"The Abyss theme"
"Right before Rhodes died and everything slowly began to darken…he saw something." Something beautiful and something he couldn't explain." He saw his unborn daughter…" "Praying to God as he died, he prayed to be forgiven…he was mislead." He prayed that his daughter would never have to see a place like this, nor know the kind of man he was."
Dusk.
Mary quickly ran down the deserted highway with her backpack on. The map from the radio tower tightly crunched up in her hand. Her boots pounded on the pavement as the last rays of light from the day shinned down on her. The sky was turning a beautiful orange velvet color as stars began to appear. Silent tears still running down her face, she felt her heart pound as she ran faster. Wishing she could just escape this pain. Wishing that she could just run away from it all.
It began to get darker.
Off in the distance she saw one of those things. Her gun was held against her belt. Freezing she ducked down and waited.
The zombie walked through a swamp field and then out of sight, not even noticing her. Feeling herself caught a harsh breath she shook inside. Getting back up she glanced at the map, using the setting sun as light and went down a side dirt road.
There she saw a huge gate with a sign saying…
"Fort Knox Army Base Center - US Government Sector 71225"
Sticking the map in her back pocket she began to climb the fence. Within seconds she was up top and started to swing her legs over the side. That's when her gun dropped.
"Shit!"
She mumbled to herself.
She could of very well climbed back down and grab it, but she decided she was better not to. Swinging on the other side, she climbed down and looked around. She was on a road that lead through a thick forest. Hearing crickets in the background, she took a deep breath and walked forward.
After a few minutes she came to what looked like an open field.
There was another fence, about the size of a football field surrounding it. A few shacks and what looked to be a small falling apart building was seen in the faint darkness. She then saw the roof of the building had fallen in. The grass was overgrown and weeds covered everything. Walking forward she saw skeletons all over the place, flowers and grass growing through them. The moon slowly began to appear out of the clouds again.
She walked through the open rusted fence and looked around. Finally she saw it.
It looked to be a huge hole in the ground, grabbing her flashlight in her backpack, she shinned it down. There she saw a cement floor at least twenty feet down. Thinking fast she set down her backpack for a moment and took out the rope she had been carrying this entire time. Looking around she saw a spike in the ground made of steel. Looping the rope around she prayed it would work. With her luck she would be in mid air when it came loose and she would die in the darkness with broken arms and legs. Pulling on the rope a few times she threw her pack on and began slowly climbing down.
Within minutes she set foot down. Right away she felt a chill and noticed it was at last twenty degrees colder down here. Using her flashlight she looked around the pitch darkness.
She heard a bat fly by and nearly jumped.
Knowing how stupid this was, she pushed away these thoughts. She wanted to show respect, she wanted to know deep down in her heart that her father was a good man and that everything she heard were lies. Walking down a corridor she remembered the stories McDermott, John, and Sarah would tell her.
That her father was a solider and how everything that was good in her came from her mother. That her mother was the one who loved her.
She wished to know more, but they never told her.
Now here she was, the place where she was conceived, the place where her parents met, the place where her father died.
The only sounds were her boots clicking against the cement floor, the faint sounds of the howling wind from the caves, and her heart pounding deep in her chest.
Everything was pitch black, an awful rotting smell high in the air as she walked forward into the darkness.
