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Charlie, Eddie, and Davion ran out of the office into the main room of the lab. Across the room by the door, Roger Kingsley was behind Ms. Peach, tying a zip tie around her wrists to secure her as she struggled against him, helplessly. The big bearded man was over a foot taller than her and at least a hundred pounds heavier. She stood no chance against him. With her wrists secure, he sat her on a chair and attached another zip tie to the chair itself to secure her to it.
Series commissioned byAreat, originally published on myPatreon.
Dr. Wolff gasped when she felt the needle in her leg. Then, her eyes went wide, and she squealed, fully aware of what had just been pumped into her body. “Nooooo!”
Series commissioned byAreat, originally published on myPatreon.
The rest of the day went by quietly as Charlie waited to escape. Charlie gave Eddie a slight nod during class when he was sure that Ms. Peach was not watching, and Eddie nodded back. The plan was still on. They would leave that night. However, Charlie kept glancing at the clock and back to the classroom door, half-expecting Dr. Wolff to come bursting through it at any moment to grab him and drag him away.
Series commissioned byAreat, originally published on myPatreon.
Charlie found a folded sheet of notebook paper on the chair of his desk the next day. He nearly threw it out, thinking it was a piece of trash, but he opened it first to find that it was a note. There were only three words on it: “WINDOW TONITE MIDNITE.” He glanced over at Eddie, Davion, and Jack, but none of them paid any attention to him.
Series commissioned byAreat, originally published on myPatreon.
Charlie tried to sleep. He lay in his new bed in the quiet of his private room, but sleep would not come. His mind would not calm down, not after the events of that day. He could not stop thinking about Ben. One word kept repeating in his mind, so he spoke it out loud.
“Poison.”
What if Eddie was right? What if he had given Ben poison? Ben had drunk something that had caused a seriously bad reaction. That is what poison does. The milk was poisoned. If that were true, though, then Charlie would have a big problem. It would mean that Dr. Wolff had betrayed him and tried to poison him.
“No,” he said. “I mean… She wouldn’t… Would she?”
Mentally, he went over everything he knew about Dr. Wolff and Tabula Rasa. They take the condemned and make them into children. There are two steps to the procedure. First, the inmates are regressed physically. Then, they are regressed mentally. He had only been given the first step.