1:13 a.m.

Hey, it's me. By the time you see this will be posted at some forum.

Because we won.

I am sitting here at home, relaxing at my chair, typing this now. And there's no place like home.

Recap:

So we went through to the chamber where he tricks you and says 'Surprise, we're doing it now!' And he did what he was supposed to, escaped and all. Stephanie was crying through the thing, I tried to make it better, but she was way too scared to calm down.

Then we got to the end.

"Well, well, well. Welcome to MY LAIR! Lemme just flag something up: According to the control panel light up there, the entire building's going to self destruct in about six minutes. Pretty sure it's a problem with the light. I think the light's on the blink. But just in case it isn't, I actually am going to have to kill you. As discussed earlier."

Stephanie grabbed a hold of my arm.

"So, let's call that three minutes, and then a minute break, which should leave a leisurely two minutes to figure out how to shut down whatever's starting all these fires. So anyway, that's the itinerary."

"Also, I took the liberty of watching the tapes of you killing her, and I'm not going to make the same mistakes. Four part plan is this:"

"One: No portal surfaces."

"Two: Start the neurotoxin immediately."

"Three: Bomb-proof shields for me. Leading directly into number Four: Bombs. For throwing at you."

"You know what, this plan is so good, I'm going to give you a sporting chance and turn off the neurotoxin. I'm joking. Of course. Goodbye."

Then he started throwing bombs at us, except most of the bombs were aimed toward Caroline.

She kept dodging the bombs and running.

"Where are you going? Don't run! Don't run! I'll tell you why you shouldn't run: The harder you breathe; the more neurotoxin you'll inhale. It's bloody clever, this stuff. Seriously, it's devilish."

"Still running. Alright. Looks tiring. Tell you what - you stop running and I'll stop bombing you... That seems fair."

"Alright. Didn't go for that, I see. Knew I was lying. Point to you. But you still are inhaling neurotoxin. So, point deducted."

"Look out! I'm right behind you! No, of course I'm not. Saw through that too. Forty feet tall, right in front of you. Not my greatest ruse. To be honest. Still a giant robot, though."

But she just kept running and dogging.

"You're just delaying the inevitable. You cannot run from my bombs forever. Well, you can if I keep aiming them poorly. But I'll get better as we go, and you'll just get tired."

"This would go a lot faster if you'd stay still. Then I'd have time to fix the facility. So one of us at least would live. No need to be selfish, luv, you're gonna die."

While she was dogging, all of us put cores in Wheatley.

Then the stalemate opened, and Caroline ran towards it.

"Come back!"

Kept running.

"Do not press that button!"

She was close!

"Don't press it! COME BACK!"

And then, I forgot about one important aspect of the game.

The button is booby-trapped.

"No! Caroline! WAIT!"

It was too late.

"PART FIVE! BOOBYTRAP THE STALEMATE BUTTON!"

She was flung backwards across the room, struggling to get up.

"What, are you still alive? You are joking. You have got be kidding me. Well, I'm still in control. AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIX THIS PLACE."

"You had to play bloody cat and mouse, didn't you? While people were trying to work. Yes, well, now we're all going to pay the price. BECAUSE WE'RE ALL GOING TO BLOODY DIE."

I gave Caroline the Portal Gun, and she knew what to do.

"Do it." I said to her.

"Oh, brilliant, yeah. Take one more look at your precious human moon. Because it cannot help you now!"

She shot the Portal Gun, and it hit the moon, with the same *ding!* from the game.

Then, she just let go.

I came flying towards Wheatley, and I grabbed on to him, and him and I were then in SPACE.

"SPACE!" Wheatley yelled.

He tried to shake me off but it didn't work. Then Matt got control of an arm.

"Oh no. Change of plans. Hold onto me. Tighter!"

And except of me letting go, I HELD ON, and was flung in space.

I kept holding on, and it seemed as everything started to go in slow-motion. Then, the stars and space started to cave in, like paper.

Then, I woke up.

I woke, up.

That's right. It was all a dream. All of the previous pages I wrote were GONE. Actually, the notebook itself was, GONE!

I couldn't believe what happened. Everything I did was a dream! Caroline was a dream! Matt was a dream!

Then I looked around the room.

"Stephanie was a dream." I whispered out loud.

I started to cry, everything wasn't real. There wasn't anyone named Stephanie. Nor Matt, or Elena.

I looked over to my laptop, and it was on the Steam library.

I decided to start up Portal, just to relive the fake.

And to my surprise, the normal Valve opening video didn't start. A custom one did, and started playing Space Phase from the Portal 2 Soundtrack. The video started with Caroline's dead body on the ground in Wheatley's chamber, everything damaged and on fire. Then Caroline's body started to lift, it went through the ceiling, and went in space. I sat through 2 minutes of Caroline's body floating in space, and then text appeared on the screen.

"Thank you, David. You saved Aperture Science."

""Thank you, David."

30 seconds of that text stayed on the screen, then Portal started loading. Tears were flowing like a river from my eyes, and when Portal loaded, the background was Caroline floating in space from the video, and text saying "Thank you."

I got a message on Steam after the loading, and it was from a username called GLaDOS.

I thought someone coincidentally gave me a fake message, as a spoof. So I clicked the box to see the message, expecting to laugh my butt off. But no, this is the full message, unedited.

"/messagetoDavid/

David, you have changed the world. You made sure Wheatley will never come back. I was thinking to give you some sort of reward, but Nah.

I think this will do:

Attachment: David's

Goodbye, David.

P.S. Start level 1."

I couldn't believe it, she saved my notes! She gave me my notes! I was so happy, I cried. Turns out she wasn't that bad after all.

Anyways, I started Level 1, like she told me, and nothing was out of order. Completely normal.

She said her normal audio, up to the part where she glitched and the lights dimmed. Then she spoke.

"Hello, David. I've expected you. It's nice to see you again. So, how is it back home?" GLaDOS asked me.

My microphone light blinked, and a notification popped on-screen, as if it was waiting for an answer.

"It's fine. Thank you." I said, I so knew I made a fool out of myself. But no, she answered.

"Oh, that's nice. Anyways, someone wants to see you in the next room. Tell her I said hi."

She then returned to her normal audio.

"stand back. The portal will open in 3. 2. 1."

The portal opened, I used the arrow keys to move. I went in the door, and it opened, as usual. The door shut behind me and the box dropped, like it was programmed to do.

Except, I saw a girl in the corner, sobbing quietly. I walked over to her.

"Um, hello?" I said through the mike.

She looked over to me, and she was here.

Stephanie was here.

"David?" She asked.

"Stephanie!" I yelled.

She jumped on her feet and I hugged her.

"You did it, David! You won!" Stephanie said to me excitedly.

"I couldn't have done it without you." I said to her.

She stared at me in a surprised way.

"Really?"

"Yes, you helped me continue. I don't think I would've got the inspiration to continue if you weren't here."

She was speechless; I could tell she didn't know what to say.

But then, she found a way to show her gratitude.

She kissed me.

Yep.

She really did, and I loved it.

After we stared for a long time, Stephanie remembered something.

"Oh, I almost forgot, GLaDOS wants to see us in the sequel."

"Portal 2?" I asked.

"Yes, I don't know why, but she wants to talk to us. See you there." She then disappeared.

So I started up Portal 2, and it immediately, without loading, started the part after you rocket Wheatley into space and GLaDOS talks to you.

Stephanie was next to me.

"Oh thank god, you're alright."

"You know, being Caroline taught me a valuable lesson. I thought you were my greatest enemy. When all along you were my best friend."

"The surge of emotion that shot through me when I saved your life taught me an even more valuable lesson: where Caroline lives in my brain."

It was completely normal, nothing was different. But to us, this meant a lot.

"You know, deleting Caroline just now taught me a valuable lesson. The best solution to a problem is usually the easiest one. And I'll be honest."

"Killing you... is hard."

"You know what my days used to be like? I just tested. Nobody murdered me. Or put me in a potato. Or fed me to birds. I had a pretty good life."

"And then you showed up. You dangerous, mute lunatic. So you know what?"

"You win."

"Just go."

The elevator started to lift, both of us having tears in our eyes.

"[gentle laughter] It's been fun. Don't come back."

It then started rising and lifting, and then it stopped at a door. Turrets were behind it.

Oops. I thought.

The turrets aimed for us, and Stephanie screamed. Then the turrets removed their lights, and started singing Caro Mia.

Then the lift rose, passing open areas with turrets in them. We then reached the big room, and the little turret started signing, then the group. Just like the ending. After the lift slowly rose, it raised faster, the music still playing. It rose, passing open, damaged areas of Portal 2, and then it reached the door.

The door opened, revealing outside. Both of us went out, looked around, and stared at each other. The door slammed, startling us. We heard something coming out of the tunnel, and the companion cube came out of it, the door shut, credits rolled.

I stared at my laptop in surprise, what just happened? I thought.

After those events, Stephanie and everyone else has been seen inside games, and messaging me through Steam. I was just glad it was done with, because I thought I was going to die. But, we won, so we don't have to go back.

We don't, right?

I'm done, it's been fun. Thanks to anyone who read this.

R.I.P GLaDOS

(Special thanks to Valve, for creating Portal! And now that you read this, go comment and rate honestly! I want to see how everyone thinks!)