"Cryogenic state shut off begining subject awakening." As the coldness seemed to wore off Evelyn's eyes snapped open and she immediately started to cough and gasp for air as her lungs seemed to burn from the dryness and stale state of the air in the pod.
She felt better after a few more gulps of air and she began to process and take in her surroundings. She was still in the pod, that was obvious, but the outside state of the room was diffrent, the lights did not shine as bright as she remembered and she could hear a faint dripping sound outside the pod, as if ice had been melting for a while now.
"How long has it been?" she wondered to herself, where were all the Vault Tec staff? who had woken them up? she felt uneasy at the quietness around her nothing but the dripping of water could be heard "Where is everyone?" Had those assholes just left them to rot inside the Vault? Had they given up on their little experiment and them and simply left without at least letting them go?
She then remembered that James and Shaun were in the pod directly in front of her. Evelyn looked at their pod but they still seemed to be frozen inside,"Why haven't they woken them up yet?" she wondered to herself desperate to see some sign of life coming from her husband and baby boy.
Just then she became aware of the sound of footsteps coming from outside her pod. A person came into view, wearing a strange suit and looked vaguely like some hazmat suit she had seen before, but it also looked..advanced, as if it was something out of a sci-fi comic she had seen James read before. The person,a woman by the looks of it, walked towards James' and Shaun's pod and pointed at it signaling to some unseen person.
"This is the one" she said, and Evelyn now saw a man come into view. She could not see his face as his back was to her. The man turned to the pod and simply said,"Open it", his voice made her feel uneasy, and she immediately felt that he was not here to help or that he should be anywhere near her child.
She watched helpless as the woman pulled a release switch on the pod's control and the door began to open up. As soon as the pod was open Shaun started to cry at the top of his lungs and James began to cough violently having a similar reaction to her when she had woken up. The woman moved forward and tried to grab Shaun,but James held him closer to his chest and told her he could take care of it. The man seemed to tense up and in a low dangerous voice said "Let the boy go" the woman again tried to take Shaun away from James, who struggled weakly against her still not letting Shaun go.
Shaun continued to cry louder and Evelyn began to panic as she saw the man take a gun out and point it towards James. The man gave another warning "Let the boy go" he repeated "I'm not going to ask again". Evelyn felt frozen in place and could not move from the amount of terror she felt. As the man readied his gun James began to fight harder to keep the woman from taking Shaun "I'm not giving you Shaun" he yelled at them.
The man hesitated only for a second before he pulled the trigger, shooting James directly in his heart. James became limp and fell back into the pod, the woman then grabbed Shaun and walked away. Evelyn wanted to scream, she wanted try and get out of her pod to help her husband, but she could see the life leaving his eyes as he struggled to breath,and eventually she saw him give his final breath, the light in his eyes leaving as he finally died.
The man simply closed the pod once more sighing not in grief, but as if killing James was more an inconvenience to him than murder. He turned towards her and she finally got a look at him as leaned in towards her, until only the thick glass of the pod seperated their faces, he was balding and grizzled with some wrinkles of old age creeping unto his face and a hard nose that looked as if had been broken a few times in his life, but the most noticeable thing about him was the ugly pink scar that ran down his right eye, he looked at her with his cold uncaring eyes and she looked back at him her blue eyes blazing with anger and rage as she memorized his face, trying to commit every detail of it to memory, she would never forget his face.
"At least we still have the backup" he said and turned and walked away from her. She wanted desperately to get out and to kill him, to make him pay for murdering James!
"Cryostaisis commencing" Evelyn started to feel the same sleepiness that overcame her the last time she was frozen and tried again in vain to fight the effects.
She gave up once she could no longer move and felt the familiar heavy sleep come upon her. "I will get out of here and I will find my son, I'll get Shaun back no matter what!" she said to herself, she looked towards James's pod a feeling of rage and lust for murder coming upon her when she saw James's limp,bloodsoaked body in it "I'll make them pay for ever messing with my family" and then her world went dark.
Authors note: I'm sorry I didn't post for a while but my creativity kind of lulled for a while on this story. I will try to start updating sooner.