AN: This chapter skips a bit, and is just dialogue mostly, because I have a bad case of writers block right now and this was all I could think of.
"Why didn't you see that coming?" Nathan asked over the comms in his diving helmet.
"How was I supposed to know there was more than one of the Big Sisters in the Resort? And how was I supposed to know she was going to bust the glass and flood the place?" Delta responded.
"It's your game isn't it? I thought you knew what was going to happen."
"Hey, just because it's my game doesn't mean I know what will happen."
They walked up the steps and saw a splicer attempting to seal the door. Nathan and Delta aimed and fired simultaneously at the splicers face (That's what she said). They walked up to the door, which suddenly closed before they could walk through.
"Great," Nathan said in annoyance, "what are we going to do now?"
"Look around, they wouldn't end it this early."
They walked into a room near the door and found a hack dart gun.
"What. The. Fuck. What am I supposed to do with this?" Delta said.
"Try shooting it at the door control."
Delta shot at the door controls. The dart pulsed a blue light, then a synthetic woman's voice came up.
"Thank you for using Rapture hack darts," The voice said. "To hear instructions in English press 1 on the hack module."
Delta pressed one.
"You have selected English, press '4' to proceed with hack."
He pressed '4'
"Hacking, please wait until hack is complete. This process may take up to an hour to complete."
"FUCK!" They cursed in unison, then sat on the floor to wait."
"So," Delta said trying to start a conversation with Nathan, "how do you know Eleanor?"
"Well it started when I turned 18 and Sophia found me, in the street, piss ass drunk, half conscious."
"So she found you recently then?"
"No it was about 10 years ago."
"So you are 28? You don't look it."
"Well that's because Sophia used a gene tonic that she was testing on me, called ' Ten Year Youth.' it will keep me at 18 until next Thursday at midnight, then I start ageing again, but I won't become 28, I will stay at 18 and age normally."
"And how does this lead to you to meeting Eleanor."
"Well apparently Sophia had been spying on me for a while before then, when I worked at the little sister orphanage. As you could tell with Kyla I'm good with kids. So she gave me the tonic so I could watch Eleanor and keep her entertained while she worked. I was her only real friend. I was always there for her, when she wanted to play I was there, when she lonely I talked to her. When Amir "broke up" with her I gave her a shoulder to cry on.'
"Who's Amir?" Delta asked.
"He WAS her boyfriend but when they "broke up" after... that night she wanted him dead and so now he is."
"What happened 'that night' by chance?"
"He tried to rape her, she through him back off of her, and ran toward me like she was being chased by a ghost. She was half naked and crying, she told me what happened, I grabbed a double-barrel, found that jack ass and blew his head off. A solid slug at point blank will LITERALY blow someone's head off, it looks pretty cool."
"And the splicing, when did that start?"
"That started after the Amir incident, Lamb said I was too clumsy and dangerous to be around so she kicked me out. With Rapture turning to hell it was splice up or die. I quit when I realized that Eleanor wouldn't want me to be one of them. I stop splicing after getting a few plasmids and tonics. And I lived as a leader of the last few sane splicers. Until Eleanor contacted me via messenger sister."
"I see. Thanks for telling me."
Then the door opened and they could continue on the search for Eleanor.
o.0.o
The first thing Nathan and Delta found was a deactivated security bot, which Nathan quickly reprogrammed. They continued to a large chamber which held a train car. As they approached it fell into the pool that was underneath it. Then two splicers came out and ran toward them, then they got gunned down by a combination of pistol, rivet and machine gun fire. The splicers fell to the ground in a heap. They cut through an old workshop where they found a log from Andrew Ryan. They walked through the glowing red hall and into a room filled with monitors and levers. Delta pulled the gate control lever, then suddenly they were sealed in the, door shut, power out, then the monitors kicked on. And Sophia's face came on all the monitors.
"I know you, both of you," She said, "The symbol on your hand marks you a dead man, and you… you should be dead. Regardless, 10 years, 10 years subject Delta since I watched you put a gun to your head… and pull the trigger, but take heart, out of your pain paradise was born. I don't know how you survived, but your suffering is over now. These men will ease your burden, please understand that all I have done is out of love."
The monitors went dark, the hall outside of the room was light up and there was machine gun fire from Sophia's splicers.
"This is a pretty fucked up way to show love." Nathan said, pulling down his helmet.
One splicer hit the window, breaking it. Nathan grabbed the barrel of the gun, ripped it out of the splicers hands and shot him with it. One threw a Molotov Cocktail in the room setting the room ablaze.
"Damn, were going to be cooked like a Christmas ham!" Delta said over the coms, hitting another splicer in the head.
Suddenly, the floor fell out from underneath them, and they fell through a long tunnel, into a flooded maintenance shaft. They landed in the water and swam out into the maintenance shaft.
"That was close." Nathan said, removing his helmet. "Man, if you would have died again Eleanor would have killed me."
"You know something, Nate," Delta started, "How much do you care for Eleanor anyways?"
"What do you mean?"
"How much do you CARE for her, have you ever wanted to..."
"NO! Never! I wouldn't ever do,… that to her! Not after what Amir tried to do to her. Why does it matter anyways?"
"No reason, course if you did try that I would have to kill you."