Author's note: I do not own the Bioshock series, Characters, places, etc.
Doctor Sophia Lamb is a very important character in Bioshock two and you'll figure out why later, you will also figure out how she knows the little girl Johnny met later too. Did Dr. Lamb really meet Johnny Topside, to be honest probably not but for the sake of making the chapter interesting I made it so she did. I actually can't be sure if she did meet Topside before he became Delta, the game doesn't really say so if you're a fan of Bioshock two...don't flame me for making them meet.
On another note I want to make it clear that I was not making fun of anyone when I made Terrance talk the way he did, I don't want people to think that I did so here's my reason for why he talks the way he does. Brute Splicers (which is what Terrance is) are big, strong, and dangerous in the game and despite the fact that I showed a softer side of one they are not very friendly. The variety of plasmids taken by Brute Splicer cause them to become huge and insanely powerful, however, this also causes their brains to change as well and they're well...not very bright, hence this why Terrance talks the way he does.
Anyway if anyone was offended I hope you are no longer so, hopefully everyone enjoys this chapter. Read and Review Would You Kindly, no flames but constructive criticism/advice is always welcome as are any other "nice" review.
Chapter 12: An Unexpected Visitor, Retrieving the Special Treasure.
A few days passed since I'd been arrested and I found that, despite my earlier fears of what would happen when someone supposedly came to get me, I was actually hoping that someone would come. Persephone, as I learned the prison I was in was called, was by far the worse place I'd been in thus far in Rapture. Conditions in the prison were absolutely terrible, there were few places in the prison that weren't absolutely filthy though thankfully the area I'd been put in was one of the cleaner ones…though even it was filthy. Every prisoner, including myself of course, were all but ignored unless absolutely necessary… in some extreme cases prisoners were abused horribly. For the most part though life in the prison was very dull and very quiet, hardly anyone spoke though occasionally there were moans or even screams. On some days however almost everyone, except for myself for some reason, were allowed to leave their cells. Where these people went I had no idea but for some reason they always came back looking very happy. Then one day on the third or fourth day of my imprisonment the guard came to the cell block I was in and made a beeline toward my cell, to my surprise he actually opened my door and spoke more than two words to me.
"Hey you, get these clothes on; you're gonna have a visitor before you're taken away and we want you to look decent." the guard said in a slightly grumpy way before handing me some new clothes.
"Wait I'm going to have a visitor, why...I didn't know the prisoners were allowed to have visitors." I said in a light quiet way having not spoken much in the last few days.
"Under normal circumstances they aren't but this is a special case, your visitor would have been here before to visit but she was only told about you last night when it was too late." the guard explained.
"Wait she, why on Earth are you letting a woman in this awful place...a woman doesn't need to be in a place like this." I said quietly in a shocked way.
"Normally I'd agree but unfortunately for this particular woman she's a prisoner here, yeah that's right buddy...Ryan put a woman in here just cause she had different views then he did and got a few people who agreed with her." the guard said sounding angry after I gave him an even more shocked expression.
"Anyway she'll be here soon so get dressed and try to clean up as much as possible." the guard added with a sigh before leaving me to get dressed.
Without hesitation I got dressed, wanting to make myself more presentable though I tried my best to make my hair look decent.; had I had a razor I would have shaved the stubble that was growing on my face but for obvious reasons the guards didn't allow prisoners to have any so I couldn't and would just have to meet my visitor and hope that she didn't mind the fact that I had five-o-clock shadow. Once sure that I was relatively presentable I carefully hid the locket Lizzie had given me under my new shirt, somehow by some medical the guards hadn't noticed it and I wasn't about to tempt fate. I had just hidden it safely under my shirt when suddenly I heard a knock on my cell door, the guard was back but this time he had a woman with him. She was 6ft tall and very skinny, her hair was light blonde and pinned up neatly in a bun, her eyes like mine were blue, she was very pale, and finally she wore very nice looking glasses. Had I not been told that she was a prisoner like myself I would have never known, like myself her clothing was in almost excellent condition though I had a strong feeling that she'd been here a lot longer than I had been.
"Hey Topside your guest is here, you gonna welcome her in or have your few days in this hell hole made ya forget your manners?" the guard said rudely as they stood outside of my cell.
"If anyone needs to remember their manners it's you Carcen, the poor man is probably still in shock from being so hastily imprisoned in this place and now there's some strange woman visiting him before yet again he's hastily taken away...I'd say he has every reason to forget his manners whilst you on the other hand have none for not introducing me yet." the woman said in a very practical British accent.
"You're right ma'am I'm sorry, Topside this is Doctor Sophia Lamb." the guard said badly blushing as he introduced me to the woman.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Doctor Lamb, I'm Johnathan Thomson." I said politely shaking the woman's hand.
"You should give the doctor an obvious fake name, have you no..." the guard started to say angrily when he was interrupted
"Never you mind Carcen, anyway I'd like to him before he's taken away so if you don't mind I'd appreciate it if you'd leave." Dr. Lamb said calmly in a polite way.
"Oh right sorry 'bout that, here you go doctor you can speak to him now." the guard said blushing again before leaving us.
"Ah alone at last, shall I come in or perhaps you'd prefer the chance to walk around?" Dr. Lamb asked once she was sure we were alone.
'I'd love the chance to walk around but if you'd rather sit that's fine ma'am." I said in a quiet but polite way.
"Let's walk, it'll give you the chance to stretch your legs." Dr. Lamb said kindly.
With a smile I followed the doctor around, it was far more enjoyable to walk around then I had anticipated and couldn't help but smile.
"Ah there that's much better, you look so much better when you smile." Dr. Lamb said as we walked around.
"Thank you ma'am I appreciate that, I really haven't had much reason to smile as of late though." I said quietly with a sigh.
"Yes I know and I truly am sorry, I'd like to hear your story but unfortunately we don't have the time." Dr. Lamb sighed.
"Well you seem like a nice enough woman, I wouldn't have minded telling you my story I had known you were here." I said politely.
"I wasn't happy at all when they told me that you've been here for a few days, they didn't tell me about you until last night; had things been different I may have been able to prevent your being taken away today." Dr. Lamb said with a slightly frustrated sigh.
"Thank you Doctor Lamb but I don't see how you could have prevented this, besides I've pretty much accepted that I'll never get out of Rapture anyway." I said in a grateful but slight sad way.
"You poor thing, try not to lose hope...I'm sure the owner of the locket you're wearing would agree that you try to a little hope." Dr. Lamb said kindly.
"Wait, how did you know that I have a locket?" I asked completely ignoring most of what she said because I was in too much shock that she knew about my locket.
"When you were putting it under your shirt I saw a glimpse of it in the mirror, don't worry though Carcen didn't see it and I'm not going to tell him about it." Dr. Lamb said in a calm reassuring way.
"You're really not going to tell him?" I asked feeling very relieved but very confused.
"No I will not I assure you, it's your locket and no one has the right to take it." Dr. Lamb said with a kind smile.
"Thank you doctor, I don't know how to repay you." I said in an extremely grateful way.
"There's no need to repay me, I'm just glad to have made you happy for even a short time.
"Well you have made me happy, if only I could stay that way." I said with a sigh as we continued to walk.
"Unfortunately it likely won't be, if there was anything I could do I would but sadly I can't." Dr. Lamb said sighing in a sad way.
"Thank you that's very kind, you know I suppose you have helped a bit." I said smiling a bit.
"Oh really and how, may I ask, have I done that?" Dr. Lamb asked curiously looking the slightest bit confused.
"Well you're actually listening to me, for the last few days I've been all but ignored." I said smiling a bit more as I said this.
"Then you're right, I suppose I have helped." Dr. Lamb said with a smile and a light chuckle.
"You know when you laugh you remind me of a little girl I met on my way back to Pauper's Drop, actually now that I think about it doctor you look a lot like her." I said as I remembered the little girl and realized that she had some of the same features as the doctor did.
"By any chance do you remember what this girl looked like, was she with anyone when you saw her?" Dr. Lamb asked curiously in a suddenly slightly worried sounding way.
"Well her complexion was pale like yours is, she also had blue eyes, she had an English accent like you do, her hair was dark brown and in pigtails." I started to explain earning an even more worried look from the doctor.
"As for whether anyone was with her, no there wasn't and then as we were getting off the train she let it slip that she wasn't supposed to be out; I tried to follow her but she ran off to quickly and I lost track of her." I added feeling suddenly very guilty thanks to the worried look on the doctor's face.
"Do you have any idea where this girl..." Dr. Lamb started to ask in an almost desperate way when suddenly to people came in and she stopped.
"Sorry to disturb you Doctor Lamb but we're here to pick him up." One of the two men said to the doctor in an apologetic way as he pointed to me.
"Very well I suppose I have no choice, you'll have to go with them now I'm afraid." Dr. Lamb said first to the man and then to me.
"Thank you doctor you've been..." I started to say in a grateful way before I was interrupted.
"Come on will you, we're in a hurry." the other man said in an impatient rude way.
"Fine I'm coming, you could at least let me say goodbye to the doctor though." I said feeling frustrated.
"Watch your mouth smart ass or I'll...hey what's this?" the more impatient man said grabbing me by the shirt collar before suddenly noticing that I had something under it.
"Well would you look at this, that's a nice locket you have." the impatient man added with a devilish smile as he pulled the locket out from under my shirt.
"Get your hands off my locket." I said batting his hand away angrily.
"You bastard, how dare you touch me...just for that I gonna take this stupid thing away." the man said ripping the locket off my neck.
"Give it back!" I yelled angrily as I tried getting my locket back.
"Fred stop it, give him the locket...it's not yours to take." the other man said in kind way as he also tried to get my locket back.
"You always were soft Pete, you want this locket...go get it!" Fred said mockingly before throwing my locket into a heavily locked down cell.
"Fred you're an ass, you go get that locket..."Pete started to say in an angry way when I suddenly interrupted by pouncing furiously on Fred.
"You miserable bastard, that locket was all I had left of her...you better hope that the prisoner in there doesn't ruin it." I said in an absolutely furious way as I loosely wrapped my fingers around Fred's neck.
Under normal circumstances I would never had done something like this to a person but these were not normal circumstances; that locket had been all I had left of Lizzie and now for all I knew it was gone. In the few days I had been here I had learned that prisoners behind these types of doors were known as Brutes, these types of prisoners had use certain plasmids to make themselves big and strong and were very hard to control. I knew that there was likely no way I'd get my locket back without someone else getting hurt and knew that the guards would not risk this.
"Well what are you waiting for, go get my locket." I yelled at Pete as I tightened my grip on Fred's throat.
"Please I don't have the key to the cell, I can't..." Pete started to say when I quickly interrupted.
"You better hurry and get it then, that locket is precious to me and if I don't get it back your friend here..." I started to say as I tightened my grip more before a hand on mine caused me to stop and look up.
"Johnathan please, this isn't the man I was talking to earlier...don't do this to yourself." Dr. Lamb said in an oddly calming way.
"But doctor...my locket." I said desperately unknowingly loosening my grip a bit because I was trying to calm down.
"Yes I know but don't worry I'll get it back, first you have to let go of Fred though." Dr. Lamb said in a calm understanding way.
"Well okay, how are you going to get it back though...you don't have a key either?" I said calming down more and letting go of Fred who immediately started gasping for breath as Doctor Lamb helped me off of him.
"You're right I don't, I don't need one though you'll see." Dr. Lamb said kindly as she ushered me aside so Pete could help Fred up.
"I don't understand, how will you get my locket back if you don't have a key/" I asked in a confused and slightly impatient way.
"Patience me friend, I will get it I promise." Dr. Lamb said calmly as she opened a slot on the upper part of the door that I hadn't noticed before.
"Careful doctor, I don't want you to get hurt." I said suddenly feeling bad.
"Don't worry I'll be okay, Terrance may I please speak to you." Dr. Lamb said first to me in a reassuring way before talking to I assumed to be in the cell.
"Yes it has been a long time hasn't it, I'm sorry about that...if you give me that locket you're holding I promise I'll visit more." Dr. Lamb added responding to words I hadn't even heard the person in the cell say because he was speaking to quietly.
"Yes I know it's very shiny and I'm sure the picture inside is very pretty but you see it's very special to the man that owns it, he was very sad when it was thrown into your cell." Dr. Lamb continued to say to the man in the cell in a sweet calming way.
"I understand, I'll tell you what Terrance I'll trade you...my very pretty cross for the locket." Dr. Lamb said finally with a calm nod before removing a beautiful cross from her neck.
"Doctor wait, I can't ask you to give your cross away." I said going up closer to the doctor slowly and blushing embarrassedly.
"Don't worry it's fine, I can always get another but that locket is one of a kind." Dr. Lamb insisted kindly before handing Terrance her cross.
"Terrance this is the owner of the locket, could you please give him it...he has to leave soon." Dr. Lamb said to the man after he'd gently taken her cross from her.
"Well go on, get your locket." Dr. Lamb continued to me as a giant hand held my locket up to the slot.
Cautiously I approached the slot, my heart pounded in my chest and carefully I reached for my locket.
"You'll have to push the locket through the slot more Terrance, Johnathan can't reach it." Dr. Lamb said kindly to the man.
Carefully the giant man pushed my locket through with two giant fingers, it was hard to believe that someone so big could be so gentle.
"You reach now?" I heard Terrance ask in almost a whisper.
"Yes Terrance I can reach now, thank you." I said with a kind smile.
"Pretty locket, Terrance no break it...promise." Terrance said quietly with a nod.
"Thank you Terrance, I appreciate that you were so careful." I said in a happy grateful way as I discovered my locket was completely undamaged.
"Yes Terrance very careful, here you take this too and give to doctor...Terrance no want make doctor sad." Terrance said handing me the cross.
"Oh Terrance this will make the doctor so happy, you're a good man." I smiled happily as I took the cross.
"You...you make Terrance happy, Terrance likes you." Terrance said actually smiling.
"Thank you Terrance, I like you too." I said with a blush not knowing what else to say."
"Okay already enough, we gotta go!" Fred said out of nowhere before grabbing me roughly.
"Bad man no touch friend, bad man let go of friend...let go now!" Terrance said angrily before starting to pound angrily on his cell door.
"Terrance stop it okay, I'll be okay...I have to go through now." I said in a reassuring way as a large dent started to appear in his door.
"Terrance no want friend to go...bad man might hurt." Terrance said calming down a bit but still looking angry.
"What if the other man takes your friend, would that make you feel better Terrance?" Dr. Lamb asked kindly trying to help me calm the giant man.
"'ppose so, does friend really have to go?" Terrance asked sadly as Pete pushed Fred out of the way so he could take me.
"Yes Terrance unfortunately he does, he'll come back to visit you though...won't you Johnathan." Dr. Lamb said in a calming way before looking at me.
"Of course I will, I promise Terrance." I said in a reassuring way even though the doctor and I both knew that this would likely never happen.
"Well alright, Terrance will miss friend...Terrance can't wait for friend to come back." Terrance said sadly at first before becoming a bit happier.
"Good bye Terrance, I look forward to seeing you again too." I said kindly before starting to be led away.
After allowing me to put my locket back on and letting me give the doctor her cross Pete gently handcuffed me, he looked less worried about me then Fred did but there was still a cautious look in his eyes.
"Pete I'm sorry, I didn't mean what happened earlier...you were trying to help." I said in an apologetic way as he led me away.
"It's okay I understand, you know you really made that Brute happy, proves you're a good guy and that you don't deserve any of what's happing to you." Pete said kindly with a sigh.
"If you ask me it just proves what a sap he is, come tomorrow that big palooka he was talking to isn't..." Fred started to say before I could thank Pete when thankfully Pete interrupted.
"Well no one asked you, now shut up or I unhandcuff him and let him strangle you again." Pete warned in an angry way.
Amazingly this threat immediately shut Fred up, of course it was obvious that Pete didn't believe that I'd actually try strangling Fred again but he wasn't about to tell Fred that and not wanting to have to listen to him neither did I. Besides even as I was led away to lord only knew where, I wanted to think of something pleasant before we arrived. There was only one thing that I could think of as we boarded a train but it was definitely happy, as we left the horrible Persephone the only thing that crossed my mind was how happy I was to have been able to retrieve my very special treasure.