A/N: Well, everyone. My love for Bioshock and halloween has pushed the plots of other stories out of my head. So, here we go. This is my halloween story for all you guys. It's probably gonna last long past halloween given my track record. So, I'm sorry to start something new on you guys but here we go.
Notes: The reader will not have to have played Bioshock or Bioshock 2 to understand this story. This is just characters from NCIS and NCIS:NO in the setting of Rapture several decades after the events of Bioshock and Bioshock two. I will give enough information for things to be understandable and I'll try to keep super major plot points out. There will be spoiler warnings for sections with spoilers so bare with me. All the reader has to really know is that Rapture is a massive under water city in the mid-atlantic. It was a city created to be without rule of any of world government. It quickly fell under a drug-enhanced murderous insanity that destroyed the city. The city is done in 60's style art deco style.
Disclaimer: I only own what isn't canon in any of the fandoms.
~*~Prologue~*~
The morning had been going so well. Then, this had to happen. It sounded like insanity. How was this even happening?!
"Daddy, did you hear me?" The question made Pride blink slowly at the floor. His sense of safety flipped and left him feeling queasy.
"Sorry, Love, coul' you say tha' ag'in?" There was a soft sigh in reply.
"Sure. Dad, Ah'm callin' to say goodbye. Me and a couple other girls are leaving in an hour to study abroad in Iceland." The air left Pride's lungs at the news. Panic set in, consuming him. He was unused to his little one going so far away. It had been hard enough to send her away to college out of the city.
"W-why didn' you tell me earlier?"
"Because Ah knew this would happen, Dad." She sighed softly again over the phone, "Ah knew you'd be mad. But, Ah'm a grown woman, Ah can take care of mahself."
"You're gonna be gone all semester an' not tell me? Course Ah'm upset, Laurel!"
"Dad, Ah'll be fine. Relax." Her serious tone cut his rampage short. He was finding it hard to breathe, "Dad, please calm down. Ah'm gonna be fine. If'n somethin' bad happens, You'll be the first person Ah call." Pride's pulse was out of control, tears creeping in on his eyes. He felt sick but nodded, even though she could not see him. He knew he had to trust his little girl, even if it hurt.
"Ah love you, Sweetheart. Please be safe."
"Of course, Dad. Ah love you too. Sen' mah love to Chris. You two be safe." Laurel hung up and Pride nearly dropped his phone. His little girl was leaving the continent and he was on the verge of a panic attack.
His pale eyes slipped closed as he sank down into his chair. He folded one hand over the other and clutched his fingers tightly. His thumb rubbing his new wedding ring in a calming gesture as he tried desperately to relax. He rested his hand on his desk. He could get through one semester, right?
~*~Chapter End~*~