The Boy from the Bunker - Season 8

Episode Seven, Part 1:

Episode Seven, Part 1:
Life Support

I just wanted you to know 
that this is me trying. 

//

And I hate to make this all about me, 
but who am I supposed to talk to? 
What am I supposed to do if 
there's no you? 

As Wynn began to follow after Athena, he could hear the agonized pleas from his brother behind him.

"No! Wynn! What are you doing!? You don't mean that! Don't leave with her!"

Wynn turned around to face him, watching as Quill tried desperately to escape the hold of the guards that had caught him, but he couldn't manage to break free.

"I'm sorry," Wynn apologised. "I have to do this to get Ell back. For you guys."

"It'll kill you!" Quill yelled. "They'll push your past your breaking point! They'll get what they want and they'll kill you do to that!"

"I know," Wynn said, surprised with how little fear he felt at the thought of walking straight into his death. "But Elara deserves to live, and I'm not going to stop until they save her, and-"

"Wynn-"

"Take care of her," Wynn silenced his brother. "Keep each other safe. I'm... I'm sorry I won't be here, but I love you. So much."

Quill shook his head in recognition of where he had heard Wynn's words before. He'd lost one brother already, and now his sister was dead right in front of him, and Wynn was walking to his death, too.

"Wynn, I can't do this without you," Quill cried.

"You won't," Wynn said. "And you'll get Elara back. You know that's all I ever wanted; the two of you to be okay."

"Wynn!"

"And you will be. I love you. I'm so sorry, Quill," he apologised one final time, having to force himself out of the door in fear that it wouldn't take much persuasion for his brother to change his mind. He shut the door behind him, heaving for a deep breath as he leaned up against the wall in the hallway.

"I need you to tell me the truth," Athena said, bitterly shooing her guards away, demanding them to give her and Wynn some space. "Do you really have an implant in your head, or are you just trying to buy some time for us to keep your sister's body alive?"

"I have an implant," Wynn confessed, something miserable in his voice. He turned around and pulled the collar of his shirt down, revealing the scar on the back of his neck. "Now are you going to put me through the damn tests, or are you going to tell me that you were lying before, and there's really no way to save my sister?"

"Tests it is," Athena replied, nodding for him to follow as he led him through the level of the ship and back into the familiar medical room which was heavily occupied with guards.

"Not this guy again," Leander sighed, already beginning to approach Wynn and Athena the second he had seen them. "It's hopeless continuing the trials on him. It's wasting our resources-"

"Leander, you don't have any idea what you're talking about," Athena rolled her eyes, instructing Wynn to sit himself down on the bed.

"I see he's doing this willingly. How'd you manage that?"