The girl crawled along the wet blacktop on her knees, surveying the area like a jungle cat. The street was filled the fellow scalpel sluts, prowling and preening and picking off each other, waiting for him to arrive. The girl was antsy, jittery, nervous, the way she always was as of late. But she had to stay calm and cool, she knew she'd get what she needed quicker that way. Her father had left her an enormous will, but the bulk of it was gone, blown on surgeries and Z. Her currently crystal green eyes contemplated the area, attempting to find the man that supplied what she needed.

"Who's up?" he appeared as if from no where. He was dirty and foul smelling, hair bunched in knots atop his head. But they all flocked to him as if he were the messiah, the herder to their sheep. The 18 year old stood up then, began to prowl her way toward the man. She slunk to him, placed a hand on his shoulder, the other on his hip. She slipped several coins into his pocket.

"I think I'm first," she whispered in his ear, drawing him close. "Gimme a hit." Shilo thought she'd become more mature as she spent more time on the streets, but Snake only saw a little girl somewhere she didn't belong. But he smiled, because the younger they were, the more innocent. The more they were willing to pay.

He watched Shilo as she stood back, ran a hand through her knotted white-blonde hair. The hair had been her first surgery. Her bald head had reminded her of everything she left behind. So did her face. She had changed it a grand total of four times in the months since she had left. Shilo looked like a completely different person. Which is exactly what she was. She had done everything she could to go from the innocent girl she once was to something... else. And she fit the latter category perfectly. In the months prior, she had learned the ways of the street. She had tried to become one of those hardened, scary people she had met that night in the alleyway with Graverobber, back when Zydrate was just some shiny blue liquid. But there were times when Shilo still cried at night.

In the beginning, she had been able to afford the top surgeons, to get a regular procedure done in a hospital, but as time wore on and the a bit got worse, so did the surgeries. At first, Shilo was able to buy Zydrate legally in hospitals, get her surgeries in hospitals, rest and heal in a hospital. But as time wore on and her money grew thin, she began cutting back, at first just buying her Z on the streets, then leaving the hospital as soon as the procedure was over. Eventually she cut the hospital out all together. There were street surgeons, usually underground. The procedure was riskier, but Shilo had been going there for a while, and nothing had happened, until the scar. It ran from her hairline, diagonally down the bridge of her nose, and came to a rest at the corner of her right eye. The last bit of her money was going to fix it.

"The new bitch with the money gets to go first? Snake, I've been here for HOURS! Do me!" A rather large woman with a fire engine mullet pushed the girl to the ground. This was a problem Shilo encountered many times in that alley. After fleeing the opera, She had run. She knew she needed something to numb herself from everything, but Graverobber had been nowhere to be found. So she kept running, to another alley, another town, a place where nobody knew her name. Most alleyways weren't accustomed to change. Generally, one grave robber would constatly have the same customers, but Shilo mixed things up, and the local Z community didn't approve. She'd been beaten on multiple occasions for going first, but she didn't care, she was just glad Snake had a thing for young, fresh meat.

Snake dropped a hand to help the girl up. "Let's go, baby." He beckoned her to a darker crevice of the alley way. "So, what're you gonna do this time, baby?" Shilo hated that he called her that. It felt so sleazy, so wrong. But she put up with it, if only to get her fill.

"What's it to you, Snake?" Her words slithered from her tongue. "Are you gonna gimme a hit or not?" Shilo walked to him, slammed him against the wall by his shoulder. That was when Snake did what she had been dreading. "Baby, you're light," He pulled the coins from his pocket, weighing them with his hand. This was one of the things Shilo hated about street Z. The price was controlled strictly by the dealer; if they said you didn't give them enough, then you didn't. But that was all she had. All she could afford in order to get her final surgery. "N-no, it's all there," Shilo stammered. Snake stared at her incredulously. So she did the first thing that came to her mind: begged. "Please, Snake, just a hit. That's all I need! You don't understand, I'll do anything!" Shilo fell to the ground and clung to the man's leg. "Please," she whispered, looking up at him with tears in her eyes.

Snake brought a hand to the girl's face, lifted her chin up with a grimy finger. He brushed back her hair so he could see the ugly scar across her face. Shilo could feel his eyes lingering over it, tracing it's every curve. It was disgusting. "Fine," the man sighed, "I'll let it slide this time... for a price," He grinned wickedly, and Shilo gulped.

"W-What do you want?" She tried to sound brave, but it was hard to do when she already knew the detestable answer to her question.

"Baby," Snake picked her up roughly by her neck, and she did the best she could not to choke. He pushed her against the opposing wall, "You already know," The man chuckled inside. It was not a deal that he was willing to make with most. But she was so fragile, so small, so timid looking, that he knew this opportunity was a rare one.

He smiled a gnarled, cracked grin. One that could chill any person to the bone. Shilo closed her eyes and tried not to breathe. Snake had her pinned against the wall, his mere stench nauseating her. She knew what was about to happen; she'd seen it happen to other girls, watched as they squeezed their eyes shut and tried to pretend nothing was happening. Shilo had always told herself she would be ready for that moment when it came, but truth be told she wasn't. She'd never even really seen a man in person until she was seventeen. All she knew at this point was that this was not the way her virginity was supposed to be lost. It took every ounce of strength she could muster not to cry when he touched her, not to scream as he broke her. It never stopped hurting and Snake paid no mind to her whimpering while he was inside her. Shilo tried to reassure herself that she was doing the right thing, that this whole ordeal would be worth it in the end, but all she could focus on was the pain. It made it too hard to drown out Snake's grunting and gasping with her thoughts.

After an eternity, it was over. Shilo felt empty, drained, dead. She stood, paralyzed. Snake stood before her, zipping up his fly. In the same motion, he pulled out a glowing vial of Zydrate and loaded it into a gun. "What're you doing?" Shilo murmured, too stunned to put up any kind of fight. She looked down and saw a small droplet of blood splash the ground beneath her.

"What you want me to, baby," Snake replied as he watched Shilo cringe. He knelt down and pressed the gun to her inner thigh.

"N-no! Not yet, I need to find my sur-" Shilo was cut short by the sting of the needle, followed by the slow burn of Zydrate coursing through her veins. "-gen..." Her usual procedure involved Snake handing her the vial, which her surgeon would later inject her with before surgery, but for some reason, this time was different.

Shilo felt herself slide down the wall to which she'd been restrained, collapse like a heap of dirty rags. Her white dress quickly became stained by blood and grime from the street. She couldn't feel a thing, and the world began to float by her like a dream. Shilo's eyes began to get heavy, and she soon slipped into the realm of unconsciousness.

So, I've been sitting on this for a while, it was something I started, and then forgot about, and then found it and got really excited and wanted to post it. Not sure how far I'll go with it... That's up to you lovely people! Kindly lemme know your thoughts!