GUARDIAN|M.LANGDON

PART 4|LANGDON

I walk away and I made my way to the library, mindlessly bringing a strand of hair to my front and playing with it, thinking to back to the man still

Why would he look at me like that? He seemed my age, but, what if it was a look he gave? Maybe he hasn't seen a girl his age for a while either
I've never met him in my life- so why?

eventually nothing really happens, we sat waiting in the library for hours and nobody even came up to check, I guess Ms venable just didn't want us to see... him

I sighed as I got up, trying to erase my intrusive thoughts, a weird sense of exhaust coming over me, as by clockwork I made my way back to my room- seeming to quickly fall asleep
Way too quickly

~TIME SKIP~

I land on the grass gracefully, laughing as I fell

The weather was perfect, sun warm, plants thriving

Everything was perfect

I watched as a man enters, I hold his hand,
My lover
and I smile

Happiness, until I watched it unfurl seeming from 3rd person

A large tree, host to a beautiful red apple

If I knew then what I knew now- curiosity would never have won

Please don't- I tried to scream to myself
No, no, no

I wake up with a bolt, thrashing and gasping violently- not even reacting to someone calling my own name

"Evelyn! Evelyn" someone frantic calling out to me, it felt distant
Until I felt that said person grab me

I breathe deeply as I look up at who it was, the man from before, sat on my bed holding me gently

I looked around confused, Still in my room, trying to recollect... whatever it was
A dream? Nightmare?

"What was that?" Is all I can utter out, mostly to myself, but an answer still came
"You had a nightmare, I could hear you shouting from halfway across the sanctuary, you are safe now" I look down at his arms, holding me gently and even one hand stroking me up and down in comfort, my breathing fell right finally
But something else was wrong

something about him... I had a nightmare? It left a bad taste on my tongue, like when you expect to eat sweet food but get an entirely different flavor

It tastes like a lie?

I couldn't bear to face him, out of embarrassment that this stranger was here, ready to soothe me in half a second of danger
Or out of embarrassment that I kind of liked it- I didn't even know his name-

How the fuck did he remember mine? The 'useless gray'

Before I could even question why he was here I heard another scream,
Emily

I become alarmed and restless and as I'm about to get up the man holds me down again

"Ms mead has gone to see, they're fine"

They?

I'm still astounded, unsure what to say, but he seems to know what's happened, and he just looks at me, almost... lost
Imagination, stop it

I stay staring at him, heavy lidded as I started to fall back to sleep- he seemed to notice as he slowly let go of me, letting me fall back to the bed, sleep starting to slowly overcome me once more

"See you tomorrow, Evelyn"

-TIME SKIP-

I woke up later than everyone, still shaken up from that 'nightmare' , confused out my mind- there was only one person I had wanted to talk to about the whole scenario
Mallory

I got up out of my bed, making my way to the library- the obvious new hangout spot- and there she was
Or rather, there they were, I could see her sat there next to coco bitching, I sigh as I lie beside her, head on her arm
I always hated coco, I hated nearly every damn purple in this place

"Tired again?" She asks and I laugh lazily

"It seems so, I had a nightmare" she says nothing, I'm guessing she waited for me to go on but I didn't want to talk about it, and I can do nothing but simply recall the nightmare

Who was that man? Where was I?
My 'lover'?

And more importantly, why did it feel so familiar?

The peace doesn't last long before the man from before and Ms vernable come to the library, the memory again making flooding through my mind, i immediately sit up straight, and listen to what they say

"My name is Langdon, and I represent the cooperative"

Langdon? That's his name?

Evelyn Langdon and Langdon? Was that a coincidence?
Oh god, what if he was my brother? I felt sick to my stomach, there was no way surely? He would've mentioned it?

My thought are snapped out by Langdon speaking again, a chill ran through my spine at the coincidental name

"I won't sugarcoat the situation, humanity is on the brink of failure, my arrival here was crucial to the survival of civilized life on earth"

I look away and think back to my more simpler days before... all of this

To be honest my life has been quite fuzzy, I had an incident which led to a lot of my memories being scrambled, I worked in a cafe shop, barely making ends meet

So I really don't understand how or why I'm here, did someone pay for me? I had no family I could recall, or anyone I had spoken to, and I certainly didn't pay for the position, to be honest it probably would've been easier-

-Dying,
someone better could've taken my spot

I'm interrupted by my thoughts by Langdon clearing his throat and I look up at him, seeing him making eye contact with me, I look away again

Whoops, zoned out

"I have been sent to determine if any of you are worthy and fit to join us, the corporations has developed a particular and rigorous questioning technique, we like to call... cooperating"

I scoff, Creative

"I will then use the information gained to determine if you belong"

I can already predict coco is about to go off, and it happens, along with several others and I lay back down on Mallory, her petting my head slightly

Langdon moves on "you don't have to sit for question, but if you choose not to you stay here and die"

Mr gallant speaks up "I volunteer to go first"

Langdon replies "no, I have a list

Evelyn will be the first"