A/N: Chapter 12 here and now. I decided to do an extra chapter entirely from Denver's view of The Bear Incident, so enjoy!
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Don't own Valve. See Chapter 1.
Run.
Runrunrurnrun Mar might be hurt runrunrunRUN—
Stop. Smell air. Smell-
Anger. Listen. Hear big angry-noise, roaring, scraping, big noises in front of me.
Stalk now. Walk quietly. Come closer.
Bear is clawing at the tree.
The bear is very big. Very angry. Very scary.
Mar is in the tree.
Run away from bear, get away—
No.
Marcy helped me. Saved me. Protects me.
I smell her panic, even from far. Bear smells like kill, hurt, pain, bite
/Chase pounce scream tear/
Crouch low. Ready to pounce.
/Hunt claw growl/
Scream. Scream at bear. MY prey.
Pounce.
Tear.
Bite.
Prey is very big. Even bigger than other prey. Kill this prey. MUST kill this.
Claw! Tear at prey!
Blood on claws. Some pain, but doesn't matter.
/KILL/ Growl. Scream. Dodge. Keep fighting.
Fight. Fight for long time.
Feel tired. Prey is slowing down. Less fight. Smell much blood. And pain. Smell pain.
Claw at face. Prey makes big-growl.
/BITE/
Bite hard. Taste blood. Shake. Bite harder, feel of flesh between teeth…
Prey is moving. Moving down. Falling. Blood in mouth. Prey on ground. Smell.
Smells dead.
My kill.
Big kill.
Stand over kill.
Mine.
/Den/
Hear sound.
/Den/
Turn.
See thing. Standing. Smells of…
/Prey/
Smaller. Easy kill.
Jump-growl. Pounce.
Land on prey. Smell fear.
Prey doesn't fight. Easy to tear, easy to kill.
/STOP/
Head is saying things. Feel this before.
/It's me, Marcy/
Thing against head. Smell of smoke. Smoke thing gun
Smell of fear.
/I've been here before/
Smells so familiar…
It's Mar.
/KILL/
I'm about to kill Mar.
/I love you/
Mar is about to kill me.
/FEAR/
See eyes. Brown eyes.
Full of fear.
/BITE/ /run/
Jump away chase. Run away from her. Runrunrunrunrunrunrun—
Was going to kill /prey/ Mar…
Runrunrunrunrun
Stop near dark place. Smell sick. Smoke.
See body of bear.
Get away
Go to dark place hurryhurry
/Why/
/chase prey/
/KILL/
Leg hit thing.
/PAIN/
Hurt. Hurthurthurthurthurt. Scream at hurt. Whimper, /cry/ thing hurts leg SO MUCH
/Help me Mar/
/RIP/
In dark place. Smells like dead, sick, blood, prey. Safe here.
Sit. Crouch.
Hurts. SO MUCH.
/Cry/
Wait. Waitwaitwait. Wait long time.
Pain.
Something coming.
Crouch /ow/ hurts too much…
Smell. Smells…like…/Mar/
Prey.
Pounce-crouch /OW HURTS/
Can't pounce.
Light in face. Bad! Bad light! Hurts more!
Hiss. Light goes away.
Den
What is 'Den'?
"Den, drop!"
/"D- - - - -, are you coming back?"/
Growl. Bad noises.
Try to go to prey, attack /BITE/. Thing on leg too heavy.
Growl. Maybe prey will go away.
Funny smells. Smell of fear. Where?
Smell of fear…from…me.
Other smells coming. Don't know.
Other sounds nearby.
More sounds. From prey.
/I'm sorry./
Sorry. Big word. Means…
/Forgive/
Why?
/I love you, Den/
Den? Den is…
Me.
I am Den.
/I'm sorry/
Banging sounds. Not from prey.
From somewhere else.
Smell things. Bad things! Run. Try to run, thing on leg too heavy /PAIN/
Prey /Mar/ smells funny. Moving. Swaying. Back and forth. Falling, like big-prey.
Dead? Doesn't smell dead.
Looks dead.
Many smells. Manymanymany smells, and noises. Growl. Hiss at smells!
/"Is the sector secure?"/
Smells don't go away.
/"Utilizing tranquilizer on Subject 1-CB now"/
Bad noises. Badbad noises. Lights.
Bad lights.
/Ow/ hurt in neck.
Lights going away. Getting dark.
The many colored flying things, and feel heavy, and many smells…
Smells stop.
A/N: Chapter 12 is fin.
What will happen next? You'll find out in a couple of days! In the meantime, please leave a review, and recommend this story if you liked it. Death threats can be send by PM, I only ask that you make them creative, so I know what horrible things you were planning to do to me after you read Chapter 11.
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