'Miss Jones?'

She slowly opened her eyes. Her head felt twice the size and her body felt as if it were hit by a bus. She growled softly and blinked a few times before her eyes shot wide open. As she looked at what wasn't her cosy apartment but a ravaged ship, her memories started to come back. The spaceship. The mission. Weyland Corporation. Mister Weyland...

'Miss Jones, are you there?'

She sat up and searched for the communication function in her suit. Found it.

'This is Isabel Jones, who is this?' she asked with a trembling voice.

'This is David and doctor Shaw,' the voice said softly. She remembered meeting David before the journey; the android who accompanied mister Weyland.

'David, what happened? It looks like the ship has been turned upside down, and-' she gasped for air when she remembered the giant octopus and the colossal man it was trying to eat.

'You might want to keep your voice down,' David said softly with what sounded like a smile. 'He could hear you.'

'So you know who, or what, he is?' she whispered.

'Let me talk! Miss Jones? This is Elizabeth Shaw. You are in the escape shuttle of mister Weyland and his daughter. We... I had no idea you were on board. David only just informed me. Apparently you were Weyland's nurse in case David would fail, safety protocol. I'm so sorry I left you in there, if I knew you were on board I wouldn't let you behind with him... You need to get out of there, quick.'

'Where are you? And who or what is he?'

'He is one of the so called Engineers, who we believed are our creators.' doctor Shaw answered. 'But we seem to be wrong, very wrong. He is hostile and eliminated our whole crew apart from us. Mister Weyland...is dead.'

Isabel didn't feel very sad; before this mission she only met mister Weyland once or twice. She went on this mission first and foremost for the reason to fulfil one of her lifelong dreams: going in to space. How else would a nurse like her ever get to travel through space? After responding to be part of this program and months of training she had no idea she would have been left in stasis for the whole journey and was only used as a 'safety protocol' back-up in case the android would fail...

'Listen,' doctor Shaw said. 'you need to get out of there before he finds you. He will most certainly eliminate you too.'

'But he did find me,' Isabel whispered back. 'yet he didn't kill me, although he seemed very willing to. I fainted, and now there is no sight of him.'

'He didn't kill you..?' there was clear surprise in doctor Shaws' voice.

A moment of silence followed. She could hear David and doctor Shaw talk to each other in muffled voices. She pushed her back against the wall and tried to make herself as small as possible. 'Not that it matters,' she thought. 'He will find me. He wants me dead. I don't stand a chance...'

'Miss Jones? He will not kill you.' The soft voice of the android stopped her from panicking for a moment, but his words confused her more than she already was.

'He did however contact his kin, and they will most certainly have no problem ending you.' David then said with his usual calm and friendly tone of voice - a tone no human being would ever use to bring this sort of news.

Panic took control of her again.

'He will not kill you for you have saved his life. He would very much like to end you, I can sense his intense urge to do so,'-

The image of the giant's hateful glare shot through her mind - she didn't need anyone to tell her about his strong urge to kill; she felt it in every fibre of her body whenever he was near.

'...but he can not act upon his urge. Honour code of his species, I believe. However, he has contacted his kin, they will soon arrive and they do not owe their lives to you. They can end you, and they will.'

'But we will get you out of there before that happens!' doctor Shaw then interrupted David. 'We are fixing a ship as we speak, we will be able to leave soon.'

'Come and get me now!' Isabel said as loud as she dared.

'Oh, don't worry,' David said. 'We will be done fixing this ship before his brethren come. You are safe where you are now.'

'Safe?!' she was almost screaming now. 'They're going to kill me!'

'Oh yes,' David said. 'But for now, he thinks you're the only human left on this planet. Doctor Shaw and myself are too far away for him to sense either one of us. He will guard you until his kin come to make sure they will end you. If you escape now he will track you down, find us and hunt all three of us. We'd have no more chance to fix the ship, let alone escape this planet. Our best chance is to let you stay there until the ship is fixed so that we can escape immediately after rescuing you. I estimate the time to fix this ship to be no less than 72 hours. It's probably best for our safety to keep contact at a minimum.'

'You can't leave me here alone!' she protested again.

'Don't worry, he shall not kill you. No harm will come to you. Yet. Ah, I sense he is back. Good luck, miss Jones.'

'Wait!' she tried again, her voice trembling with panic, but the communication got caught off. She heard a door opening and heavy footsteps approaching. She pulled her knees up and watched the giant Engineer entering the room...