Marion was looking at the landscape of Hephaestus through a window, she gave a sigh and then look over her shoulder as Dr. Brown approached her.
"You walk quietly," said Marion as she turned to look at the woman that was behind her.
"One needs to develop some abilities to be able to survive here, love," said the woman. "Samantha told me you had a list of names that you need to search for. May I see it?"
Marion took off her right glove and pulled out the piece of paper in which the names were written. She handed over the piece of paper to the doctor, who took it and opened it. Marion looked again at the window, they remained in silence for some time. Marion turned and looked at the woman, she opened her mouth but no word came out of it. Marion wondered if what the woman had told her was truth, had she really met her before? Had this woman, truly knew her parents? Marion couldn't really remember anything of her past that clearly, as most of it was blurry and the things that she remembered were her days as Little Sister, nothing more. Except for a few flashbacks, some random memories that she had, but of course Marion thought that those memories weren't really hers, that they belong to some splicers, she knew that they could access the memories stored in the ADAM and sometimes when getting to much ADAM in a short time, instead of suppressing them, the memories would surface causing them to have hallucinations of them or dreaming them, that was why she had thought that all those memories weren't really hers, that maybe they were just some random memories of a splicer. Because if they were truly hers, then, why would her parents had abandon her in a Little Sister Orphanage?
"You want to ask me something?" said Doctor Brown.
"Yes, do you know where I can find those people?" said Marion.
"Yes, some of them, thought half of the list is death as far as I know, they didn't even became splicers, lucky bastards," said the woman as she handed back Marion the list. "Is that all you wanted to ask love?"
"There isn't anything else," said Marion as she took the list and hid it again within her suit and put on the glove.
-.-.-
It had been already a week since she had first arrived to Hephaestus and Marion had to admit that it had been an interesting one. She had got to know Samantha and Judy, who turned out to be quite different from Judith herself. Yet Marion wasn't able to get more than a third of the list of the names. She gave a sigh as she pulled off the needle from within the splicer. Then she looked up, just to see a bright green light coming down. Samantha landed just a few meters away from Marion, she knelt and help the Little Sister get down from her cage. The little girl smiled at her and then ran toward a vent.
"She said you were dancing," said Samantha. "And that probably Mr. B would have like to see you dancing."
"Yeah, probably," said Marion as she looked around. "You had been improving, you know."
"Oh, thank you!" said Samantha. "I guess I had a good teacher, but to be honest it had help me that you had been here, I mean I had always been terrify of splicers but since you are here it had been easier to deal with them," she said smiling under her helmet.
"You will get use to them and to fight them on your own, you just need to trust more in your instincts and everything will go just fine," Marion gave a sigh and took out the list of names and looked at it. Marion walked toward a desk that wasn't far away and grabbed a pen and cross out the name of Stalin Vasiliev. "Well at least I got five," she murmured.
"Still some are scary," said Samantha.
Marion didn't answered back, it had been a long time since the last time she had been frighten by any splicer, not even the so call 'Brutes' scared her anymore, after she had killed her first one, she had stop being scare of any splicer.
"Would you like to have supper with me and the doctor, Marion?"
Marion suddenly turned and looked at Samantha. "I… well, don't take it wrong Samantha, but I would rather go and search for Helen and see if she is doing right."
"She could been gone by now, and you know that, I don't understand why you don't like Dr. Brown, she is a great woman. And she cares about you…"
"No, she cares about the daughter of fellow worker," said Marion in cold tone. "I'm not that girl, probably there were hundreds of girls by my name in Rapture, I don't think I'm the girl she is referring to."
Samantha remained silent for a couple of seconds. "She said you had the golden eyes of your mother, why is so difficult for you to accept this? It isn't the end of the world, actually is something good, it means that there were people that cared about you and love you. Isn't it what we all want?" said Samantha as she tried to set her hands on Marion's shoulders.
Marion pushed her away. "No, I'm not that girl, alright! I'm not that girl, why is so difficult for you and that woman to understand that, I'm not that girl."
But Marion wasn't so sure about that, as she felt how some tears had appeared in her eyes.
"Fine," said Samantha. "Then I will go on my own."
Marion gave a sigh. "Look Samantha, I didn't want to be rude or anything, alright, is just that…" but she was interrupted by an awful scream. Both Big Sisters looked at the direction in which the scream had come.
"What was that? Was it?"
"No," said Marion. "They scream different…"
"Oh my God, I know what it is, it's him," said Samantha and jumped into the pipes.
"Wait! Samantha!" called out Marion. "Who is him?" she said softly knowing already that the younger sister hadn't heard her.
Marion jumped and began following the other sister. It didn't take her long to found her. Samantha was hissing at a pair of splicers. One was a male and the other was female, Marion looked at the scene. The male splicer was hitting the female splicer as she tried to get away, but the man grabbed her and began dragging her to a room.
"You will like it, and asked for more bitch!" he screamed.
"No, please!" she cried out.
"I will kill him!" cried out Sam, but before she could try anything Marion pulled her back.
"You can't do anything Samantha."
"What?!" said the younger sister. "What do you mean I can't do anything?! He is going to… to…"
"I know what he is going to do, but we can't do anything, as long as he doesn't hurt a little sister or a big sister, we can't interfere with the splicers. I'm sorry, but that is how it is."
"What are you telling me?! That we can't stop this monster?! He is by far the worst splicer I know! And we can't even touch him?!" exclaimed the younger sister.
"No, we can't," said Marion, she heard the woman screaming and the man crying out that she was enjoying it. "Yet, had he ever hurt you or any of your sisters?"
"No," said Samatha bitterly. "He had always kept a safe distance from all of us, but why can't we just kill him?"
"Because, we can't interfere with the splicers, we are just guardians, nothing more and besides he is part of the Family."
"The Family?" said Sam. "Would you call him part of the Family?"
"He is wearing a pin of the Family, therefore we can't hurt him."
"That's just wrong," said Samantha as she began making her way out of that area.
Marion looked at the room from where the screams kept coming from and felt how she got sick, and she knew deep down that Samantha was right. That they should be able to deal with that kind of splicers, but Lamb had forbid it. Lamb, the woman that protected the splicers and didn't care about her Little or Big Sisters, that thought that they were disposable and couldn't care less about them. The woman that was the face of the so call 'Family', the woman that didn't really value anything or anyone except her own ideas and would do anything to achieve them, even if it mean to let that kind of sick persons wonder around as long as they pledge themselves to her.
-.-.-
Marion took off the vial full of ADAM that she had attach to her syringe, closed it and attached a new one.
"Have you find all those that you were task to?" said Number One. "… Alpha," she added with spite.
"Those that I could, yes. I retreat the ADAM but there were some that I couldn't even if I wanted to," answered back Marion in a cold tone.
"Those that you could?" said sarcastically Helen. "Wonder how the doctor will react."
"Well, One, if you can extract ADAM from a body that didn't have any and is just bones, well then I guess I can take you to Kyburtz. So you can extract it," said Marion.
"Then I guess you have finish, haven't you?"
"Yes."
"Then get the flasks. We are leaving."
"Shouldn't we wait till morning?"
"What? Are you tired of running around with your friend or being a real big sister was so difficult for you. I mean, having a real task must have been quite exhausting rather than just being idle like you use to."
"I'm just saying that is late and probably Doctor Lamb will be asleep."
"She usually stays awake up late I don't think we will find her asleep, but if you are too tired then I guess I will simply go there by myself."
Marion rose up and looked straight at the other sister. "There is no need to do that, I'll go for my flasks and we will be gone."