Year 1907.
A taping filled the silence of the room. A pen repeatedly taped on the control desk at a steady beat.
It soon stops.
The pen is lifted up by a pale hand and brought over to a crossword puzzle. After it writes something across, it goes back to tapping.
"Do you need help, doctor?"
The pale, old doctor lifts up his head to look at the SCP in front of him. His soft blue eyes scanning the dark. It was always hard to find him since he liked his room dark and prefers to wear dark clothing. Soon he finds the SCP sitting on an armchair he has given him recently.
"Oh. Um. Don't worry, 049, I'm alright. Besides, I don't think you would understand these since it's mostly about modern time." The doctor smiles at the SCP. He then goes back to the puzzle.
049 tilts his head. Those words. He keeps hearing them but doesn't know how to use them. "Excuse me, doctor. I know you are busy but may I ask you a question?"
"Hm? Oh but of course. What would you like to ask me?" He sets his pen down and looks into the room.
049 stands up from his chair and walks over to the glass frame to let the doctor get a better view. "I keep hearing people say these words that I do not understand how to use. I know it is a development of the language but how do you use them?"
"Hmm." The doctor ponders for a moment. He tries to figure out what words he is talking about but fails. "Would you mind giving me an example?"
"Yes. For example, the words it's, aren't, wasn't, can't, those words."
"Oh! Those words. Well, now that you mention it I have never heard you say those."
"Yes. They are interesting."
"Well first off, they're called 'Contraction words'.
049 repeated the word to himself.
"Yes. Here. Let me show you." The doctor took out a piece of paper and wrote some contraction words along with the words used to combine them. He showed them to 049. "Don't is the combination of do not. It's a faster way of talking when you use these words."
049 pressed his hand against the glass. "Hmm. Very interesting."
"Would you like to learn?"
"Yes. I would, actually. Thank you."
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SCP Short Stories
Short StoryThis book contains short stories of SCPs, researchers, guards, etc. These stories will be about their times at the facility, lives before or after the SCPs were captured, beginnings of untold stories from interviews, or anything that comes to mind...
