Bioshock: Little Brother re-told story

Chapter 26: The truth is out

Persephone, Rapture: 12:00 am

Eleanor's violent behaviour seemed to have increased lately, meaning the Little Sisters didn't like staying with her very much. Unfortunately for Ryan, that meant they now started hanging around somebody else, namely, him. "Big Brother, can you read us a story?" A few Little Sisters begged with wide eyes as the eldest, Abigail, held a huge book of fairy tales up at him.

Ryan paused, he had just gotten back to Persephone, and he was hoping to sneak in a nap. But just looking at their cute faces he couldn't help but to fall victim to their whims. "Okay, but just one." he added, he'd learned the hard way if you didn't say 'Only one." they would keep asking for more and more stories. As all the girls cheered he couldn't help but smile to himself.

Taking his hand they dragged him into the room he'd been passing by, sitting him down on a chair in the middle of the room. He took off his helmet at their request. Ever since Gabriela told her fellow sister he could take his helmet off they insisted on him being helmet less for 'story time'.

Once seated the Little Sisters sat around him in a perfect circle, except Abigail and Gabriela, who sat on Ryan's lap. Mindless of the fact that their thin old dresses barely did anything to block the uncomfortableness of sitting on iron. Opening the book Ryan looked through the stories it had, "We want this one." Abigail said as she pointed to the title that said Cinderella.

Shrugging, Ryan answered "Alright." He began to read the story. Trying to ignore the fact that every eye in the room was on him. After what seemed like hours he reached the ending of the story, "And then they got married and lived happily ever after... the end." he finished. What followed would have been exactly like if someone dropped a bomb inside the room. Except instead of fire and the sweet release of death he had to endure ear splitting squeals of joy and hugs. Although he didn't mind the latter, he'd grown to rather enjoy having an overly affectionate family.

Ryan closed the book, and detached himself from the sister's iron grips, before he looked at each one of them. Blinking, he did a quick head count. Counting only five Sisters he had to ask , "Where are the other Little Sisters?" asked Ryan, "Which Little Sisters?" Abigail asked back. "Ya know, Miley, Jade, Isabella, and all the others in that group." He specified. They looked at each other, Franky finally spoke up as she was yawning. "They went on a ride with Daddy Delta. He took them to Heaven."

That confused him. "H-heaven?" he stuttered, he didn't have a very good feeling about this. "Yeah! He took the angel out of them." Cindy answered, like there was nothing wrong with ripping a slug out of an adolescent girl to fuel an Adam addiction. Ryan kept his visage calm as Absolute Rage tried to fight it's way onto his face. The small facial twitches were the only inclination of his thoughts, most of which involved things that i'm not allowed to type without breaking Geneva convention code. Gabriela recognized the look apparently, "Big Brother are you gonna make more angels!" She gasped happily.

Ryan forced the best smile onto his face as he could, given his thoughts. "Yes. Lots of them." He answered, still the very definition of calm, except for a twitch or two here and there. Although it would have probably scarred surface children for life the Sister's faces were all the exact opposite of their above sea level counterparts. In fact, they were trying to climb up him and into the sphere cage that he somehow managed to wear while still sitting in a small rocking chair. Gently prying them off of him he picked up his helmet and gave them each a hug, which helped cool the Absolute Rage a tad, and waved them goodbye as he walked out of the room before locking the door. There was a hidey-hole in the room, so they weren't locked in or anything, it was mostly to stop them from following him.