Chapter 5: one month

Star is running as fast as she can to get away. She knows chell will come and find her, any she was running anyway. Suddenly, it starts raining. The rain is getting in her body and splashing around inside. She's only 12 miles away from the house.

And she screams. "no, NO, NO, NO!" she can feel herself skidding to a stop, she falls to the ground. "I'M SORRY" she screams as her power flickers and dies. She sees her life flicker in front of her. Being made, being a mechanic, getting trapped in space, meeting wheatley, meeting chell, writing the note, getting rained on. She can see Wheatleys surprised face for a second, then nothing.

She can't see anything anymore. She can feel someone holding her, warmth, being worked on, but she can't see. She can't talk. She wants to scream at the top of her lungs (as the humans would say,) 'I'M SORRY!' but she can't. she hears someone whispering something to her, "she'll fix you then you'll come back." It's Wheatleys voice.

She can't talk to him, she wants to sob. She wants to see him. She wants to be with him. She misses him. Star looks at wheatley.

She can only see half of him, but he looks sad. She can't speak to him either. Just look. She moves her eye around again, closing it, and opening it. Wheatleys eye widens.

Chell looks surprised too. Star tries speaking but nothing comes out. Again. "srrrhhhhrrtyuhiiiiiiisrrrrhhhhhhhhhrgh" she says. Wheatley looks at chell. Chell is smiling.

"she works! Kind of... but she works! I'm a genus!" wheatley looks at star again. "star… can you hear me?" he asks her. Star nods. Wheatley looks very mad. Looking over at chell. Chell gives him the note, showing it to her.

"this…this note. Listen…you matter so much alright? So please…don't do that EVER again. Okay? I was so scared…" he looks away for a moment. "…you matter to everyone…you…" he looks at her. "you matter to me." If star could gasp she would. "srrrrrrrrrhhhhreallllllyyyyyyyyyy? ssssssrrrhhhhhh" she asks him, her voice almost not being heard. Wheatley nods.

Star tries to say more, but then she shuts down. Stars Looking down again. "star? Mate?" she can't see him anymore, she can't hear anymore. She can tell they left though. She almost feels like laughing.

They left me…they left me…I…

Star opens her eye, gasping. She looks around her, she's on the table in the living room. She starts sobbing uncontrollably. "I'm sorry…I'm so, so, sorry… I'm sorry…I'm so sorry wheatley. I'm so…sorry." She says between sobs. Wheatley hears someone talking, and he wakes up.

Chell's awake too. "did you hear the noise too?" he asks her. Chell nods, and they go down stairs, into the living room. Star is crying, repeatedly saying sorry to wheatley. Wheatley looks at her.

Then he looks at chell. Chell looks at him, giving him a thumbs up. And she goes behind a corner so wheatley can help star. Wheatley floats over to star. Star sees him and 'hugs' him tightly.

"I'm sorry…I…I don't know what I was thinking…I'm…I'm so, so, very sorry." She looks at wheatley. "I'm…sorry. I feel…so terrible for making you sad. I never meant to leave you behind… I-…I-…I…I'm sorry wheatley. I'm so sorry. I understand if you hate me- woah!" wheatley 'hugs' star back. "mate…I would never hate you. You changed my life. In space… I thought I was never getting back home…and then you popped up. I got my hope back because of you." He stops 'hugging' her and looks at her. "so, don't think you're not important. Because you mean the world to me." Star stares at him in surprise. "I…mean the world to…you?" wheatley stares, and he nods.

Star looks at the table beneath her. "…you mean the world to me too." Wheatley looks at her. "I missed you." They say at the same time. "come on, lets go upstairs. I need to give you back your blanket." They all go upstairs, and chell helps wheatley give star her blanket. Star looks at a picture of wheatley sleeping chell's arms.

Aw so cute. She thinks. Wheatley looks at chell, then at star. Wheatley plops himself on chell's bed. "you know, you can sleep in your own bed now wheatley." Chell says to wheatley.

Wheatley only looks at the ground. "I like it in here…" he says to the floor. Chell smiles. Then looks at star. "I have a feeling wheatley wants you in here too, so come on." Chell says waving her in.

Star goes and plops herself next to wheatley. Snuggling into her blanket, falling asleep, and wheatley does the same. Chell stares at the two cores. Sweet dreams you two. And she goes to bed herself.

Star looks around, and she's outside. It's snowing, she screams. "w-what's that? Is it rain?" wheatley looks at her. "no, it's snow! Come outside! Your protected, so come out!" star freezes in her spot, not wanting to go outside. She looks around, then looks outside again, it's raining.

and wheatley and chell are smiling. Star no longer has any protection on. "WAIT PLEASE!" she screams, as they pull her into the rain storm. Rain fills her insides, and star's looking at wheatley crying. "I…thought I meant the world to you.." wheatley just laughs.

"why…in the world…would I care about you? Just because you gave you my hope back doesn't mean I care about you that much" star looks at the ground. "I…goodbye." She says, her body spilling water everywhere, and her power flickers, as she dies, she sees wheatley is laughing at her. Then nothing. She still hears laughing. Why wheatley? I meant the world to you.

Now I'm not important anymore? Why? Star thinks. She hears someone talking. "hello?" she asks.

Star wakes up. She looks over, and wheatley is looking at her. "hey mate, you okay?" star looks away from him. "do…I mean the world to you?" wheatley stares at her for a moment, taking the words in. "o-of course! You have always meant the world to me, you gave me back my hope…why are you asking?" he asks her.

"just checking." She says, looking at the bed. "oh…star, mate, did you have a nightmare?" star looks at her blanket. She starts crying. "I just…what if you really didn't care about me in those two months I was dead? What…if your lying? I don't know. I wasn't there." she says between sobs. Wheatley looks at star with worry.

"…star…I…those two months…I was so unhappy. I missed you so badly. God, I bloody missed you so much I put your blanket around me! Now don't say I don't care. I care for you, my dear friend, my star." Star looks up at him. Then at her blanket. She 'hugs' him. Chell looks at star hugging wheatley. Note to self. Wheatley cares about star so much. star doesn't like rain, because of two months ago. Help star get used to rain.