Sorry for the long delay, but I was finishing school and now working things that delay me to send it to Flammies for him/her/it to beta it...
hopefully the next chapter won't take this long.
with nothing left to say... enjoy! and please R&R! :3
The cold and icy air made her skin feel like cardboard. She didn't like that but she couldn't just start peaking from house to house in her Big Sister suit during the night, she needed to find a family, then followed them and design a plan to kidnap the girl. She kept walking through the main plaza of the town, looking for young girls, she smiled when she finally found a little girl that would be a Little Sister. She had finally found a small family that lived somehow apart from the small town in Felixstowe. She was a bit afraid that anyone would actually see the submarine that she had left in the southwest part of the harbor.
The little girl was crying softly after she had awoken in the submarine. Marion had tried to calm her, but it saw that it didn't work at all. She wondered how much would the little girl would go on. It was until they reached the town of Wayguard in Germany that Mary Elizabeth calmed down. Marion took her out for a walk, it seemed to calm her down a little. That night the Big Sister took another girl and returned with her to the submarine, the next day they departed for Rapture.
When they arrived Dr. Alexander was waiting for them. He greeted the Big Sister and the two little girls, and escorted them to Fontaine Futuristics. "So doctor, how are Clare and Maura?" asked the Big Sister.
"They are fine, we have implanted the sea slug already, but we haven't found a way to recreate the conditioning," then he realized what he had just said, he turned and faced the Big Sister. "I mean the bond that you all share with your protectors."
Marion didn't understand what Dr. Alexander had meant by the conditioning, but whatever it was, it didn't sound good. She entered the area and then followed the doctor to a small elevator that would take them to Persephone. "Dr. Lamb changed the base of operation?" she asked.
"Yes, she thought that having the girls near her would be better." They remained silent until they reached the therapy wing of Persephone. Marion saw how Clare and Maura were playing with Eleanor, the girls turned and saw the Big Sister.
"Marion!" cried out Clare.
"Big Sister!" said Maura, both girls already had the bright amber eyes and their skin was pale. The Big Sister hugged both girls tightly.
"I'm so glad to see you girls," she said.
"Come on girls, I need you to explain to these two new girls how things work here, is that right?" asked Dr. Alexander. The two girls nodded and walked toward the other two, they walked outside the wing, leaving Eleanor and the Big Sister alone.
"So two more girls, eh? Don't you think you are doing something terrible?" asked Eleanor.
"What?" said Marion. "I'm not doing something terrible, I'm just doing what Dr. Lamb is asking me to do, that's all."
"So if Mother would ask you to go and drown yourself, you would do it… I pity you, not being able to see that what Mother is doing is something awful. It seems to me that any of you do not have free will," and with that Eleanor left the Big Sister.
The Big Sister was surprised to hear Eleanor speaking in that way, she didn't understand why she had said something like that. Marion shook her head and decided that she should be going to see Dr. Lamb, to tell her that the mission had been a success.
This time she was sent out to Belgium, France and Spain, she wondered how more times she would be sent out. She did wish to spend some time with Clare and Maura, yet she was happy to be outside of Rapture, that place was hell. Marion was sitting near the sea with her Big Sister armor, she hadn't taken it off. She looked at her helmet, and wondered if what Eleanor had told her was true. Was she doing the right thing? A part of her did tell her that yes, but another part was telling her that what she was doing was something awful and horrible, making some girls turned into Little Sisters, for the sake of some drug addicts, that was just wrong.
She remembered the night that she took Clare and how Dr. Lamb killed the parents of the girl. No it wasn't Clare the one that she was seeing, it was another girl, nor was it Dr. Lamb the one that was standing in the door, the little girl was being left behind in front of a door by a woman that was walking away extremely quickly without looking back. Marion screamed in pain, her head ached. Her eyes filled with tears, she shook her head, and suddenly heard some voices. They were girls, laughing. She jumped behind some rocks and hid herself.
Some girls passed by running, a little girl about four years was falling behind, she fell onto the ground and began to cry, "Please don't leave me behind!" she screamed, but the others girls didn't seem to mind at all and kept running. The little girl sat down and cried softly, she hugged her legs and continued to sob. The Big Sister stared at the girl long enough for her to realize that someone was looking at her. The little girl looked around and saw how a figure hid itself behind some rocks, she got up and walked toward them. Marion raised but didn't see the girl, she sighed in relief.
"Why are you disguised?" said a voice of a little girl from Marion's back. She turned and looked at the girl.
"What? I'm not disguised, these are my normal clothes," she said looking at the girl, "Shouldn't you be running with your friends?"
"They don't like me, they say I'm too small to play with them…" she said a bit annoyed.
"Oh, I'm sorry," said the Big Sister, they remained silent. "Why did you come, what if I had been a monster?"
The little girl laughed, "Don't be silly, monsters, don't hide themselves. I think you are a mermaid, are you a mermaid?"
"Sort of…" answered back Marion, looking at the sea.
"Do you live in an underwater city?" asked the girl with eagerness.
"Well yes, I do…"
"Would you take me there?"
"Why would you like to go there, it is a horrible place, full with monsters and crazy people…" said the Big Sister as she hugged her legs.
"You escaped from there?" the Big Sister looked at the little girl. "I don't want to go to the orphanage anymore, no one likes me there…" she said sobbing.
"Don't worry, I don't have many friends back there either, but it is my home."
"So… would you take me there? I like you, you seem nice, you could be my big sister and we could be family and look after one another," said the little girl with joy in her voice.
The Big Sister looked surprised at the little girl, did she want to go to Rapture? Was her life that bad on the surface? She bite her lips, she could take her- it would make things easier, just two more girls then. "Alright tell me where is where you live and I will go for you tonight," the girl smiled and showed her how to reach the orphanage and show her which one was her window.
Marion was glad that she had actually taken Chantal with her, she seemed to be making the trip far more enjoyable and above all had cheered up the Big Sister. From Belgium they moved to France, where they passed as another couple of sisters that were enjoying of the place. Two nights she took her out in the cage and ran with her, jumping from building to building and running very fast. It was after a couple of nights that Marion took another girl back to the submarine, she has thought that maybe Chantal would resent it or would be angry with her, but it seems that she was wrong. They all moved then to Spain, by the end of the moth they returned to Rapture.
"Well done Big Sister, three girls this time, you have improved, though we needed more girls, you should hurry up and bring more," said coolly Dr. Grimes.
The Big Sister didn't responded anything, she didn't like him. She spend the rest of the day with those three girls. The next day she went to see Dr. Lamb and made her report. Dr. Lamb seemed pleased with the results of the mission. She told her that she would be sending her out in some time after this.
Marion was making her way out of Persephone when she heard a girl crying. She ran toward the source, and saw a little girl laying on the floor, with her legs in odd angles, she knelt next to her. The girl was crying, Marion tried to calm her down, the little girl looked at her. Marion recognized her, she was Clare. The Big Sister was going to tell her that she was going to be okay when she heard someone crying form the upper floor.
"Stay away from her!" said Dr. Grimes as he made his way down the stairs, "Look what have you done!" he stared at the Big Sister. "I always knew these girls would be a trouble, bloody girls," he whispered. The Big Sister hissed at him. He laughed, "What are you going to do? Try to scare me? Try anything stupid and I will tell Dr. Lamb that it was you that one that hurt the girl." He sneered at her and took the girl in arms and walked away. The Big Sister remained in the lobby, wondering if she was doing the right thing in bringing those girls to Rapture.
