"You've got to be fucking kidding me."

Just as they saved Kidman, JUST as the three of them were finally together again, the world decided to give Sebastian the middle finger and separate them once more. Jumping back to avoid falling into the chasm, he managed to keep himself from sliding in by the skin of his teeth. Unfortunately, he couldn't say the same for his two companions as he watched them plummet into the void below.

Once the rumbling stopped, Sebastian hustled to the edge and looked in hoping to spot at least some trace of the duo. As predicted, he saw nothing but void and grimaced as he ran a hand through his hair. There was no way forward but down, that much was obvious. However, that didn't mean that he had to rush in with reckless abandon and get himself killed; he'd had enough close calls with death to keep him on his toes for the rest of his life.

Therefore, Sebastian took the cautious route and kicked a rock into the chasm to gauge the depth. He watched it fall... and fall... and fall... and fall... until he confirmed that the rock wasn't going to land anytime soon. He groaned and ran both hands down his face as he thought about what he had to do next.

No, rest for the weary as they say.

He eyed the hole one last time and whispered a silent prayer before jumping in, falling for about 5 seconds before his feet hit solid ground. Sebastian stumbled in shock as he tripped into the wall, not expecting his travel time to be as short as it was considering the past experiment left lackluster results. Still, it was nice to know that he didn't fall to a gruesome death so there was at least one plus for the evening.

After walking forward for what seemed like 5 minutes, the sound of gunshots rang out throughout the cavern. Taking out his revolver, Sebastian sprinted forward to the source of the noise, hoping that the quietness that followed didn't signal that he was too late. Thankfully his fears were unwarranted as he saw Kidman take out the last of the creatures that stumbled towards them, the halt in gunfire merely signaling that she was reloading her gun, not that she was in trouble.

"Are you two okay?"

Kidman grunted before stretching her arms, "Took you long enough. Yeah, we're fine. Joseph's got a few bruises that need checking out but other than that any damage that we've got is minor."

"Thank God."

Sebastian walked over to Joseph and extended his hand to his fallen partner. Joseph took it and groaned in pain as he stood, his injuries clearly more severe than Kidman let on. Sebastian frowned and fished through his pocket, pulling out a medical syringe and grabbing his partner's arm at the same time.

"Oh, uh, there's no need for you to do that. I'm fine. Besides, you should save that for yourself, Seb." Joseph struggled for a bit and attempted to turn away, but Sebastian merely gripped his arm tighter and administered the drug without a single word.

"No way, not going to happen. This place is already a mad-house as is and it only gets worse if you're incapacitated. I'd rather lose a syringe and have you live then keep it and let you die."

Joseph wriggled his arm away from Sebastian and rubbed the spot where the metal pierced his skin. Sebastian could tell that the man was grateful, but he also knew that Joseph would never say it aloud. Turning his head to face Kidman, he stuttered as he caught her staring at him in wide-eyed bewilderment. It was an incredibly odd expression to say the least; even more odd when it came from a person whose normal expression was cold and unreadable. The look was fleeting, however, her face falling back into its normal expression just as quickly as it had arrived. Sebastian brushed it off as he walked over to stand beside her, inspecting the gate that stood between them and potential freedom.

"Think we can use this to get out of here?"

She shrugged, "Possibly. I checked out the rigging and everything seems intact, but lifting this thing is an entirely different story."

"Alright then."

Sebastian turned to Joseph and shouted to grab the man's attention. Joseph, then lost in space, snapped to reality and turned his awareness from his thoughts to the two people in front of him. Realizing what was needed from him, Joseph bounded over to the corner opposite the detective and crouched down as close to the wall as he could. He stuck his hands just enough under the rusty gate to get a firm grip on the metal and widened his stance; readying himself so as not to accidentally slip and drop the gate as Kidman passed underneath. None of them wanted to cut their numbers short because of a minor error in judgement.

After giving the signal, Sebastian and Joseph lifted the entrance. They manage to get the gate high enough for Kidman to slip through without trouble and dropped it as soon as her foot disappeared to the other side.

Stepping back to dust themselves off and avoid catching any limbs in the falling metal, the two detectives stood in silence as they waited for Kidman to unlock the door. Sebastian took this time to give himself a once over to make sure that everything was intact while Joseph merely adjusted his glasses and gloves.

Joseph, as Sebastian noticed, was acting uncharacteristically aloof. Sure, he wasn't the type of guy who was the outgoing and extroverted type… but this? This was a new level of distant that Sebastian had never seen before.

As if on cue, Joseph turned to stare at his partner with an unusual ferocity, "Hey Seb, have you ever felt like you're reliving certain aspects of your life despite never having experienced the moment before that instance?"

He paused, "Never having... what... oh. You mean like Deja vu?"

"Sort of, Deja vu means recalling events similar to the one you're experiencing, making it seem like you've done them before. What I'm referring to is having flashbacks to events that shouldn't have happened before that moment, yet they exist anyway."

That line made Sebastian freeze. He'd experienced strange events like that before, but he'd always just brushed it off as the world trying to fuck with him. However, now that he knew that Joseph experienced the same thing...

SLAM

The harsh slam of a door brought the two men's attention back to Kidman. She'd managed to unlock the door and bust it open from its fixed position in the wall, successfully freeing the trio from their current predicament. Kidman looked both ways before shouting at the duo, waving them down and ducking back through the door. Not wanting to stick around, Joseph and Sebastian followed suit and entered the hallway beyond.

The trio walked through the din of the corridor as Sebastian started his round of questioning. Concerned, he'd asked Kidman how she'd gotten into her predicament in the first place, but her response was vague and didn't leave him with any answers. All while they talked, Kidman kept stealing glances at the detective as if something greatly bothered her. He wanted to ask why but kept it to himself as he had more pressing questions to get to. Once the round of 20 questions was over, the hallway fell back into silence. That is, until Kidman finally decided to air her grievances with Sebastian.

"Where did you get that?"

Stunned, he stared at her retreating back, "Where did I get what?"

"The syringe. I didn't even know you had one on you when you came in."

"From... my pocket? Where else would I keep it?"

Kidman stopped walking and turned to face him, "No I mean: where? As in, I know your pockets are large, but that syringe is far bigger than any of the pockets that you have on you. You don't have your trench coat with you, so where were you keeping it this whole time?"

It was Sebastian's turn to stop walking. He'd... he'd never really thought about that before. He'd just been so grateful to see the med kits as he passed by that he'd pocket them without thinking, though he did notice that there did seem to be a limit to how many he could fit on him at any given time.

Sebastian ran a hand through his hair before answering, "That... is a legitimately good question Kid. I don't actually have an answer for that."

Joseph chimed in, "Well then, let's just add this to the list of strange occurrences so far. That and," he gestured to everywhere around him, "This."

Sebastian hummed in agreement and was about to start walking when hand grabbed his torso and ended the conversation before it even began. Similar hands grabbed Kidman and Joseph and held them in place as they worked to free themselves. The two struggled, but the struggle was useless when the arms dragged them beneath the floor moments later. Sebastian put up his own fight as well, but, like his two comrades before him, he was dragged beneath the floor to parts unknown.