39- Family drama

The siren keeps on ringing, there is no stopping it, everything around me is red, everything except the face of the girl in front of my face, a face that has tears of joy and a big smile on it, the disconnect between the two colors is soothing to the eye.

-F-faraday?!.

Alan says while his surprised face shows both how excited he is... And how worried he is as well.

The comms on the radio keep repeating the same, I back up a little bit on the floor, as I get enough space, I try to get up but I can only get a seat before Faraday hugs me and sits on my lap.

I don't dislike the sensation.

I hear heavy steps coming from the hall, multiple ones, I can tell that those are boots. That means those are not scientist.

I try to turn my head to the steps to properly know what's happening, but my head can't move past Faraday's arm, aswell as my back.

Surprisingly, still, I don't feel angered by that.

What I can look at however is that woman coming out of Faraday's room, the red light makes it difficult to look at her face but said light makes it really clear that she has multiple scraps of glass on her face. She doesn't look like she is in pain, or if she is, the drunkes is taking away all of it and she is just smiling and putting her arms up. The alarm is quite loud but not as loud as her saying stuff.

-Hey guys calm down nobody is hurt~ (a piece of glass falls out of her cheek, bleeding)... Ok I am buts it not a big deal come on!.

Look the little one just wanted a hug that's all!.

As she worded it it seem that there is a squadron of security about to gun me and Faraday.

I hug her inmediatly and brace for the worst, all while I'm terrified beyond belief and on the verge of tears.

I heard the metallic sounds of the guns as they hold and point their guns at us.

-Stop.

I hear a rather calm voice. One I didn't want to hear ever again in my life.

Gustave tells them to stop and walks in front of them At this point even Faraday notices what's happening, I couldn't say if it was because of the alarm stopping or because she heard gustave's voice.

She stops hugging me and now instead grabs onto my arm, hiding behind it and fearing of Gustave.

Can't blame her.

-M-Miss Cecile...

I hear her wavy voice say.

-You better explain why is she out of her cell.

-I-I...

I couldn't even try to say the real reason Faraday did something so serious like breaking containment, just saying something like "she wanted to hug me " wouldn't sound like a logical conclusion for any of this.

-Your time is running out, better think of something fast, you have 15 seconds.

I try to run multiple scenarios on my head, not one of them works out at the end, even ones where I get to properly answer and satisfy her question I still believe she'll kill us both anyway regardless of what I do or say.

Before my mumbling can disappear a voice comes from behind me, it's not Faraday, it's a much drunker one.

-Heeeya mom howudoing?.

-You're drunk again aren't you?.

-Perhaps hehe, what are you gonna do about that, old hag?.

Everyone on the room was surprised, myself included, those guards that came with Gustave lowered their guns and even took some steps back, as if they were preparing to run away as fast as they could once they have been given the chance.

Gustave's eyes were fixed onto Madeline, I could feel the tension in the air, it was as thick as it could be, she looked so pissed that I got worried even though I wasn't her target at all.

On the other hand Madeline had a smug face all along, her eyes where even teasing Gustave to do something.

Without even looking at me or anyone else, Gustave said something.

-You, dog, get your puppy inside of that cage again before I come back, we're gonna have a little talk.

Gustave's eyes started to glow as she started to levitate, as her feet left the ground, Madeline's did too, as she was getting up, I could swear I heard the sound of cracking bones at the same time her limbs where open up, she resembled the posture of the vitruvian man.

Meanwhile, she only had a little chuckle and taunted Gustave even more.

-Haha thanks, I had that back pain for over a week now.

The sounds of cracking bones sounded again as Gustave clench her fist and Madeline let out a painfull scream for a second, only to be transformed into her usual small laugh.

While floating, Gustave turned around along the body of Madeline, she moved a finger and Madeline went flying along the hall, then Gustave looked at me from the top of her shoulder.

-And fix that window.

And just like that, she went flying the same direction as Madeline.

The guard were confused for a moment, they looked at each other and then said that since the boss was out, that meaned that there was no emergency and went back from where they came.

We were left speechless on the floor, Alan almost collapsed due to stress and was only stopped by the wall he had on his side.

I tried to stand up but Faraday's grip stopped me midway.

-Everything is okay now, don't worry.

I was lying, I knew it, and she knew it aswell, but perhaps it was the fact that it was me the one that told her that lie, that she wanted to believe it and tried to stand up as well. We went together inside, I helped Alan regain composure, while we where entering the door, I made sure to slide all of the cristal shards on the floor inside of the door frame.

...

Even the bloody ones.