The Reunion chapter 11 - Insanity
AN/Oh...it's you...It's been a looooong time, how have you been? Heh...so yeah, It's been almost 4 months since I've updated this story, I TOTALLY FEEL GUILTY! ;_; I sorry! Anyways, Here it is! Finally! Just letting you know now, from here on out, I will be updating this every 1 1/2 - 2 weeks, I will not fall behind for more than a month, I promise! So here you go! R&R and all that jazz! /
"Test after bloody TEST! When will it end and when will I get back to Chell?!" Wheatley sat down against one of the panels, tired and worn out from the last test, which had acid pits, turrets, and spike plates. When he is about to close his eyes, GLaDOS had a buzzer go off, startling him
"There will be NO sleeping in my facility!"
"But i'm bloody tired from all these tests you've put me through! You wont let me rest for just five minutes!"
"Do you want to get back to the lunatic or not moron?"
Silence filled the room, Wheatley not saying a word about her calling him a moron. He was smart enough not to speak about it, last time he said something about it, she punished him by taseing him with an electric prod.
"That's what I thought, now, finish this test and then you'll get to her."
*Oh thank god* Wheatley thought. What he doesnt know is that Chell isn't exactly alright, from the drugs SHE had given her, she is constantly seeing things she never wants to see. Whether its on fire, dying, or just torture, she couldn't get away from it all.
Chell was standing in a room, nothing but the doors that were in front of her. The walls felt like they were shrinking around her, she constantly was looking at them, to the door, and back to her feet. The doors opened to show the two co-operative units, but what Chell saw was something different.
She saw animal king and turrets, burning and melting, blowing up and screaming. Yelling and screaming at the top of her lungs, she ran towards them, trying to knock them over. The robots looked at each other quickly, then stepped out of the way, she fell to the floor faced first.
Getting back up, she took off one of her long fall boots, taking the sharp edge of it and running full force at them again. This time, she got a swing and a hit at Atlas, sending him flying backwards, pieces of metal and bolts scattering all over. Just as she was about to go after P-body, a panel rose up, blocking Chells path.
"ENOUGH! I can't rebuild EVERYTHING you break. It takes time out of what I need to get done. *Sigh* I think it's time to send you back to the moron so you can abuse and torment him instead of my things." GLaDOS said as she pushed Chell out of the room and down a tube that lead to Wheatley's test chamber.
What Chell didn't know was that that ever so often, GLaDOS would monitor her behavior over the medication she was given in her stasis. The tube rumbled and tumbled Chell as she banged against the glass. She saw Aperture, the place where she once went through to try to escape. Wasn't it only a few years ago?
Everything was and looked brand new...GLaDOS works fast. As Wheatley finished the last test, he walked into a white room. No turrets, no deadly lasers or pits, nothing. Just white walls!
"Err, w-what's this? I-is this a test?"
"No, this is not a test, I gave my word that you would see the girl, and so I am..."
One of the panels over Wheatley opened up, and a tube was shown. Muffled grunts were heard, coming closer and closer to him. Chell then appeared, falling on top of him. "OW! Ugh..." Rolling over, Chell saw that she was on top of Wheatley and had gotten up and helped him up as well.
Wheatley, who was still dazed from having the girl fall on top of him, was finally able to see her, and not just on a TV screen. The first thing he did, was hug her. She tensed up at first in his grip, but then relaxed a bit in his embrase. It's been so long since shes had human contact, it felt so good.
"Oh God! It's so good to see you again luv! You can't believe what I've had to go through to get here!" Wheatley continued to ramble on and on, but Chell was not really seeing him. She had a glassy look in her eyes. Wheatley noticed this and tried to shake her out of it.
"Um, luv, a-are you alright?C-can you hear me?" What she saw was something that only happened beyond your wildest nightmares and dreams. She saw the two killers again, from when she was strapped down on the table, standing behind Wheatley.
"Don't worry hun, your time will be soon enough. (dark laugh) Make the time you have left with him last, because you'll never see him afrer we're done with you! Everyone has a death wish baby, and death is on your heels, you've been cheating death since you were born...see you soon"
The girl gave her a creepy laugh that send shivers down Chell's spine, for once, she was actually scared to die. "Chell? Luv? Can you hear me?" Blinking, she focused her grey eyes to the man infront of her.
"Y-yeah i'm fine" Wheatley was a bit sketchy on believing her, but ignored it and was happy she was here. There was something wrong going on in Chells mind and she knows it because the last thing she remembered was that her hand was broken, and her mind was on Wheatley's safety.
"Alright you two..." GLaDOS announced as she walked into the room. "...I'm done with you, my tests are complete, you are...free to leave." The two stood there in shock. *We...we can leave?* "A-are you serious? We're free?" GLaDOS nodded her head
"Yes, I'm going to send you back up to the surface and you can go on living your pathetic lives together. Maybe you'll get annoyed with each other and kill one another..." She went into deep thought, enjoying the scene that played in her mind; Chell beating Wheatley to death with a rock.
Chell and Wheatley looked at each other, still in disbelief. GLaDOS snapped out of her thoughts and snapped her fingers, an elevator was called down. The two stepped inside, while GLaDOS laughed deeply, smiling a bit.
"It's been fun...DON'T come back, or i WILL kill you...Goodbye."
The lift rose up to the top of Aperture, the glass doors showing the facility and all of her hard work. Chell watched GLaDOS walk away into another room, she was still smiling a bit. Wheatley was the first one to break the silence.
"WOW! I can't believe that she allowed us to go! I mean, I thought she was going to kill us once we were together in a room..." He continued to rant on about how we are leaving and what it's going to be like on the surface. The girl next to him had a blank stair in her eyes once again, her eye color changing from grey to green.
Wheatley saw this and began to worry. "Um, luv...a-are you SURE you're okay? Your um, eyes are changing color..." She was silent, suddenly remembering everything that happened before they came back here, how she was upset at him for the pain he caused her, how she was mad that he just randomly came back into her life after she made it perfect to her standards after leaving Aperture...But over all, she remembered him trying to kill her.
How he betrayed her, blaming her that she was paired up with Her and trying to kill him to put her back in control. "Um, Chell?" Wheatley didn't know what was wrong with her, she was acting weird ever since she broke her hand but he figured that was normal.
He didn't understand what he could do to make her happy, or at lease snap out of this mood of hers. The girl next to him was as far away as the lift allowed. She cradled her hand against her chest, she looked like she was deep in thought.
She continued to look out hte glass doors, even though they were now surrounded by concrete, going higher and higher up. The rest of the ride up was silent...for once Wheatley was quiet.
The lift came to a stop, the doors opened and the two people in the lift were greeted with a starry night in the wheat field Wheatley was the first one to step out of the lift and onto the soil, taking a deep breath of fresh air and not that recycled stuff back in Aperture.
Chell on the other hand, was used to all of it, same air, dirt, wheat. Once she stepped outside the shed, she bolted, heading off to her house in the depths of the wheat. Wheatley looked up from playing and touching the wheat stalks and dirt to see Chell's outline run in the dark night.
"W-wait! Chell!" She didn't hear him as she appeared to be running faster. Wheatley started to panic, not sure of what to do without her. So he started sprinting after her into the darkness.