Poisoned Blood

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You know what Doctor Jonson really is? In my book, a coward. A big fat coward. He does bad things to me, then he leaves the room before we can go after him. He just leaves after torturing me. How pathetic is that. He just approaches me, hurts me, leaves. If you were actually strong and daring, you wouldn't leave before we get out of your evil grip. I close my eyes, in deep thought. I open my eyes fast and wide. My thoughts were getting so deep in my mind I was scaring myself. My mind was running too far into thoughts I don't want to think about. I'm resting now, Claire told me to try to sleep, but I just can't. The suffering I have just been through, how can I possibly sleep. What if doctor Jonson is in another room testing drugs and poisons to use on me, like an evil scientist tinkering in his lab; creepy. I don't want to rest, I want to get up, I want to do something.... I want to, see sunlight.
"Claire?" I say.
"Yes, sweetie?" she responds.
"I want to go outside, I want to see sunlight, I want some fresh air" I say. I'm an outdoorsy person, and being stuck in this stuffy hospital, with now sunlight or fresh air is making me insane.
"I don't think so darling. Doctor Jonson stopped us last time. If doctor Jonson saw us outside, he'd freak out, probably punish us. I don't want that to happen, who knows what he would do, I don't want him to punish you. He's too harsh, you know that," she said.
"C'mon Claire...." I beg.
"It's too risky" She said patiently.
"I would take the risk" I say. She looks at me funny.
"Just rest, I'll see what I can do" she said. I smile a little, Claire has a hard time saying no to me, I seem to mean a lot to her.
I get a little more comfortable, I start drifting off to sleep. But I'm scared to fall asleep... What if doctor Jonson comes in unexpectedly, and he stops Claire from helping me. I fight to stay awake, but I fall asleep. I have a bad dream. I wake up gasping and sit straight up in my bed in frantic, realizing it was only a dream, breathing deeply, trying to calm down a little. Claire gets up and sits next to me,
"Bad dream?" She asked.
"Doctor Jonson tried to kill me" I say gasping, I started to cry. She hugs me for a bit.
"It was only a dream," she said repeatedly, hugging me.
"Claire, I don't want to die" I say quietly.
"You won't die, I promise." She said. "Are you okay?"
"Not really" I say.
"Want to talk about it?" She asked, I take a deep breath.
"I was in a surgery room, it was dark and I could barely see, Doctor Jonson approached and turned on a light above my head, it was so bright it hurt my eyes, he held up a needle, it was full of air. I couldn't move, like I was paralyzed, I screamed and screamed. He was laughing as he was injecting it, and I woke up" I said, my voice unsteady.
"That's horrible. Don't worry, that won't happen" she said quietly. I just sat there for a few minutes silently. Trying to calm down. I look at my phone, its noon. My nap didn't even refresh me, because of my terrible dream probably.
"Do you want to go outside?" She asked, so quietly I could barely hear what she said.
"Yes please" I say, "Can we do a picnic lunch?" I ask.
"We'll see," she said.
We creep into the hallway very quietly. We take the stairs so no one hears the elevator running. The staircase it actually quite creepy, grey walls and floors. I have to carry my medicine pouch with me, I wish I didn't have to be hooked up to this i.v all the time. We stop by the kitchen and Claire grabs two sandwiches, and we hurry outside. Finally, fresh air and sunshine. I look up at the beautiful, blue and clear sky, and take a big breath, fresh air finally enters my lungs after so long. I feel free, I'm finally outside for once in a long while. I look over at the sign that marks which hospital it is. The hospital is one I haven't heard of. Its in a totally different city, I don't think I've been in this town before. We sit down in the grass under a tree.
Claire hands me one of the sandwiches, its a ham sandwich with lettuce and tomato.
"Let's just escape now!" I say.
"Let's enjoy being outside, eat first" she said. I bite into my sandwich, then I notice something odd about my arm... It has a red light flashing inside my skin. I stare at it, and show my arm to Claire. She gasps.
"It looks like a tracking device... If we leave, Doctor Jonson will know where you are... Maybe we should go back inside, or he'll come out here and probably hurt us" she explains.
"Let's just leave! He won't have his surgeons to help hurt us, we can go to the cops!" I said.
"They won't help, they didn't do anything last time, remember?"  I sigh. I finish my sandwich quickly and we go back into the hospital. The tracker flashes yellow under my skin while we walk through the halls. We sneak back into my hospital room. The tracker blinks green once. I hook up the medicine pouch back onto the stand and sit on my bed.
"Doctor Jonson is tracking me. He could find me even if I do escape somehow" I say. "Get it out" I demand.
"I don't know how I would do it. Just wait a while, I'll think of something" She said. I want it out NOW.
"Get it out!" I yell.
"I want to but I can't, if I tried, you could lose movement in your hand, I'm not doing something drastic like that" she said.
   I want it out, but Claire should know what shes doing before touching it. Who knows what it could do. What if it's something crazy like a mini bomb that would blow my arm off or something. Who knows. I didn't do much for the rest of the day. I mostly just did the usual, which is boring. I was getting worried that Doctor Jonson would come in, and maybe punish me for going outside. Now I'm starting to regret going outside. Did I just get myself into being killed or something? I don't know. But I'm scared. I just wish I could get out of here. I can't stand it anymore. I made myself too afraid to go to sleep tonight. I stayed up late thinking about doctor Jonson, what he could do to me, and if he killed me. I didn't want to think of that stuff, but I couldn't get the topic out of my mind. Claire kept telling me to try to sleep, but I just couldn't. She fell asleep in the chair. I fell asleep shortly after. I don't know what time it was. My last thought before I fell asleep was, if I'm going to die or get killed, I don't want to die in this hospital.