5 Middle Of Nowhere

When the car finally comes to a stop I lift my head and look outside. The area is sparsely populated and is very muddy. It looks like farmland but it is quite hard to tell for it is empty for what looks like miles. Suzzie signals for me to try and get out of the car. When I am unable to she puts one of my arms over her shoulder and places her hand on my waist to support me. The further we walk the more I can tell about the place we have stopped at.

We stopped at a place that was muddy and sparsely populated but we finished at a large house. The gardens were all fresh and green, welcoming on a summer's day apart from the fact that it was mid October, but welcoming all the same. The house is painted white with pink on the borders and the front door is painted a bright red but is now fading from all the years it has been there.

The owner of the house is a short man in his mid-thirties. He has a bushy moustache and gelled back hair. He has a cheery smile and twinkling eyes that sparkle in the fading sun. His cheeks are a pale red colour and his skin is a peachy colour where the sun failed to reach. He is wearing some smart trousers and a semi unbuttoned shirt which shows his probably hard as steel abs.

"The name Jim. What ya guys doing here. 'Tis be my parts." He said while taking out a cigar and lighting it.

"Suzzie. Can you tell the emm… nice man why we are here." I say signalling to Jim who was happily smoking even though it damages the lungs. Not that I can really say anything. Not both of my lungs are real. Seriously. Suzzie looks at me then Jim and smiles before speaking.

"Jim. We are here seeking refuge from a murderer's son who wants to kill Lady Maz here." She said pointing to me. Jim looks at us disgusted at us for we have brought our problem filled lives with us. "I saved you once, remember Jim. You said that I could come when I needed you to repair the favour. Please you don't understand what is at stake and more importantly who Lady Maz here really is. Please." He rolled his handsome eyes at us but stared longer at me both going back inside. We don't follow. Jim turns back around at us.

"Well. What ya doin' standing 'ere. I can't protect ya out there. Come in." He says pointing inside his house before bringing an arm up with a pack of Cigars in it. "Where are my manners? Cig?" Suzzie shakes her head and I go and reach for one but she pulls me back.

"Lady Maz. They destroy your lungs. Anyway aren't you only 14." She says a d I drop my hand back down beside my waist. I glare at her before sighing.

"Suzzie, two things. One: I don't have lungs to be destroyed. Two: it is my 15 th birthday. So please let me. Just for my birthday." Suzzie just shakes her head at me.

"Oh. Don't be mean. Let the gal have a Ciggy. Just for today." Suzzie sighs before nodding at him. Jim then brings out a cigar and hands it to me. As soon as I press it in my lips he lights it. It's something that I had never done before and I liked it. It did have an odd sensation but it tasted good. Now I know why my dad was so addicted to them. Not that I ever will be.

Me and Suzzie follow Jim into his living room. It is nicely furnished and has a large tv in the corner. The view out of the large windows is of his paddock with the large tree in the middle. Suzzie lays me down on one of the couches and goes to sit beside Jim on the couch facing me.

"So, Jim." I say as I take the cigar out of my mouth. "How did Suzzie here save your life?" I ask him before placing the cigar back in.

"Well, Lady Maz. Jim here was caught in a shootout done by some muggers. I was one of the first officers to get there. By this time no one had been killed. They had all been lined up and told to give over all their valuables. Jim was 3 rd in line when I got there. He had refused to give anything which was both the brave and the stupid thing to do but anyway that's what he did. So one of the muggers dragged him out of the line and placed him on the floor and I saw this. They were just about to shoot him when I came and jumped onto them. Jim got up and ran outside and sat on one of the benches which is where I found him once all the muggers had been arrested. It sat down beside him and asked if he was okay which he was. He then told me to find me when he can repay the favour. He then handed me his address and left. Never saw him again."

"All true. Ya save me. Best day too. Food anyone." He asks. We both shake our heads.

"I want to go to bed. I am really tired and I've just realised I haven't had a proper sleep since well I don't know when. So where can I sleep and who wants to help me get to bed?" Jim comes and picks me up and takes me upstairs. The upstairs is bigger than I thought it would be. When he had got to the top of the stairs he went right and put me in a room with a tv and gave me both of the remotes. I automatically went onto BBC iPlayer. Soon without me realising I feel sleepy. So when Jim came up to check on me he saw me sprawled out all over his bed. He chuckled to himself before leaving the room.

I felt a vibration going through my body and I slowly brought myself to wake up. The covers were harsher than I had remembered but still they were very warm and slightly soft. Had Jim washed the covers. I looked up at the white ceiling and let out a deep breath. I slowly then tried to see if I still couldn't move my legs but to my surprise I could. But how?

I lifted up my body and turned to reach for the remote but it wasn't there. I lifted the covers and looked under them for the remote. Yep. Must have fallen asleep holding them like I normally do. But a good question is why I was so tired and why did I sleep for so long. Not that long later Jim walks into the room and he is holding a tray of food.

"How are ya feeling?" He asks as he puts the tray down in front of me.

"I am feeling great and I have some good news. I can feel my legs again. So, I am going to have a walk around and get used to my surroundings if that is okay with you."

"Just have some food first. Then I will show you around the grounds, okay." I nodded and he left. I look down at the tray he has put in front of me. It is some chocolate on toast. There is also a big glass of milk. I down the milk then I eat some of my toast. Once I finish my toast I slowly get up and go out of the bedroom and into the hall. I don't notice what my legs look like as I walk down the hall, but when I see a glint in the mirror.

When I look into it I look down at my legs. They are a pitch black but with bright red pulsing throughout just not in the same way they used to be. It was very similar but I could tell the difference whereas most people would not be able to. I could tell that someone had adapted something in them. I didn't really mind because I could now walk but I was angry because they had been picking at my body without my knowledge or consent.

I turned to go back into my room when I saw the shocked face of Suzzie standing behind me in the mirror. She turned to go back down stairs but I stopped her. She looked up at me and sighed. "You noticed, didn't you." She punched out and I nodded at her. She scratched the back of her head and I bent down to look at her.

"What did you do to me? I thought I could trust you but you picking at my body without me knowing makes me think a little different about who I can trust if I can trust anyone at all. 'Cause so far I have had no evidence that I can. How did you do it anyway? When I arrived I wasn't that tired and yet I fell asleep easier than I ever had before. Care to explain." I stared at her and she backed away. She almost fell down the stairs but I caught her before she could and dragged her back up.

"Thanks." She said to straighten out her clothes. She told me to go to my room with her and I did. I laid down on my bed and faced outside at the window. Suzzie went and sat down on one of the chairs beside the window.

"Explain everything you were doing to me. Now."

"Before I start all this, Lady Maz I just want you to know that we were trying to help you. Nothing more than that." I nodded at her and she smiled. "Good now when you told me that you couldn't walk in the car I knew that something was wrong. So because you said that you didn't feel safe going to a hospital I knew that we would have to do something about it so I phoned Jim when I had noticed that you had fallen asleep and told him everything. I knew that he could help."

"But how. My body is very sophisticated. How could either of you know what would be wrong with my legs and then more importantly how to fix them."

"I wasn't entirely truthful with you. The first meeting with him about saving his life was true. The fact that I never met him again wasn't. I did meet him to make sure that he was okay. He told me more about himself and why he was there at this gala. It was a scientist gala, and he was well a scientist. It was an annual thing and he always went. Jim was a scientist; he isn't anymore not in his state. See after the little incident he didn't feel safe and secure so he started on the cigars which calmed him down meaning he wasn't allowed to continue in his job and had to stop his work. Now he was the head scientist in his field so it had a bad effect on everyone that worked with him but they didn't really mind once he explained why. That's how he knew how to fix you. I just helped him like I was a nurse and him being the surgeon."

"Okay I still have two questions. One, what was his field of work that meant he knew how to fix me and two." I look down at the bed. "How did you knock me out? I mean I was that tired when I arrived. Yeah I was tired but not to the extent when I couldn't keep my eyelids open. Which is precisely what happened. So care to explain this conundrum." I look up at Suzzie who is a little bit more nervous than she was when she came into the room with me. So I know that she is hiding something. She darted her eyes across the room before placing them back on me to tell her tale.

"To answer your first question Jim is the head scientist in the field of nano technologies and alien tech. Not that I am supposed to say this but he helped Area 51. If you tell anyone then he will be forced to kill you. I only know because I am a police officer and therefore got special permission to know. I also sometimes helped with covering up their tracks. The knocking out part. Well it was the cigar. There was a special ingredient in the one he gave you that knocked you out. Does that answer your questions."

"Just one more. How did you know that I was going to want a cigar? I mean what would happen if I didn't want it? What would you have done then?" I lean forward and look at her. She gulps as she leans further back in her chair.

"We didn't. It was just always worth a shot and I knew your dad was on them himself. If you hadn't had it then we would have knocked you out either with an injection or sleeping gas. Chances are it would have been the injection but you happily took the cigar. Did I forget to mention that I was good at acting when I was younger. The whole cigar conversation was an act. What I said in it about them being bad for you was true facts though.

"You drugged me. Is there anyone that I can trust." I said as I stood up and picked Suzzie up. The look of fear in her eyes was amazing. The fact that she tried to escape was in some ways stupid. She took my arms and tried to push her way out but failed miserably. I just laughed at her. "I trusted you with my life but all you do is betray it. How can I know I can trust you or anyone if they try and help but end up making things worse than they already were. Tell me."

"We were helping you. We didn't take you to a hospital. We helped you here. Did the same thing a hospital could do here. So tell me how I betrayed you. Okay so yeah the drugging did but name me something else. We're not the bad guys here. You said it yourself. So please enlighten me with your facts." I bring her body closer to my my face and breathe deeply on it.

"Yeah I guess you are correct about that. But still I can't trust you. In fact I could never trust any of you. After my dad's death I never trusted anyone. How could I. My best friend was the reason he was killed. Now I would keep you and Jim alive but both of you know the schematics of my body and that would make you dangerous to me." I get out a gun and point it at her chest. "Sadly that means that I have to kill you. I really didn't want to. So have a lovely time in the afterlife." I smile at her, but it is not a kind one. Or the one that Albert gave to my dad, Serch when he killed him. Suzzie grabbed my gun arm and pushed it behind my back, or as far as she could get while being suspended in the air by my hand.

"Lady Maz. Please listen to me. I've done nothing wrong. I didn't want to betray you but it was the only way. I just wanted to help you." I grip her neck tighter. Her lies will not be heard anymore. "And if you kill me then you are just like Albert. Killing someone because you don't like them. I know that that isn't you. You're better than this. So please. Don't kill me." I stared at her with murderous eyes and a death-eaters grin and then it happened.

I hear a loud bang of a gun going off. The screaming cry of Suzzie falling in pain. The smell of the blood pouring from her wound. The feel of tension as I stand over her body. The touch of the cold bullet mixed with her soft skin. The look of pain and fear in her eyes. The shock in mine. The feel of fury, the taste of victory. Then I heard the sounds of police cars surrounding the house. The guilt from when they entered the room. It all was happening so fast. The loud thud as the police banged down the door and came into the room. Them coming into the room and dragging me off her body to save her just to find that she was dead. Me stealing her radio so I can keep up to date with where the police are then hiding it in a secret compartment along with my phone and purse. Everything valuable including some keys to this house.

I ran down stairs and said sorry to Jim. I was going to kill him too but he was so nice. He had saved my life. I owed him that. I heard the police running at me but I kept on running and I knew that I would win in this race. I was faster than them all combined but I lost. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a car speed past me and then stop right in front of me. I turned around and saw another car behind me. I went left but a car went there too and then one on my right. Officers came and surrounded me.

"Surrender all weapons, put your hands on your head and the keel down on the ground." I didn't do anything. I just stood there and then sprinted to my left, I somersaulted over the car and I was just about to run further when I felt a jolt of electricity run through my body. Normally I would be unaffected by it but as I was still healing it hurt like mad. I was shaking off the pain – getting the electricity to leave my body when I was doggy piled by a bunch of officers. Once they cuffed me and yanked me up they placed me in the back of a cop car. Well a van to be more precise and they drove me off to the police station.