Well, if anything, this will help bring some insight to some of the questios i've been asked, so please enjoy.


Part 8: Broken Beneath

Delta reached up to his face, and wiped some of his saliva off of his face. He looked down at the little girl snuggled up to his side, she was drifting off into sleeping again, after she found out he was alright. He had his hand on her back, and was rubbing his thumb up and down to help her sleep. It didn't take long for her to fall asleep, she was already tired as it was. Eleanor went to put the water she had given him back in the pile of supplies, then she looked over at him. He looked like a true dad, the way he was holding her to him, comforting her, and it made Eleanor smile.

Sofia looked over at him, with concerned face. She was worried that something might be wrong with him. At the same time, she also was worried about something she had on her mind, since before they were even out of Rapture. She knew she had to say something to him, but she also knew that something else may need to be done.

Sofia walked slowly over to Delta, and sat down in the seat beside me. Knowing he had someone beside him, Delta turned his head so he could look at her. The face he was met with, was that of worry, and he was slightly surprised to see this. "What happened?" she asked him in a concerned tone. "I don't know" he said, knowingly lying to her, "maybe that stuff you gave me, had some side effects." He tried giving her a forced smile, to assure her that he was fine, but she didn't fall for it. "I don't think that's what it was" Sofia said to him, unconvinced by what he said, "if it was, it would have happened a while ago. You were also sweating profusely when got over to you."

"I….. just got…. hot I guess" Delta said, trying to lie to her again. "Delta" she said in a rather annoyed tone, "I just had a bad dream, ok Sofia, can you please just stop, I'm tired." he said getting slightly irritated. "What happened" she asked again in the same concerned tone, "what about it could have made you sick?" "I don't….." Delta stammered, "I don't want to talk about it."He turned away from her, with his hand to his face. I own you. Turn around. Pull the trigger. All of those words and memories came back to him, and he wished they would just leave him.

Sofia could tell that Delta was distraught, by how he was rubbing his eyes, and breathing heavily. She knew that something would have to be said, in order to coax him out into telling her what was wrong. Eleanor, at this point, was getting very tired again. So, she took her place back on the makeshift bed, and sleepily watched her parents sit there in silence. She didn't know if she needed to say something, or if she needed to stay awake to insure that they wouldn't try hurt each other while she slept. But she was so weary from the day's events, she was asleep a few moments after she put her head down.

Sofia finally realized that the only way that she was going to get through to him, is if she tapped deep into his mind, and found out what was truly bothering him. She finally worked up enough courage, and asked him something he couldn't quite understand. "When we were on the observation deck" she said to him nervously, "after we were done paying our respect, you looked into my eyes, and I felt something. It was a connection that I haven't felt in a long time. Did you fell it too?" Delta looked very anxiously at her, for he didn't know what he could possibly say to her. "Yes" he said in a very unsure voice, "but I don't know why. When I was in Rapture, I hated for everything you had done, and were doing. Yet, when I locked eyes with you for the first time on the surface….. I can't explain it. There is still a part of me that still thinks that you're an evil person, but somehow I'm attracted to you, and I don't even know why."

Delta turned away from her, and let his head hang down. Sofia looked at how confused and depressed he was, and then concluded, he needed to know a truth that she had been keeping secret, for a very long time. "I think I know why" Sofia began, and Delta looked back at her. "I have never told anyone this, but you of all people should know." Sofia took a pause before continuing and turned her face away from Delta's, "I wasn't pregnant with Eleanor when I first got to Rapture." Delta gave her a puzzled look, for he had found evidence that said she was pregnant when she was in Rapture.

"What do you…" Delta tried to ask, but was interrupted by Sofia, "When I came to Rapture, my first initial thought was that for the people there. But as time went on, I began to think of what more I could to help enhance my ideals. Then my thoughts went to having a child, one that would practice my words, even greater then I could." She took a slight pause as a tear snaked down her face, "I had been with men before on the surface, but none of them really cared about me. So I wasn't looking for a relationship, I just wanted what I thought was all I needed. So, some nights, I would go out and see if I could find a suitable man, with enough thing right with him, that I could….. well, you know. None of the men that I saw were half as good as I would have hoped for. They were all same, drunk pigs that were hoping to lucky. But, one night I was out again, hoping that I might be able to find someone decent, but it was just the same. Just as I was about to leave, when I saw him." Delta was confused as to who "he" was, but continued to listen. "He was a handsome man, to say the very least. I had also heard that he had become famous for something, but I didn't know what for at the time, but that not what brought me to him most of all. He had a group of women standing around him, all attracted to what they merely saw on the surface. But then, he looked at me from across the room, and when we made eye contact, something was felt between us. He walked past the group of women that were around him, and came directly to me. He asked me if I wanted a drink, so I said yes. We talked there for a while, had a few more drinks, as I got to know more about him, and I realized then, he was what I was looking for." Sofia took another pause before she went on. "I asked him if he wanted to stay the night with me at the hotel, and then stared at me shocked. He said that he didn't mind waiting, but I told him, he was too good to wait for. So, he paid for a room, and we went upstairs to where it was. He looked really nervous, and I was as well, but when he kissed me, and all of my fears vanished. The night that I had spent with him was the happiest I had ever felt, but I was sad when it ended, because I knew that I couldn't stay with him, even though I could feel he cared about me."

Delta listened on to what Sofia was saying, unsure why she was telling him this, "I left early the next morning, because I didn't want him to get use to me. But, even days after I left him, I still felt him close to me. I guess that I never really got over him, and I wanted to see him again. But, he was nowhere to be found, it was like he'd just vanished." "But Sofia" Delta asked her, "how does this pertain to me?" "It's because" Sofia continued, "I didn't see that man again until New Years Eve 1958." Delta gave her another confused look. "But I didn't realize it was him" Sofia said, "until after I killed you that night." Deltas eyes widened, "Wait, do you mean….." "Yes, Delta" Sofia said wiping a tear from her eye, "You are Eleanor's real father."

Delta was utterly shocked but by what he had just heard, But at the same time, everything was starting to make sense. He just sat there and stared down at Eleanor, not know what he should say. Sofia knew that she had said something that would help explain things to him, but he was still holding his emotions back from everyone. It was then she thought of something that may be able to help him get his emotions out, and help explain his problems. "Come" she said in a very gentle voice, "there's something I think you should do." Without questioning, Delta stood up, with the girls still in his arm, he placed down gently on the mattress, and turned back to Sofia.

"Grab that empty drum, we'll need it." she said pointing to a steel drum in the corner. "But why?" Delta asked her, "You'll see" she said calmly. Delta went to the corner, and picked up the drum, then he turned and followed Sofia outside, into the darkness of night. When they were both outside, Delta set the drum down, and asked Sofia what they were doing. "I know that you have a lot of built up emotions" she said to him in the same calm voice, " I want you, to project all of the built up feeling you have, on that barrel." Delta gave her a weird look and said, "But will this solve anything?" "You'll see, now go ahead." Sofia said to him and pointed to the drum. Delta gave a sigh, but went over to the drum. He looked at it for a few seconds, but decided to go along with it. He gave the drum a slight kick, causing it to push back a slight bit. "Good" Sofia said in a soft but encouraging voice, "now, the next time you hit it, I want you to say what you are angry, or sad about, or anything else."

Delta took in a deep breath, and then hit the barrel with his fist, causing it to tip slightly, "That….. is for locking me up like an animal." He said in a soft slightly angry voice. He kicked it again, but more violent, and it pushed back farther, "That's for making me go through all of that fucking splicing." he said in a very angry voice. He punched it again, sending it a few feet back on its side, "That's for turning me into a fucking monster!" he shouted angrily. He continued on spitting out things he had felt angry about his past, While still violently smacking and throwing the barrel with every single shout. "How could you make me go through all of that god damn pain! You turned me into a mindless freak! You took my humanity from me! How could you do that to anybody!" His eyes were red with anger, but he was not done yet.

"WHY DID YOU TAKE HER FROM?! SHE WAS ALL I HAD!" He screamed while throwing the barrel against the glass dome. Sofia knew he was talking about her, but she didn't say anything, because she knew he had every right to speak out now. The sound of the barrel hitting the glass woke Eleanor, and she sat up to see what it was. She knew the sound was coming from outside, so she got up and went to see what the commotion was. She went to the door that lead outside, she opened it a crack to see what was going on. She didn't know what to make of what she saw, all she saw was her mother standing idly by, while her father was throwing a steel drum around, shouting like a mad man. "I FOUGHT FOR MY LIFE, AND STILL SAW ME AS A MONSTER! YOU SUFFICATED HER, JUST TO KEEP US APART! YOU KIDNAPPED CHILDREN JUST TO TORTURE HER FUTHER! YOU KILLED MY ONLY FRIEND" after he said that, he took the drum and slammed it over his knee, bending it in half. "But worst of all" he said in a more depressed, but still angry tone, " when it was all over, you told she was my real daughter, AND YOU KNEW ALL ALONG! But you still wanted me dead." After he said that , he turned to the ocean, and with a grunt, threw the drum in the ocean. Sofia just looked at him as he panted, she didn't say anything, just watched him with a very sympathetic look. After all that, Delta fell to his knees, making a very loud thud as he hit. He looked down to his hand, they we still slightly trembling, and his finger were curled in with anger. Still panting, he slowly brought his hand to his face, and did the one thing he never thought he should never do. He broke down in tears. He started off weeping softly, but then took in a huge breath, and just completely lost all control in a huge sobbing fit.

Sofia walked over to him slowly, and kneeled at his side, as tears of her own rolled down her face. She placed her hand on his back, "It's ok" she said with a lump in her throat, "you've never had a chance to show your emotions, and it's been eating away at you for so long." He took his hands away from his face, and looked at her with the most miserably sad face you could ever imagine. Without even thinking, he quickly embraced the woman and continued weeping on her shoulder. She slowly put her arms around him, and once again started to rub his back to sooth him. Delta had never done anything like this before, and he defiantly didn't have anyone that had cared for him like this before.


Well, we will find out the others reactions. But only when part 9 come out.