A New Hope

Chapter 12

"Its been been a week and she's still not healed!" A gruff voice near me complained. "If we don't get better results we won't get a full payment"

"Well she's not f*****g dead yet either. Stop bitching and give her another injection... Try giving her the human variation as well" my eyes shot open and glared at the asshole who did this to me.

"Look whose awake, you've been a f*****g disappointment so far, so I hope you enjoy your next shots." he snarled at me before leaving the room with the other man.

At some point when I was unconscious they hosed off the blood from my broken body. Looking down at myself I was covered in infected scabs and bruises. Still unable to move any of my limbs my body was slumped on the floor held up by the chains on my wrist. Black and blue veins covered my breast that had the n****e cut off. I could see a few bones breaking through my skin from the compound breaks inflicted with the crowbar.

Despite the starvation and damage inflicted to my body I was still some how barely holding on. My thoughts and dreams of Gabriel giving me strength. Willing me to survive to get back to him.

My dreams of him felt so real and one of them he spoke to me like he's been having the same dreams of me. I must be delirious because some part of me believed it was real. That somehow our bond was keeping me alive and keeping us connected.

A man came back into my prison and walked over to me holding two needles. He let his eyes wander over my body lingering on my breasts.

"Its a shame we can't enjoy any of the prisoners" he sighed putting a needle into each side of my neck. "even in this state I can tell you'd be a good f**k"

"f**k you!" I growled at him through my shattered jaw.

He gave me a vicious grin before leaving me alone again.

The two injections mixed together sent me into convulsions within minutes. My weak body thrashed against my chains breaking my bones even more and reopening the endless cuts covering my body in blood once more. I started to vomit blood before drifting off to darkness again.

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"Alice they're bringing people from another cell in with us" a husky voice whispered, waking me from my sleep.

I have only been sleeping when the others are awake, trying to always have someone awake to over hear any information our captors may drop.

I opened my eyes and looked at Greg, his face was hollowed out and his clothes hung off of him. He's thirty two and a nerdy IT guy he was skinny and clean but weeks locked up left him filthy with a patchy beard. He was celebrating his anniversary with his wife when they were taken.

"Must be the cell getting the same doses as us, they must have had major losses as well" I sighed looking around at the five of us left alive.

Anne somehow managed to survive, but hasn't spoken since her mother died. She constantly clung to me. Not realizing her own strength I constantly had her nail marks on my arms and neck. I softly kissed her forehead and stood up picking her up with me. She weighed next to nothing now and after holding her for more than two weeks I didn't notice her weight at all.

"I hope Sue is with them" Greg whispered while staring down the dark corridor.

They gave us three rounds of injections, each time making everyone seize and pass out, each time some would never get up again. This whole time we never got any food or water, but whatever they gave us saved us from malnutrition. Once a week they'd spray down the cell doing a poor job of washing our filth away.

It sounds like they had eight cells of people, they had four different methods or alterations to whatever they were giving us. Four cells were lethal, we assume they were the ones with the manic blood curdling screams. They screamed like that for days on end before it got quiet, the painful moans were peaceful in comparison.

We assume its been a week since the last injection we received. I've been keeping a careful eye for any sign that the others might begin to shift, but nothing yet.

The men came by the other day the same routine of holding us at gun point and forcing us one by one to put our arm through the prison bars. This time one brandished a knife and cut us leaving a six inch long wound. I think they are trying to see if our healing has sped up. I've been monitoring Anne's and while the others sleep use my thumb nail to re open the wound to match Anne's healing process.

Greg and I saw three prisoners being walked towards us at gunpoint and we backed up in the cell before being told. They tossed the three in with us and walked away.

"Sue?" Greg said in disbelief as one of them threw herself at him.

"Oh baby I thought I'd never see you again" she sobbed into his shoulder as they both fell to the ground.

"Its okay darling I got you now, my light in the darkest of nights" he cooed to her crying as well.

"I'm scared of what they are going to do to us next, they turned the cell across from us into animals."

"I know darling they're turning us all into animals but we got to hold on" Greg soothed her.

"Thats no what she meant" one of the newcomers said in a dark voice.

"What kind of animals?" I asked the man who sat down with his head hung between his knees.

"Wolves... before they... they melted like being covered in acid" the third newcomer another woman said in disbelief.

"f**k" was all that I could say. The new man looked up and saw Anne in my arms.

"Jesus those monsters would do this to a child?!" he stood and walked over to us.

"Hi sweetie, my names Robert. You must be the strongest and bravest girl in the world, whats your name?" He cooed to her and she just stared at him blankly.

"Anne here is definitely the bravest and strongest kid on the planet" I replied to Robert giving Anne a little squeeze.

"Your doing great momma bear" Robert squeezed my arm before sitting down.

I didn't bother telling him that Anne's mother died. It didn't take me long to decide if we both got out of here alive that I'd adopt her. She didn't have any other family and I couldn't bare to think of her in the system. Max and I discussed having kids in a few years, but I knew he would take Anne in as his own, no questions asked.

"What else have you guys heard from the crew?" I asked the newcomers.

"We're already halfway to wherever we're going and that they've dumped over sixty bodies." Sue said still hugging Greg.

"They're starting the third phase on us soon and they're hoping we start to change. Oh and they have a girl held separate, it sounds like her experiment includes torture... or they are doing it for fun" Robert said with his head between his knees again.

"Hope is still alive" I sighed in relief.

"There is no hope in a place like this" the other new woman said.

"No Hope is her friend, they took her to a separate room when they first sorted us." Greg explained.

"Why would they single her out?" Robert asked.

"Why are they doing any of this?" Holly said from the back corner.

"Nobody knows, but we should at least know eachother" Greg said standing up. "I'm Greg, that's Holly, Jared, Alice, and little Anne"

"I'm Sue, thats Robert and Amanda"

"Great now we can know some more people to die " Amanda sighed making Anne squeeze me tighter.

"Amanda there's a kid with us now, we got to let her know that we're not giving up." Robert whispered at her, looking at Anne with concern.

If they want us to turn into werewolves they must have a plan to control us. I could turn into a wolf when they do and follow their lead, escaping when they let us out under their control... but what if it killed everyone, killed Anne. I can't let that happen.

"We're going to find away out of this little one" I said kissing Anne on the head.

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I woke up and stretched before opening my eyes. Did I just stretch? I looked at my body in disbelief. My body was somehow healed, the only reminder of the torture I underwent was my missing n****e. How was this possible.

The chains no longer burned my skin, but still kept me confined. I stood up in shock that my legs held my weight. I still felt weak and I lost so much weight that my skin was tight to my bones distorting my tattoos. Was I dead and in some kind of limbo?

If that was possible maybe Gabriel really was seeing me as well.

"Gabe I love you and your in my dreams too. I know you haven't given up" I whispered into the cold steel room.

After standing in shock for awhile the door opened, they must have someone constantly watching the video feed from my room.

My least favourite person in the world came in with two other men behind him, bringing with them the bag, crowbar, and table.

"Well if it isn't the little d**k club" I greeted them knowing what was coming.

"Its about time you woke up, the past week has been rather boring" he ignored my insult.

"Now we're going to have some fun again, this time we'll take an extra precaution to make sure you don't try to shift and ruin our visit" he said as they tightened my chains forcing me to stand with my arms and legs spread.

"This is going to feel like glass flowing through your veins and make you a bit drowsy, but don't worry it won't numb you to the pain" he sneered as he jabbed a needle into my arm.

"The only thing hurting is my eyes from staring at your ugly ass, you know your whole thug charade doesn't fool anyone. Your obviously a useless nobody. I feel bad for you, you literally have nothing going for you" I mocked him earning me multiple hits to the jaw.

"p***y" I said despite my broken jaw.

"f*****g cunt, I really am going to enjoy this" he growled picking up a blade.

He started stabbing the knife into me slowly as I fought against the chains but didn't scream out in pain in spite of him.

"Hope can you hear me" I heard Gabriel's voice clear as day.

"Yes" I tried to whisper unsure if it was him or if I was losing my mind.

"Whatd you say b***h?" the man stopped and stared at me.

"p***y"

He growled and continued to cut into me.

"Hope focus on me, on my voice, on what I see if you can" Gabriel's voice was crystal clear again, causing the pain to fade into the background.

"Thats it, your not crazy. I've been seeing you for weeks now. Your so strong baby. I love you so f*****g much"

I blinked a couple times and I was no longer in my steel prison, but over looking a beautiful valley and forest that reminded me of BC. I was seeing what Gabriel was seeing and hearing his amazing deep soothing voice.

"Yes your doing it, I can feel your pain easing baby. Our connection has only grown. I can always sense you and I think you can sense me too."

He turned his head and was looking at a Giant black wolf with grey on its muzzle and chest and I started to panic, worried about his safety.

"Dont be scared for me baby, I'm safe... hes friendly" Gabriel reassured me and reached out to the wolf who allowed his touch.

"Hope a lot has changed with me since I saw you and if you've been seeing me, you've been seeing a lot of wolves I bet... that's real to as crazy as it sounds." The wolf walked away and Gabriel turned his gaze back to the valley and forest.

I could smell the fresh forest and feel the cool breeze. It felt as if I was sharing his body with only loose ties to my own.

The pain of my leg being shattered took me back to my prison and I fully sagged in my chains. Once again covered in blood from all the new cuts.

"Little d**k man" I glared at the ass hole doing this to me, he was now splattered in my blood.

"So you are still with us, good I want you to feel your bones breaking" he sneered at me.

I could feel Gabriels sorrow wash over me as he must have switched to looking through my eyes.

"Hope! Baby stay with me, focus on my voice. Its almost over just hold on" Gabriel pleaded to me in a broken voice bringing me back to the forest with him.

"Thats it my moonshine, my everything. I'm here. Hope I can hear you when you talk to me, you come to me in visions like this, when I'm awake or I'm asleep. When you can I need you to tell me everything you know." he urged me as we stared into the forest.

How was this even possible, was the injections they were giving me giving me super powers? Is this just a welcome hallucination? What did he mean a lot changed with him. My drifting thoughts were bringing me back to my body.

"Hope I f*****g love you just stay with me pull yourself away from the pain." he urged me again. "I got to keep talking to keep her focus" he said to himself or to someone out of our site.

"Alright so we know your headed to America and I'm around Seattle now. We're trying to figure which boat your on and how we can come get you... Uhm I found my father, Hope. It was definitely a huge shock, but it has to do with you and I being mates. There's a lot of people like us that have mates as well. Max, Alice, Adam, and Cassie are all like us, thats why they approached us. Max and I got really close. He calls us misery brothers because we miss our girls so bad its making us crazy..." Gabriel's voice started to fade.

I blinked and realized I was alone in the steel room again, they gave my chains enough slack that my bloody broken body was slumped on the ground. It felt like every bone in my body was broken and I couldn't move anything below my neck.

I felt like my body was on fire like it did from the injections, but somehow different. Instead of feeling like I was being ripped apart, it felt like my cells were quickly rearranging to fix the damage.

"I love you Gabe" I muttered before passing out.

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They've successfully changed the other group of prisoners into wolves, we started hearing growling stead of moaning yesterday. They held off on phase three for us waiting to see the results on the other cell. We've been captives for over a month now, but no one the exact amount of time that has passed.

Anne still hasn't said anything and hasn't let go of me either. Sue has offered multiple times but Anne freaks out anytime she has tried to hold her. Instead Sue has settled for singing to Anne and braiding her long dirty brown hair.

We over heard the men saying that they can control the wolves with a frequency that reacts with the last injection. Forcing them into submission to the trainers voice.

The crew seemed to think this was a major victory, but not their end goal of having the wolves shift back and still submit. From the sounds of it, this wasn't the first time they've experimented at sea and not the only ones either.

"Alice are you going to tell us your plan yet?" Greg whispered to me as Sue slept with her head on his shoulder.

"It going to sound crazy, but you believe me now that they're trying to make us into werewolves?" he nodded his head listening to the growling from the other cells. "Well they are trying and getting close because there are real werewolves in the world." I said slowly watching his reaction.

"It sounds crazy, but if they're able to turn humans into wolves it makes sense that they are basing their experiment off of something." he said looking at the others in the cell as they slept.

"And you've noticed that I've dealt with the injections differently then you?" I asked him.

"You're a horrible actor Alice" he smirked at me, "but good enough to fool those clowns"

"Its because I'm not like you guys" I softly told him.

"You're a werewolf?" I nodded while he thought about it.

"So your thinking of turning us and we fake it till we make it?" he easily guessed my plan.

"Yes, but I have no idea what it will do to you guys" I confessed looking down at Anne.

"It looks like our only options are to die, turn into brainwashed wolves, or become werewolves and attempt an escape" Greg said bluntly.

"Not great options are they?" I said sadly.

"I choose escape or die trying and I'm sure everyone else would." I nodded my head thoughtfully.

"How long can a wolf swim for?"

"I've heard of our kind swimming in the ocean for almost a full day" I told him.

"So we'd drown before making it to land." he sighed.

"I think we're on a small cargo ship, so there's probably over twenty armed men, making our chances of taking it over slim. Werewolves are strong and heal fast, but not invincible and I don't think you guys will be able to control yourselves enough to shift back to shoot our way out." Greg gave me a concerned look. "You'll be able to shift back to human, but not under gun fire"

"What if we made a distraction for you to drop a lifeboat then meet you in the water? Could we shift before drowning?"

"I think that could work and hopefully the lifeboat has a satellite phone or something, my boyfriend could send someone for use right away"

"He has the connections to do that?" he asked surprised.

"I wouldn't be surprised if this ship is being tailed already and Hopes boyfriend is a billionaire who would spend his entire fortune to get her back" I explained to him and somehow that shocked him more than me being a werewolf.

"There might be a light at the end of the tunnel yet. So when do we tell the others?" He asked.

"When we're all wolves" Greg raised his eyebrows. "trust me, we'll be able to communicate without human ears listening"