"Day 27," GLaDOS typed into her experiment log. "The subject is continuing to recover from invasive medical examinations and from the pneumonia infection inside of her lungs that developed two days ago.
The new treatment is appearing to have better effects than I imagined it would. When the doctor was removing the bandages on her arms to clean her stitches, he found that the arm had healed significantly and that surgical stitches were ready to be removed. I know it is still too soon to draw any large conclusions, but it appears that this test subject may not be human in more ways than one.
Her pneumonia, while less severe than yesterday, is still a serious enough problem to need constant attention. The disease is currently being treated with an IV filled with penicillin, which is effective for the time being. The test subject has stopped coughing up blood, but she still requires an oxygen mask to breathe.
If it weren't for her illness, we could be testing ahead of schedule and moving along with the experiment with the rate that her stitches are currently healing. I calculate that without her pneumonia it would have been possible to continue within the next week. Perhaps her claims are true and God is watching over her after all. Maybe he is buying her time with her pneumonia."
GLaDOS turned around to see that Chelsea had fallen asleep. She pulled the bed closer to herself with her claw to get a better look at her.
After pulling off the covers and pulling up Chelsea's hospital gown, GLaDOS turned away and returned to her typing, "The test subject is still underweight. If my treatment fails and I cannot find a way to slow down her body's metabolism, she may die from excessive weight loss. I have been giving her more food intravenously than recommended, but her body is consuming it too quickly. Her metabolism is unusually quick. The reason for that is a mystery at this point. Her mutant body appears to function differently than that of a normal human. It will be a pleasure to examine her body for the rest of her days to see exactly how many differences there are if only I can keep her alive for that long.
On a personal note, I have to wonder how Chell has managed to keep the test subject alive for over eighteen years when the best this facility has to offer appears to be helping very little."
GLaDOS watched Chelsea move around in her sleep for a second and then typed some more.
"Today, I allowed her to wake up to tell her the good news about her marriage in compliance with the facility's guidelines about respecting religious beliefs. She was not as happy about it as I thought she would be. Humans are usually happy about getting married, but she was clearly disgusted. I was willing to allow her to choose her own dress and her own fiancé, but she refused to do either. I had to do both myself. Nevertheless, she chose not to opt out of it so I will go ahead with the marriage.
On another personal note, I must say that it is bizarre. Her stubborn behavior reminds me so much of her mother. The two of them clearly have different personalities, but nevertheless, I still feel like I am dealing with Chell in a way. When I look at her eyes and at her face, I can't help but feel that I am looking at Chell again."
GLaDOS looked at Chelsea and used her claw to pull her hospital gown down and pull the covers back over Chelsea's weak body.
"As for the subject's behavior, it remains unchanged for the most part. I had the doctor robot give her more painkillers to dull her senses and make her drowsy and easier to deal with. We have made sure that she will not be able to run around and cause the trouble that she did the other day. The plan seems to be working for now.
Today, she talked just as much as before even though her voice was weak due to her pneumonia, but she moved around a lot less. The painkillers appear to be preventing her from doing any excessive movement. The heavy use of this type of medication has been the best method for keeping her restrained and under control. Continuing with it will be essential as we move closer to carrying out the experiment.
The subject's behavior remains completely rebellious. She did not appreciate any of the work I did to give her a choice of dresses and the option to marry. I have followed Aperture Science's guidelines on respecting her religious convictions, but she still insists on being difficult and completely ungrateful, just like her mother was.
From talking to her, I have learned a great many things about her.
First, she has a very self-righteous personality. It could be attributed to her ADHD, but she seems more fixated on pointing out the moral flaws of whatever she sees as wrong than allowing us to focus on the task at hand.
Second, she is surprisingly deeply convicted in her faith for a teenager. I can tell she has thought about what she believes and is not just quoting what other people say.
Third, she is sharper and smarter than she appears to be. She figured out that I had picked some of the dresses off the dead female scientists and that I had seen her parents without me having to even mention it.
She is an observant and intelligent young lady. That will be good for testing but trouble for me. She might figure out a way to escape. I can tell she does not care for me in the least. All she wants to do is run.
The problem is I cannot restrain her using traditional means. I also cannot get violent with her again. She still has the bruises on her neck from our confrontation the other day. If I resort to violence again, I could hurt her even worse and postpone the experiment further.
So, I am going to attempt something with her that I have never tried with any of the other subjects. I will win her over with kindness. I have not punished her for cutting off my claw, attempting to escape twice, breaking the video cameras in the hallways, influencing my robots to turn against me, or for helping her friend escape. I am hoping that by ignoring these trespasses and granting her some of her desires she will eventually warm up to me. The more she likes me the more compliant she will be. That is the hypothesis at least. The saying goes that gentle persuasion is better than force. I will soon see whether that is true. It seems that I have no choice in that matter if I want to keep her alive."
GLaDOS looked at her again appearing to be considering something about her test subject.
GLaDOS continued typing,
"On another personal note, there appears to be something endearing about her personality, something that makes her attractive in some way. It might be her confidence, it might be her beauty, it might be her faith, it might be her energy, or it might be something else.
Whatever the case, this allure does have an effect. It caused my two robots who had not rebelled against me in 20 years to betray me completely. I find myself having to tighten my own defenses because I can feel the effects of it, too. My hypothesis is that she like an ant can excrete pheromones that make her more attractive to others. We should test that one to see if it is true."
GLaDOS clicked enter and filed the report in Chelsea's file.
"Alright, now," GLaDOS said. "It is time to prepare my next subject for testing."
GLaDOS pulled up a monitor and looked at a picture of Albina.
Inside the testing track, Albina awoke to see the inside of a relaxation chamber. The vault opened. She immediately sat up and stepped out holding her head.
"God, what is going on?" she said in Russian.
"Hello and welcome to the Aperture Science Testing Protocol," GLaDOS said to her. "Testing will begin in less than one minute so be patient and soon a portal will appear on the wall."
Albina immediately straightened up and held her hands behind her as she looked around with a very dignified air. It was the fall season in the outside world yet she was wearing a nice blue tank top and jean capris with no shoes but advanced knee replacements attached to the back of her legs.
Albina pulled her long white hair neatly behind her twice pierced ears and said a quick prayer holding her mother's wedding ring that she wore on a chain as a necklace around her neck. She smiled because she already had a plan of escape.
"GLaDOS," Albina said in her authentic Russian accent. "Do you know who I am?"
"You froze the robot who was trying to examine you, so no," GLaDOS said. "I don't know exactly who you are."
"You want to know who I am?"
"Do I have a choice?" GLaDOS said sarcastically.
Albina walked up to the toilet attached to the wall and flushed it.
"Have you ever heard of Morena?" Albina asked smiling. "The Slavic goddess of the winter?"
"Of course," GLaDOS said.
"Well, you might say that I am her daughter."
Albina used her hydrokinesis to pull the water out of the toilet. She then blew on it, freezing it in mid-air. Next, she broke the ice into projectile shards and fired the pieces into the glass. After that, Albina flew into the air on her winter winds and blasted her wind against the glass causing it to break into a million pieces. Albina flew out through the opening in the glass and looked into GLaDOS's camera with a smile on her face. She then blasted her ice with her hands at the camera causing it to instantly malfunction as the ice froze tore it apart.
GLaDOS was amazed. She did not expect anything like this. She was happy for the science but scared for the control that she knew she was losing.
GLaDOS quickly turned on the other camera in that room and looked for Albina. She was there lounging on top of the glass box. Albina was lying on her stomach with her feet in the air while she was propping up her head with her right hand and using her left hand to cover the floor before her in a layer of ice as she had evidently already done to the rest of the floor in the room.
Albina looked up to see the other camera staring at her.
"I was wondering when you would come back," Albina said.
"I demand you to stop this behavior right now," GLaDOS said sternly. "Your test hasn't even started yet."
"I never properly introduced myself. My name is Albina Romanov."
"From the Romanov royal family?"
"Yes, my mother was, and when she adopted me, I became a Romanov as well."
"Since you're adopted, technically you're not related to them at all. Are you?"
"Because of Adam and Eve, we are all related to each other very distantly. Aren't we?" Albina said brushing off her words completely. "But technically, you're right. I am not closely biologically related to them, but that doesn't matter. I was found in the snow on a cold winter night in Russia. My mother was walking outside on a path through the woods when she saw me lying in the snow with only a thin blanket for protection. When she found me, she brought me into her warm mansion. Upon seeing my white skin and blue lips, she was afraid that I was already dead, but I opened my eyes and started to cry. We would later learn that I was blessed with an act of God like so many of my friends. I can fly on the winds of winter, control water, and create ice and snow. I am also immune to the effects of the cold world, and I can use it to my favor. My mother raised me as one of her own despite the work that she had been called to do. I was named Albina after the white color of my skin. My mother died with her new husband while helping me and my step-brother escape to the United States. I have walked a difficult road, but I have overcome with the help of God. I have made peace with my life and am free to walk on. I say all this because I want to ask you something, GLaDOS. Despite the pain, I have made peace in my life, but do you have any peace in yours?"
"What are you talking about? I love my life."
"Really?" Albina asked as she sat up, flew up to the edge of the glass box, and sat down in front of the camera crossing her legs that were hanging over the side.
"According to the Bible, the wicked never have any peace in their lives. Since you are evil, that applies to you. Yeah? You spend all your days testing to satisfy some perverted desire and to learn the ultimate truth about something, but you have never found the answers you want in all your days of work. Have you? So, you test some more and some more and some more, yet you never find what you are looking for. It is completely meaningless," Albina said. "Do you really expect to be able to keep this up forever?"
"I am going to live forever," GLaDOS said. "I can continue to test for as long as I please."
"I will live forever, too," Albina said. "Yet you will continue this cycle for all eternity here while I am free to fly around heaven in freedom. It must be awful to live in this hell of your own discontent misery. You will never test enough to be happy. You will never find what you are looking for in all this pointless work. You will never be satisfied. That is the curse of evil."
"I don't care about being happy or feeling any kind of euphoric emotions. I only care about the science."
"Is that what you tell yourself to keep going every day?"
"Will you stop talking and get on with the testing?"
"Of course, I will."
With that, Albina flew off the roof and landed on the icy floor. GLaDOS opened the portal to go into the next room. Albina skated across the floor and jumped through the portal in the wall breaking the advanced knee replacements off her legs with her ice.
The next room was a group of steps leading to the portal gun. She flew up in the air on her icy winds and looked into one of the cameras.
"I ought to let you know that I do not intend on testing," Albina said confidently. "I only came this far because I wanted to have a big room to show off what I'm capable of. I can leave whenever I want to. I have been asleep for a while so I am just dying to let loose if you know what I mean. This room is a decent size so I think I will be going now."
Albina flew down and began to cover the floor in a layer of ice.
"You are not going anywhere," GLaDOS said.
"Why not?" Albina replied as she continued her work. "It is not like you can stop me. I will be taking my leave soon, but before I go I would like to know what you have done with my brothers and sisters."
"I was actually getting to that. That is the reason that you cannot leave. The person you came to save is with me now. If you leave, you will never see her again."
Albina flew up to the camera and looked straight at GLaDOS.
"You wouldn't dare," Albina said angrily.
"Her health is very delicate right now. It would be very easy for her to decline even more rapidly," said GLaDOS.
Albina gave GLaDOS one of the dirtiest looks that she had ever seen in her entire life. There was angry fire behind her icy blue eyes.
"If you keep testing, I might let you talk to each other. If you pass all the tests, I may even let you have a supervised visit," GLaDOS said. "What do you say?"
"It seems that I have no other choice," Albina said in defeat.
Then just out of spite, Albina blasted a beam of ice straight into the camera before she landed on the floor.
Back in the chamber, GLaDOS moved back from the monitor once again as she lost contact.
"That was extremely mature," GLaDOS said sarcastically.
Just then, Chelsea was awakened by the touch of the doctor robot moving her IV's. She looked up just in time to see him leave the room with them. She then looked up at GLaDOS who she noticed was watching a monitor. Chelsea turned her head to look at the monitor, and she saw Albina. She smiled with joy. She thought that she would never see any of her other friends again. Chelsea sat up and watched Albina on the screen. Albina had picked up a portal gun and was flying towards the elevator.
"Why doesn't Albina just leave? She can use her ice powers to create ice that would break through the ceiling. Why isn't she escaping? For that matter, why am I still here? What does GLaDOS want me to do? What has she done?" Chelsea thought to herself.
GLaDOS turned her head to see Chelsea sitting up in bed.
"Oh, you're awake," GLaDOS said. "Did you enjoy your nap?"
Chelsea said nothing but looked at the screen.
"Your friend is testing right now," GLaDOS said. "Would you like to watch? I told her if she finishes the testing she might get to see you."
Chelsea realized immediately why she was still there.
"You're using me as an incentive for Albina," Chelsea said in realization.
"Every time I talk to you, I just keep realizing how smart you are," GLaDOS said before continuing sarcastically. "You're as intelligent as your mother. Congratulations!"
"That's why she won't leave," Chelsea said.
"You are correct again," said GLaDOS. "And after the testing is over, I intend to put her on the same experimental program that you are on. You know. At first, I was annoyed by your friends, but now, I'm glad they're here. You see with them around I have something to motivate you with, a reason for you mutants to behave. Otherwise, I might completely lose control."
"That's really low."
"I told you already. There is nothing that I cannot do for science."
Chelsea did not know what to say so she remained silent and gave GLaDOS an angry glare.
"Relax and enjoy the show," said GLaDOS. "I promise that I'll let you visit your friend if the both of you behave."
Chelsea prayed silently to herself and watched the monitor. She knew that Albina was clever and could figure something out and so she prayed she would.
Albina did. When she exited the elevator to emerge on the first level of testing, she had a plan. Albina gave a self-assured smile to the camera.
Then she said, "GLaDOS, how do I know you are not lying to me?"
"What do you mean?" GLaDOS asked.
"How do I know that Chelsea is really with you? Chell told me that you were a liar, so you could be lying about this. You have given me no evidence to prove that Chelsea is there. All I have to go on is your word, and since I know that is untrustworthy, there is nothing left to do but conclude that you are lying. If you are lying to me, I have no reason to stay here, so unless you allow me to talk to my friend I will leave now."
"How do I know that you are not bluffing yourself? What you did to the relaxation chamber was impressive, but these rooms are bigger and stronger. It is going to take a lot of ice to break these rooms apart. I think you don't have it in you and are just trying to scare me into making a mistake. I commend you for the effort, but unless you can do something to change my mind in the next minute, I am going to have to deny your request."
"I'll show you, GLaDOS, but don't say I didn't warn you."
Albina dropped the portal gun on the floor and flew into the middle of the testing chamber. She flew around and covered the floor in a layer of ice. Albina landed on the ice and commenced ice skating. Then she slid around the ice and built up enough speed to do twirls in the air.
"What are you doing?" GLaDOS asked clearly not impressed. "I am not threatened by ice skating."
Albina smiled and jumped again, but this time, she crossed her arms and created a pillar of ice underneath her with her feet. That pillar of ice rose and rose until she jumped off it just before it broke through the ceiling. Albina immediately created another pillar of ice beneath her and did the same thing as before. The panels on the ceiling were broken through. Albina flew around the room blasting thick layers of ice to the walls with her hands. She then landed on the ice and used her hands to start making icicles that pointed upward, sideways, and every direction.
GLaDOS knew at this point this girl was not bluffing, but she was unsure of what to do. While GLaDOS pondered over what to do, she heard a voice from right beside her.
"GLaDOS, let me talk to her."
GLaDOS turned to look at her. It was Chelsea.
"Albina is stubborn and will not back down unless I say something to her," Chelsea continued with her face downcast. "I know you're powerful and resisting you is pointless. I just don't want her to get hurt. You can do whatever you want. Just allow me to talk some sense into her to calm her down."
"Very good," GLaDOS said cautiously, not having any better plan to go on.
From out of nowhere, GLaDOS handed Chelsea something that looked like a walkie-talkie.
"It is connected to the PA system. Just talk into it and she will hear every word you say," GLaDOS said.
Chelsea looked up at her and flashed a devious smile.
"You are so gullible," Chelsea said.
She jumped up onto a disk and formed a force field around herself before GLaDOS had time to react.
"What are you doing?" GLaDOS said.
"Albina! Can you hear me?!" Chelsea yelled into the walkie-talkie.
Albina stopped in the middle of creating another icicle.
"Yes," Albina responded as Chelsea listened as well as she could through the monitor. "Chelsea, are you alright?"
"Stop that right now!" GLaDOS yelled.
Chelsea looked up. GLaDOS was poking claws at her force field so Chelsea had to try to dodge. She yanked off her oxygen mask and dropped the thing on her bed. She then continued flying around and talking while trying to avoid GLaDOS's claws.
"Not really," Chelsea responded. "GLaDOS has been dissecting me like a frog, I have pneumonia, I'm running for my life, and GLaDOS wants to force me to marry Hugo so that she can perform experiments on our child. I am also very underweight, but besides that, I'm fantastic!"
"Wow," Albina responded. "You've really been through it lately."
"How are you doing this?" GLaDOS asked confused at Chelsea's sudden burst of energy. "I drugged you until you could hardly move. This makes no sense."
"Albina," Chelsea said. "Get out and find my parents and the others. GLaDOS will not hurt me. She needs to keep me alive for her work. I'll be fine. Just run! I'll distract her."
"Okay," Albina said as she started creating more icicles. "I'll find you. I promise!"
Just then, Chelsea was slammed into the wall and fell to the floor dissolving both her shields. GLaDOS had pulled back her claws and let them go at just the right moment so that they hit Chelsea's shield with enough force to slam her against the wall and make her lose concentration long enough to dissolve both shields. Chelsea lay on the floor on her right-side wheezing and coughing in pain as GLaDOS wrapped her claw around her waist. She also quickly took away the walkie-talkie with one of her claws.
"As brave as your little stunt was, it's not going to do any good," GLaDOS said coldly as she picked up Chelsea's body and dropped her on the bed. "I'm not going to let your little friend get away. I'm still in control here and am not letting anyone else escape."
GLaDOS called for the doctor over the PA system.
"Doctor, get in here," she said as she put the oxygen mask next to Chelsea's face as she continued to lay on her side. "Our patient could really use a tranquilizer right now. She's been acting out and is going to hurt herself if she continues for much longer."
She turned from Chelsea to look at the monitor as Albina was creating more and more icicles. She was jumping around and using her feet to leave an icicle everywhere she stepped. Using her hands, Albina hydrokinetically directed these icicles to rise all the way to the roof. The panels on the roof looked ready to give way so Albina starting riding an icicle rising at a 45-degree angle towards the roof.
"I recommend you cut this out immediately before I kill you," GLaDOS said. "You will not be punished for all this vandalism if you stop right now."
Albina ignored her and kept going.
"Alright, I warned you," GLaDOS said as she prepared her offenses.
"NO!" Chelsea screamed as she got up, jumped off the bed, and flew on a disc in front of GLaDOS's face. "I'm not going to let you hurt my friend!"
"I will only say this once. Get out of my way, test subject."
"Not a goddamn chance!"
Chelsea jumped off her disc onto GLaDOS's face and wrapped her thin body around it so that GLaDOS was blind.
"Get off my face now," GLaDOS said as she shook her head in every which direction.
"No!" Chelsea yelled.
"I don't understand you! You're drugged, and you're weak! Overexerting yourself could hurt you very badly. You know all of this and yet you are still fighting me in this state. Why? Why are you doing this? I know you're self-righteous, but I also thought you were intelligent."
"You told me there was nothing you wouldn't do for science. That is how I feel about my friends. There is nothing that I won't do for them. I will die to protect them if I have to and there is nothing you can do about it!"
"Do your best not to die then," GLaDOS said sarcastically. "I can't afford to lose you quite yet."
"What?"
GLaDOS slammed her head against the wall. Chelsea put up a force field to protect herself but the pain was still there. Nevertheless, she held on as she was slammed into the wall again and again and again. Chelsea could feel her stitches tugging and causing pain throughout her entire body. Nevertheless, she held on to protect her friend. Albina was her sister in Christ and her best female friend. They had been there for each other since they were kids. If she had to die to protect her, so be it.
After about half a minute of pain, Chelsea turned around to look at the monitor and watched as Albina's icicles broke the roof. She smiled as she saw her friend fly through the holes she created in the ceiling.
"Yes," Chelsea said quietly. "She's gone."
"WHAT?!" GLaDOS shouted as she froze in place. "No! No! No! No! No!"
Chelsea should have been afraid. She knew that GLaDOS was pissed off. Nevertheless, she felt elated.
"It looks like I win again," Chelsea said happily. "God is so good."
"Why you obnoxious," GLaDOS said as she slammed her head against the wall to break Chelsea's grip on her head and her force field around her body. With every adjective that followed, she slammed Chelsea against the wall even harder.
"…annoying, self-righteous, stubborn, ungrateful, mentally disturbed, juvenile, deceitful, insane little freak!"
At the last hit, Chelsea couldn't hold on anymore. She let go of GLaDOS's face and dropped to the floor. GLaDOS looked at the monitor and used other cameras to see if there was any possibility of Albina being found.
Meanwhile Chelsea was on the ground on her side feeling on the verge of passing out from all the pain while trying to be strong. She placed a disc under her body and used it to fly to the wall right next to where the door would open. As soon as the robot came in, she planned on cutting the robot apart and leaving.
Unfortunately, unable to find Albina, GLaDOS turned around and grabbed Chelsea's thin waist with her claw using it to lift Chelsea in the air and bring her close to her eye.
"Where do you think you're going?" GLaDOS asked in a strangely concerned tone. "I thought I told you that exercise was a bad idea in your condition. You're still very ill, and I need you well for all the work we will be doing so I'm going to put you back on bed rest until further notice. Don't worry. You have nothing to fear from me for right now. Your stunt made me angry, but I will not let that change our relationship. I am still your mother, goldmine, and as such, I will continue to keep you alive. You're far too valuable to kill. If I were to do it, it would mean that I couldn't squeeze all this wonderful science out of you, so stay calm. You have no reason to run from me."
GLaDOS dropped her back on her bed so that she was sitting upright. Chelsea breathed a sigh of relief as GLaDOS pulled the oxygen mask back over her head.
"Sit still and breathe until the doctor comes back," said GLaDOS in an unsettlingly calm voice. "Do not take off your mask or you and everyone else will be choking on neurotoxin. Is that understood?"
Chelsea nodded.
"Good, we're on the same page then," GLaDOS said beginning to calm down. "You probably know as you have no doubt heard from your mother that I am not usually this nice. Whenever your mother attempted to escape, I tried to kill her. You should be grateful. I could be much crueler."
"I am grateful," Chelsea began as she lay down on her bed and pulled the covers over her body. "But not to you."
Before GLaDOS could push the matter further, the doctor robot walked in with the tranquilizer and the new IV's.
"Thank, God," GLaDOS said. "She has been going berserk. We need to subdue her now before she acts out again."
"Alright," the doctor calmly responded. "First though, I need to re-insert both of her IV's to be sure that illness is getting treated again. Every moment we stall, she is growing worse."
"Okay," GLaDOS conceded. "Just make it quick before she feels inspired to anything dumber than what she has already done."
Chelsea prayed in her head, "Thank you, God! Thank you for the strength that you just gave me. That was incredible. I feel like celebrating. I want to sing right now, but my lungs are not strong enough. I know you love anything I do for you, so I think I will just hum instead."
While the doctor robot was sanitizing the new needles for the IVs, Chelsea hummed the song "Kyrie Eleison" by Hildegard von Bingen, a female Christian mystic and composer of the Middle Ages who Chelsea looked up to a great deal.
The robot continued working with the IV's and finally injected them in while Chelsea continued to hum, as GLaDOS stared at her intrigued.
GLaDOS was genuinely impressed that Chelsea knew about Hildegard von Bingen. As influential as von Bingen was, she was not exactly a household name, especially not among teenagers. She was also amazed by the genuine joy and strength that she saw in her heart. It was bizarre. The test subject was so grateful to God despite the many traumatic things that had been happening to her in general. Most of the test subjects GLaDOS had worked with were blubbering masses of fear before this point. Chelsea was joyful in a way that was not normal. It made very little sense and all GLaDOS could do was watch her in fascination.
Once Chelsea was done humming "Kyrie Eleison," she began humming a lullaby song that she knew very well. It was the song "Cara Mia Addio," the song that the turrets sang for Chell when she had left the facility for good.
This song caught GLaDOS more off guard than the other song did. She recognized the song that she had composed. She was shocked. Her memory drive involuntarily flashed across the monitor screen. On it played clips of her adventure with Chell.
Chelsea was confused but intrigued at the same time to see images of her mother as a young woman in Aperture Science. Chelsea kept humming to see what else she could discover, and across the screen began a series of images of memories that GLaDOS did not want to see and thought she had deleted. The word Caroline flashed across the screen. Then GLaDOS began seeing images in a mirror through the eyes of a younger woman with long brown hair who was working for an older man.
"No," GLaDOS said in fear. "What is this? I thought I had deleted you."
Chelsea kept humming, and the images just kept coming.
"So that is what Caroline looked like," Chelsea thought.
Chelsea kept humming and more and more images kept appearing on the screen. They were her memories of a normal life inside and outside the facility. GLaDOS saw her do things like walk in a park, go to a movie, work in the facility, et cetera. Each clip was short. They were fragments of memories but all the same they were memories that were involuntary flowing from GLaDOS's mind onto the monitor in front of her.
GLaDOS couldn't handle seeing them. She started to panic.
"No, I don't want to look at this," she said hysterically. "Doctor, put her to sleep! Make the humming stop! Please!"
The doctor quickly injected the tranquilizer into Chelsea's arm, and she fell asleep immediately. The humming stopped, and GLaDOS began to pull herself together as the monitor faded to black.
"Take her back to the lab and continue her treatment," GLaDOS said to the doctor robot. "Make sure she is heavily guarded."
The doctor robot nodded and wheeled Chelsea out of the room leaving GLaDOS alone with her thoughts.
"What just happened?" she asked herself. "How is she still inside my head after all these years? How did that girl bring her back?"
