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Grace didn’t answer immediately. For a moment she just stood there among the broken glass and silent containment pods, the weight of his words settling over the room like another layer of dust.
Her jaw tightened “destiny?” she repeated quietly, the word sounding almost foreign in her mouth.
Grace took a slow step forward, boots scraping softly against the lab floor, her eyes never leaving the dark visor hiding whatever expression Gideon wore behind it.
“That’s what you call it?” A humourless breath escaped her “not obsession. Not murder. Not turning people into test subjects.”
Her arms folded loosely across her chest, though the tension in her shoulders betrayed how tightly she was holding herself together.
“You killed my mother chasing this destiny of yours,” Grace continued, her voice steady but low. “You tore through how many lives just to end up here… standing in a graveyard of your own experiments.”
Her gaze flicked briefly to the rows of failed specimens behind him before settling back on Gideon “and you still think I’m going to help you?”
A pause hung between them. Then Grace shook her head faintly “you don’t get to dress this up like fate, Doctor” her eyes hardened “this is just what monsters tell themselves so they can sleep at night.”
;// I apologise if this is long - don’t ever feel pressure to match the length I just love writing so I tend to get carried away ;-;