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2025-05-19 15:04:32Chapter 50: The Red Room Revisited
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The complex lay concealed under an old psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Marlowe. Cold, metallic, and silently oppressive. The whir of generators buried deep under concrete was the only sound that gave life to the otherwise silent and stillness. Isla stood in front of the Red Room, its letters half-brushed off, fingerprints smudged—as if ghosts of its former occupants had tried to scratch their way out.
She breathed deeply. Her palms were damp with perspiration even as the air was chilly. Her fingers stroked the transmitter set within her collarbone, a miniature chip Ethan had inserted the night before.
"You hear me?" She whispered.
There was a pause before Ethan's voice whispered through her earpiece. "Loud and clear. Christopher is tracking your position. Be careful."
She opened the door.
Inside, the Red Room was exactly as she'd feared: sparkling clean, clinical, and seared through with hidden horrors. Padded walls contained the cluttered clutter of padded restraints, stains covered with care. One steel chair was centered in the room, anchored to the floor.
Victor was beside it.
He looked older. Time had carved stronger lines into his features, but his eyes glowed with the same unnerving intensity. He held a tablet in one hand and the faintest smile danced upon his lips.
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"You came."
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Isla did not answer. Her footsteps were light as she stepped into the middle of the room. Her gaze never left his.
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"She would have hated this place," she said.
Victor leaned his head to one side. "Lyra was afraid of her own mind. But you… you accept yours. You were always destined to outshine her."
"He moved closer. "Not an echo. A rebirth. A legacy."
"You don't own me."
"Victor laughed, low and caustic. "Possession was never the goal. Influence, Isla. Control. You confuse the deception of choice with freedom."
Isla paced around him in slow circumference. "I watched the tapes. All of them. She left you. Not because she was weak. But because she saw what you were."
Victor's face hardened. "She was confused. I loved her. And I love you. You are ours."
Isla's voice shattered like ice. "You drugged her. Broke her. Tried to erase her. Is that love?"
"You were evolving."
"No. You were destroying."
She halted a foot from him. Her hand touched her belt, where the syringe rested in secret. "You want to reprogram me again, don't you? Activate the Protocol, complete what you began."
"It would take only an instant," he breathed. "And you'd be at peace."
"You mean compliant."
He raised the tablet, finger hovering over the screen. "You have ten seconds until this room is filled with gas. Play ball, and we start anew. Fight, and you die."
Isla smiled.
"Then you'll be dead with me. Because I've given myself an agent which is sensitive to that gas. You trigger it, and I'm dead. Your legacy rides with me."
Victor's eyes flickered. A crease of doubt furrowed his brow.
She stepped closer, her breath a whisper in his ear. "She never wanted to be your creation. And neither do I."
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She pushed the syringe into his flank.
Victor stumbled back, eyes bulging. "What… what did you do?"
"No." she said. "A truth serum," she explained. "Mixed with a paralytic. You won't die. But you'll talk. Every secret, every crime."
Victor collapsed into the metal chair.
The door burst open. Christopher and Ethan rushed in, guns levelled, looking for danger.
Isla spun around to confront them, tears glistening but triumphant.
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"I have him. He's ours now."
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Victor, crumpled in the chair, let out a small, crooked laugh. "You are more like her than I ever knew."
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Isla took a step forward. "That was the point."
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