Terrors in Subnautica(Complete)

Part 28: Awakening

Amy's POV

It's been almost a week since N/N went into comatose and everyone is really starting to get worried. I've tried to keep everyone as positive as I can by pointing out how her vitals are a little more normal every day, but that can only do so much when she's still lying there like that. Her skin has gotten so pale I sometimes have to remind myself her heart is still beating.

It's my turn to keep an eye on her and Felix decided to take everyone to the solid island for the day since we hadn't gone yet, and Everyone needed a distraction. I was more than happy to stay with her while they're gone especially since I really don't care to see the islands. I don't know why, but I just don't feel comfortable going up to land until we get home.

I spend most of the day scrolling through a search engine that was buried in the PDA's we found, turns out they've been keeping logs of what they've learned about Mutants and their culture back home. There's a whole lot to learn, and it's a good way to keep myself busy.

I finish reading about the ranking system they run on and stop at the title of the next section, it's about that soul energy state N/N went into just before she went into her coma. I put down my PDA to look back at N/N, I wonder if she knew this would happen. If she did it or if it really is something that just happens in a dire situation. I'm pretty sure she'd have done it even if she thought it would have killed her.

Gently, I take her hand in mine and watch her face. Sometimes her face will twitch or move when she's touched, but not always. I'd hoped maybe it would help her wake up, but it seems to happen less and less. Her hands are a bit cold, but that could just be my mind finding problems where there aren't any. I pull her blanket over her further just in case.

I hear the hatch downstairs unlock and take a look out the window, the Cyclops is back so it's them. Wow the sun is almost down, it doesn't feel like a whole day passed. Beth is the first one to make it up the stairs, she glances at us a moment before silently walking to her and Sam's room. She hasn't spoken much since the attack.

"Hey," Marzia says coming up the ladder,"The Island was amazing. The plant life and the huge metal building was just enormous."

She comes to sit beside me as everyone else comes to check on her individually.

"Did you spend all day reading about her people again?"

"Yeah, they are a very interesting people. There's so much to learn, especially since their written history is so much longer than ours."

"What did you read about today?"

"Their ranking system. Apparently they never planned on having a rank 5 until the man who saved everyone a few thousand years ago."

"I wonder what rank N/N is."

She takes her hand as I had done before and gently rubs circles into it.

"Based in what I just read, I'd say a rank 4. She's got a good variety of skills and a whole lot of strength and control. That's just an educated guess though."

"Wow, that's pretty good right?"

"Yeah, I suppose so."

Marzia gently pats me on the back before heading back to her room allowing Seán to take her place next to me. He tries so hard to be positive, but I can see the strain of everything starting to weigh him down. He gently placed his hand on her arm, watching her breathe as he usually does when he's particularly worried.

"What's worrying you?" I ask quietly.

"I just," He clears the break in his voice," what if she doesn't wake up? She's been out of it for so long.. what if we lose her too?"