tearmeanewone | SIX + Action / Voice

[VAGUE SPOILERS FOR 'BURIAL AT SEA' BELOW]

Elizabeth Comstock, you have been tried and found guilty of leading this man to his untimely death--

[Booker sits in the gallery, staring coolly back at her, and Elizabeth feels both wet and cold. And bloody--there's blood all down her front. But she doesn't feel shock or even surprise. She knows why it's there, she just can't see the memory. Every time she reaches for it, nothing happens.]

[Words feel unsteady, and she has to chase each one and hold it, own it, before speaking it.]

I was never his! But he… he had to have me! [What choice is she defending herself for making?]

--You have therefore, been sentenced to have your head forcibly torn from your body until you are dead.

[A cord is looped around her neck, Robert and Rosalind almost waltzing around and past her as they do so. Elizabeth scrabbles at the cord as it's pulled taut by one Lutece at each end.]

But he’s right there! He’s right there!! I didn’t kill Booker, he’s right there! He’s been here the whole time! [The cord tightens, Elizabeth’s hands don’t work, her fingers can't get under the cord.] Stop pulling, stop pulling, please! I’LL BE YOUR DAUGHTER!

May God have mercy on your wicked souls, child.

[Action - Locked to Gai and BioShock Infinite Crew]

[Elizabeth writhes in bed, her breathing becoming quicker and shallow as though she were having trouble filling her lungs. And whatever she’s trying to get away from her neck, there isn’t anything there. She’s scratching at nothing.]

[END SPOILER CONTENT]

[Voice – Early, Early Morning of December 1st]

Has anyone here ever had a dream that was prophetic? I know that most dreams are a product of our subconscious thoughts, but… I had a dream and I know I couldn’t possibly have been thinking any of the things that were in it. Not even subconsciously.

I thought that maybe this could be an experiment of some kind. [Read: ‘I’m hoping this was an experiment of some kind.’]

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Mm... [Elizabeth thinks back on their first meeting at the beach and then to their very important date. Yes, it was better that they had developed some relationship before Elizabeth had given herself to Gai. Maybe it would have been fun, but Elizabeth would have felt more awkward and even less sure of what she was doing. Not to mention it would have meant... close to nothing, perhaps?]

[She pulls Gai's hand off her waist and looks at their joined hands, rotating them around.] Do you remember when you first fell in love with me?

When I first fell in love, or when I realized that's what it was?

[Because those had been two very different things, especially given how much time he'd spent trying to deny to himself that that's what those feelings were. The actual falling part had happened very quickly; it was the admitting it that took much longer.

He doesn't protest her moving their hands at all, instead just giving a little squeeze.]

Mm, when you first realized that's what it was. [She squeezes Gai's hand back and smiles.]

It was after I pulled you out of the waves at the beach. We kissed, and it finally dawned on me just why I was so afraid of the thought of losing you.

Agh, that day. [Elizabeth half-laughs, half-groans and turns to hide her face in her pillow.] That was one of the most dangerous things I've ever done.

And that was one of the dumbest things I've ever done, so that makes the two of us even.

[He gives her hair a nuzzle to show that he isn't at all angry with her for it. After all, he was the one who initiated that whole mess in the first place.]

Well that's all I wanted in the end, so I suppose I succeeded there. [She laughs again, turning her face out of the pillow and into Gai's nuzzle.]

I knew I loved you when you kissed my hand before our first date, and put that carnation behind my ear. [The one that she dried out and put into a little glass bottle on her dresser.]

Heh... and to think I was worried that might be over the top. I would've given you an entire bouquet if I'd known that was going to be what made you fall in love with me.

[He's teasing, of course, but he's also sincere, because he can't imagine NOT loving her or having her love him back.]

[Elizabeth laughs and presses back into Gai's arms.] I can't put an entire bouquet behind my ear, though. [She smiles and contemplates for a moment.] No, I think bouquets can be a little sad. They just live in a vase until they die, I'd rather carry one flower around with me.

[Gai too takes a moment to think on this before smiling and tightening his arms around her.]

You're right. There's no point in picking all of those flowers just to let them die hidden away in a room. They belong out in the sun instead.

[And, quietly, he begins to hum a song that should be very familiar to her by now.]

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