if you go, we all go

(14 hours earlier)

Rising from her bedside, Natalie abandons her lover in the middle of the night.

It's quiet. Not a soul awake during the night. With soft steps, she slowly makes her way to the kitchen. Pouring a glass of water for herself, she starts drinking it. Then, someone steps out of the shadows with demonic-looking red eyes that pierce the darkness.

She chokes on the water. Coughing out the rest as she eventually gets her breath back.

"Who- Who's there?" Natalie questions, watching the steel beast as it approaches her in the dark.

Natalie cautiously reaches to turn on the light switch. Once the lights are on, she can see him better.

He towers at seven feet tall. In the form a man with skin of black steel and red sentient eyes that observe. It's footsteps are barely heard as it approaches despite its large frame. Armor plated, and with a steel face, its sentient eyes stare unblinking at the Lieutenant.

Natalie stares in silence, waiting for it to do something.

After a length