Disclaimer: I do not own portal or its ideas, only my own.
I followed the strange woman through the streets, watching her feet step softly forward, one after another. She occasionally looked back at me as if to make sure I was following her. I wished that I could tell her not to bother, that I had nowhere else to go and would be going with her as such. With the cube under my arm, I trudged along. I felt like a bumbling idiot behind the grace that was this woman.
People tossed strange glances my way. As if my appearance was much different from theirs. Then I thought that maybe it was more to do with the fact that this town was small enough that possibly everyone knew each other and as such could tell I was new.
We passed bunches of small living establishments and a few buildings that appeared to be serving food to people coming and going. The dirt road we followed seemed to stretch on for the length of at least ten test chambers, possibly longer. Hugely constructed buildings reached to the sky all around reminding me of the basement of Aperture.
I was so busy looking around that I didn't even notice that the lady leading me had stopped. "Excuse me. Miss! We're here." I whirled around and locked eyes on the blond. She was standing before a door which was already half open. "This is my home. You can stay here until we figure out what to do with you." I stumbled over and nodded.
We stepped through the threshold and into a small square room. Much smaller than most at the lab. Perhaps the size of a large office. Couches lined two of the walls which were covered with yellow wall paper. The room led into another which had a table surrounded by four chairs. To the left was a long hallway. The woman turned to me. "It's not much, but its home. My name is Nancy. My, this is going to be difficult without you speaking. I don't know what to call you." I nodded and felt a frown worm its way onto my face. "Well, never mind that for now. If you'll follow me, I'll show you where you'll be staying for now."
Without waiting for a response, Nancy turned and made her way down the hall. Two doors down she stopped. "You can use this room. It used to be my husband's office, but…" She trailed off. "Well you can set your things down. I'll go get a sleeping bag and a few blankets and pillows so you can get comfortable. You look tired." If I'd been able to talk, I would have explained that I didn't sleep, but I couldn't so she left to go collect the previously mentioned objects.
I turned and placed the cube down as well as the portal gun side by side. My only belongings. Nancy returned a few minutes later with blankets and pillows. She gave them to me and told me that dinner would be ready in about half an hour. I wasn't sure what dinner was, or how long half an hour was for that matter, but I nodded anyway and set about making a comfortable seat for myself out of the bedding. I was sitting for quite some time fidgeting. It was the first time that I wasn't being told to do something. I wasn't running through portals or solving life threatening puzzles. I was just. Sitting. This was going to take some getting used to.
A/N I actually came back to this story. I can't believe it. Well anyway I'm just getting started. Summer is almost over, but I hope to get a lot done with this story before school starts. Review if you feel like it. It makes me want to write more!
