Hi, This is my first fanfic on a game that i have become increasingly obsessed with for about gosh-knows how many months! (Seriously, all i could think about was putting bullets into people then shocking them with my hand before thinking about the complete plausibility of the space-time continuum being destroyed, but hey sometimes you gotta take it out on something,right? RIGHT?!)

This series is dedicated to tying my emotional feelings on certain parts of the game and the pairing of Jack/ Elizabeth since they barely have an sort of dedicated fiction that should be worthy of noting a relationship that for me seems to be the perfect ship! I mean it should be pulling heartstrings! (Not my victims, uhh...that was another matter.)

While the complexity of time-travel and timey-wimey-wibbly-wobbly nonsense could make this INCREDIBLY ludicrous. I believe that nothing will stop our star-crossed lovers from meeting and living happily ever after...or living adequately normal human lives to which they live moderately which hopefully stop me scrawling my walls full of Bioshock drabbles. I could be sick.

Please rate, review and give comments on the style of my writing.

Bioshock: Ad Infinitum

Jack woke up in an unfamiliar place. There was the sound of a low violin droning through the room and the cries of girlish laughter that echoed. He sat up, but he ached as his entire body burned. He recalled his battle with Atlas and the cavalry that took the form of little girls with their dreaded syringes. He watched as Fontaine squirmed in the floor as they took the very tainted blood that tainted the city. They it bled out of him and left him in a state that befitted him, an empty husk. The last thing he recalled was his hand reaching out to one the girls before fading into a empty void.

He noticed he was only dressed down to his drawers, his body covered in bandages as his clothes laid neatly on a bedside table. They smelt fresh, new considering after horrors he had seen through the city called Rapture. As he stood up from the bed, still groaning from the pain, his eyes darted to another of the little girls squealing at him and rushing out of the door. He was flabbergasted, almost stumbling back as he heard numerous footsteps rushing towards him. He had no weapon, no form of defense, and if it were to end like this he at least knew that he did the right thing. He closed his eyes.

Jack was tackled onto the bed, numerous limbs went kicking and flailing about as they attempted to take a piece of him. Laughter and even cries resonated from the mass as the girls hugged every piece of the man, some even kissing his face. Tenenbaum walked through the ajar doorway, holding a towel, rubbing her hands softly with it, smiling at what little happiness she was allowed to cherish.

'Alright, little ones, leave him alone. If we intended to kill him, we would have left where he was. Now, out!' she exclaimed out of the bliss of the room.

The girls scuttled away, releasing Jack from their clutches one by one, running off behind Tenenbaum except for one. She held onto a doll head tightly as Jack rose up from the bed, sitting up as he stared at the little girl, she seemed anxious as she held even tighter on her odd toy. She looked at him then to her toy before she held it out towards him, relenting with a smile. Jack took it before she giggled and ran after her sisters. Jack seemed confused by the gesture but smiled as well as she left the room still admiring the toy. Tenenbaum looked surprise.

'Sally never allowed anyone to touch her doll before. That meant alot to her you know especially since it was before all...this.' she said somberly before approaching Jack, placing the towel on the bedside table and sitting next to him.

Jack continued to smile at the toy before he turned it to a frown as the experiences of the city returned in flashes and washed over what was left from the joy that had come as quickly as it could leave.

'What you did for my little ones...they will never forget what you did for them and in the end, they will love you for it' she said lighting up as he continued to stare at her with tired eyes. She placed a hand on his shoulder and rubbed lightly. Her looked turned darker as she frowned, considering her own sins and the part she played . 'Neither would i.'

'Jack, i know by now that you will never forgive those who played their hand to have brought you here.' She addressed firmly, her grasp on his shoulder growing tighter. 'and i don't intend to ask you for your forgiveness for my part that played, please put out your hand.'

Out of nowhere, she pulled a syringe that contained a strange black liquid. Jack was almost startled but he soon relaxed as Tanenbaum placed it onto his hand. 'You can finish it if you want to, Jack.' She said quietly.

Jack just stared at her.

Tenenbaum just closed her eyes, she folded up her sleeves, leaving an exposed arm. 'Just tell my little ones, Aunt Tenenbaum was very tired and needed to rest' She then reiterated. 'and get them the hell out on nearest bathysphere and put as many of them you can, away from this wretched city.' Tears swelled at the edges of her eyes. She then heard a clink and opened her eyes.

Jack dropped the syringe on the floor. He then hugged Tenenbaum and in response she held onto him tightly. Tears streamed down her face however she didn't understand.

'Why? Why after all this time you still forgive those who wronged you?' She said, her voice cracking slightly.

Jack simply smiled.

'Because no one else will'

After Jack replaced his bandages and got dressed in his cleaned up attire. Tenenbaum led him into a hallway that led towards an atrium.

'This use to be the entrance to the opera house before the fall.' She explained.

Jack saw the ceiling's intricate frame cascade over the familiar blue expanse of the sea as a whale swam gracefully across the ever eerie sky. Jack walked across, passing the familiar girls, colouring, playing games or waving at him. Jack could only wave back and smile. Tenenbaum led him to another walkway down that led to a strange door.

'These were one of few remaining, existing entrances to the escape bathyspheres left in Rapture.'

Jack noticed there has a pass code and DNA reader that he remembered were similar to those in Andrew Ryan's securities and reinforcements

.

'So far only Andrew Ryan could acc-'

Jack just then took the initiative and punched a few numbers onto the keypad and ran his skin onto the DNA scanner for confirmation. The door's steamed open and revealed a row of batheshperes ready for deployment. Tenenbaum could only stare and then smirk.

'Oh yes, i forgot.'

Eventually, Tenenbaum had every little sister ready to pack up and leave, ensuring that no little toy or doll was left. Jack was impressed with the level of coordination these bright girls had, even after their traumatic experiences. After the girls brought everything they could carry, Tenenbaum assigned them to their pods and initiated their lunch to be synced simultaneously. As the countdown drew closer to zero, and every little sister that could fit into the bathysphere was ready to leave only Tenenbaum and Jack were yet to board theirs. Jack as ready to step inside the pod, he noticed Tenenbaum was not coming.

'I'm sorry, Jack but i cannot come with you.'

Jack grew concerned. Tenenbaum just smiled as even more tears swelled.

'Jack, you've done everything remotely possible for me and my little ones but i cannot come with you. Not yet anyway. I don't belong to that world anymore, especially after all what had happened, after all i have seen.'

Jack moved closer to her.

'I'm so sorry, even if now i'm still apologizing for all i've done. I would never have expected to come out of this alive and i dreamed that somehow i might but in the precipice of realizing that dream i found something more important and more meaningful than myself. I can't let this happen again, Jack and i won't let it destroy it for my little ones. They deserve it that much.' She cupped his face and rubbed her thumb. 'You deserve it.' She let go. 'I'll have to stay, its the only way to prevent anymore repercussions that might follow and who knows if there may be more of my little ones here in this hell.'

Jack gave in and hugged her. Even though deep down he knew she deserved whatever faith that might fall unto her here, she was closest thing to a real mother he could recall. His memories were not his own, not anymore but the events that took place brought him closer to her and the girls then he could really hope to see. He let go.

'Take care of them for me, please. You are their last hope of a real life, a better life then we gave them here.' she said finally before letting go and leading him into an empty pod.

Jack saw the girls kicking and screaming in the separate pods, beating down the doors as the bathyspheres launched one by one below and sinking out into the dim waters leaving only Jack's pod left. Jack sat quietly on the familiar cushiony velvet chair as Tenenbaum pulled the lever and walked away from the pod and waved good-bye, tears still streaming down her weary face. It was surreal. He remembered when he first arrived as a man begged for his life before a splicer cut his stomach open. The splicer turned to him and announced, 'Was it someone new?' It was that moment, he knew something was terribly wrong and he would eventually be thrown into events that was much larger than he would have ever anticipated.

He said his goodbyes to perhaps one of last few remnants of light in Rapture. As the doors closed, sealing shut and a familiar silhouette engulfed her as she continued to wave goodbye, Jack felt that somehow no matter how much he knew that although he never truly lived or breathed in that world, it would forever become a part of him no matter how much he denied or want to run away from it. The bathysphere suddenly dived lower, and the dark, cold familiarity of Rapture's architecture became evident as the pod passed the darkened, tall obelisks, lit only with neon signs that continued to lose their vibrancy, flickering on and off as he ascended. He never blinked once as he rose, the light of the city continued to grow dimmer away into a blurry blue mass of the ocean before being consumed by the darkness. As Jack looked away from the city of Rapture for one last time, to look up towards the roof of the sea as his bathysphere broke through the roof into a world he didn't know he would see again.

It was also the first time he could breath the fresh ocean air again, instead of that artificial gas that was pumped into the city. He breathed long and hard before his pod door opened, as the ocean managed to splash into his pod. Jack didn't notice how happy he was to see the ocean that wasn't trying to drown him. He then noticed the girl's pods opening. They looked around in wonder, some even jumping into the ocean. They screamed and laughed in warm night as they played before Jack organized them to paddle towards the Lighthouse. The same lighthouse that brought the omen of a now repressed memory. They all stared into the horizon, watching the clouds break, as a massive orange sphere rose up and filled the starry sky to crimson. The girls were at awe as the sky lit like never before, streaming a bright red background into the empty starry sky. One of the girls tugged Jack's wool sweater, sucking her thumb as she looked up, breaking Jack's transfixed gaze. He looked down and noticed the one named Priscilla

'Does this mean we can't go home anymore?' she quietly whimpered.

Jack just stood there and thought of the future. He didn't know how to respond to the innocent, hapless girl in a world of untold dangers and uncertainty. Instead, he smiled and knelt down, eye-level to her as he put his hands onto her shoulders before he announced perhaps the most important decision he wholeheartedly accepted by a choice he didn't know he wanted.

'No, little one, it means we'll have to make our own.' He smiled.