The looking glass
"Bonnie, Greta, you will go to the Looking glass," Ben says, ignoring the angry look the women give each other. The jamming signal has to continue, and without telling the others Bonnie and Greta has to be stationed away from the people they consider family. It is a secret, Ben says, and the women comply. Bonnie with a fire and passion that always comes with orders; Greta accepts passively. The only thing the women hates about their mission was the boring need to spend time with each other. Bonnie and Greta did not like one another.
Bonnie had never liked Greta, she found the other woman too compliant, lacking in passion for the mission and simply too… too weak. Not strong enough. Not strong like Bonnie. Bonnie took pride in her shooting skills, her lack of fear and her ability to always do what was necessary. To Greta, however, Bonnie seemed cold and unnecessarily uncaring.
A lot of things can change when you are stuck in an underwater station. You learn that a person is more than one-dimensional; you learn to read the other person's emotions, know their habits. You learn to recognize all the puzzle pieces that make someone. Maybe one day you realise that you are smiling together, laughing together and enjoying each other's company. One day you might realise that you no longer hate each other. One day you might realise that a smile from the other person sends your heart racing.
Their first kiss is one of desperation; so many feelings threatening to spill over. Their second kiss is softer, explorative and following the first; their third one is followed by touches, sighs and more exploring. The next few days are spent in bed. No communication goes through. Nothing in the world exists except those two.
On the day that Bonnie whispers "I love you" to Greta for the first time, a man named Charlie arrives on the station. For the first time in months Bonnie and Greta argues; their differences once again seem too big to overcome. They hear something but before Bonnie goes out to check on their prisoner she turns to Greta. "I'm sorry," she whispers, "I don't want this to come between us but I have to kill him." Greta nods even though she doesn't agree. She presses a quick kiss to Bonnie's cheek and pulls gently in her blonde hair. Then they step back in their perspective roles and go out to their eventual death.
Greta knows that something is wrong when Mikhail comes back after talking with Ben. He asks her about the mission, she answers the only way she knows how. She wants the mission to be real; she needs their struggle to have a purpose, she doesn't want it all to be in vain. She knew it was coming but is still surprises her when Mikhail picks up his gun and shoots her in her chest.
Bonnie doesn't scream her lover's name; she doesn't even think it. It is only later, when she is lying, bleeding and dying, on the floor and the stupid men are interrogating her about the code for the signal jam. Then she thinks about Greta once more, her beautiful eyes, dark hair and pretty smile. Bonnie doesn't know if she believes in a life after death, it had never been important before. The mission had always been number one in her life, even if Greta had been creeping close in importance. The mission had meant nothing, Bonnie realises as she with her last breath tells the men the code; the code that she and Greta had been asked to guard with their lives. Nothing matters in the end, not the mission, not their lives before the island, nothing. In the end nothing remains. Just two dead women, one dead man and a station that is filling with water.