a signal that indicated to the guards to lower their weapons and desist, which they did rather reluctantly, but continued to monitor the situation from their vantage points.

“Now, Miss Denver, since you are obviously unaware of the exit, allow me to lead the way. I’ll keep my hands in sight and you can hold onto that steak knife if it helps ease any tension.”

She gave him an acknowledging nudge forward, and the doctor began walking at an even stride, leaving the courtyard and heading along the rear wall of the building, with Kelly only inches in tow. The nearby guards kept their distance as they tracked both her and doctor closely, yet the dogs wildly barked and carried on as though they were ready to pounce any moment, breaking the otherwise quiet evening. Kelly could feel a foreign instinct building up inside, one of which prodded her into wanting to attack, to lash out at anyone or anything in her way. Gasping momentarily, she fought it, pushing it down as much as she could as she continued walking.

“Now that we have each other’s undivided attention...” The doctor said in a matter-of-fact tone, his eastern european accent smooth and calm as always. “...Let us speak plainly.” He paused for a moment, then continued. “You’re hurting, Miss Denver, and you know this. You have a disease which you are completely unaware of and it has been eating at you for some time now. This anomaly has kept you from the woman you once were and is seemingly pushing itself further to the surface.”

Kelly found herself rapidly blinking her a eyes a few times to refocus, as her vision seemed to waver and her head began feeling light as air, making it a bit more difficult to concentrate on what he was saying. The doctor’s words crept into her ears and she knew them to be true, but what was it that he wasn’t telling her? What did he know of this “anomaly”, and was it really infact a “disease” as he so eloquently stated. She could feel her strides slowing and her steps heavy and clumsy. She wanted so badly at that point to curse the guy out, but the words seemed to escape her tongue as she propped herself against the wall.

“Are we feeling okay, Miss Denver?” Doctor Svikas turned to look at her with an expressionless face, cocking his head a bit as though he were intrigued by something.

“Impressive. Although, I suppose you shouldn’t have eaten so quickly.” He said with a slight smirk. “But you were rather famish, no?”

Her body weakened and she dropped the knife from her grip, as she slowly slid down the wall and collapsed onto her back in the soft, moist grass. Kelly’s mind was filled with a mixture of her senses all at once, each slamming into the next, muddling up her surroundings, and blurring that which used to be clear. She gazed up at the doctor who was now kneeling over her, his fingers examining her neck for a pulse, as his voice and words became nearly indistinguishable.

“Sir, we found the other one in the garage.” An unidentifiable voice said from a few feet away, but out of her line of sight. “We have her contained.”

Kelly’s world went dark.

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Sound, smell, and taste was all she had to work with for the moment, as a short burst of electricity awoke Kelly’s mind and body, followed by the heckling of two disgusting voices that were vaguely familiar. Her head hurt, but it was manageable, and she found herself blindfolded, gagged, and wrists and feet secured tightly to a cold metal armchair. She picked up the scent of terrible body odor mixed with vodka, as well as the humming of what could be a generator of some kind.

“Aw, the little pup is awake I think.” A voice said in a condescending tone.

“Well she should be, it’s been like four of five hours now” Said the other with a gruff voice. “And to think I was going to introduce her to my man-sized stromboli.”

“Hah, more like a damn dill pickle, dumbass.” The other snorted.

“Hey, fuck you Dan, just because you don’t have a dick, don’t mean you gotta hate. So why don’t you go back into storage and grab us another bottle of Stoli’s, so me and this bitch can have some private time…” The guy snickered through his teeth, which Kelly now remembered being yellow-stained, crooked, and rotten.

“Fine, but don’t come crying to me when your cock falls off. These bitches are probably full of STDs and shit.”

She finally realized the two geniuses were the disrespectful orderlies from her room awhile back, and it seemed as though they still had free reign within the confines of the hospital. Apparently Kelly’s point wasn’t made as clearly as she thought, something she hoped to rectify soon enough no doubt.

Kelly could hear the guy sucking air through his teeth as he walked around her chair, brushing his hand across her hair, face, and chest. This sent a surge of adrenaline coursing through her body, so much so, that she could feel the thick leather strap secured to her wrist begin to loosen as her arm pulled against it.

“I’m really hoping to continue what I started back in your room…” He said, his breathing getting heavier and heart rate rising. “...and I’m gonna fuck you long and hard until you can’t walk straight any-.”

“Hey!, numbnuts!” A husky-sounding female voice called from across the room. “Why don’t you take that ‘stromboli’ of yours over here so I can bite it off and spit it back into your fucked up nasty pig face.”

“Pig face? Bitch I own you and can end your life right now if you don’t shut that whore mouth!”

“Bring it on, cowboy…”

At that moment, Kelly recognized the voice. It was that damn girl who’d promised to help her escape and instead ran off and left her having to fend for herself. She could hear the orderly’s footsteps shuffling over toward where the other girl’s voice came from.

“Yeah that’s right, step up and get in my face, asshole!” She yelled, egging the guy on.

Meanwhile, the sweat forming on Kelly’s arms made it possible for her to slid one of her hands out of the leather strap, and she quickly pulled the blindfold down from her eyes. She was sitting in the middle of a fairly large room, a single lamp hanging over her head, and small fluorescent lights - some flickering or burned out - illuminating the rest of the area. She looked over her shoulder and saw a few metal cages, about the height of an average person, lined against the brick wall, and the tattooed girl with the shaved head and the attitude, locked away in one of them.

“Come closer dickhead!” The girl continued taunting the guy, who started kicking the cage door out of anger, and just when he was within arms reach, the girl grabbed him by his shirt collar, and pulled him so violently hard that his face smashed into the bars, knocking him unconscious as she let him tumble back onto the floor.

“Well hey there” The girl said looking over at Kelly with a wry grin. “Um...no hard feelings, yeah?”

@Xandrya
@DarkwolfX37

Any headway on a CS or are you still sifting around for ideas?

Let us know if you need a hand :)
An odd silence fell over the room for a moment when Nate opened his mouth, most likely using scare tactics, or just being Nate. But the idea of some unknown “man in the shadows” didn’t sit well with Vincent. He wasn’t one for surprises, unless they included a stripper popping out of a cake, but that wasn’t the case now, probably never again considering where all of this landed him. He held Jennifer’s hand, as even she seemed considerably unhinged by the ordeal, and was shaking a bit, no doubt partly from lack of food. Being city folk, her and Vincent were both out of their natural elements, and the middle of nowhere was definitely the last place Vincent would have wanted to go.

“Sit tight” He said to Jennifer, as though she had much of a choice to go anywhere else.

Vin got up and headed over toward the kitchenette that Eli had mentioned. For whatever reason, he was rather impressed by the guy’s laundry list of awards and commendations, which also left him with two thoughts: either this guy will be a huge help to the group, or he will go ballistic and kill everyone. The latter thought, of course, causing a lump in his throat to form as he passed the rough looking soldier. Instead, he focused on finding something to eat and maybe even a drink to take off the edge.

“So...what the hell is an ‘M-R-E’?” He said outloud, cutting through the otherwise dull chatter between Eli and Nate, as he rummaged through the few cabinets he found. “And why doesn’t it sound all that tasty?”

Vincent opened a small pantry closet, and initially didn’t find anything of interest, but as he pushed a few old rusted cans of what could have easily been pre-civil war green beans aside, he noticed a rather large mason jar with clear liquid and a sealed lid. “Now what do we have here…” He mumbled as he pulled the jar out and held it up to the light, noticing the contents were about as clear as they come.

“Any idea what’s in here?” He asked while in the middle of trying to loosen the lid, which unscrewed rather easily after a few seconds. “Whoa!” His nose scrunched up and eyes squinted at the pungent aroma that flowed out of the jar. “Holy shit, this stuff smells like paint thinner and apple juice!” He exclaimed in between choking on the harsh fumes.

“Who wants to try it first?” He grinned, hoping to break up the monotony in the room.
Oh...you are a sneaky minx.
@Thundercrash Then it's a good thing she's not the one who can read minds O.o
No worries @Thundercrash. Just let us know if you think you might have to drop out for an extended period of time so we can work our posts around it.

I'd hate for someone to start a convo with Christi and she suddenly becomes catatonic ;)
Good. I like that you're a glutton for punishment ;)
Well, So'lid & Gavon will be snooping about the ship, so no doubt they'll plenty of interactions and "What the hell are you doing here?" being said :)
“Alright Czi, you can do this.”

The woman stood in front of the wide overhead door labeled “Garage”, pulling up on the handle, but unable to get it to budge more than an inch or so. The key card she swiped from one of the nurses didn't have the access levels to open any doors in the rear of the building, so of course the only logical solution was to screw with it until it did open.

Fuck. Futile to the last.

Czigani looked up in the ceiling and noticed a small ventilation grate, which most likely fed into the garage on the other side. She cracked her knuckles and took a deep breath. As of late she'd had an impressive amount of agility and adrenaline flowing through her, unaware of it’s origins but also didn't care all the same. She knew something was different, but couldn't figure out whether it was all the shit they pumped into her over the last few weeks or possibly the electroshock treatments they've doled out like it was going out of style. Either way, something within her physical makeup was changing drastically, and her thoughts, senses, and general outlook on the surroundings seemed sharper and less scattered.

She took a few steps back and sprinted forward, pushing off on the wall with one foot, and gaining enough vertical momentum to grab one of the steel conduit pipes coming out of the ceiling. She lifted herself up and balanced rather effortlessly on the narrow ledge, but making the mistake of looking down only to throw off her equilibrium.

“Shit...I must be like forty feet above the floor.” She gasped, turning her attention back to the vent which was easy enough to open as she crawled in head first. She slid her body carefully along the dust covered air duct until reaching the adjoining vent, which she pushed opened and then dropped down onto a stack of crates that made the rest of the trip down easy.

The room had no lights on that Czigani noticed, yet she was able to see with precision and clarity as though they were on, but the colors she saw in pitch darkness were much more muted and dull.

“What the hell? This has got to be some drug induced shit going on right now.” Her voice echoed in the large garage, which appeared to have a full stock of tools, parts to various mechanical things, and a covered vehicle.

“I bet that's it” She said with grin, pulling on the canvas cover that didn't appear to have any dust on it. Underneath was a cherry red 1969 Chevy Chevelle, the very car she'd overheard Doctor Zvikas mention on a few occasions. Apparently it was his most prized possession, and now it was going to be hers if she could just remember to hot wire the ignition, a trick she’d picked up years ago, but only ever actually used on one occasion for a friend of hers. All she knew now was that she needed to get out, and the place certainly wouldn’t miss one insignificant patient amongst the one hundred or more that were unlucky enough to be trapped there. She fumbled around with the paneling under the steering wheel column, and popped off the small cover, exposing a few wires. At that moment her ears perked up, catching a faint jingling of metal, and the fluorescent lights overhead turned on, revealing a thin figure standing near the interior doorway across from the vehicle.

“A-Are you looking for these, ma’am?”

It was Jimmy, holding up a pair of keys that, she assumed, belonged to the car she was attempting to steal. Czigani sat up in the driver's seat and looked over at Jimmy with a sheepish grin. “Uh...hey there kid. This isn’t what it looks like…” She said, clenching her fist that was out of his line of sight. She didn’t want to have to hurt him since he was really one of the only decent people she’d met at the hospital, but she also couldn’t afford anymore obstacles. Not now. Not ever.

“Oh, no w-worries ma’am, I’m just h-here to help.”

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Kelly’s heart hammered from the adrenaline she’d mustered up during her quick escape, and she leaned up against the wall for a moment to catch her breath as the outer door she exited from closed behind her and the locks engaged. Her eyes met the night sky for a moment, which was clear and full of stars, probably more than she’d ever remember seeing living in large cities where the bright lights of the cityscape took away from the subtleties of the darkness. But out in the middle of nowhere, miles from where the larger cities were located, the night skies were unmolested and the galaxies seemed to shimmer with life.

She found herself in a large courtyard area, surrounded by lush trees, bushes, flowers, and several small patio tables with umbrellas. Several tall black lamp posts were evenly distributed throughout and illuminated the area with a warm glow that made it more comfortable and serene.

The smell of something resembling grilled meats assaulted the girl's nostrils, causing her mouth to water, and an instinctual urge to erupt from within. Kelly was hungry. She hadn't had a decent meal since the incident days ago that put her away and into the system to waste away. She searched out the source of the wonderful aroma and found it. Across the courtyard, sitting at one of the tables which had several dishes of food and drink, was Doctor Zvikas.

“Please join me Ms. Denver.” He gave a Kelly a quick wave and a smile, as he motioned for her come. “Rest assured no harm will come to you, however there are measures put in place should you decide to continue your intended course of action...”

The doctor motioned out into the vast acreage beyond the courtyard, and Kelly noticed armed patrols with assault rifles, accompanied by german shepherds, walking along the inner and outer fence line and across the long stretch of grass that appeared the length of a football stadium.

“So you see, I implore you to come sit, enjoy a good meal, and then there are a few matters we need to discuss.”

@Xandrya
Well hopefully @Thundercrash will chime in soon because she is a significant character in the Harlan story, and there's nothing worse than a good character disappearing with no rhyme or reason.

The other dude, however, hasn't been on in 4 days and he had one post to contribute so I'm not worried about him.

I get that RL sneaks up on us all, but for fuck's sake people need to simply step up and let us know that they're not interested instead of cowering away. But I guess it's easy to do on the internet where there is no real emotional connection or human contact.

And, I'm sorry, but this whole "my internet sucks and is keeping me from letting anyone know anything" is a bunch of bullshit. Unless you live in the poorest regions of a 3rd world country, you can find a way to communicate, even if it's a quick note letting people know you just can't post anymore.

/end of rant
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