Chapter 1 : Awakened
He awoke... again. His head was spinning... again. But this time he wasn't in the dark void. He still did not know where he was but he felt safer, away from the blue suit.
There was a knock at the door.
"Open up!" said a voice through what sounded like a portable radio.
There was a second knock.
Murdock couldn't explain it but something was telling him to run, like it knew that these people meant him harm.
There was a third knock.
"Break it down!"
He was right. From the room he was in he heard the door crash and splinter then he heard the screams and grunts of pain from people in the other room. He didn't want to be in the same boat as them so Murdock moved out the window nearby and sidled along the wall.
"I heard something in here."
"Check the outside. Get up on the roof!"
They were coming for him, he had to get away. But, where could he go? They were coming up the stairs and he was stuck on the roof. He looked around. Then he spotted his one glimpse of hope, an open window across the street with a clothes line hanging above it. It was just his luck that a pair of jeans were hanging on the line too. He had to move quickly so he grabbed the line and pulled the jeans closer to him. Finally he got them and quickly he fashioned them into a zip-line. He heard the radio-voices and quickly zip-lined across the street.
Unbelievable, it actually worked, he thought.
He looked out the window again to see if they had spotted him. They were focused on something else. Another man was running from them, he was familiar. Suddenly Murdock's mind flashed back to the chaos that landed him in the blue suits hands. Back when he was in Black Mesa. He remembered who he had just seen.
It was Gordon Freeman.