Let the story continue! ~Cryoshock123~
The Creeping In Eleanor's Soul Chapter I: The Broken Bond
Delta trudged towards an airlock while still holding Eleanor in his arms. He quickly activated the drainage system and stepped into the grimy decrepit halls of Rapture. He gently sat Eleanor up against a wall and collapsed onto the ground, he didn't have much time left.
"Father…" Eleanor sat down with her legs crossed and put her father's helmeted head on her lap. She took her Big Sister helmet off and stared deeply into her father's visor while gently rubbing the dent she had made in his armor.
"Father please don't go. I don't want to be alone anymore." Delta raised his massive left hand and gently rubbed the side of his daughter's face affectionately. Her eyes were bloodshot red and tears were streaming down her pale unblemished cheeks. Her short raven black hair was drenched in sweat and an empty look began to engulf her crystal blue eyes. Delta continued to caress the side of his daughter's face. He wished that he could do more, he regretted leaving his daughter like this but there was nothing else he could do.
"E-Eleanor…"
"Daddy, please…don't go…" Delta's hand left Eleanor's cheek and dropped limply to his side. The warm yellow glow that emitted from Delta's visor moments before was no longer present. Eleanor's raven black hair hid her eyes from view.
"Why…?" Eleanor wrapped her arms around her father's armored form and snuggled deeply into his chest.
"Why can't we just be together…?" Eleanor just felt like laying here beside her father forever. The one she loved more than any other was taken away from her…again. This time she couldn't bring him back, the Vita-Chambers revive ones DNA in the state it was in before dieing. That meant that if you had a serious disease or was dieing from natural causes then the Vita-Chambers would be useless. Eleanor rubbed her face against Delta's cold armor, what was she going to do now? Her mother had won, she had the little ones and the freedom.
"Maybe mother was right, maybe I am a monster. Maybe this is my place." The more and more Eleanor thought about it the more and more it began to make sense. This is where she was created, this is where she met father, she could deny it all she wanted but this was her home. Eleanor's head raised up then back down, like she was resting on the chest of someone who was….breathing. Eleanor's eyes snapped wide open and she raised herself into an upright position.
"Father..?" He was indeed breathing but it was as if he were in a deep sleep.
"The…coma." Tears started to pour from Eleanor's already tear streaked face, her father was alive. She wouldn't have been able to bring him back if he died but coma…that she would be able to break him out of. With some difficulty. Eleanor racked her over developed brain for an answer.
"When an Alpha Series' Little Sister dies or their heart stops for a certain period of time the bond is broken and they are either put into a coma, die, or go completely insane. What causes these conditions is the lack of the Little Sister's pheromone signature. When mother stopped my heart, my pheromone signature temporarily disappeared and so our bond was broken. His body already thinks that I am dead…but what if I find some way to inject my pheromones into his body? Yes, that could work, it could force his body to awake him from the coma…"
Although that seemed logical to Eleanor it was much easier said than done. She would have to find a way to whip up a solution that not only would wake him from the coma but stay in his body indefinitely. To make such a cure is going to take a lot of ingredients, one of them being ADAM. That was going to be the hard part, nearly all the Little Sisters were gone and although she could harvest ADAM herself it was going to take much longer than if she obtained the ADAM directly from a Little Sister.
Eleanor stood up and hefted her father onto her shoulders. Although she looked frail she was more than capable of lifting heavy weights. Eleanor grabbed her helmet from off of the floor and trudged forward once more into the dark corridors of Rapture. She remembered this place well, Point Prometheus. This is where she and her father received their Gatherer/Protector training. Eleanor stopped dead in her tracks as she heard the familiar sound of metal clanking against metal.
'Spider Splicer.'
Eleanor looked over to a balcony and quickly disappeared in a purple haze. She reappeared on the balcony and started to run deeper into the Gatherer/Protector birth place. She stopped as the hallway split off into two different directions. Eleanor looked at the signs that hung on the walls: to her right was the Failsafe Armory, to her left was a quarantine chamber. Eleanor quickly turned to her left and sprinted down the hallway. The chamber that she found was very similar to the one she was held in and most likely just as indestructible. Eleanor pulled the latch to the left of the quarantine chamber's entrance and the door swung open. She entered the room and found a hospital gunnery in the middle of the room, a bathroom to the left and various hospital machinery to her right. Eleanor gently laid her father down onto the hospital gunnery and walked over to the hospital machinery. Her father's suit had I.V ports for ADAM injection so hooking him up to the machine was very easy. The machine emitted a steady beeping sound and the screen showed that her father's heart rate was in stable condition. Eleanor sat in the chair that was beside her father's gunnery.
"Father…I will do whatever it takes to awaken you from this fever dream. You went through hell to save me, now its my turn to do the same for you."