[Rapture] The End

[onlyforthedream]

God only knows what's happening elsewhere in the sunken city. The sounds that echo through the pipes,through the metal that makes up the infrastructure, the vibrations through the glass, the broken pieces of it being dragged by the current past the windows. I hate that I've left Bucky to deal with culminating violence. I don't question his ability to do so, but he'll always be my partner and you don't leave your brother at the eleventh hour. Not if you have a choice.

I made a promise to a doctor, though, and to her patients, and I will not leave them to get through this alone.

I don't have the shield with me, it's on Bucky's arm. I haven't picked up a gun on the way and I refuse to touch the plasmids that have twisted the city's residents into degenerate facsimiles of human beings. I have the closest thing to tactical body armor I could find in the compound under a jacket, and I'm sprinting full out as I race through the labyrinthine network of tunnels and corridors. When I'm in the vicinity of the safehouse I slow, turning to scan the area. Any sounds of combat are distant, and my aim is to keep them that way. To get the girls to a bathysphere and get them out, and Brigid with them.

"Doctor!"

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[motherofadam]

Chaos. It was as if the war had started all over again, only this time there was the feeling that it wouldn't end until they were all dead. Until Rapture was well and truly destroyed, lost to the sea it had fought back for so long. Another lost dream and the dreamers that went with it.

But she had survived worse, ja? "Come, Little Ones, we have to hurry." The girls were frightened, all of them seemed to have lost their protectors, their Daddies, and so Brigid had gathered them, keeping them as safe as she could, but now it was time to leave. Try and make it to the surface of that island the strangers were from. She expected that not all of them would make it.

What she didn't expect was the familiar voice of the American, the soldier she'd come to know and for a moment, she allowed herself to have some hope.

"Here, Herr Rogers!" She shouted back, taking one of the girl's hands and giving it a slight squeeze of reassurance as glowing eyes looked up at her, trusting. She could not let them down.