God. It was Donnie again. He needed to stop. She curled her lip. How was he not getting it?
Kal, you should start towards the exit.
She watched his face contort.
Over my dead body will I leave.
That was fair and expected. Well, best make the most of it then.
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. She tried to smile at him.
A strength that she knew could only come from Kal, started to pulse through her. Standing taller, she took in a deep breath.
“What is she doing?” asked one of the guards.
Donnie turned. “It's that thing. He’s doing this to her.”
Maddie scanned her arms, she was glowing again. Thank goodness, Kal would take her away soon. Somewhere where this might not be weird.
Feeling marginally better, she finally assessed her side of the hall.
Backing away, Maddie didn’t like the change in the doctor’s interest.
“So, you aren’t powerless after all, then,” said the older man. “Perhaps we need to keep you under isolation. Donnie, find out where they come from while we eliminate this other threat. We don’t need him if we have her.”
Donnie bristled, and as much as Maddie disliked him, backtrack, she had disliked him, and now she just hated him. But still, if he could keep her from becoming some bad science experiment maybe he wasn’t useless just yet.
“Dr Rollings, she’s a witch. I told you she was a witch. She just isn’t powerful. I don’t know what those tattoos are. They happened when he got her, but I doubt it means anything.”
The wonderful, and she used that term lightly, Dr Rollings was a giant douche-canoe.
“I don’t think she’s being honest with you, Donnie. I also don’t think she’s your intended as you have led us to believe: it doesn’t appear to me that she’s brainwashed.”
“She isn’t herself. I promise you this isn’t her,” Donnie almost whined.
“Guards, take the female. Kill the male.” Dr. Rollings began to turn his back.
A female in a white coat jumped forward. “No. Wait. We can observe mating habits as well as their powers and technology. Can you imagine? What if we can cross breed them into our own? Imagine the powers. Maybe they’d be the human weapons we’ve been failing to create. This is the species that our ancient texts talk about. It has to be. They’re still around. Can you fathom how powerful he really is?” She shut up as Dr. Rollings shot daggers her way.
The doctor stepped closer to Maddie. She tried to slink away. Something was wrong with him. Magic began to flow through her veins like a flash flood. It was all coming back. She didn’t attack though, not yet. Not until she was sure that she would stay on her feet.
Maddie’s head still swam from the power drain. Dr Rollings stood a few inches from her, his breath smelled of onions and she turned her face away, but not before catching Dr. Rollings’ eyes blink, only without blinking. Like an inner eyelid.
“What are you?” Maddie gasped.
He came closer. “I am someone who never quite gets the recognition that I deserve because I’m not altogether human, like you appear to be as well, if you are human at all.”
His voice rose from a whisper as he put on what sounded like a practiced speech. “I had the money, but the Illuminati still stuck me here in charge of some looney operation that believes in aliens. The only positive is that I have had some success in cross breeding. You met one of my daughters upstairs.”
Maddie stood a little taller as Kal’s energy filled her. Almost ready. She was almost ready.
“I smell the magic on you now, my dear. I don’t know how you hid it before. I’ll need to get a ward placed on you, and quickly I’m guessing.”
She ground her teeth.
Calm yourself, Maddie. We will leave shortly. We need to neutralize this place.
“My, my. Perhaps you are right, Irene. Well, right about this being the species that some of our texts obsess over,” cooed Dr. Rollings, his tone, almost more scary than before.
“Well, doctor. I hate to burst your bubble, but we will be leaving. I don’t think you’ll be getting any free shows from either of us,” she said.
“I do think you are right about one of you.” Dr. Rollings’ fingers snapped. “Kill that one. We’ll go after the male from upstairs. Perhaps we can see if she’s compatible with that one or if they only mate with one. I don’t really care. We just need one to see if human DNA and their alien DNA will do what we need.”
They’d just said the wrong thing.
A pulse rose within her, only this wasn’t hers. Kal’s dragon was talking over. All caution was gone. He was ready for the fight.
“No one but me can and will ever touch her,” roared Kal.
Maddie’s eyes followed as the girl, Irene, backed away.
“Father? I mean Dr. Rollings. Perhaps we should call Lillyanna. Or, uh. One of the others up from the cells?”
He turned away from Maddie. “Why? He won’t hurt her, and looking at her, she is indeed somewhat human. You.” He pointed to one of the guards. “Run up and ensure this is being recorded. Did you see how these markings burned brighter when we mentioned the idea of breeding her with someone else?”
Maddie’s blood boiled.
“You don’t talk about me as if I am not here.” Her hands burned, the feeling new and powerful. “You don’t talk about me, like I would even think about leaving him behind. Like you can just throw me with someone and assume I’d want anything to do with them. I. Am. Not. An. Animal.”
She welcomed the fire running along her arms.
Donnie stepped away. “Maddie. Stop. They swore they wouldn’t hurt you. I -” He stared at her.
“Dr. Rollings. You did this. She was fine, until you started to threaten her,” Donnie screamed.
Too late, Donnie. Just too late.
“Dr. Rollings? Is that your name? If you let me go now, and Kal, then I won’t hurt
