B r e a k _ m e : ) {Halley Labs✓||AU}

Present.

The inflatable dog looks out the window, while the clock goes on and on.

Tick...

Tock...

Tick...

Tock...

He hasn't seen his lover in months, nor have really talked to anyone in general. Only sometimes mainly Kit and NegaRen to keep them at bay. Made some songs along the way, they wished for some sort of sign that he was still alive. The almost wilting mint plant on the windowsill looked as if it had some grasp on trying to live. He sighed miserably at the sight.

"Only if I could talk to him." Bandetto muttered.

Photos now placed on the Windowsill, memories of the happy things that had happened. It includes some memories with Emoticon and NegaRen, sometimes the whole gang when it was remembered as Lapfox Trax until Renard went and disappeared after TQBF got sick.

Let go.

Move on.

Sickening but innocent words from NegaRen, these things being let alone made Bandetto's stomach churn. Bandetto remembered the metal device wrapped around TQBF's throat. Bandetto learned on that very day that his beloved was an artificial lifeform. Nothing about TQBF's body was organic but his personality was. Bandetto envied the dying plant, the plant was all natural and wasn't created in a lab.

This was now his life, this is now normal.

TQBF was missing for seven months, disappeared a month after he got sick. Remembering the overly sugary smell of purple vomit, even so he was still happy at the time. Bandetto hasn't heard a thing about or of any of TQBF's whereabouts in months, at this point he's getting pissed. Darius is being useless and Rotteen isn't giving information, even the Underground Garden was being secretive about it.

Knock!

Knock!

Knock!

Bandetto heard knocking on the door of his room in the building.

"Go away." Bandetto grumbled.

"I think you may want to let me in."

He begins to open the door.

"Hi Bandetto!"

It was Kitcaliber. Kit works for the laboratory as volunteer work while Caliber worked with Kitsune².

From a beautiful voice to undiagnosed PTSD, she always knew how to make things better in the labs. Kit positioned herself in a way that seemed more professional. It's bad enough they took Halley's side as the garden and the label was taken over and became a husk of what it once was.

"Ms. D'Moon sadly isn't terminating your contract with the Labs, only Dr. Queenston can." Kit politely spoke, "Your contract with Halley Labs is still the same as Lapfox Trax because well- It's just a rebranded version really."

"Except for all the research done on the galaxy and this planet?"

"Well you're not Dr. Halley and The Associates now are we?"

"Yeah I guess you're right."

Bandetto opens the curtains and window in his designated room. Waiting for the sun to peek in.

"It's a better day out there than in here most days, I just wish I was allowed to go outside again."

"Well it's a wasteland now since the whole apocalypse thing."

Bandetto closes the curtains.

It would be very soon that the sounds would hit the labs unsuspectingly.