Complications
"The moon, the stars, the sky, it's simply….breathtaking." Eleanor was simply speechless. Never in all her eighteen-years would she have ever imagined the surface to look so beautiful. The light from the moon reflected off of the surface of the water creating beautiful dancing lights that danced along the hull of their bathysphere. Her father sat beside her with his left arm draped gently around her waist. She wished that he would love her the way she loved him but maybe with a little time he could learn to love her in that way. They were in no way shape or form related and they had really only been together for about a couple of months during her time as a Little Sister.
'That's possible.'
Eleanor snuggled deeper into Delta's armored chest. She looked up at him with her deep ocean blue eyes. She traced along the edges of his helmet visor with her lithe gloved finger.
"Father, I'll find away to turn you back to the way you once were. After all that you have done for me it's the least that I could do." It would be difficult but it was the least that she could do. Her father must feel so alone, she would be able to take her suit off and walk around normally among surface dwellers but her father…
'It's not fair!'
Even when they had reached the surface her father continued to wear the Big Daddy helmet that he has been confined in all these years. Did he think that she thought his face was hideous? She could never think of her father that way, ever. In her eyes he will always be her handsome knight in shining armor that always comes to her rescue when the monsters come to get her. He will always be her golden knight. Eleanor yawned quietly to herself and eyes started to slowly close, she had both her arms draped loosely around her father's waist.
"I'm ready for dream time Daddy..."
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The rays of the sun shined down upon Eleanor's pale face. The ultraviolet rays irritated her enough to awake her from her sleep. Eleanor yawned and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, she found that her Big Sister Suit was no longer on her person (She was in her knee length white dress) and that she was laying on a soft bed. Eleanor got up from bed and began to explore the bathysphere.
"Father?" Eleanor walked into the kitchen area of the bathysphere to find her father cooking what looked to be fish, salmon by the smell of it. His helmet was lying on a chair in the living room area. Eleanor couldn't help but smile at the sight.
"Good morning, father." Eleanor chimed as she wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a peck on the cheek. Delta was a little surprised by this action but he gave his foster daughter a smile non the less. Eleanor held her father's cheek in her hand and studied his facial features in depth for the first time. His face looked a lot like the art deco statues that lay scattered around Rapture. He had no hair, his eyes were pitch black and his skin was a dark gray color, he was obviously very muscular. Eleanor honestly had to say that her father was not ugly in the least, he had the look of an other worldly being, an arch angel of the apocalypse.
"Father, I want you to know that I love you. No matter what." Eleanor whispered. Delta smiled brightly at his daughters comment and continued to cook the breakfast he was preparing. He knew little about the culinary arts but he had enough sense to know how to fry up some fish and eggs. After he was done preparing the meal he put the fried fish and eggs on a plate and walked over to Eleanor. She was currently sitting at the living room table just staring out into the sea. The sun was beautiful but she had to be careful not to look directly at it. She had already blinded herself a couple of times. Eleanor looked to her father, do to the blinding sunlight a weird dot was in front of his face. Eleanor blinked her eyes a couple of times to get rid of the nuisance. Delta placed the plate in front of Eleanor along with a fork. The scent of the food was intoxicating and Eleanor wasted no time in digging right in.
'He's a great cook!'
Eleanor thought to herself. Just as Eleanor was about to take another bite she noticed that her father was gazing out the window…with no plate of food in front of him. Eleanor looked to the plate that sat in front of her.
"Father, what are you going to eat?" Eleanor asked innocently. Delta looked to his daughter and sighed. That was all the food that he could find and there was no way he was going to eat while Eleanor sat there and starved, what kind of father would he be if he did that? Eleanor scooted her chair over until it was beside her fathers. She grabbed her plate and took fork full of fish and put it close to Delta's mouth. Delta looked at her again in surprise, Eleanor just grinned.
"Now say, AH." Eleanor said jokingly. Delta couldn't help but smile and open his mouth. His beautiful daughter…she really did love him. Delta looked Eleanor over, her skin was pale almost pure white but this only brought out her deep ocean blue eyes. Her hair was as dark as his blackened eyes and her lips were pink and full. All in all she was a beautiful angel. Eleanor gave him another grin as she fed him a fork full of eggs. How could she love such a monster like himself? Wasn't she frightened of him or a least ashamed of his appearance? Eleanor laughed as a piece of egg fell from the corner of his mouth, she took a napkin from off of the table and wiped the corner of his mouth.
"Father, where are we going to go now?" Eleanor asked him. The bathysphere jolted to a stop just as the question left Eleanor's mouth. Eleanor and Delta looked at each other before making their way out of the sphere, Delta made sure to grab his helmet and put it on before he left out.
"Father wait here, I need to put on something more…suitable." Eleanor disappeared in a plum of purple smoke and reappeared in the bed room she had slept in. She looked to the chair in the far corner of the room to find her Big Sister suit. She quickly put on the suit of armor and attached her giant ADAM needle to her left arm.
'Let's see where we have landed…'
AN: Sorry for the lack of action in this chapter, I wanted this chapter to be a sort of bonding time between Eleanor and Delta.
