Lonelywerewolf: Okay, let me be honest on this...I have never played Trauma Center, but the story intrigues me so...and I wrote this small one-shot(by small I mean it is very short in words...:D)...so i hope you enjoy and review, and any comments are appriciated...
A Decision That Lasts A Lifetime
It was the worst day of his life, and Kenneth Blackwell knew it. The condition was easy to fulfill but the deal would cost him a lifetime, a lifetime without his wife and child by his side. "It's a simple decision, really. Your daughter or you, make a choice." It was those simple words that had caused his life to tumble down the drain. A horrible truth that had hidden itself in the most dangerous and yet powerful organizations of the world, Delphi. How horrible was that such an organization that dedicated to the research of medicine be like this. The deal was simple for Blackwell to fulfill, but the years were not. How many years would pass in this invisible cage? Would he be able to see his daughter again? Even he didn't know the answer, he knew his decision had ruined his life forever.
It was a small lab that Delphi had offered him to create their perfect virus. A small room with only four other men as Blackwell's only companions. It wasn't typical of the other scientists to talk to each other, until one day, a man close to Blackwell's age, dark messy hair and light tan skin. He had no tag, so Blackwell did not know his name. "Hey," the other man called, he had a Spanish accent. Blackwell looked up, but did not say anything. "Hmm…no need to be that falso conmigo, friend….come on, sit down, take a break." He pushed Blackwell away from his work and led him to the small cafeteria connected to the small lab where he and the others worked. "I have seen you for sometime," started the man, grabbing a nearby cup and filling it with dark liquid, hot coffee. "you don't look like the usual…" Blackwell said nothing, he just looked away and only took the cup that was offered to him. "Don't be so negative, amigo….I know that face very well….you were forced to work here, no?" Blackwell's eyes stared into his for a couple of minutes, then he turned his head again.
"Why would it concern you?" came the other man's indifferent and sour voice.
"Because I know that face…." Was the other man's reply. He turned his back on Blackwell to fix himself some coffee, with sugar. "It's a little game this bastards play," he continued, his attention to his coffee mug. "You have two choices…" It's a simple decision, really…. "Choice number one, your life's job, your wife, your kids, your family, even your cat if it is necessary….." Your daughter or you…. "then choice number two, yourself….." …..,make a choice….. The other man turned to face Blackwell, whose eyes were swelling with tears. "You got a bad choice to make, I'll wager…" It was a simple nod that gave the unknown man his answer. "I got two choices too. My mother, who was about to get a surgery to save her life would suffer a small accident in the operation room and die. Those two men in there," he pointed a finger to the door leading to the small lab. "also had choices, that were simple to solve….one was a famous professor in the University who had to leave it and work here or else his life's work would be destroyed and his career destroyed. The other no one knows, but I say it was his kid over him…." He took a sip of his mug, and looked back at Blackwell. "It's a decision that lasts a lifetime…too bad their isn't anyone to save us from it…."
"….Life is harsh on the good guys…." The unknown man looked back at Blackwell and nodded.
"Yeah, and who helps us?" Blackwell took a sip of his coffee, and for once, after his coming to Delphi, he could cry. Cry for his wife and child, and cry too, for all the lives his guilt would take with it. A decision that lasted a lifetime, and his life was just beginning.