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Part 7: Problems Everywhere

It was taking a while for things to actually get started on the bathysphere. The explosion from before had left some bad damage to the hull, and the lower chambers were flooded. Delta, being the only one "suited" for the job, had to go down and repair the leaks. He was not happy about it though. For starters he had to put his helmet back on to go down there, which he didn't like in the least. Second, he had never used his rivet gun under water before, and wasn't sure if it would work or not. Those fears quickly subsided though, when he remembered seeing the big daddy outside repairing part of Rapture. He quickly got to work and patched up the holes with some scraps of metal he managed to find.

Back up in the cockpit, Eleanor and Sofia were busy trying to plot a coarse to the main land of America. Delta trusted Sofia enough now to know that she wasn't going to try and pull something while he was away. It was somewhat hard for them to plot out the coarse though, especially with 10 small girls run around inside of cockpit. So, Eleanor was in charge of keeping the girls entertained, while her mother was busy looking at coordinates to get them to land.

Eleanor decided to tell the girls stories of her past to keep the girls entertained. She told them of the time just before she became a little sister, and she got to meet Delta before he was a big daddy. " I do remember a little what he looked" Eleanor said to the girls, " he had the same hair color, but it was a slightly longer. His eyes were more blue then they are now, and he had stubble all over his face. The doctors told me, 'that your new daddy'. I was excited at first, because I had never had a father before, but I was thinking how this man could be my daddy." The girls listened with amazement, and Sofia listening as well but acted like she wasn't. " They took me in to see him, it looked a little bit like a hospital room. He was lying there on a bed, his arms were strapped to it, and he looked like was tired. I went up to him and introduced myself, he turned his head to look at me, and gave me very weak hello. Just then the doctors said it was time to begin, but I didn't know what they meant. I looked over at him, and he looked scared, of what I don't know. They pulled his bed into a room, and they had me follow him."

Before Eleanor could continue with her story, Delta walked in, dripping wet. He had his helmet off again, and looked rather content with himself. " Ok, the holes are repaired, we should be able to get moving now." He said giving a goofy grin. "Alright" Sofia said happily, " I've just found the correct coordinates, so as soon as I put them in, we'll be off." "Great" Delta said, throwing Sofia a smile, which answered was back with one of her own. Sofia punched in a few buttons, and before they knew it, they were moving. Everybody breathed a sigh of relief, for they were unsure if it would even work.

A few hours went by, and everybody was trying to find things to entertain themselves. Some of the girls had managed to find a few crayons, and were happily drawing on the floor. The others had some stuffed animals, and they were just playing with each other. Eleanor and Sofia would sit with the small girls and watch them play, and sometimes even get coaxed into playing with them. Delta, had to make a couple running repairs with the electrical system as they went on. For him though, it was fairly simple to rewire the thing, after all that time with hacking turrets, cameras, and security bots. Eleanor would every so often look over to watch Delta work, and would smile at him, without him even noticing.

A few more hours went by, and now it was getting dark. A few of the girls started yawning, Delta smiled and said, "I think it's time we start making some sleeping arrangements." And then yawned himself. Sofia snickered at the sight of his yawn, and started looking around for thing to use for bedding. After a while, the three of them had managed to find some old cushions and sheets, and even managed to find two mattresses. They were wet, but it didn't take long to dry them, with the help of Delta and Eleanor. They arranged the cushions and mattresses so they were huddled together, and spread the sheets out over the top, and then the girls climbed in.

Eleanor went into what appeared to be a closet, and when she came out a few minutes later she was back in her white dress. Delta and Sofia both thought it was to be a bit more comfortable while she slept, and they were right. Suddenly there was a loud pop noise from one of the machines, which made all of the girls look up in curiosity. Delta gave a sigh, "It's ok, I got. You guys can go to sleep though, it's been a long day." The girls just rested their heads down again, and Eleanor lied down next them, telling them that it was ok and he could fix it. Sofia took a sat down in one of the seats surrounding the windows and relaxed a little as she watched Delta. One of the girls that was watching Sofia, got up and sat in the seat in the seat next to her. Sofia didn't realize she was there until the child put her head in her lap and started to fall asleep. Sofia just smiled as she looked at her, while stroking the side of her head to help her sleep.

The work that Delta was doing took close to an hour, and by to time he was done everyone was asleep. He smiled as he saw how peaceful they all looked. He saw Sofia sleeping with her head rested against the window and the girls head in her lap. He picked up one of the spare blankets, and put it over the child. Delta then looked at Sofia, and paused for a few moments. Delta had never realized it before, but Sofia absolutely beautiful. He looked at her for a few more moments, as he gently brushed a strand of hair out of her face, and then turned his attention away from her. He then bent down to Eleanor, who was fast asleep, and gave her a kiss on the side of her head, which caused her to smile a slight bit.

Delta walked over to one of the seats that was situated against the window, and sat down with a heavy sigh. He looked at everyone, they all looked so peaceful. Delta sat there for a few moments trying to fall asleep, but it was difficult, because the only times he had been anywhere close to sleep, were the times when he was forcibly knocked out. He hoped that it wasn't as abrupt as those times, but eventually sleep found him.

"Wake up daddy" Delta heard a small voice say, and he thought it was one of the younger girls. But, when he opened his eyes, he saw Eleanor, but she was far younger. Delta was extremely confused, especially after he took a look as to where he was. He saw that he was sitting in an armchair, and it felt comfortable. He also noticed that he was not on the bathysphere anymore, he was in a rather nice looking house, it was clean and organized, and had a very welcoming sense to it. He then turned his attention back to Eleanor, who was no older then she was when she was a little sister. She was wearing a pink dress, shoes that matched it, and had her hair tied in a braid, but her eyes were normal. "Come on daddy, mummy's just finished dinner." She said to him with a smile on her face, then she skipped off into the next room.

Delta was still very confused, but he liked what he was seeing. He pushed himself up from the chair, and caught scent of something. He took in a big breath through his nose, he didn't know what he was smelling, but it made his mouth water. He followed the scent, it lead through the door that Eleanor had gone through. What he saw in the next room, in his mind anyway, was something of pure serenity. Sofia had her back turned to him, for she was cooking on a stove and prepare food. There was a table set in a room just outside of the kitchen, which was all set for a meal. A blue table cloth was set over it, in the center of the table was a porcelain vase with three daisy's in it. There were three sets of plates and utensils set around the table, each one set at a chair.

Eleanor was sitting in the seat at one end of the table that had the smallest plate at it, letting her legs dangle off of the seat. She was just sitting there smiling, waiting for her parents to join her. Sofia turned and saw Delta staring at the set table. "Oh good, you're up" she said cheerfully, "Go ahead and sit down, and I'll bring dinner out and just a second." Delta stood there for a moment while Sofia went back to cooking, he was still slightly confused, but he went and sat down in the center seat at the table. Eleanor looked up at him smiling, and he gave her a smile back, for he felt very happy over all of this. Eleanor looked over to the door that lead to the kitchen, Delta turned his head so he could see.

Sofia was walking into the dining room, holding what looked like a plate of baked ham. As she was walking in, Delta thought he heard a second set of footsteps, but quickly dismissed it. When Sofia got into the dining she said, "I hope your all hungry, because..", before Sofia could finish, there was a loud bang. The bang, came from a shotgun pointed at Sofia's head. The pellets hitting her head quickly came out through her face, knocking off her glass, and even pushing one of her eyes out of head. The spray of blood from the blast was so powerful, it managed to get enough distance to spray Eleanor and Delta. Her body quickly fell to the floor face down, dropping the plate with her.

Eleanor sat there silent for a few moments, eyes wide and mouth open, before letting out a scream of pure terror. Delta sat there with a shocked look and blood on his face. He saw the man with the gun, it was a splicer wearing a mask. Delta stood up ready to confront this monster, but he didn't notice that Eleanor had run of out pure fear. Delta stared at the splicer, the splicer just laughed at what he did. "You son of a bitch" Delta said angrily as he was about to charge at the man. Before he could do it though, he felt something splatter against the side of his head. The green blur in his vision confirmed his fear, he was hypnotized again.

He turned and saw the other splicer that had hypnotized him, "There" said a deep voice, but it wasn't coming from either of the splicer's, "nice and docile." The voice said again. Delta looked over and saw a man wearing a black suit, he was bald, had a small mustache, but Delta knew who it was, it was Frank Fontaine. "What did you expect" he said in a smug tone, "that you could just leave, and all of your problems would be gone. Well sorry chum, it don't work like that in my business, and I own you. Now, I can't have a failed experiment walking around in broad daylight, it's bad for the company's image. So, after a long time of thinking, I came up with how I'm go' in to deal with you." Fontaine took a long pause, which left Delta anxious, but then he spoke up again and said one word, "Termination."

Fontaine snapped his finger, then one of the splicer's gave him a shotgun. "Now, take the gun" he said to him, Delta obeyed and to the gun from him. Fontaine then took out a single shot gun shell, Delta saw that it was a solid slug. "put the bullet in gun.", Delta again obeyed. At this point Delta had a pretty good idea as to what was going to happen next, so he prepped his mind for what he thought was coming. "Now, turn around" Fontaine said, Delta was confused, but unwillingly turned around.

Behind him, he saw Eleanor, she was tied to a chair with a piece of cloth tied in her mouth so she couldn't scream or talk. "Point the barrel at her head" Fontaine said, Delta was absolutely shocked to hear this, but his body obeyed. He slowly raised the gun, trembling as it went up, for he was trying to fight it. Eleanor looked at Delta with a very scared face, she looked at him and he was scared to. "Please, don't make me do this" Delta finally managed to get out, "she's all have, if I do this I won't be to live with myself." he said tearing up. "Don't worry" said Fontaine in the same smug tone, "you won't be living after this anyway." Delta looked back down at Eleanor, who had eyes full of tears, and was still looking at him. "Pull the trigger" said Fontaine in an evil tone, Deltas finger was trembling on the trigger as desperately tried to stop himself, but it was no use. "Eleanor I'm sorry" Delta said with tears running down his face, "I would never hurt you, you're my baby." But Eleanor just stared at him with tears gushing down her face.

All of the sudden, Delta felt his finger squeeze down on the trigger, then everything seemed to go in slow motion. The hammer at the end of the barrel came down, activating the charge on shotgun shell. The bullet exited the barrel, and meet Eleanor's forehead. The slug penetrated into her skull, then her eyes rolled to the back of her head as her eye lids shut for good. She slumped over in the chair, and a stream of blood poured out of wound. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" was all Delta managed to scream out.

"No!" Delta shouted out a little, as he woke from his dream with a shudder. He took a quick look around, and realized immediately he was on the bathysphere. Everyone was still sleeping soundly, but now he was wide awake. He was panting like he had ran for six hours, and sweating the same way. Suddenly he felt a very bad felling in his gut, and it said I'm going to be sick. Turns out, he had been so scared and utterly disgusted by his dream, it did indeed make him sick. At first he thought he should go outside, gut he knew he wouldn't be able to make it. That's when he saw a stray bucket laying on the floor next to him. He got on the floor, on his hands and knees with the bucket just below his face, and that's when it all came up.

At first he thought he should try to be quite, as to not wake anyone up, but when he did that first heave, there was no stopping the noise that came from it. The sound of his first one woke up the girl who was sleeping in Sofia's lap. She lifted her head up and looked around, then she saw Delta on his knees with his face in the bucket. She knew what he was doing, and also thought that he might need someone. She turned around and tugged on Sofia's sleeve, which caused her to wake up. Sofia looked down at the small girl, "Daddy's sick" she said to Sofia as she pointed to Delta. Sofia looked over just as Delta was giving off another heave.

She gently moved the child aside, went over and got on her knees as she rubbed Deltas back to help sooth him. Between his moans of pain, Delta looked up and saw Sofia giving him a smile, he managed to give a small smile before putting his face back to the bucket. In all of this happening, Eleanor woke up and saw Delta and Sofia, and she went over to see how he was doing. After about ten minutes of gut wrenching vomit attacks, he seemed to have stopped, but man did his stomach hurt. He managed to get himself back up in the chair, then Sofia picked up the bucket.

"Could you see if he needs anything while dispose of this?" Sofia asked Eleanor, Eleanor gave her a nod. Sofia went outside to dump the contents into the ocean, Eleanor went over to a now exhausted Delta and asked if he wanted anything. " Could I have some water please" said Delta in a tone of exhaustion. Eleanor went over to a small pile of supplies, pulled out a small jar of water and opened it. She went over and gave it to him, he took a few gulps and gave it back to her. Just as Eleanor was doing that, Sofia came back inside, and the little one that was sleeping on Sofia was now curled up to him. Delta looked at them, he had never had people take care of him like this before. AS much as he liked it, it also bothered him a lot that they were going to all this trouble just for him.

I know its a little over the top in some areas, but tell me what you thought of it anyway. Also stay tuned for part 8.