Truths and Reconciliation


Title: Truths and Reconciliation

Author: Sakura123 (weber_dubois22)

Rating: M (for strong language and descriptive violence)

Summary: Presumably the only survivors of the Aegis VII and USG Ishimura incidents, Gabe Weller and Lexine Murdoch spend the next three years growing closer together on the Sprawl under the false belief they've left the nightmare behind them. For the "24hour_themes" writing challenge; contains strong language and violence.

Characters: (Primary) Gabe Weller, Lexine Murdoch-Weller – (Minor): Victor Bartlett, Nicole Brennan, Warren Eckhart; Nathan McNeill, Isaac Clarke, EarthGov, Hans Tiedemann, OFC, OMC

Written: 12/31/2012

Disclaimer: Dead Space and all things involved are property of Visceral Games and EA Games. I own nothing except the idea for this story.

Author's Note: Chapters are denoted by year dates

2508Extraction/Dead Space, Post-Extraction/Dead Space

2509 – Post-Extraction/Dead Space

2510 – Pre-Dead Space 2/Severed

2511Dead Space 2/Severed, Post-Dead Space 2/Severed


Title: Year 2508 I

Prompt: (24:00/12:00AM) Writer's Choice


McNeill is dead.

It's barely been an hour since we departed from the Ishimura and this happens. I should've insisted he take care of that arm immediately. There was no telling how much blood he lost before he reached us. I was just so relieved to be out of that hell hole that I didn't - wasn't thinking.

I'm no scientist, I don't know how this thing spreads; bites, wounds, physical contact, airborne? He seemed fine for a guy who lobbed his own arm off. He wasn't talking gibberish, he didn't go off on me like the Rookie.

Nothing, he was fine, so why did this happen?

I didn't even want to believe it at first. Figured when Lexine came crawling out of the back she happened across one of those things that got aboard before we took off.

Then I saw… it was wearing Nate's clothes, it still had bits of his hair, features. All of it - it wasn't like it used to be, but I knew it was him.

Lexine is a mess, the poor girl hasn't stopped crying since she finished it- Nate off. She's in the cockpit right now.

I've put the body in the back and locked the door, but, there's something about their bodies, makes them stink to high hell, even if they haven't been dead for long. I had to bypass the quarantine procedures after it shut the ship down. I've no idea if the station'll let us aboard with this thing in here.

Hell, I'm not sure we should even go now. We might cause another outbreak… or worse, be blamed for what happened on the Ishimura and Aegis VII.

It's a little after midnight, we're still a ways from the Sprawl. I slept some thanks to the pain killer Lexine gave me, but gunshot wound stings like a bitch and I'm too wound up to think of sleeping. I know he's dead, but I can't help but think… that he'll get back up.

If I'm able, I'll record a more formal report, if I should. Right now, I just want to forget about this nightmare. And come to think of it, I think I'll jettison his body before we reach the Titan. It doesn't feel right, leaving him in there to be found for containment protocol. He doesn't deserve to be remembered as a monster.

- Sergeant Gabe Weller, signing out.


Author's Note: As I combat the urge to write Maxine instead of Lexine, hello and welcome to my first ever Dead Space fic. My primary interest in the series, funny enough, began with Dead Space 2: Severed and grew with Dead Space: Extraction and I rather worked my way backward from there. Sufficed to say, the DS2 DLC and Wii-game turned PSN/DS2 incentive is the Halo: Reach to my Halo 3: ODST, which is to say they are my favorite games of the series, starring my favorite characters - primarily because they tell the same story from different perspectives. (Rather wish they'd just made Severed a spin-off game or just made it longer. It's lovely, but it's got "rush job" written all over it, especially once you reach the final level.)

That said, like most of my drabble collections this is an attempt flesh out what is suspiciously left untouched on the other side of the DS universe unrelated to Isaac Clarke. I.E., Lexine Murdoch-Weller and Gabriel Weller's time and relationship as spent on Titan Station before the Necromorph outbreak. I figure by 2510, they got married and started trying for a baby, but who's to say it wasn't earlier and the relationship just worked out like that, lovely and ironic as the two of them together is: D? As usual I'm running into issues with the Timeline because someone thought it was a good idea not to be specific about when Isaac's lifeboat was picked up (how long he was out there), when exactly the Ishimura was found by the Magpies and when either were recovered by EarthGov (2508, 2509 or 2510). I'm driving myself nuts about it because "stickler is sticker for canonical accuracy". Regardless, enjoy the story and apologies for any errors on my part.