Spring in My Step: Chapter 10
Imported from SF2 with no description.
What I would guess was the next morning since there were no clocks in the room, a rabbit walked in the room wearing a white lab coat. She herself was drenched in white fur, making it difficult to tell where her coat ended and fur began. Her tall frame gave her about foot over Nyanni in a raw height contest with a slender body that hidden under the coat. A pair of red framed glasses shined on her face resting on her cheeks as her ears were held hostage by a ribbon tucked behind her head. Nyanni quickly approached the edge of her cage to see what was going on. I on the other hand could only turn my head to see her. She brought with her some small medical testing equipment on a cart. The cart made a rattling noise as it was dragged across the concrete floor adding to my anxiety. After all I just woke up.
“Hi my name is Dr. Katy, How are you feeling Collin?” She said directly while taking a look at some paperwork at the end of the table.
“I'd be a lot better if you could go ahead and untie me.” I replied coldly.
“Ha ha no I can't do that. Besides, you're a lucky man. We're going to help you out free of charge!”
“Help me with what? The only help I need is help getting out of these cuffs.”
“I'm going to have to get your blood pressure and temperature. Then we'll need a blood sample. Shouldn't take too long.” She said with a smile on her face, completely dodging my snide remarks. Katy wasted no time in getting the the equipment ready to take her measurements. She grabbed a pair of scissors off of the cart and started to cut my shirt sleeve on my left shoulder to expose my upper arm. I tried to move my arm away from her as far as the restraints would let me but it was no use. “Calm down this isn't going to hurt at all.” She assured me.
“Whats the point of all of this, aren't we just going to get executed anyway?” I quipped.
“Oh no no! I'm a medical geneticist who will be administering a drug therapy to make some minor changes to your uh...physiology. Its perfectly safe and it will help you uh... fit in.” She said holding back what I believed were critical details about what she had planned. I kept wiggling about to make her task more difficult, “No sir please don't resist or I will be forced to administer a sedative.”
I was too tired to resist at this point and in the face of complete and utter helplessness I opted to heed her warning. I kept a close eye on her as she spread my cut sleeve apart. Her eyes showed a level of excitement that her words didn't convey, much the same as her paws as they made a unnecessary slide from my bicep to my shoulder.
“You are quite a specimen I must say!” Katy said with a smile.
“Well I'm glad you approve now just hurry up...” I snapped almost as a though it was my duty to do so. This was made all the more uncomfortable as I could feel Nyanni's glare piercing my soul. Surely should couldn't be jealous, its not like I asked for any of this.
She proceeded to wrap my arm with the black strap to measure my blood pressure. “Ok you're within the normal range for your uh... particular species. Now lets get your temperature shall we?” I opened my mouth and even though I already new the drill she stated anyway, “Now place this under your tongue for about 30 seconds and hold it there.” She said superfluously as she put a thermometer in my mouth. Thirty seconds later, “OK 98.2 that's also normal too, well aren't you just the healthy one. No time for your blood gllaarrghh!!” she said with eh best vampire impersonation she could muster. No one was laughing except her at that. In a burrow full of uptight religious zealots she was remarkably free spirited. But it didn't make me feel better though. Her coolness about the whole situation was a bit bothersome to me as though maybe she had no soul at all.
As she glanced at my arm for a spot to take a blood sample she noticed right away the old bandage from the cut I received the last item I was in the burrow.
“Oh that's too old, let me change that for you.” she said as she slowly peeled the sticky bandage off. “Oh that's a bad cut but it looks to be healing nicely, definitely not infected. It shouldn't interfere with our goal at all.” After that she was quick to grab a bandage and alcohol from her cart and properly clean and wrap it. “With your arms bent like that above your head I can't get a good shot at your veins so I'll uh... just have to go for your legs then OK?” She said with a new found excitement in her eyes. I was starting to think she was a bit of a repressed pervert.
She took out the scissors again as getting my pants off with the cuffs on my feet would have been impossible. Though she could of simply dropped my pants a little bit to get access to my thighs to take blood but, it seems she was too excited for that. With no hesitation started cutting by my ankle on my left leg. Her eyes were wide and her mouth was gaping in half awe half smile. After she made it past my knee she started going slower, making sure to make eye contact with me every few inches as though to gauge my reaction. As she neared my crotch I lifted my head up as far as I could in a state of panic. This was the reaction she was waiting for as she had to stop herself to cover her mouth and giggle.
“Leave him alone you fucking pervert!!” Nyanni shouted at the edge of her cage. This came as a complete shock to me as I don't recall ever hearing curse like that.
“Oh please, calm down you..” Katy replied, “I'm not gonna hurt his manhood don't worry!”
Katy got right back to it ignoring the sound of Nyanni shaking her cage out of rage. Katy stopped at my crotch much to my relief and put the scissors back on the cart. She was even more excited to spread my cut pant leg apart than she was with the shirt sleeve. I could tell since she made a special effort to grace my genitalia with the backside of her left paw as she pried the pant leg apart. This too was accompanied by eye contact. Unfortunately she looked back down just in time to notice a twitch in m groin since, well, what she did was kinda hot. She simply reassured me, “Well file that under doctor patient confidentiality huh?” as she giggled to herself.
She finally drew the blood from my thigh in the five separate veils and placed them on the cart. Put a small cotton ball with some tape on the hole and got all her equipment ready to move. As she was about to move her cart and make her way out of the room she looked back at me and said, “It was good for me too baby!” With more chuckling. She looked back again as she was walking out while exaggerating the oscillation in her butt. This was all too odd as I would of pegged her as a nerd instead of pervert. It had to be the repressed sexuality here. Nyanni told me before how the members here weren't allowed to engage in that sort of thing,AND they are all rabbits after all. I thought to myself, “I bet every one of them here's rooms fuckin' smell like tuna...”
“You like her don't you!? Nyanni cried with a tear forming in her eye as she clung the bars of her cage.
“No absolutely not sweetheart. I didn't do anything as you can clearly see!” But she remained skeptical. Nyanni just turned away in anger and spent the next hour in silence. I Couldn't blame her for being jealous but even if I wanted to I couldn't of made any advances tied to the table. I figured that this irrationality would just have to work itself out so I just laid there in wait. I wanted her to make the first move instead to let her cool off.
But she wouldn't cool off, because an hour later the doctor was in carrying a small tray of needles. Katy had excitement written on her face as she quickly set the tray down on a nearby table and took the first needle in her hand.
“Well it looks like you are a perfect candidate for this new drug I developed. I hope you like the results!” Katy said with a smile.
“Whoa whoa what drug? Whats going on?” I reply in shock.
“Don't you worry your pretty little head! I'll monitor you through the whole treatment!” Katy assured me.
“No no no get that away from me!” I shouted but it didn't stop her at all. She kept her smile on which I was starting to think was the smile of a mad man. Despite my puny efforts to evade the needle that was approaching my arm she bared down on it with all her weight to hold it still. The needle hit its target and its contents were flushed into my blood stream.
“One down four to go!” Katy said as she went back to the tray for the others. Thinking it was going into my arm again I started to shuffle my arm around to make it more difficult. “Ha ha, nice try, but this one, goes in the leg.” All told she put one in each arm, each leg and last in my neck. The latter I opted not to oppose in case she would instead hit a vital artery.
Nyanni still was unhappy with me and seemed to not care about what was going on on the floor below her. I Figured she must really be upset with me if she could tolerate my suffering.
“Now all done! You should feel the effects in a few hours. I'll be back in the morning to see how you're doing OK?” Katy stated matter-of-factly.
“What effects would that be?” I asked.
“I can't tell you, otherwise I wouldn't be a blind study silly! I must be sure there are no placebo effects.” She replied sarcastically. I suppose she was joking about placebo effects.
Katy gathered her things and walked out of the room without any show this time. As soon as Katy left Nyanni decided to show herself. With genuine concern resurfaced she asked, “Are you OK Collin?”
“I guess so. Where she gave me the shots kind of sting a little. Do you know who she is and whats she just did to me?” I asked trying to hold back my fear as to not scare her.
“I'm don't know. I have never seen this part of the burrow or even knew that we had scientists. It wasn't my job to know but...”
“But what?”
“Well, I think she is an F3...”
“F what now?”
“An F3, its like, a measuring system. The lower the F level the closer they are to human. Each F level relates to how many generations between you and the human parent I think.”
“What F are you? You know, for comparison.”
“I'm an F4 from what I've been told. And the Abbess is definitely an F1.”
“Whats the F stand for?”
“I don't know. Its not exactly common knowledge but I heard a few things over the years. In my part of the burrow we were all F4. I've never seen anything above an F4 except for the Abbess. So I didn't know they were even real for a while. But she is a lot bigger than me and maybe even smarter...” She said with a little shame.
“No, you're smart too baby don't worry about that. But that still doesn't answer the question about what she just injected me with. Its starting to feel even more soar though.” I told her.
“Just relax and take a rest Collin, I'll watch over you. If you want to go back to sleep.”
I took her advice. The shots were starting to give me an awful headache and it sites of the shots were starting to sting. The urge to scratch them was unbearable so I guess that partially explains the restraints. With the florescent lights flickering above me I closed my eyes to ease my headache. The relief made it infinitely easier to take a nap after that.