Bitchy Trampoline
Rose and I enter the room and our is attention is captured right away by the video that was being played on the brick wall of one side of the room. It protrayed a couple different people with drinks in their hands before finally focusing on a blonde woman in a sparkling silver dress, who was surrounded by multiple different handsome men. It was clearly some sort of social party.
"I mean, you never know what your life is going to be like, ever." The woman was saying before holding out a red drink that had a lime slice on the side, placing it on the platter of a nearby server. "I'm bored with this drink. Anyway." The video then changes to another clip of the same woman with man whispering something in her ear. She lightly hits his chest as she says, "Oh, hello darling! Now, don't. Stop it."
Recognition flashes across Rose's face, like she realized who someone in the video was. We both turned on our heels and are faced with a slab of skin held up by a square metal frame. The skin had a woman's face, though the only things left were the bright blue eyes and mouth. You could see the veins that were flowing throughout under her skin and there was a human brain in a plastic container below her. "Peekaboo!"
Rose holds up her metal pipe. "Don't you come anywhere near me, Cassandra."
This....Cassandra scoffs. "Why? What do you think I'm going to do? Flap you to death?"
I was honestly confused by this whole situtation but spoke up anyway, "Yeah, but what about Gollum?" I say as I points my metal pipe at Snake Skin.
"Oh that's just Chip. He's my pet."
Chip moves towards Cassandra protectively. "I worship the mistress."
"Moisturise me, moisturise me." Cassandra tells Chip, causing the man to quickly grab a spray bottle with strange red liquid in it. He sprays her with it while she talked. "He's not even a proper life form. He's a force grown clone. I modelled him on my favorite pattern. But he's so faithful. Chip sees to my physical needs."
Rose and I share a disgusted look before I said, "I hope that means food."
Rose nodded slightly, like she agreed with me. "How come you're still alive?"
Cassandra narrowed her blue eyes at Rose. "After you murdered me."
I put a hand against my forehead, there it was again, that word. 'Murder', it made my head pound.
"That was your own fault." Rose takes a step toward Cassandra, not noticing my movement.
"The brain of my mistress survived." Chip speaks up and looks at his mistress. "And her pretty blue eyes were salvaged from the bin." Cassandra fluttered her eyelids, she probably would've blushed if she was able.
"What about the skin? I saw it. You, you got ripped apart." Rose smiles as if she enjoyed the memory.
"That piece of skin was taken from the front of my body. This piece is the back."
I can't help the small chuckle that escapes my mouth as I motion yet again with my pipe. "Right! So you're talking out of your a--"
Cassandra cuts me off. "Ask not."
"The mistress was lucky to survive. Chip secreted m'lady into the hospital." Chip glares at me as he spoke.
I tilt my head to the side. "So they don't know you're here?"
"Chip steals medicine. Helps m'lady. Soothes her, strokes her." As Chip said the last part, he moved his hand behind Cassandra moves his hand downward. I could see the shandow of his hand through the skin.
I hold up a hand as I scrunch my nose. "You can stop right there, Chip."
Chip gives me another look as Cassandra spoke. "But I'm so alone, hidden down here. The last Human in existence."
Rose gives her a exasperated look. It seems like they've talked about this before. "Don't start that again. They've called this planet New Earth."
"A vegetable patch." The skin's tone is condescending.
"And there's millions of humans out there. Millions of them."
"Mutant stock."
I feel anger flash through me, mainly because the way she was talking felt overwhelmingly familiar, like I've had the same sort of conversation with someone else but I have a feeling I was on the other side, and it caused me to speak. Cassandra was insulting Nurse Pepper and her familhy with that kind of talk.
"They evolved, Cassandra. Just evolved, like they should. You stayed still. You got yourself all pickled and preserved, and what good did it do you?"
Laughing came from the projector, drawing everyone's attention back to it. "Oh, I remember that night. Drinks for the Ambassador of Thrace. That was the last time anyone told me I was beautiful." Cassandra's voice was soft as she spoke but it became hard and angry. "After that it all became such hard work."
"Well, you've got a knack for survival, I'll give you that." Rose says grudgingly.
"But I've not been idle, Rose, Fallen, tucked away underneath this hospital. I've been listening. The Sisters are hiding something."
My eyebrows came together, showing my confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Oh these cats have secrers. Hush, let me whisper. Come colse."
Rose shook her head as she grabbed my wrist, pulling me along with her as she backed up. "You must be joking if you think we're coming anywhere near you."
As we stepped back into the doorway, blue energy shoots out from the wall and wraps around our free wrists, holding them in place and causing us to drop our pipes.
"Chip, activate the psychograft." Cassandra says, her tone victorious.
"We can't move." I say, my voice slightly panicked. "Cassandra, let us go! What're you doing?"
"The lady's moving on. It's goodbye trampoline, and hello goldie." Cassandra says before a purple cloud of energy edmits from her place and moves towards me. It enters through me mouth, the energy holding us disappeared and my body falls to the floor. Everything going black as I hit the cold, unforgiving concrete.