She hadn’t slept, had barely eaten, having walked around for hours trying to find an exit. She wasn’t sure how much time had passed or even what part of the facility she was in. Luckily her flashlight wasn’t dying but she supposed the batteries weren’t going to give out so soon.
But she felt like she was. The noises, the touches, seeing things out of the corner of her eyes; she was constantly shivering by now, arms around herself. She had tried to find the rope she had used or any lying around but the only thing on the floor was dust and crumbs…and the blood.
Wondering briefly if this desperation was sort of how Six felt while down here, she reached up to tangle her fingers in her hair, pulling on it slightly, worried she’d never find the exit and Jack would worry himself sick.
Leaning against a wall, Katelynn sank down to her bottom, legs tucked into herself, closing her eyes and just trying to ignore everything around her.
Yet it felt like it was all closing in on her. A feeling of suffocation. It was getting closer, the feeling of suffocation. She wasn’t alone, she had known this from the start of this. Nobody real, nobody living, but echoes of the past and whispers. Plus a little fish, his soul lost, trapped and not knowing how to get out.
They were all trapped. Now she was trapped with them…
Morning came and she still wasn’t home. Jack tried calling her multiple times but still no answer. He walked back and forth through the apartment, worry on his face, and chewing at his nails. What if something had happened? Something horrible? He didn’t know. Yet his mind was going a mile a minute.
He couldn’t just stand here.
Looking over her note again he frowned, picked up his phone and called Six.
What followed was a confusing phone call. Jack, all but crying, about Katelynn being missing. That she was somewhere that Six knew about. Six, tired after a night out fighting people and robots, had just settled down to sleep after working through the night on something else and now sighed heavily to himself.
There was a promise that he would get Katelynn, and bring her back, to wait there. He made Six super promise, and only then did he hang up and went back to waiting.
Jack Maple 