Chapter 58 - Their Whereabouts
"We... We know where the bunny is!", I spurted out. My jelly boyfriend gasped when he heard this glide past his ears. Goyer just looked up at me, thinking of what to say. "You... you do?!", he asked. "Uh... yes... we do... and we've talked with him as well.", I explained to him. "Please!", he begged. "We need to conduct more research on him! We'll pay you 10,000$ if you turn him in!" I looked over at my jelly boyfriend, who was shaking his head at me. Ella was also shaking her head at me, even if she knew that I couldn't see her. Please... dont..., she thought. Don't worry, Ella. He won't, Ella's mother told her.
"I'm sorry sir, but I just can't do that right now. You and him need to talk... you know, not in a scientific sense.", I told him. He grunted in frustration, reaching over to the remote with the button to call in the nurses. "W-Wait!", I shouted, before he could grasp it. "There has to be a way we can work this out!", I said. He looked back at me, saying, "All I want to hear from you right now is where he is!" Ella began to stand up, before being stopped by her mother.
Watch, she told Ella, pointing at the remote. Suddenly, it began shifting further and further away from Goyer's reach. My jelly boyfriend watched in awe as the remote seemed to move on its own. He looked all over the room for an explanation, wearing am amazed look as he didn't find one. "Look, is it true you wanted to kill him?!", I asked. "I-I did before, but not now!", he said. "Now, I just want to be able to humanely research him!"
"Oh, just like how they put that one rabbit in the liquid chamber, against his will?!", I asked. "We... we didn't know they could speak!", he muttered. "Oh great! Isn't that just fantastic! You just took helpless animals against their will, knowing that they're conscious, and did whatever to get that information!", I yelled. My jelly boyfriend shouted, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!" Goyer and I stopped in our tracks, focusing our attention to my jelly boyfriend.
"Now look, I'll tell you what we know about him. He named himself Barry. He's been a resonably kind person to both me and Mark, and, frankly, he's angry at you! You dismissed him as a failure and tried to kill him without knowing if he was in pain or not! You and him need to have a conversation about what you two need to do for him to be happy with you, and with the scientific community in general!"
Back at home, Barry was pacing back and forth in the closet, freaking out as the public knew where he was now. "Hoooooly shiit, what the hell do I do now?! They're going to come after me and Ella now! We gotta get out of here!", he said to himself. He opened the guest bedroom closet, to find Ella sitting up in her bed. Barry... I need to tell you something right now!, she thought to him. "YOU need to tell ME something?! Listen, all you need to know, is that we have to get out of here. NOW!", Barry yelled, running over to the bed to try and grab Ella.
Agh! NO!, Ella thought. The professor wants to make things up to us! Barry stopped, leaning on the bed. "...What?", he eventually asked. He misjudged us as creatures suffering insane amounts of pain, day-by-day! He knows the truth, and he wants to apologize! Barry sat down on the bed, facepalming as he absorbed this information. "Wait a second now... so... he's not a bad guy after all?!", he asked. Exactly!, Ella thought. Barry looked at her with a worried look on his face. What's wrong, Barry?, Ella asked.
"They... they know.", he whispered. Yes, they do! It's going to be oka-, she tried to reply, before being cut off. "No, you don't understand! I don't mean the professor, I mean the public! A camera was able to look through the curtains and they took a picture of me!", he yelled. Ella stared at him for about 10 seconds, before laying back down in her bed. ...So it begins..., she thought.
Back at the hospital, me and the professor were still thinking about my jelly boyfriend's speech, when someone called Goyer's speakerphone all of a sudden. Goyer looked at me as he reached over to answer it. After pushing the button, Goyer asked, "Hello?!" As soon as you could hear the other person, you could definitely tell something was up. The phone wasn't in good connection, and you could hear screams of horror in the background, along with burning and glass being broken. Then, suddenly, an incredibly shaky man's voice came along.
"Goyer... the news...", he frantically said. "What?!", Goyer asked. "The news, Goyer! TURN ON THE N- AAAAH!", the man said, screaming as he was being pulled away from the phone. After about 5 seconds, the phone call dropped. Me and my jelly boyfriend looked at each other, both of us being extremely scared. Goyer reached over to the T.V. remote, and tried to change it to the news channel, with his hands shaking all over the place.
After turning on the news, he turned up the volume. ...And that's the weather for tonight! Liz?, the weather man said, before the camera panned to the anchor. Thank you, Charlie! Now, I'm getting breaking news about the New Jersey University burning down?! All three of our jaws dropped, knowing the intense importance of it. The camera changed to a helicopter shot of the building completely on fire. "OH MY GOD!", Goyer shouted. His heart rate grew higher and higher, almost calling over the nurses. Yes Liz, we were getting a shot of the new bridge being built, when all of a sudden, a huge explosion occured down at the scientific department of the NJC University building. Witnesses say that they've seen glimpses of a tall, green figure entering the building before the incident occured.
"My god...", Goyer said. "He's back..."