Beginning of the End
Chapter 4
She opened her eyes slowly, trying to take in her surroundings. Everything is blurry. Why is everything blurry? She sat up slowly and looked around the room, noticing a glass desk with a few books and a light on it and a dresser against the wall in front of the bed. Other than those two things and the bed she was laying on it seemed that there was nothing else in the room, apart from two metal sliding doors. She blinked and got up, trying to force the dizziness away. Her wobbling legs carried her to one of the doors and she pressed her ear to it, trying to listen if there is anyone on the other side.
"I don't care. Subject nineteen can't go in the Animus. We don't know how she will react. All our previous subjects have been male, and the ancestors we 'placed' them in were also male. There's no way to tell how she'll react if we put her in there."
"Then get a way to make it work! She has valuable information. And besides, we spend too much time to try and find her to just dispose of her without searching her memories."
"What about subject eighteen?"
"You know we can't…"
The sound of footsteps approaching the door quickly made her stumble back and sit on the bed, watching the door. It slid open with a soft 'woosh' sound and a man with a grey beard stepped into the room, holding a steaming cup of coffee. "Afternoon Miss Lancy. I suspect you will have a lot of questions, but those will have to wait. Follow me."
"Who?" she asked, still sitting on the bed
The man turned around and frowned down at her. "Don't play games with me. Just do as you are told." And with that he turned around again and walked out,
'Well, what else can I do?' she thinks to herself and follows, stepping through the sliding door. The room on the other side was quite plain, huge windows lining the one wall and computers lining the rest, a few chairs, a desk and then a glass table in the middle. She frowned, this all seemed familiar, but she can't remember where she saw it. Case files, that's where she saw it… 'Wait, what case files?' she wonders. And then she remembered. She's been captured by Absertgo. But what would they want with her?