All Chapters of FLUX: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

The darkness turned to sharp jabbing knives as Alex slowly became aware of her surroundings. Her head hung forward making her neck ache. Every time she sucked a breath in, it felt like someone was drilling a hole into her right lung. Must be a broken rib. She had seen that before. It was probably a beautiful plum color. She let her inner self laugh at her little joke.Alex opened one eye and tried to open the other, but the swollen lid puckered painfully. The metal chair holding her weight clinked against the chains that cuffed her wrists tightly to the armrests. The chair was warm, so she must have been here a while. She had seen this scenario before while training with her master. These pathetic men would never break her. She grinned on the outside. Crusty blood broke at the edges of her lips as they curled upward.She lifted her head slowly. It was just like in those detective shows she used to watch as a kid. The one way mirror, the hanging light, and the cold empty room; these w

Jack sprinted out the door not waiting for him to finish. He had a growing pit in his stomach. If Jimmy had her... He ran through the maze of halls and up flights of stairs bumping into people as he went. They waved, said hi, and then asked what was wrong when they saw his face. He just ignored them as he ran past.He reached the surface security section of the complex. Two guards stood at the door. They waved as he pushed through. Once in the section, he made for the interrogation room. The door to the viewing room was open and packed with people. Jack pushed his way in and looked through the window. Jimmy was standing in front of Alex. He heard the chair scoot across the floor, Jimmy flinched, and the room let out a collective "oh" as they watched Jimmy clock Alex across the face. The chair fell to the ground, jolting her body and knocking her head against the floor.Jack left before the chair hit the ground. He slammed open the door to the interrogation room. Jimmy turned and smil

Ow. Alex wiggled her fingers without opening her eyes. Her face hurt. Her shoulder hurt. Her leg hurt? Why did her leg hurt? She though she fixed that. She poked the hole in her thigh and felt fresh stitches. Where the hell was she this time? Probably a prison cell. She cracked an eye open and peeked around the room. Definitely not what she expected. Six large tubes lined one wall. One of them had a person in it. Their hair floated around their head like a halo. They held a breathing apparatus in their mouth and were naked, but controls and knobs covered everything below the shoulder. Screens shone brightly in the darkened room as a girl flicked at her flickerboard.Alex opened both eyes and propped herself up with an elbow. The room looked like some sort of research lab. It was filled with glass apparatus and technological devices she couldn't even pretend to name. The Alphas must be using her for experiments. She turned her head towards the brunette sitting at the computer. She was

Alex pushed the metal door to the lab open. Jack smiled at her from across the large room. He sat on a patient bed with a white felt tab stuck to his temple. Ellie was behind him looking at the monitors.Alex frowned back at him and made her way over."I thought you would be happy to see me," Jack said.She slapped him on the cheek, soundly but not hard. "What were you thinking? Don't these people have teams that you could have gone with? Why were you down there alone?" Alex's face flushed with anger.He just smiled back at her. "I'm okay. See? One piece." He patted his dirty shirt. Cobwebs hung from his beard and hair. She spotted a few blood stained slashes in his shirt sleeve and a double puncture wound on his left forearm."And what about this?" She grabbed his left wrist and held it up. She pulled back the sleeve to have a better look at the two holes. They were a dark angry purple with red rims. "It looks like poison. What bit you?"Jack pulled his forearm towards him and t

Ellie smiled and bumped shoulders with her. "I've never seen him smile so much."Alex shook her head. "Nah, it's probably just the beer.""Nope, nope. I've known that man a very long time and he can hold his liquor. It's definitely you.""What about Brooke? Didn't she make him happy?"Ellie choked on her sip of beer and spit it back into her glass. "How do you know about that?""You can see it in their faces when they're around each other. And he told me just a little when we were out on the road. How long were they together?""It's kind of hard to say. They dated for a while before he was taken, then a little bit after he came back. He just broke up with her before he left on this trip. So kind of off and on for the last six years."Alex remembered their conversation about the girl he wanted to marry. She still wasn't over him. And now Alex was in the way. She wasn't trying to be, but Jack kept fawning over her and that had to cut Brooke pretty deep."Hey Ellie, you're a scien