The Dome City

Beamed

BEAMED

WRITTEN BY NICHOLE HAINES

©2017 NICHOLE HAINES

"Baby, you're going to make me late. Let's go already."

Chrissy yells as she picks up her coat and slips her feet into her shoes. She smoothed her pants and look toward the stairs before sighing deeply.

"For a scientist, you suck at keeping to time and you are going to make me really late. Get down already, Brian."

Brian runs down the stairs, looking a little unkempt and his eyes carried heavy bags that depicts his tiredness and stress. He smiles at Chrissy who rolls her eyes at him and he places a chaste kiss on her lips.

"I'm sorry," he says contritely, "I was up all night trying to figure some stuff out. It's going to be a very good day in the lab today. I made a headway."

Chrissy could not help but smile as he beams with pride.

"I'm happy, Brian. Let's go, you can tell me all about it in the car. You know Larry is not the most understanding boss, he'd get mad if I'm later than I already am."

"Right." Brian replies.

He takes an apple from the fruit bowl and rushes out after Chrissy. His wife's car is the only car they have in the family now and so, she takes him to work and sometimes pick him up after work, mostly on days when he is not working his ass off in the laboratory. He is a physicist in one of the top leading labs in Chicago and they are trying to make a headway about some new projects. The project would be a big one when it is successful, he and his team are very sure that the military would find it very useful when the final work has been done.

"Let's go, let's go." His wife chants.

The couple talked and talked on the way to work and Brian shares his new discovery with his wife in the most excited state and Chrissy cheers him on, encouraging him and giving him as much support as she could for his ground-breaking research even though it was siphoning funds, she didn't mind. The result he projected was the best and her eyes are well on the prize. She pulls up in front of his work and they kiss each other before Brian alights from the car and Chrissy drives off to her office.

At exactly 6pm, Chrissy parks her car in front of the lab and calls Brian who begged her to wait. After some time, she leaves the car and enters the building. The receptionist greets her politely and leads her to Brian's office. He is the lab and Chrissy sat on his chair, waiting for him to show up. Bored out of her mind, she stands and walks around the office trying to while away time and her attention falls on something covered in white cloth on a table at the corner of the office. She removes the cloth and marvels at the strange machine under. She rubs her finger over it, admiring and fascinated by every intricate detail. She presses a button and a ray hit her, causing her to fall and lose consciousness.

"Hey baby, sorry..."

Brian starts to say as he enters the office before his sees Chrissy lying and looking pale in the floor. He rushes to her.

"No, no. Chrissy? Wake up baby, wake up. Somebody help. Who's there? Help me."

He yells and soon the receptionists and a couple of other workers burst in through the door and sees a very scared Brian trying to lift Chrissy off the floor. The receptionist, Zoe dials 911 as one of the guys tried to check for Chrissy's pulse and do CPR on her. The medics arrived in record time and help moved Chrissy to a hospital in their van, with Brian panicking beside her still and white body.