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Disobey:
Six months later, New york, 3:00 am
It was the middle of the night. A time when most would be asleep. Ryan was not most people I pretty much every sense of the phrase. So while he may have looked asleep in his bed next to his wife, he wasn't. He was working, straining his mind he tried to find any trace of where Janet and Vanessa could have gone. So far he had nothing.
'Come on Ryan. You can do it, do it for your Brother.'Ryan thought as he pushed himself harder. The trick of using clairvoyance to see anything you want is to meditate and imagine yourself in a hallway filled with doors, each door takes you to a different place or time. To find the door he wanted to see he first had to imagine it. Janet and Vanessa's door was a lavender door with butterfly stickers. So far he hadn't seen it since they disappeared.
'Where is it?'Ryan chanted in his head as he kept searching. Finally he found it. It was at the end of the hall. He'd never been this far before...
As Ryan walked up to it the door began to change. That had never happened before. The stickers fell off, and the paint began to peel away to reveal another door hidden underneath. It was steal and it looked more like a door to a vault than a little girls bedroom. Touching it Ryan twist the centerpiece and pushed it open.
There he saw what the door was hiding. There were two sides, one side had silhouettes of what looked like people, on the other side there were people wearing armor and had what looked like blades in ther hands. One side was lead by a female, the other a male, they charged at each other.
Each side fought, hurling fire, lightning, and ice. The male and female leaders fought, the female took what looked like a dagger and stabbed it into the males stomach. The male leader fell to the ground. When he did everything else disintegrated. Nothing was left, except the female who had declared victory.
Startled by the vision Ryan woke up.
"Eleanor, Eleanor!" He called as he shook his wife awake,
"Ryan... what is it?" Eleanor mumbled still very much half asleep.
"I had a premonition."
Eleanor jolted awake, "Good or bad?" She asked worried...Ryan's premonitions always come true.
New york, 7:00am:
The Andrew family was busy eating their breakfast. Looking around Sophie noticed they were more quiet than usual. 'This is going to be hard to tell them.' Sophie thought. "Mom, dad, I need your permission."
Ryan looked up, "Permission for what?"
"I've been dreaming of my brother. I think he's trying to contact me. I think he wants me to find him." Sophie paused, "I need to go to Rapture."
Both Ryan and Roan chocked in their coffee. Ryan looked at Sophie, wondering if he was really hearing what he was currently hearing.
"I want you to give me your blessing. so I can go to Rapture and rescue my brother." Sophie said again.
"No Sophie. You will not set foot in that place, ever." Ryan said firmly. He loved her, and he wasn't going to lose his daughter to that hell hole.
Sophie wouldn't take no for an answer however. "You're just afraid, I understand. You don't have to go with me. I'll go by myself. And your blessing wasn't a requirement, i'm still going." Getting up from the table she began to walk towards the door when suddenly it locked itself. "What the?" Sophie said in surprise. All of the windows closed to a few seconds later.
Roan and Ryan got up and walked over to her, their faces serious. "Fear? You don't know what fear is. Me, my brother, your mother, all of us have seen things, horrible things. You couldn't even imagine, not even in your worst nightmares. You think burglars, sharks, or snakes are bad. But they're not, they're nothing. We have seen things that hunt, things that kill. When you're all alone in the dark, when you hear a scream of pain. You're there watching them kill their prey and there is nothing to do but hope and pray to God that your not next. Fear... you know nothing of fear." The doors opened "Think about it Sophie." Ryan finshed.
Sophie's eyes watered, turning around she ran out of the kitchen, up the stairs, and into her room. Slamming the door shut behind her.
Ryan sighed and sat down, he looked at Eleanor, wondering if he did the right thing.
New york, 1:00am:
Sophie was awake, listening to the sound of the house. When she heard nothing and was sure everybody was asleep she got up. She didn't care what her father thought, she was going to rescue her brother.
Quietly, she formed a list of things she would need. Guns, which Ryan kept hidden under the stair. Her mother's Big Sister suit would be essential. That was kept hidden in her closet. And finally, a bathysphere key, which was hidden in the family house. Plus, she would need to sabotage any method they could use to follow her.
Taking the list she quietly gathered everything she needed, going up to her parents room she took the trunk which her mother had stashed away her suit inside while she was at it.
Once out of the room she returned and took her mothers locket, it had a picture of a her, her brother and her parents. Grabbing it she placed her hair band on it to let her mother and father know where she was going. Quietly she took the trunk down, placed the weapons inside and dragged it out.
Outside, she made her way to her family house. She opened the door using the key under the mat and entered the building she began to search for the keys. when she was done looking in the living room she went to the kitchen and saw her grandfather Daniel.
He looked at her. She was sure he knew what she wanted to do. Taking a box he had with him he dropped it on the table.
"Oops, I seem to have dropped this. Due to my old age I may forget any of this ever happened. Shame." He said dully with a small smile before leaving.
Smiling Sophie was glad somebody was in her side, opening the box she not only found the bathysphere keys, but she also found it had an Adam injection.
This was no ordinary injection. Her father had three, he used one to save Mark, the other he used it on Delta. Smiling she knew this would come in handy eventually.
Taking the box she left the house and went to her uncles home and destroyed his and Eliana's suits so they wouldn't be able to follow her. Once that was done she left the house and went to the dock. She had to be quick, dawn was almost approaching.
Reaching the abandoned dock Sophie smiled upon seeing the bathysphere hidden in it. Opening it she threw the trunk down before entering herself. Getting to the controls Sophie said "Okay... got to find the map and I'll be ready to go"
"Here you go." Someone said, handing her the map.
"Thank you." Sophie replied, taking the map "This will-" Sophie stopped, an awkward silence followed. Turning around she saw grandpa Delta "Grandpa... I was just...um." Sophie stumbled, trying to come up with a lie, shaking his head Delta said, "I always knew you'd eventually go to Rapture to rescue your brother."
She opened one eye cautiously, where she was in a full blown cringe, waiting for him to say how stupid she was, and how she was going to be in so much trouble.
"You're going to need somebody to navigate you there" said Delta.
"Really? You will?" Sophie asked, wondering if she heard right.
"Yeah, this old sea dog still has a fighting bone or two. Plus, its going to take more than a few measly Splicers to scare me from helping my granchildren. You know the old saying, you can take the man out of the Big Daddy suit, but you can never take the Big Daddy out of the man." Delta said with a chuckle.
Sophie hugged him, she was never going to be grateful enough. Opening the map and turning on the Bathysphere and they began to make their way to Rapture.
The next morning, New york
The clock rang, hitting the snooze button Ryan got up and out of bed. After doing some morning exercises he grabbed shower, dressed, and shaved, before going downstairs to make some breakfast. Once the coffee began to brew he heard footsteps, Eleanor was awake.
She hit the bottom of the stairs, sending a sleepy smile Ryan's way she kissed him before grabbing her morning coffee and sat down in the dinning room. Taking the breakfast he'd made Ryan set it down on the table before taking a seat. The phone rang before he could dig in.
"Hum, wonder who that is?" Eleanor asked as she went to answer the phone. "Hello?... Yes... wait... slow down, I can't understand you." She eyed Ryan. He got up and asked, "Who is it?"
"Roan, he's freaking out." Eleanor said, handing the phone over.
"Hello?" Ryan asked after taking the phone.
"Ryan, its Daniel. He's not well." Roan said, panicking.
"What are you talking about?" Asked Ryan.
"Sophia found him laying on the couch. He swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills." Roan said gravely. Hearing this Ryan to began to panic.
"Calm down, I'll be right there." With that he hung up the phone.
"What's going on?" asked Eleanor.
"Its Daniel, he took a bottle of pills." Ryan replied. The ambulance had already been called, so they both left for Roan's house. The medics took Daniel away while everyone was wondering why he would do such a thing. Going back to where they found him lying they found a letter.
Picking it up Ryan read it, his eyes went wide. "Ryan what is it?" Eleanor worried, clearly worried. Turning around Ryan showed them the letter.
"Sophie and Delta are on their way to Rapture now. I did this to buy them some time to keep you from reaching them."It read.
"NO! We have to get them. They could be killed!" Eleanor started panicking, sighting Ryan paced back and forth till he finally said, "We can't."
"Why not!" Eleanor demanded loudly.
"If we intervene. Then they will be killed." Ryan replied. Covering her mouth in horror Eleanor hugged her husband.
Closing her eyes Sophia whispered, "Sophie, what have you gotten into? You're not ready for Rapture. You never believed or listened to our stories. Jacob can and could have survived because he did... but not you. I hope you find what you're looking for there."
To Be Continued...