Jacob told me when I first met Danny that he was too dangerous to be around. I was curious, but I didn’t asked why.

It wasn’t long before I found out the reason.

Him and Jacob were fussing at each other over a something that happened to Danny. It escalated quickly and the thing that made Danny a danger manifested in his eyes as they lost their blue color.

His veins popped out as his body became almost twice its size and started going ballistic. His teeth were long, white, and fatal. He came for me because I was there in his way.

His judgement was foggy and no one could stop him except for Jacob, who shoved him away from me and yelled at him for trying to hurt me. He calmed down after a lot of persuading.

I wanted to know how he became that way, but he refused to tell me. Jacob was very happy to tell me because he thought I needed to know. Danny was sleeping against him anyways when I asked, so he didn’t really have to know he was being talked about.

Jacob added that when they were enlisted in the war, even though they both had medical degrees, they had to sign the waiver that assured they’d give their lives (like I mentioned before). They were main candidates for the waiver because they had both lost their families to the virus, which wasn’t very uncommon back then.

They hadn’t read the fine print and were put on the line of genetically mutated soldiers. Danny was unfortunate and got disfigured. It took months for him to go back to normal and even then, he wasn’t quite the same. He was the same to Jacob, but everyone else knew he was different.

Testy, angry, emotional, quiet, brooding.

Now, I was stuck face-to-face with him as the door caved in. He snatched me up and flung me into the floor, holding me down by my throat. I was terrified of him and ready to start crying. His claws tried to rip into me, but I dodged them the best I could.

I kicked him in the chest and tried to get him off of me.

“I’m so tired of you!” he yelled in my face. “You waste my time because you’re just another corpse!” I felt upset that he’d say that, so I teared up and turned my head away from him.

“Then, what does that make you?” I whined, charging up. He paused and stared into my eyes as I squinted at him. Tears dripped into my face from his shocked eyes.

I lit up and electrocuted him, getting him off of me. I curled up and cried against my knees.

Out of everyone I knew, he was one of the last people that I thought would say I was only a corpse, as if I didn’t matter to him. He got out of the floor, turning human, as he picked up my backpack of stuff. He zipped it shut and put it on his shoulder.

“Lin, you don’t belong in this field. Stay in your lane,” he asserted, his voice raspy and strained before exiting the room.

I wanted to give up.

I didn’t want to be alive anymore for the first time in years.

Danny was the only person that I had right now, and he had just turned on me.

Belittled me like everyone else had.