The Beginning

2112, January 28th, Courage

Serenity opened her eyes to someone shaking her gently with a soft deep tone of voice telling her that she should wake up and eat something. Her eyes fluttered open and close until her eyes adjusted and she looked up at who was calling her. “Zander?...” she mumbled faintly and he nodded and smiled. “here let me help you sit up, you should eat something.” His strong arms wrapped around her frame swinging her gently up into a sitting position with her legs handling off the side of the bed. She tried to keep herself up but she couldn’t and Zander sat next to her so she could lean against him. “thank you.. You don’t need to do this..” she started softly. “you need to eat and recover energy and nutrition after last night” he spoke softly and calmly his low voice causing his ribcage to vibrate with the power and deepness in it. He had a table of food sitting right next to the bed that he could reach and he moved it in front of us. Her hand reached out and grabbed the fork before instantly dropping it on the table and her arm shook and then she stopped trying so hard and her arm fell back down. “i.. I don’t think I can eat right now.. I can wait for a bit until I peyote strength back.” She said determjned before Zander reached out and grabbed a spoon and scooped up some cheesy scrambled eggs onto it and brought it to her lips. “Here you need to eat now I’ll help you.” He said as he waited patiently.

Her cheeks flushed red as she became shy and parted her plump lips slowly accepting the help. He put the spoon full of food into her mouth and she took it chewing while looking at him. Her been the only one who showed her an ounce of kindness while she had been brought here. She found out he was her main guard and that the other two

were her secondary guards and they were tasks to bring her to her testing and experimentings. Van der however was tasked with taking care of watching me during her free time and making sure her food gets to her room but the nurse typically would take it from him and bring it in when he got to the door. And on the nights of the new moons and the next day to keep a watchful eye on me for any changes or to make sure I don’t danger myself or anyone else. He took another spoon full of scrambled eggs and brought it to her lips and she took it eating it quietly. “is it good?” he asked curiously looking down at her as he had already put butter and peanut butter on a piece of toast and cut it in half. “yes it’s good.” She would smile softly. “thank you” she said softly and he brought the toast to her lips and she took a bite of it. She ate the one half of the piece of toast before he grabbed the glass of orange juice which had a straw in it and he held it up and helped put the straw to her lips and she drank down some juice. Soon she had finished eating everything and was full. “Do you want to lay back down?” he asked. “yes.. But not here..” she said looking around the room. “to your room?” he asked and she shook her head no slowly “alright” he said before scooping her up in his arms. “Z..zander I can walk… “ she mumbled; “you and I both know that’s a lie. So just relax and ill take you to where you want to be.” She pushed her lips together nodding slowly as the began to ascend the staircase.

Soon they were outside of the big doors to the extremely large greenhouse and she smiled softly before he carried her in. He weaved his way around and to the back and to a hidden spot which had a bed weeved of vines, flowers, and leaves that had been formed from the vast jungle like plants. He laid her down as the artificial sunlight beamed down right where she lay her black hair giving contrast against the green plants. A smile formed on her lips as she closed her eyes breathing in the life around her.

Zander stepped backhand stayed in the shadows as he watched her smile and enjoy this knowing this was something she needed after last night. His thoughts wandered back to when he first met her….

“Zander this thing you will be in charge of is extremely dangerous and you should always be wary of it.” The doctor had said to me as we stood outside the greenhouse and then walked into it before there stood in the artificial moon light of the greenhouse with fireflies floating all around her and her black hair darker then night hair flowed around her. “this is zander he will be in charge of you from now on” the doctor said before he disappeared and left. She can’t be all that scary she’s just a girl. “uhm.. I’m Zander ill take care of you from here on.” And in the must sullen emotionless voice the girl looked at me as her eyes betrayed her. “Will you kill me? Death is no longer the scariest thing I could face.” She said in the most honest form.

From there I’ve seen how kind and how warm she can be but numb and unfeeling when then time is right. We spent hours in there before we heard the door of the greenhouse creek open.