Seattle 2021
Joe's Bar
9:08 PM
I remember stormy weather The way the sky looks when it's cold And you were with me Content with walking So unaware of the world
Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna feel alone Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna go
Tuesday morning In the dark I was finding out Who you are
I took your picture When you were sleeping And then I paced around the room If I had known that These things happen Would they have happened with you?
Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna feel alone Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna go
Tuesday morning In the dark I was finding out Who I was
And if you turned around to see me And I was gone You should have looked outside your window Cos the sun was coming up
The sun was coming up
Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna feel alone Tuesday morning In the dark
We were finding out Who we are Tuesday morning In the dark We were finding out Who we are who we are Whoa whoa Who we are
Who we are
I sigh as the music fades out and I am forced, for the first time tonight, to face the crowd. I seriously don't know what's wrong with me, and why I feel the way I do. I need to do something or I'm gonna explode. I need to know why. My inner thoughts fade out as I face black, only black.
Seattle 2021 Max and Logan's penthouse 9:09 PM
I hum to myself as I put the finishing touches on our dessert. It's always so easy to please Max, and I was never more grateful of that than tonight. The look on her face when I told her that I made her a cheesecake was blissful. I guess I'm just happy that she's happy.
I wheel into the living room and put the cheesecake on the coffee table. Max is sitting, staring out the window, obviously deep in thought.
"Hey." I say quietly.
"Hi." She grins. "Mmmm cheesecake"
I chuckle to myself as Max cuts the cake and takes a piece. I watch her bite into it and grin at the obvious delight in her eyes.
I open my mouth to comment on her ability to eat a hell of a lot of food, when I feel a strange buzzing in my head.
"Max" I stop, unable to speak. It's just too.
Black, only black.
Seattle 2021 Outside Joe's bar 9:20 PM
"Is she OK?"
"I don't know, she's not waking up!"
"What could be wrong, she's never sick!"
"I know! What can we do?"
"I don't know, she always says never take her to the doctor."
"But what else can we do?"
"Let's call her place. Maybe that brother of hers will know what to do."
Seattle, 2021 Highway sector 4 9:30 PM
I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. I just got here, and Six is sick! Maybe it's my fault. God, I can't lose her now - not just after I found her. What the hell am I gonna do? I can't take her to the doctor, and her band mates said she's totally out of it, not responding at all. It can't be the seizures though, she'd definitely be shaking.
I park my car and quickly get out, heading to the meeting point that I organised with Six's friends. I turn the corner and see Six lying on the ground, not moving.
"Oh my God, Six!" I run over and pick her up. The slight weight of her body makes me even more upset. She should weigh more than this - she's not healthy.
"I'm gonna get some help for her." I tell her friends. They just nod, obviously too stunned to speak.
I run back to my car and place Six in the passenger seat. I have to get her to Logan's.
Seattle 2021 Max and Logan's penthouse 9:30 PM
"Logan?! Please wake up!" I step out of the blackness and shake my head.
"Max?" I look up at her worried face.
"Are you OK?" She asks quickly.
"Um, yeah." I shake my head again. "I think. Six."
"Huh?" Max looks confused.
"There's something wrong with Six." I sit up slowly, running a hand through my hair.
"Are you sure?" Max asks as she helps me into my chair. "I mean, how would you know?"
"I. I don't know, I just." I look at her pleadingly.
"OK." Max says, her expression serious. "Let's go and look for her."
"OK." I move to grab my coat, when the front door opens.
I can't believe what I see. Elliot is holding onto a very white Six.
"You have to help her."
Seattle 2021 Penthouse's guestroom 10:17 PM
I pace quickly around the room, every now and then turning to examine Six. I can't believe she's sick. More to the point, I can't believe it worries me so much. Logan and Elliot have gone for help, and it's just killing me that I can't do anything to help her. Logan said that Sebastian would know what to do, and after Six cured the virus, he'll have samples of her DNA at his lab, because she used it to help with the cure.
Hopefully he'll able to tell what's wrong with her and get her to wake up again. She wasn't made to be helpless, or silent. Even if Manticore hadn't made her, she still shouldn't be like this. It's so hard to see her fiery sprit dampened like this. She looks so helpless just lying there. I just wish she would wake up.
Seattle 2021 Yum tree motel 11:35 PM
I got another message today from Manticore. They keep telling me not to try and find 452 and the empath, or they'll kill me. They don't scare me though. Once I have the escapees, they'll take me back, I know it.
After all, this has been my job for the last 12 years, pretty much. All I've been hearing is 'find 452 and the other escapees', and now they want me to just stop looking?! It just doesn't work that way! This is my job, my mission, and I'll be damned if I'm giving it up just because they tell me to.
Seattle 2021 Sebastian's lab 11:50 PM
"Do you know what's wrong with her?" Logan asks worriedly.
I'm kind of suspicious of this guy. I mean, yes, he did help Six, but why does he even care? I mean, he's a normal person (Well, relatively speaking), shouldn't we look after our own kind? I mean, that's the way it's always worked.
"I don't know Logan. Her DNA is complicated, to say the least. It could be any number of things." We all give Sebastian blank stares.
He sighs. "It could be physiological rather than physical. What with her strong emotional side, this could have been caused by feelings or emotions basically swamping her to the point where her body just couldn't handle it any more."
"Well, what can we do?" I ask
"For now, we let her rest. In the meantime, I'll keep investigating her DNA, and you guys can sleep here."
Max and Logan nod, and I reluctantly follow them to the bedrooms. None of us speak. It would seem a little irreverent, I guess, considering that Six is all alone right now, why should we be happy?
I remember stormy weather The way the sky looks when it's cold And you were with me Content with walking So unaware of the world
Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna feel alone Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna go
Tuesday morning In the dark I was finding out Who you are
I took your picture When you were sleeping And then I paced around the room If I had known that These things happen Would they have happened with you?
Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna feel alone Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna go
Tuesday morning In the dark I was finding out Who I was
And if you turned around to see me And I was gone You should have looked outside your window Cos the sun was coming up
The sun was coming up
Please don't drive me home tonight Cos I don't wanna feel alone Tuesday morning In the dark
We were finding out Who we are Tuesday morning In the dark We were finding out Who we are who we are Whoa whoa Who we are
Who we are
I sigh as the music fades out and I am forced, for the first time tonight, to face the crowd. I seriously don't know what's wrong with me, and why I feel the way I do. I need to do something or I'm gonna explode. I need to know why. My inner thoughts fade out as I face black, only black.
Seattle 2021 Max and Logan's penthouse 9:09 PM
I hum to myself as I put the finishing touches on our dessert. It's always so easy to please Max, and I was never more grateful of that than tonight. The look on her face when I told her that I made her a cheesecake was blissful. I guess I'm just happy that she's happy.
I wheel into the living room and put the cheesecake on the coffee table. Max is sitting, staring out the window, obviously deep in thought.
"Hey." I say quietly.
"Hi." She grins. "Mmmm cheesecake"
I chuckle to myself as Max cuts the cake and takes a piece. I watch her bite into it and grin at the obvious delight in her eyes.
I open my mouth to comment on her ability to eat a hell of a lot of food, when I feel a strange buzzing in my head.
"Max" I stop, unable to speak. It's just too.
Black, only black.
Seattle 2021 Outside Joe's bar 9:20 PM
"Is she OK?"
"I don't know, she's not waking up!"
"What could be wrong, she's never sick!"
"I know! What can we do?"
"I don't know, she always says never take her to the doctor."
"But what else can we do?"
"Let's call her place. Maybe that brother of hers will know what to do."
Seattle, 2021 Highway sector 4 9:30 PM
I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. I just got here, and Six is sick! Maybe it's my fault. God, I can't lose her now - not just after I found her. What the hell am I gonna do? I can't take her to the doctor, and her band mates said she's totally out of it, not responding at all. It can't be the seizures though, she'd definitely be shaking.
I park my car and quickly get out, heading to the meeting point that I organised with Six's friends. I turn the corner and see Six lying on the ground, not moving.
"Oh my God, Six!" I run over and pick her up. The slight weight of her body makes me even more upset. She should weigh more than this - she's not healthy.
"I'm gonna get some help for her." I tell her friends. They just nod, obviously too stunned to speak.
I run back to my car and place Six in the passenger seat. I have to get her to Logan's.
Seattle 2021 Max and Logan's penthouse 9:30 PM
"Logan?! Please wake up!" I step out of the blackness and shake my head.
"Max?" I look up at her worried face.
"Are you OK?" She asks quickly.
"Um, yeah." I shake my head again. "I think. Six."
"Huh?" Max looks confused.
"There's something wrong with Six." I sit up slowly, running a hand through my hair.
"Are you sure?" Max asks as she helps me into my chair. "I mean, how would you know?"
"I. I don't know, I just." I look at her pleadingly.
"OK." Max says, her expression serious. "Let's go and look for her."
"OK." I move to grab my coat, when the front door opens.
I can't believe what I see. Elliot is holding onto a very white Six.
"You have to help her."
Seattle 2021 Penthouse's guestroom 10:17 PM
I pace quickly around the room, every now and then turning to examine Six. I can't believe she's sick. More to the point, I can't believe it worries me so much. Logan and Elliot have gone for help, and it's just killing me that I can't do anything to help her. Logan said that Sebastian would know what to do, and after Six cured the virus, he'll have samples of her DNA at his lab, because she used it to help with the cure.
Hopefully he'll able to tell what's wrong with her and get her to wake up again. She wasn't made to be helpless, or silent. Even if Manticore hadn't made her, she still shouldn't be like this. It's so hard to see her fiery sprit dampened like this. She looks so helpless just lying there. I just wish she would wake up.
Seattle 2021 Yum tree motel 11:35 PM
I got another message today from Manticore. They keep telling me not to try and find 452 and the empath, or they'll kill me. They don't scare me though. Once I have the escapees, they'll take me back, I know it.
After all, this has been my job for the last 12 years, pretty much. All I've been hearing is 'find 452 and the other escapees', and now they want me to just stop looking?! It just doesn't work that way! This is my job, my mission, and I'll be damned if I'm giving it up just because they tell me to.
Seattle 2021 Sebastian's lab 11:50 PM
"Do you know what's wrong with her?" Logan asks worriedly.
I'm kind of suspicious of this guy. I mean, yes, he did help Six, but why does he even care? I mean, he's a normal person (Well, relatively speaking), shouldn't we look after our own kind? I mean, that's the way it's always worked.
"I don't know Logan. Her DNA is complicated, to say the least. It could be any number of things." We all give Sebastian blank stares.
He sighs. "It could be physiological rather than physical. What with her strong emotional side, this could have been caused by feelings or emotions basically swamping her to the point where her body just couldn't handle it any more."
"Well, what can we do?" I ask
"For now, we let her rest. In the meantime, I'll keep investigating her DNA, and you guys can sleep here."
Max and Logan nod, and I reluctantly follow them to the bedrooms. None of us speak. It would seem a little irreverent, I guess, considering that Six is all alone right now, why should we be happy?