Left 4 Dead: Gemini Strain.
Chapter XX: The Tower Babel – Adam
"Latvia!" I screamed
aloud as I tried my best to peer through the still dense amount of
dust and debris. The dim light that came from a few light bulbs down
towards that bottom were destroyed leaving little if no light to
grace the depths.
"Latvia!" I yelled again into
the blackness, fumbling to grab my SIG 226 and shine it into the
darkness. "Please answer me!"
My breathing was
becoming more labored every second.
Her voice was a beacon
that gave me hope. Her voice was what kept me going. Her voice was
what made my heart leap. Her voice was an indication of her life.
"Adam..."
"Are you okay?" I yelled to
her a tad bit frantically, finding my gun and shining its light
downward. She looked frazzled as she looked above her collapsed
position at me with wild eyes. Her descent into the abyss had been a
short one, though uncomfortable. I was in the back of my head hoping
that she would not look down and see what had broke her fall.
Corpses.
"Yeah..." She replied weakly to me. She
glanced down to my chagrin and froze for a moment. That brief pause
brought no change to hear face as she looked up at me, a question on
her lips. "Are you okay, Adam?"
No.
I have to hurry or else I won't make it in time.
"I'm
fine." I wheezed at her. I swept my flashlight around her to
look for something. Without seeing it I decided to just ask. "Lat,
do you know where your shotgun is?"
She shook her head
no at me. Odds are it was lost among the debris. I told her to hold
on and began to dig through my backpack. I found ammo for the assault
rifle I had and replaced the magazine in it.
"Heads
up!" I said to her as I carefully dropped the rifle down to her.
She looked grateful but her voice was still hesitant.
"Adam, you have to stop that bell!" she said to me with
eyes wide open.
"I know..." I replied with a
wheeze coming from my throat. I looked up toward the steps with a
heart now filled with dread.
Dammit.
I want to give up.
"Adam,
go now! I'm going to make my way back to the station and help the
others!" she told me, holding the weapon surely in her grip.
I did not respond to her and instead brought my hands to my neck as I
pulled out my necklace from underneath my shirt. It was a chain
necklace with an old key wrapped in aged twine, a simple trinket but
it meant a lot to me. "Catch!" I told her as I dropped the
necklace into her open palm. She looked at quizzically at first and
then looked at me with a weak smile.
"When this is all
over I want you to hand that back to me, okay? It's a promise that
we will make it out together, alright?" I asked her. She smiled
again at me and with a nod and a deft right hand she attached it to
her neck. She turned toward the busted door and scaled over the
debris and corpses to it.
"Latvia!" I called to
her one more time, causing her to turn suddenly to my visage above.
"Be safe."
