It was a bittersweet goodbye when the APRE showed up to collect Selene. All
her things had been packed up into the ship and she was ready to go home. Hammerlock
and Itus were standing in front of her as she spun the wheels of her wheelchair to turn
around to face them. Hammerlock knelt down and whispered to her, "I promise I will do
everything to bring you back. After this week, I know you are truly capable of being
here and learning under me." He kissed her forehead in a fatherly like manner and
stepped back. Itus came running up and put his front legs in Selene's lap, roaring
sorrowfully in her face.
"I'll come back for you, Itus." Tears started falling from her face when she
looked into Itus's blood red eyes. "I wish I could take you home. You have been the
best friend a girl could ever hope for. I'd surely be dead without you, Itus. You behave
yourself for Hammerlock, now…" Itus hopped down and Selene looked at her two
beloved friends once more. Hammerlock was waving her goodbye as she turned to
wheel away. The only other thing on her mind as she wheeled herself up the ramp and
into the ship was the Hunter who had swept her off her feet a few short weeks before.
Itus ran after the ship and let out a sorrowful roar as loud as he could as the ship took off.
Selene could hold it in no longer and began to sob, uncontrollably, into the sleeves of her
jacket. She didn't want to go 'home'. Her home was Pandora now. The sad noise of
Itus's cry didn't stop until the ship flew out of earshot.
It was about a month and a half later when Mordecai, Roland, Brick and Lilith
came speeding back into Fyrestone. Mordecai was glowing with excitement and smiling
ear to ear.
"How can you be so ecstatic after what we found in the vault?" Lillith asked,
pouting in the gunner turret next to him,
"He's excited to see that girl again, Lil," Brick yelled as they got out of the runner.
"Mordecai!," Roland yelled, "I'll drive ya over to her base." Mordecai stayed up
in the gunner seat and Lilith and Brick hopped out. Mordecai was almost shaking from
anticipation as the drove out of Fyrestone again and over to Selene's cargo hold.
When they got there, Mordecai barely waited for Roland to stop the runner to leap
out and start running over to the door.
"Selene!" he yelled, but as he got closer, he noticed the door was wide open.
Mordecai's smile vanished when he walked inside to find everything gone. There was a
few broken vials and bottles laying around and psycho graffiti all over the walls.
"Mordecai…" Roland said, with pitty in his voice.
"She said she would stay here…"
"I know…"
Bloodwing hopped over on the ground, holding a little piece of paper in his beak.
Mordecai grabbed it, it was the photo of him and Selene in Fyrestone that the ClapTrap
took. On the back, was Selene's handwriting. 'I'm Sorry…' was all it said.
Mordecai staggers sideways and caught himself on the doorframe.
Roland sighed and shook his head. Just before Mordecai growled and screamed,
kicking the doorframe. "YOU FUCKING BITCH!"
