Trapped With The Master

Eli opened her eyes slowly, excruciating pain shot straight through her head. It felt very painful, but this pain was like she was used to. She smelled a strange smell, a smell she had never smelled before. The smell is very strong, but it's not rotten or anything like that, it smells a little better.

"Hi, how are you?" 

Eli blinked trying to get rid of the glare that was interfering with her vision. Little by little her vision began to return to normal, but now her voice couldn't come out at all as if it was stuck in her throat.

"It's okay, don't get up yet, just lie down!" Said a man with the most beautiful voice Eli had ever heard.

Eli looked around her, a strange room that had never even crossed her memory. Very clean white room with a strange smell, but not too bad. She just realized that at this time she was lying on a very soft bed, to her left there was a pole with a bag filled with white liquid which had a long tube that penetrated the skin of her hand.

Eli couldn't say anything other than fear at the thought that she was being tortured right now, tortured by someone or even more. Eli thought maybe these people were much worse than her family.

"Uh..." She winced in pain when she realized that her head and legs were wrapped in a white cloth.

Eli tried to hold back tears when the man dressed in white stuck a needle into her arm. She wanted to scream but she couldn't, she was too weak at the moment.

“Doesn't it hurt too much? Everything will be fine!" Said the man with a smile, his smile made Eli even more afraid.

The man left Eli alone in the room, Eli didn't know what to do. She really wanted to run away but where? In a situation like this, even getting out of bed feels very difficult.

The man dressed in white walked down the corridor, some people greeted him and he responded with a warm smile and his distinctive voice.

"James...!" Shouted a woman standing behind him, a woman with black hair, and dressed exactly the same as him at the moment.

“Miyuki? Are you still here? Didn't you come home this morning?" Asked the man whose name turned out to be James.

"I did come home earlier, but I was worried about you. Since that girl was taken into care, you haven't even come home."

"What else can we do? I feel guilty because this is my fault."

“But it's not your fault, it was the girl who suddenly crossed. Go home James and rest!"

“It's okay, I'm fine. Thank you for worrying about me, I still have work to do.” James answered as he took off his foggy glasses and cleaned them with a small cloth.

"Do you know where that girl's family is?"

"That's what I want to tell you, I've asked people around the scene, but they admitted they never knew the girl or where she lived. There was one man who said she had seen her walking around the factory alone and she said it looked like she was a homeless person who had no place to live."

"Homeless? So what about the strange wounds all over the girl's body? Did you see for yourself what condition she was in when we brought her here? I'm sure the wounds on her body were not caused by an accident but rather like wounds from a blow or other violence." Miyuki was annoyed, she didn't understand the strange condition of the girl they accidentally hit a week ago.

“I don't know, I'll try asking the girl when her condition starts to improve. Earlier when I gave her the injection, she was conscious and opened her eyes, but her expression looked scared when she saw me, she cried but didn't say anything."

"Okay, hopefully this problem can be resolved quickly. I don't want us to have to deal with the police because of this problem. Have you had lunch? I'm sure you haven't eaten anything since last night?"

“Yeah, I think we should eat out. I also want to calm my mind for a moment.” James said with a smile and stepped back ahead of Miyuki.

"I heard there is a restaurant that sells very delicious pasta across the street, they said the restaurant just opened three days ago, do you want to try it?" Miyuki suggested enthusiastically, her face cheerful again.

"Sure!"

"No…! Let me go…! Please…!” Eli screamed hysterically, making the nurses in the room overwhelmed by her.

"Don't worry! We won't hurt you, we just want to treat you!" Said one of the nurses who was quite patient after Eli had thrown various objects at her head.

"Please don't hit me...!" Eli shuffled under the bed, her body shivering with fear, all she felt was extraordinary fear.

James ran as fast as possible to the room where Eli was being treated. He was shocked when he heard loud screams and the excitement made by the nurses treating Eli.

"What happen?"

"Doctor James, this girl kept screaming at us, even though we only wanted to change the IV tube, but she immediately pulled the IV tube in her hand and screamed hysterically." Said one of the three nurses in the room, they were sweating even though they were only treating one patient.

James sighed and tried to act calm, he understood this girl's condition. Patients like this must be handled gently and patiently, because they may have trauma that no one else knows about.

"Hi, you're awake, aren't you?" James said in his soft voice, he approached Eli who was still hiding under the bed.

Eli bent her knees and hid her wet face between her legs. She didn't dare look at the doctor's face even though the doctor's voice didn't sound scary at all.

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