Surrounded by invaders

4 days and I still looked distractedly at my image reflected on the glass wall while they argued. I observed every detail. Longer hair and eyes. I had managed to calm down a lot after their color had returned to normal.

-What are those things? What do they want? - someone asked heatedly.

What difference can it make?

-And what matters most to us. Would they be inclined to negotiate with us? - the doctor wondered in front of a noisy audience.

-Negotiate?! - Zorack complained angrily- They won't negotiate anything. There is no negotiation.

The voices echoed in frustration and exalted when I pressed my forehead with a headache. I also tried not to pay attention to the details. I felt like a stranger there. I was a stranger.

He always used you. It was just that. All the time.

It was not a pleasant thought. Well, considering that I almost died ... Surviving a respiratory arrest ... My heart had stopped. Crippled by what the doctor had said. Other than that, I was just fine.

Why wouldn't I be?

At least some advantage of being a hybrid. Aha! Powers? I could have powers or perhaps a healing ability. And it was nothing like that. Things had gotten complicated after the implant was out of my arm.

They argued and I continued to stare into the mirror and wait. Any time. I was beginning to have horrible nightmares. Horns, scales and I don't know what else.

With my luck, I was going to get horns, scales, a tail, and maybe claws.

Why wouldn't I be okay?

Let me recap. My almost-boyfriend hated me and he was from the future, people when I passed whispered in a low voice and again the base was surrounded and the concrete walls supporting bursts of energy heroically. It was finally our end. The aggravating factor was that I was neither human nor one of those creatures that hunted us. It was a genetic aberration.

It was a relatively calm day.

Damn it. Shit! I wanna die. Just let me die ...

Even I had outdone myself at that time. It is one thing that you have never met someone or never been kissed. You might be sorry, but you knew exactly what you missed. You can't miss something that you don't know.

Shit. I am a hybrid. God! What did they do to me?

Holy shit. I had come back to swearing. I was terrified. The other had guaranteed that the changes were subtle. 5 cm taller ... It wasn't that much. Oh, and my hair ... They had grown absurdly. Mercy! How long would it take me to look like one of those things out there?

I will cry. I'm really going to cry!

I took a deep breath and tried to calm the heart that came to my throat. He was beautiful and I was the dumbest of all the planet Earth.

Of course, a man like that would never look at me. And it killed me.

-I still think that all this confusion here will just stir people up even more .- Sereide spoke softly.

I struggled to keep my expressions calm, but inside I picked up the little dogs without being able to gather them.

Sereide was a Pleidian. I remember that Zorack had vaguely commented on the ship's adviser.

-People have a right to know the truth. - I replied a little aggressive.

And she smiled like was my best friend and sat down next to me. Damn it! I could have been sinking into a pit of self-pity, yet I was enduring everything heroically. Zorack was very wrong if he thought I was going to forget so easily.

-Naturally. Is that how you feel, too, Angel? Avoiding commenting on the subject will not change what happened. Want to talk about ...

-No! - I made a face.

Who said things can't get any worse? With my luck, he had asked the counselor to talk to me.

Curse.

I didn't want to speak. I still couldn't speak.

It didn't take long for me to throw myself on the floor and deliver my tears in total humiliation. I took a deep breath again.

-Your boss wants to know if I intend to make a scene for so little? - I teased and it hadn't been so little.

After the doctor and a few others had discovered ... Oh, yes ... everything had complicated. 16 years. The doctor had been uncompromising in accusing Zorack of everything I didn't even want to remember. Suddenly that ring on my finger was heavy. Damn it again!

I was married. Could you believe that? The unfortunate man had deceived, betrayed, and lied to me. Forget his damn lies? I ground my teeth and the beautiful redhead looked at me triumphantly every now and then.

It was fantastic. Didn't anyone at the base know yet that Zorack and I had argued again?

-Yes! - Zorack accentuated my bad mood by making his voice echo loudly above the noisy crowd. - They are stronger than us. And these concrete walls will not last long. But everything has a weak point. And beyond that...

-He's trying, Angel. - Sereide spoke slowly emphasizing each word. I was still looking at Zorack from a distance. - I imagine you are hurt and it is not easy. But believe me, Zorakc is a good man. You are learning to deal with emotions and feelings ...

Wasn't it easy?

What a lame excuse. What could I say about it? It was not Zorack who was terrified of being a hybrid.

The medical exams had not been encouraging either after the doctor detected a breath in my heart on the chest X-ray. There was a change in the blood flow inside the heart and I was even more scared, biting my nails at the thought of an electrocardiogram. They said that alien DNA tried to manifest itself because of adolescence and human genes rejected the process.

So, I ... agh ... ah, I still couldn't talk about it. The cocoon and metamorphosis story was too much to process.

-Is he trying ?! - I hurt. -Since when?

Infernal alien or man of the future. Had he been having fun with the redhead again? I...

Idiot!

I was a passionate idiot who clung to pride. And certainly wasn't going to cry because of that unfortunate cheap conqueror.

What man was that vengeful man who had approached me for revenge? The first time we had been together ... I swallowed the crying with difficulty.

I didn't like closed places. Zorack's proposal only increased my nervousness. Trying to escape through the underground tunnels ... was not very attractive.

I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself, and made another face with the uncomfortable pain in my chest gasping when I closed my eyes. I almost screamed with the cold hand that touched my forehead.

-Did you really need to be here getting tired? - Zorack was howling furiously at me. - I thought the doctor recommended that you take a rest. Are you trying to kill yourself or test my patience?

Like?!

It was my final defeat. Did he mean to treat me like a stubborn child?

I tried to protest knowing the defeat when I felt the hellish man put his arm under my legs while supporting my back and lifting me up into the air. Shit. Had I become an invalid now too?

-I can walk! - I complained avoiding his eyes.

-I'll take you back to the cabin and there you can rest. Zorack sighed very patiently.

Rest? I was starving.

And the food didn't stop in the stomach. Neither his inhibitor nor the transfusions helped. It was hell! What a damn freak had I become? still walked during the day and was not huddled in the dark. I knew that Zorack had provided some blood bags for my food.

I was now also a kind of monster. I closed my eyes miserably with tears threatening again. The doctor seriously considered putting the implant back in my arm again, fearing for my health.

16 years! I was too young to die. And it was unfair. So unfair.

-I thought you were going to continue playing great leader here. - I spoke indifferently and trying to hide my tiredness.

Zorack's look was even more furious.

- At the moment I'm busy taking care of an irresponsible person who refuses to obey orders. - he said despite everything calm. - You go back to Spartackus and I don't want to see you around alone. I don't know if we will need to leave the base that quickly.

Upset, I wrapped my arms around his neck to curb the dizziness. How do we leave the base? And all those people?

-Zorack, but ...

He shook his head very seriously.

-We need to talk, honey. - His voice gave me an involuntary shiver. - Find help elsewhere.

-But what place? - my surprise had no limits.

Zorack looked at me even more seriously.

-Intra-terrain, sweetness. We will try to match forces in that battle.