Ethan opens his eyes and looks down, finding himself still in the Pilgrim uniform. "Damn it! I'm still in the dream.""There's less than eight minutes, Ethan."
"I tried!"
"You know who Sigmund Freud was?"
Ethan sighs. "Psychoanalyst, early twentieth century."
"He argued that dreams are nothing more than wish fulfilment. You tried doing nothing the last time. Maybe what you're here to do is the exact opposite. The thing you weren't able to do the first time. The thing you wished you always had.. to save everyone."
Ethan looks at him with wide eyes and start running. "This is Stone. Evacuate modules K through W on the starboard side of the ship. Now!" He tells everyone through the comms, then get to the button. "Is everybody here? Billy? Danny?" He starts counting for all of the ones that died. Then Hudson walk up to him.
"I'm not reading an emergency. Why did you initiate an evacuation?"
After everyone is accounted for, Ethan opens the panel and press the button. The wall closes and the ship shakes and rumbles.
Then he hears a voice. He looks through the window and see you stumble along the wall. "Ethan!"
"Yn? Yn!" Ethan tries to open the wall again, but it won't. "Yn!"
"Ethan, please!" You hold onto the rail along the wall in the corridor as that ships half shakes violently.
"Yn!"
Ethan then suddenly finds himself back at the start with William.
He roars loudly. "This is pointless!" He punches the wall.
"No, it's not. You're here for a reason. What's holding you back? Dig deep, Ethan. Look into the things you don't want to see."
"I have been reliving this nightmare, in one way or another, for the past 9 years. No matter what I do, no matter what I try, I always end up right back here. I'm drowning in guilt. I don't let myself move on. So, maybe what I need to do is-" Turning around, he finds William gone. "William?"
...
William appears in the soma chamber again and Jason turns to him.
"Where in your programming does it say it's okay to disobey a direct order?" He asks him
"You pulled me out?"
"You're damn lucky that we could!"
"I was making progress."
"No, you were risking this entire mission."
...
Walking around on the Salvare, Ethan faintly hears your voice. "Ethan? Where are you? Ethan? Can you see me? I'm right ahead of you."
He walks around and looks for you.
"Please, Ethan. Hurry. Find me. I need you."
...
"There's still time." William tells Jason.
"It was a direct order, William."
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Another Life (Oc x reader)
FanfictionI do NOT own anything from Another Life, this is only a fanfiction. All credit goes to the creators! An Oc x reader story. - Oc takes Niko's place and Yn is an added character to the story. Set in the future, an anomaly from space appears in Earth's...