Chapter Five - A Warm and Familiar Embrace

Story by SnakeCHTW on SoFurry

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#5 of Back for Revenge


I was slowly coming back to my senses some time after the strange set of events that put my body in jeopardy. All the stress took its toll on me also as I was awake but I couldn't really move. As some of my senses begun to respond slowly I heard voices again. There was no mistaking the female voice, it was my Mistress Ariana. She was talking to a few other males and I heard a different female voice as well.

"My servant reports to me that you refuse to administer anymore treatments to your subject after the first one failed, why?" the strange female voice asked.

"The serum your scientists have been creating are killing all our captures. I wont even know if we were able to save mine until he regains consciousness. Hell I don't even know if we were able to drain all the serum out or not there could be permanent effects to his body now, and you wonder why I wont inject him again with that poison?" Mistress Ariana mocked

"It will be the most effective way of extracting the information we need. We don't have time for you to play teacher with your subject to try and learn how to communicate the hard way."

"Listen, the only information your most effective approach has told us is that it doesn't work. We've lost over 80% of those we captured on this wild experiment of yours so I have concluded the only effective way to get our information is the hard way."

"You wouldn't know, this is only your first subject and I can tell you just don't have what it takes to draw information from it. Your too soft for this line of work."

"Work? I didn't know torturing the nature were trying to save is a job to you, but to me it's life. The poor thing has been through far more then enough pain and chaos as it is, I can't keep pushing him like this or we will lose him."

"You do remember that all the subjects must be terminated before the ritual is performed." There was a pause before the strangers voice continued. "Look, you can have it your way this time ok? Just do what you have to do and if you don't make some progression soon, I will see forth that your subject will be removed from your supervision and put with the other test subjects." I could tell by the females voice she was done and walked away from the conversation.

"Why is it even in your living chambers anyway?" a male asked.

"He was seriously wounded and I wanted to make sure he was watched over as much as possible in his condition, he wouldn't make it far being locked up in those catches with the rest."

"Why would you take a wounded human as your subject though, you should have killed it and found a healthier one."

"Don't question my authority, I know what I'm doing."

"Yes Mistress Ariana. I will leave you to your work then." The male fearfully ended the conversation walking away.

I heard the door in the room close and a sigh come from my Mistress. I could hear her pad over to were I was laying on the cot, by now I could feel the blanket over my body, the bandages on my shoulder, even the new bandages on the back of my head that throbbed painfully. I felt cold, I worried that maybe my head trauma could have caused a problem with my body heat, I felt like that blanket didn't even exist.

I was able to barely open one of my eyes tiredly and looked up at the blurred figure of my Mistress while letting out a cold shiver from my breath. I saw her arm move and felt a warm furry paw press gently over my forehead.

"damn it, I knew there was going to be some reproduction. His body temperature is dropping." She spoke to herself.

She took her paw off from my head and turned walking to her desk. I was pretty sure now this serum they kept talking about was to enable me to communicate with them. That would be why I could understand them now but I couldn't understand why I could still understand them if the fluids were drained from my head. Maybe when she said there could be permanent after effects this was one of them by chance of luck, at least I hoped.

I was starting to regain some movement by now and I was feeling horribly sick as well. I tried sitting up but my body jerked and a rolled off the cot instead. I was just able to catch myself on the stone floor beneath, my hands stinging as they smacked the hard floor. This called the attention of my Mistress who I finally saw come towards me with a large pair of scissors I saw her pull out of the chest earlier. My eyes open more as I feared what she would be cutting with those and with the blanket entangled around me a squirmed under the cot.

She crouched down in front of the cot looking at me underneath with a tilt of her head. She held open her free paw to me, which made me cringe against the wall at first. I didn't know what she wanted, so I stayed still until she pointed at my right hand and opened her paw again. I paused cautiously but I really had no choice here, so I slowly extended my right arm so my hand would meet her paw, as soon as it did she tightly gripped my hand and pulled slightly roughly out a little bit to extend my arm all the way. I startled and jerked against her grip but the only progress I made was pulling my wounded shoulder, which got me to stay still very quickly. I shut my eyes closed clenching my teeth, she was going to take my hand I just know she was going to, it was the same hand that had the injection. My fears were backed when I felt the cold steel of the scissors against my wrist, she probably needed to amputate it in risk of infection. I Whimpered tightening my grip in her paw and held my breath.

The scissors scraped against each other as she had them close, then there was a loud clink noise from metal breaking and I didn't feel anymore steel on my wrist. I didn't feel the scissors and I didn't feel the brace that had me chained to my cot. I looked up confused and saw she had cut off my metal bracelet freeing me from my chains. She slowly released her tight grip on my hand but I didn't yank my hand from hers, instead I slowly let my finger tips rub against her soft paw while I was slowly taking my hand back. She allowed me to and I was able to feel the warmth and comfort of her paw's length before my hand disconnected from hers.

She got up putting the scissors away and I slowly crawled out form under the cot, slightly off balance and my shoulder becoming a new pain again. I was dragging along my blanket, which I felt was doing little good for my shivering body. My Mistress blew out the main candle for the room but kept the one near her bed light giving me some light. She had crawled into her bed, under those layers of warm covers. I wanted to be under those covers, with her were it was warm. I slowly crawled up to the other side of the bed and nervously poked my head up from the side looking at her. She was looking right back at me on her side, expecting me. She propped her head up with her elbow and patted the bed in front of her with her free paw were there covers have been pulled back.

"Come on little one, you must be freezing by now." She spoke still thinking I couldn't hear her.

I slowly put my hands up on the bed, it was warm and not anything like any beds I've slept in. The bed was warm by itself not from the body heat of another being in it. It felt so comfortable just to my hands it encouraged me to get on. I slowly started to climb more up on the tall bed when she suddenly moved towards me, I tried to pull back but she grabbed me from under my arms with both her paws and like a baby lifted me up on the bed setting me down against her. I felt my cold naked body against hers. She was so warm, so soft. She held an arm around me while pulling the covers up over my trembling body giving my back a soft rub to calm my nerves.

The warmth and security I felt being with her, it reminded me of the only other person who ever cared for me, who protected me. She reminded me of my mother. I felt the overwhelming call of emotions in my body, the tears beginning to form in my sad eyes. I couldn't bare it any longer, I wrapped my arms around her body and buried my face in her comforting fur. She was slightly taken off from my actions but smiled giving me a hug back with her arm, embracing me against her. For the first time since I was but a child I cried into another and actually felt loved in return.

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