AMONG US

15

"Cause I wanna make a deal with you." She smiled.

Red noticed the eyes that were once filled with so much purpose and love was now replaced with emptiness.

"People on Earth are aware of our situation, the people they sent to pick us up will arrive in about 7 hours, I need to get back to Earth so I need you to lie for me. We are gonna pin this on Purple and White."

"Funny" Red laughed. "Or what?"

"Or I just say that it was you and Lime"

"Two people's words against one, let's see how that goes" he scoffed.

"Here's where this comes in" she pulled out her tablet and showed the screen, it was the e-copy of White's fake info on them. "This seems very convincing, doesn't it?"

"Cyan" Lime coughed, her eyes were teary.

"Oh good you are awake" Cyan stood up.

"I listened to your story, I'm sorry things turned out for you that way"

"If you are trying to sympathize with me so I won't kill you, stop it. You have two options, you either die or you help me"

"Okay, we will" Lime said. Red agreed "Only if you promise you won't hurt Lime"

"Deal, I have already sent a copy of this to my system back home and if I don't go back home in 30 hours, those files will be directly published all over the world"

"Okay, now can you please fix the Oxygen"

"Sure" Cyan typed something on her tablet, the lights were back on, the danger symbol was turned off. "There you go"

"Let's go clean up the mess" Cyan untied Red's hand.

They cleaned up for about 3 hours and packed up their stuff, surprisingly they didn't try to cross her.

Soon a spaceship arrived to pick them up, they'll be back at the base in 7 hours. A few decades back this would have been impossible. If someone came up to you and said "You can go to space, visit a space station and come back home all in a day" you would have laughed. But that's how technology has developed throughout these years.

Once they got back to the base, they were taken to individual rooms and interrogated separately. The 3 of them repeated the same story they practiced back at the space station. Since the bodies were disposed of, there was no way to tell, who died first or how they died, they used it to their advantage. After 5 hours, they were let go and it was concluded that those murders were committed by Purple and White. Black was honored for sacrificing himself to save the life of others.

Red noticed Lime exiting the room, they were no longer wearing their suits or even their assigned colors, it was weird. She got excited when she saw her mom, who was an higher official at the base, walk her away. Her smile faded when her mom walked right past her.

"Mom!" she called out. "I'm back!"

"Not now, I'm busy" her mom didn't look at her, she just kept walking.

Red motioned Lime to come to him, "How are you doing?"

"My own mother didn't care about me" Lime teared up.

"Hey, don't worry about it okay? think of me as your brother alright? you can ask me anything you want, whenever you want" He ruffled her hair.

"I'm hungry" she held her stomach.

"Let's go get some food then" he smiled.

As they began walking Red saw Cyan. She ignored them and walked straight past them. "Hey, Cyan!" Red called out.

Cyan turned around, " What?"

"Don't forget to delete the false info you have on us" Red reminded her.

"Sure"

"and don't ever come in front of me ever again and if you do that I might have to kill you" Red warned her.

"Don't worry about it"

"What's your name?" Red asked. It was his turn to ask now, after all these days of Cyan asking. He was curious.

"I'm not stupid enough to tell you that" She smirked.

Red scoffed. "Well my name is--"

"I know who you are Kieth, I knew it from the start" Cyan smiled genuinely.

"How?" he was surprised to hear his name escape her lips.

"I have my ways" she grinned.

"Goodbye, I hope I never see you again." Red said.

"Goodbye, I hope I never see you again too"

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That's how two people who trusted and maybe loved each other were separated, going off in different directions, each with a new mission of their own, their missions may be similar and it may lead them to each other in the future, but for now, this is goodbye. This may seem like the end of their journey; but it isn't. It's only the beginning.