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Light World 3: The Witches of Olde
Chapter 4:
Annie's POV
I fell to the floor and hit my elbow. I cried out and looked around the room. It was dark inside, but I could tell people had been here. I got up slowly and held my hurt elbow. It stung heavily. Soon Jim clattered to the floor. I looked at him in the dark. Somewhere metal groaned and it caused us to spin around. I tripped over something as I exited the director's office. It was too dark. Maybe they had gone down to sub-level Q. That was the deepest section of Global Dynamics. It had smaller rooms, but safe. They could live down there. I smelt something strange. Maybe the showers weren't working. I walked over to the elevators and felt for a switch.
"Annie something is on the floor." Jim said.
"What?" I asked.
"I don't know," he said.
I walked into the power room and flipped the switch. The system came back to life and I heard the facility roar to life. I saw the lights flick on and everything was bright again. I turned back to the rotunda and saw something horrific. A pile of bodies was stationed in the middle of the rotunda. I screamed and cried and threw up all at once. I slip back into the power office and hit around on the metal. I didn't want to die. I didn't want to know who all had died. But I had to. ..check for my kids…I had to. I couldn't leave without knowing they were okay.
"Jim, help me look." I wiped the tears away.
"Okay," was all he said.
I approached the pile of bodies and began pulling them into rows with Jim's help. I wanted to cry when I saw each of their faces. It hurt me deep down. I didn't want to see this. There were too many bodies. Too many to count. I didn't want to know the exact number. I stopped looking and let my muscles take over the now familiar routine. They had escaped here and been found. They had been killed. Why would INGEN do this to us? Who was INGEN? I know the name sounded familiar…far off? But from what? At least the DHARMA had a past. INGEN was unknown and that was far scarier.
When we had finished their were three rows of bodies. They went like this:
Joey Graceffa, Brittney Joval, Whitney, Catrific, Meghan, Alex Carpenter, Jon Noe, Therese, Rachel Berry, Stefan Salvatore, Butch Ada, Claudia Donovan, Kevin Blake, Jim Chapmen, Fleur and Mike Deforce, Blair Waldorf, Dan Humphrey, Nate Archibald, Lilly Vanderwoodsen, Rufus Humphrey, Georgina Sparks, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Mark Walburg, Matt Damon, Taylor Swift, Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, Tina Fey, Steve Carrell, Dakota Fanning, Vanessa Hudgens, Josh Hutcherson, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, and two handfuls of their kids.
There were only a few of us left. It made we want to cry. We had been obliterated. Who knew how many people had been killed in the streets? We could have lost everyone. I screamed and then heard a computer voice.
"Annie Conard" It was Quinn's voice.
"Quinn?" I called.
"Director's office," Jim pointed.
I ran to it and tripped over a dead INGEN solider. At least we had taken a few out. I ran in and saw it was empty. That meant Quinn had gotten out. I smiled. That was the best news I had heard all day. I saw her face on the screen.
"Find Ingrid," was all it said.
Then the screen went dead.
I looked at it confused? Ingrid? What did she have to do with this? Why did I have to find her? Was that where she was? Had they all gone to the island? I knew the station was still working in Los Angeles. We had used in just twelve years ago. It seemed like such a long time ago. Where were my kids. I looked around and saw a drawling. I ran to it and saw it was Caroline's. it was a picture of me, Luke, Derek, Ingrid, Quinn, Clay, Matt, Danielle, Rhetta, Joshua and her. It made me cry. I had the best family I could ever have.
The Conards were what we were. All of us. All of us in this picture. WE were in the Conard Family and I had to fight.
"We have to go to California," I said.
"Why?" he asked.
"I think a family reunion is in order, don't you?" I asked.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Luke's ex'wife and son. We are going to meet them." I told him.
He shook his head and followed me out past the bodies. I didn't want to look at them again. In my heart I told them goodbye. I loved them.
