I hear voices around me but can't make out what they're saying. Something about the chip being ready to have programs installed on.
I try to move but find it difficult, even more so trying to open my eyes. So I try harder to make out what is being said around me.
"We'll have to wait and see what happens when she wakes," says a stranger close to me. I try to make a sound but only a whispered groan escapes my lips.
"I think she's trying to wake up," I hear someone else say. I feel cold fingers gently wrapping around my wrist. I don't bother pulling away as I still can't move. I try to speak again.
"Wu-what is going on?" I barely whisper to someone, anyone. Silence follows and I feel anxiety creep up my spine. Where the hell am I? The table I lie on is cold against my naked skin. Realization kicks in, naked, I'm naked on a cold table of a kind. Who took me? And what the devilish hell is going on? I hear shuffling sounds, a door opening and closing. All I hear is beeping, from a machine, I guess. I try harder, more like force myself to open my eyes to no avail. What have these people done to me? I feel the tears start to form. My family. My friends. My everything is gone if I don't get out of this as soon as possible.
This time my eyes open and everything is blurry but as my eyes clear with help from the tears, I see that I'm in a green room yet clinical. Polished perfection. A table with equipment I have no knowledge about upon it, sits to my right. I look around, the ceiling is like spring green whereas the walls are emerald green and the floor a shamrock green.
Machines stand to the left of me. My heart rate is fine, if not slightly accelerated. My vitals look good but there's one more machine that I also have no knowledge about. I try to move once again and find I can move my head but something feels weird. I lift my arm and reach behind me only to feel a cable or pipe protruding from the back of my head like in the Matrix. Images pop into my head. Is The Matrix real? I laugh a little, how silly. I sit up only to feel a jolt coursing through my brain causing me to double over and hurl whatever was in my stomach out. Wow, what the hell? Another jolt, this time a little less kick to it yet I still hurl more of my stomach contents.
Waking up I see three figures standing in front of me. Definitely not human.
"Who are you?" I ask facing all of them. I try to sit up and one these figures extends his arm out to help me. A thin blanket is handed over to the figure who helped me up and he/she (it?) gently wraps it around my shoulder where I take it and cover myself properly. I look up and see them standing in the corner watching me and talking in hushed voices. These strange creatures might not be human but there's a definite kind-of humanity in one of them.
"I'm Nolan and my colleagues Harp, Nesses and Grup. We took you from the hospital you were in," Nolan says. Why would I have been in a hospital? But I don't remember anything. I look down at my hands and see feint scars running straight from the tip of my finger nails down to my wrist where they disappear completely. Oddly pretty looking but still, what the hell?
"What happened to me?" I ask. I try to remember what happened before waking up in this clinical room but come up blank. I look around the room again and spot bloodied material sticking out of a bag in the corner of the room. I stand up on wobbly legs and start to slowly make my way over to the bag but the pipe or cable plugged in my head stops me short of reaching it. I turn to look at these creatures and ask them if I can see the material protruding from the bag. I watch as Grup walks over and hands me the bag where I take it and walk back to the bed. I open it and pull out the material. It's my blouse. My favorite blouse. Purple with blood red swirls. I pull out a skirt. My black knee high skirt.
I was on my way to the hospital. I was at the hospital. So that part is true. They did take me from a hospital. Why was I on my way to the hospital? I wonder. I really can't remember but seeing the clothing jolted my memory a little.
"Why was I at the hospital?" I ask looking up at Nesses who had his arms outstretched towards me. I hand my clothing over to Nesses who hands them to someone standing in the doorway asking them to wash my bloodied clothing. Nesses walks back to the others who were standing at the foot of the bed and started explaining that my family and friends were all at home waiting for me when the house caught alight. They went on to explain that I tried to hurry to the hospital to see them all when they took me and brought me onto their spaceship where they sedated me and experimented with me.
"Wait. What do you mean by experimenting on me?" I ask taking the thin blanket from my body and looking at the rest of my body. Why hide my body when they've seen it already?