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The red eyed traveler Ch.22

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Marion was looking at the symbol that was engraved on the plate of her right hand, as far as she could remember she had wanted a designation number. She knew that having a number represented several things among them recognition for the skill that a Big Sister had, who strong she was and her usefulness toward the Family. Being closer to the first seven number usually gave the Big Sister a better post to guard and in some occasions the opportunity to help out directly Dr. Lamb, which had always been consider as an honor. But now that she had a designation, she wasn’t sure she wanted it at all, not after thinking about all that had happen in the last months and see what Dr. Lamb had been doing lately.

She heard the door of the room that Dr. Grimes had given her opened, she turned to see Riza and Takako entering the room. As she saw both girls she found it funny that just by a simple glimpse she knew who they were, she wonder if now the other Big Sisters would be able to identify her as quickly as she identify her friends or the other Elite Sisters.

“Is good to see that you are still in one whole piece,” said Riza as she looked at her and take off her helmet.

“Why shouldn’t I be in one piece?” Marion asked back.

“Well, Dr. Alexander haven’t been the same lately, but probably you already saw that, didn’t you?” said Takako smiling in an awkward way. “Any way, let us see your new gear.”

Marion rose from the bed and quickly put her hand over the plate and just stood there, waiting to hear what her friends would say.

“Well, it is pretty similar to our own suit, guessed the doctor didn’t make many changes, still what did he give you as a weapon? We told him, well Two, told him how you fight with One.” Marion flinched a little and grabbed her hand strongly after what Riza had said. “Are you feeling alright Marion?”

“It’s nothing, I’m alright,” she said trying to smile.

The other two Sisters looked at each other but pretended to believed what their friend had told them.

“Alright Marion-chan, let see what number you were given,” said Takako as she advance and tried to grabbed Marion’s right hand. Marion opened her eyes in fear and pulled back falling in the ground in the process, she pulled back her hand and covering it as tears rolled down her cheek.

“What’s wrong?” asked Riza. “Didn’t she give you a number?”

But Marion didn’t answer back, Takako grabbed her hand and saw the engagement in it.

“Riza-Chan,” she said as she pulled Marion’s hand upward. They looked at each other without saying anything.

“A letter… that’s odd. Maybe it was a mistake made by the doctor, you shouldn’t be crying… bad would had been that you didn’t get anything after all that had happen,” said Riza trying to calm her down.

Marion opened her eyes and stared at Riza with anger in them. “I nearly killed her and you can tell me is that I should be happy for receiving this?!”

“I never said that you should be happy…” said Riza in a cold tone of voice.

Marion sat on her bed again and set both of her hands on her face and grabbed the hair that had fallen over it. Riza looked at Takako with consternation and shook softly her head. Takako approach Marion and set a hand on her shoulder just to have the girl move away from it.

“Marion please… I know this isn’t easy, but everything is going to be alright,” said Riza looking at her friend. “Everything will be like the old times…” she said smiling at her. But Marion simply continued to cry.

Riza shook her head, it would be useless for them to remain there, still they stay for awhile. Just watching as every time they had tried to comfort their friend she had back off.

“We will come back later Marion-chan…” said Takako and left the room with Riza closed behind.

“I think we need some help,” said Riza once they were outside the room. “I think I will search for Mr. Bubbles, he helped her out last time.”

“Hai, that seem like a good idea…”

As both sisters began to make their way outside the hallway when they saw how number Two was walking toward Marion’s room. They both stopped and the older sister looked at them.

“She had retrieved her gear hasn’t she?” she asked them to what both sisters confirmed with a nod. “Good, I guess I will have to talk to her…”

“We… we were thinking in bringing in Mr. Bubbles to speak with her, she is really disturb for all that had happen,” said Takako in a concerned tone.

Catherine looked at them in a cold way. “She isn’t a Little Sister any longer; she doesn’t need a Big Daddy. And if she needs a Big Daddy to help her go through this kind of things maybe she isn’t a Big Sister after all, she needs to realized that she isn’t a child anymore, she like it or not…” she said and kept walking toward Marion’s room.

Riza closed her fits and called back at Catherine. “Well excuse her for feeling bad for almost killing your friend.”

“She wouldn’t have to feel bad about it, I had already told her. And even if she would have killed Helen, Helen knew in what she was getting herself into. If Marion can’t handle this how would she looked after those that are important to her, I wonder? Or is that she doesn’t care about anyone?” she asked the two younger sisters, but none respond. “Still if she is so conflicted with the consequences of her actions, I wonder what she will do if one of the girls she had brought to Rapture ever die by the hands of a splicer? Will she crumble or what? If she can’t even handle this maybe she really didn’t deserve a designation after all,” she said and continue her way toward Marion’s room.

Marion heard the door of the open, she didn’t turn around to see who it was. She thought it would be Riza or Takako, trying to speak with her again.

“I don’t want to talk,” Marion said in a weak tone of voice. “I shouldn’t be here…”

“Probably you are right…” said Catherine in a cold tone, making the other sister turning around and saw her against the wall.

“Two…” said Marion with surprised. “I thought… What is what you want?”

“I was coming to ask you if anything happen to you with doctor Alexander, but it seem that even after being promoted. You are still broken, such a shame, to think that Dr. Lamb had so many hopes on you.”

Marion closed her fist and stared with anger at Catherine.

“Tell me something Two.”

“It’s Catherine…”

“What?”

“My name is Catherine, and if you are going to start working with us it would be better that you knew our names. One is Helen and Three is Judith. Now were you saying?”

Marion looked at her with anger then said with spite, “How can all of you do what she asked you?” the younger girl looked at the older, waiting to hear an answered but receiving one she continued. “I mean you most know what had happen to Dr. Alexander!” she said with desperation. “It’s wrong! And know she wants to abandon him? It just not right, not after all she had done!”

“And what do you want me to tell you Marion? That I think that the doctor is mad, and probably believed herself to be the only sane person here, even if she had suffer from the same condition and isolation than the rest. Yet saying this would implied that we are also insane,” said Catherine looking at Marion. “We all know what she had been doing and from the beginning we opposed, but we couldn’t really say something against it, could we? After all she was the one that stop the splicers from hunting us, wasn’t she?”

“Well… yes… But the doctor!” said Marion with anxiety. “Is not right and what if she decided that she want to use one of us? What if she decided to use a Little Sister? I can’t let anything bad happen to those girls, I promised to myself that I wouldn’t let anything bad happen to them… but what if she wants to used them? Tell me what I’m supposed to do?  I’m supposed to assist her now that she had give me a designation, that I got by almost killing someone…”

“You have to learn to live with it, it isn’t easy, but is the way it is and if you don’t come to terms with it… then I don’t know what you are planning to do…” said Catherine in a cold way.

“I just wished that none of this would had happen that I was still a normal and common Big Sister. That I could forget all this and pretend that this doesn’t exist,” said Marion with her hands against her face.

“Whatever you are planning to do, either remain here as an Elite Big Sister, going back to Adonis Luxury Resort as an ordinary Big Sister or simply disappear, you need to pull yourself together. I was told by Riza and Takako that you were a strong Big Sister but it seem that was just a lie after all, that you are no better than a scared little girl. Such a shame, to think that you could have done far more things than any other sister,” said Catherine and with that she left Marion alone with her thoughts.

Marion felt like someone had just throw at her a bucket of cold water. Catherine was right, either that she decided to stay in Rapture or not. She needed to pull herself together, she had to accept what had happen and live with it. Yes she had almost killed One, no Helen, if she was to work with them she most remembered their names, but just like she had told her before. Helen had known that this could had happen, probably didn’t thought that it would actually happen but at least she was in the ground or not that she knew. Marion gave a sigh and conclude that if she really wanted to take care of the Little Sisters that she had brought then she would needed to come to terms with what had happen and decided that the first step of that was accepting that even if she had been assign as an Elite Big Sister, that she wasn’t like the others.
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