AN: Sorry about that sucky chapter seven, I was to busy crying about school starting tomorrow to pay attention to what I was writing…. No actually its because I've been trying to have a good balance of action and drama in this story and to tell you the truth…I like the drama much more. So I'm trying a style that matches up a little more with drama. It's a little something I like to call suspense.

Complications

"Father, someone is here."

Eleanor whispered to him through their bond. Delta slowly stood up from his place on the couch and reached for the handle of his Double Barreled Shotgun. He had no idea how someone could have bypassed the numerous traps he had set but he sure as hell wasn't going to allow any harm to come to his Eleanor.

"Eleanor, can you pinpoint their exact location?"

Eleanor nodded.

"Their somewhere near the kitchen."

"Okay, follow me and try not to make a single sound."

Eleanor gave her father an amused look.

"I'm the one who should be telling you that considering your big boots, no offense!"

Delta scoffed.

"Don't worry about me, Drill Lurker sure does come in handy."

Delta walked quietly into the kitchen with his Shotgun ready. Eleanor was right behind him with her ADAM Harvester retracted and ready to strike at a moments notice. Eleanor's pupils shrunk as she caught whiff of a familiar scent. Her breathing started to pick up and her heart pounded so hard that it felt as if it was about to burst from her chest.

'No, calm down Eleanor, calm down. You promised yourself, you promised him that you wouldn't freeze. I won't embarrass myself in front of him again!'

Eleanor kept telling this to herself over and over again but she found to her dismay and horror that the pounding in her chest just kept getting stronger and stronger. Eleanor's pupils dilated even further, a natural fear response, and the hair on the back of her neck stood on end. Eleanor's head snapped to the left just before the sound of a door slamming echoed through the house.

Eleanor turned her gaze to the ground and her eyes widened in fear. A trail of blood was leading from the back door, into the kitchen, and into another door to her left.

'Why am I so scared? I've seen blood trails like this almost everyday in Rapture. Why am I so weak?'

Delta had also noticed the blood trail and walked towards the door and opened it with his left hand while aiming the barrel of his shotgun in the doorway as he opened it. Eleanor's throat went dry and her body started to shake. She tried to stop the shaking but she just couldn't, she was going to mess up again!

"Eleanor, calm down."

Eleanor looked at her father and glared half heartedly.

"I-I'm fine father. Y-you don't have to worry about me!"

Eleanor cursed, she even sounded like a coward in her own mind. Delta looked over his shoulder to Eleanor before entering through the doorway.

"Eleanor if you want to stay up here-"

"NO! I'm okay, really!"

Delta sighed and grabbed her right hand with his left.

"Eleanor, I'm here to help you. The first step you have to take in getting over your fear is admitting you have the fear in the first place."

Eleanor looked to the ground in shame.

"I-I'm sorry father. I-it's just that I hate lizards so much and these things are basically just big lizards a-and their slimy forked tongues are just so disgusting and their scaly skin is just so ew a-and- "

"Eleanor?"

"Y-yes father?"

"I've seen you take on two Brute Splicers at the same time and win. You can beat these things Eleanor, you just have to think of them as just another enemy."

Eleanor nodded her head slowly in understanding but she was still afraid of these cretaceous creatures.

"Father, do you know where my helmet is?"

Delta shook his head.

"It got lost in our little scuffle with the raptors, I didn't have the time to look for it."

Eleanor sighed, Delta chuckled.

"Besides, why would you want to hide such a beautiful face?"

Eleanor's eyes widened in surprise and her cheeks started to turn red. Delta was about to enter through the door but stopped when he saw Eleanor's face.

"Eleanor…are you sick? If you're not feeling well then maybe you should stay-"

"NO! It's okay father I'm fine! Just feeling a little light headed."

Which wasn't exactly a lie. He might have not have meant to but Delta had caught her off guard with that comment. It felt like a bunch of tiny butterflies were fluttering around in her stomach right now and she couldn't get her damn blush to go away. It didn't help that her skin was so pale either, a blind man would be able to see her reddened cheeks from a mile away! Eleanor sighed quietly to herself, he called her beautiful…she's never really gotten a comment like that from anyone.

'Come on! Now is not the time to get all flustered, gotta stay focused.'

Eleanor thought to herself.

"Eleanor stick close to me, whatever happens we're a team."

Delta said, Eleanor smiled at him.

"Father don't worry about me, I might not be as big as you but I can hold my own."

Eleanor said confidently.

The duo finally entered the doorway and was met by a flight of stairs leading down.

'This must be the basement.'

Delta thought to himself. They walked as quietly as they could down the stairs, Delta surprisingly made little to no noise. When they reached the bottom of the stairs they were met with a very disturbing sight. A girl with unnaturally pail skin and long blond hair seemed to be…devouring another human. She stuffed her hand into the now deceased human male's lower stomach area and pulled out his intestines. The young woman smeared the blood all over her face and started to slurp the long organ down like one big noodle. Eleanor swallowed down the bile that was rising in her throat, not even Splicers would think of doing such a thing! They were messed up in the head and homicidally insane but when compared to this girl they all seemed descent to her. Murder is one thing.

Cannibalism is something else entirely.

The young girl suddenly snapped her head up and looked to where Delta and Eleanor were standing, her eyes were glowing red in the low level light and her face was spattered with blood. The girl just cocked her head to the side and continued to chew the pieces of raw meat in her mouth and swallow. She then went back to eating her less than appetizing looking meal, completely ignoring Delta and Eleanor's presence. Eleanor took a quick glance at her father.

"Maybe her kind only attacks when threatened and or hungry?"

"I'm not to sure about that, anyway if a fight can be avoided then we best avoid it. We need all the resources we can get and it would make no sense to waste bullets and EVE in z fight that we could have just avoided in the first place."

Eleanor nodded at her father's logic and they both slowly made their way back up the stairs, making sure to make as little noise as possible. They kept their eyes trained on the blond haired cannibal, it would be unwise of them to take their eyes off of a potential enemy. Eleanor's eyes widened and her nostrils flared as the scent from before came back even stronger.

One of those…things was close.

"Father, there is something else here-"

A clawed three fingered hand burst from the darkness of the basement and grabbed the blond haired woman by the head. Her whole skull fit in the creature's hand and it raised her up a couple of feet off of the ground. The woman grabbed the arm of the creature with both her hands and kicked and screeched in fear and pain. Alas she was just not strong enough to free herself from the reptilian devil's grip and the clawed hand retreated back into the darkness with it's prize.

Screams of pain and terror were heard over the sounds of teeth tearing into something soft and wet. Noises akin to a dog tearing a stuffed animal apart could be heard and the basement's one light turned completely off. Eleanor stopped herself from screaming and Delta quickly turned on the flashlight equipped in his helmet.

"Eleanor, stay close and get ready."

"Wouldn't it be easier if we went up stairs? We would be able to see much better and we could probably just torch the entire basement."

"Hmmm…that might be a good idea but there is one thing that's stopping us from acting on it."

Eleanor stopped looking down the stairs frantically and looked over her shoulder to her father.

"What?"

"That."

Eleanor looked at the head of the stairs and once again she had to suppress a scream. A raptor stood there, staring at them menacingly. Unlike the others its scaly skin was white with black spots here and there. It actually lacked the six inch toe claw that the others had. It's eyes were a piercing blue and it's pupils were vertical slits. It made a chirping sound similar to that of a birds call and took a step towards them. Delta tightened the grip he had on his Shotgun and Eleanor's left hand twitched as she readied her ADAM Harvester.

"Father, this one has a lot more ADAM running through it's veins than the others."

Eleanor informed her father. Delta smirked slightly behind his helmet.

"So, there's a high chance that this one is the leader of the pack…"

The reptilian monstrosity hissed and with speed that Eleanor and Delta were certainly not expecting charged forward.