Author's Note: There's gonna be longer delays between chapters now (don't blame meeeee blame real life!). Anyway as the title says, it's time for Valeria to finally be transferred yaaaay. So I present to you Entry 5, enjoy! ^_^

Entry 5, the Transfer

The first thing I felt upon receiving the letter was sheer terror. My previous actions involving the spider zombies led me to believe I was about to read a two page letter on being more mature. You can believe my surprise when instead of being scolded, I was being transferred. After reading the letter three times, pinching myself, and asking others to pinch me, I discovered this indeed was not a dream. Shortly after this discovery, I did a dance of victory causing the nearest Resistance members to most likely think I was drunk. The letter was pretty short but I'll rewrite it in here since I'll be burning it shortly.

To: Val

From: Izzy

It has been quite some time since we have last spoken Val. I do hope that you and your friends are in good health and spirit. Lately I have heard of your accomplishments and have been relaying them to Eli. He seems impressed enough to wish to have you come help me with the certain tasks around my apartment. So if you could pack up your possessions at once and escort yourself to my immediate area, you can begin your work. If you desire to have some of your friends accompany you on your short trip, then feel free. I would love to converse with those that have lived with you throughout the past year. Well then, I can hardly wait to meet back up with you and to catch up on certain subjects.

Wishing all goes well, Izzy.

While this letter may seem nothing more than a friendly hello and come help me with some chores, it's actually a carefully planned out code. While it is rather effortless to see through it, we know that the Combine lack these simple principles. What I got out of this letter from Kleiner, is that he talked with Eli and finally convinced him to have me transferred to his secret lab to help him work on certain experiments. Also, I need to hurry as fast as I can and take some friends (Resistance members) along with me for protection reasons, not that I need it. I think I will still bring a few Resistance members along with me, at least until we get out of the canals.

So I'm all packed now, and as you can probably guess beyond excited. I will finally be able to put my mind to use and build all sorts of useful things for the Resistance. On top of that, I'll be able to sleep on more than just a dirty mat shared by insects, I'll be fed much better, and for the first time in months (since I haven't had any visits from Alyx) I'll have someone intellectual to speak with. I am feeling rather empty now though. Perhaps it's because of the people I've grown attached to at Station Twelve. I know I'm going to miss a great deal of them, but I know I'll always remember the good times I've shared with them. Even if good times usually consisted of either ambushing Combine Patrol units or pumping lead into zombies, we always managed to laugh about it all later.

The only other emotion I'm feeling based off leaving Station Twelve is sympathy. I feel that while I'll be off in experimentation land, the Resistance members here will still be fearing for their lives as the CP units are stationed above. For me it's always been that I don't realize how bad something is until I think about it. Otherwise I just push it aside and deal with the here and now. I really do hope that things will get better at Station Twelve, and that they will be able to stay organized even If I'm not there…

Well it would seem that the Resistance members I chose to accompany me are ready to depart now. I pray that it doesn't take too long to arrive at Kleiner's secret lab, and that we don't run into any CP units.

-Val

Author's Final Note: As a final note I would like to introduce my beta reader, Simpless! :D I'm not sure if she's a beta reader on this site, but that doesn't matter to me. She proof reads my papers very well and she's already a good friend so there. :P Also to answer your question X6, I deduced most of that information from the many times of playing all the Half Life games. Other info I got from google + Half Life wiki. Hope that answered your question! ^_^