𝙴𝚜𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚜 - 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎
ꨄ 𝙿𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐: SCP 049 x reader
ꨄ 𝚂𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢: After running from your pursuer, you manage to find yourself with a new companion.
ꨄ 𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜: Masterpost
It took a minute before you regained your composure enough to continue on your path.
The headache hadn't lessened any, and your throat had become completely dry. You didn't go back into that room, your head spinning when you considered it. Instead, you began to backtracking, moving through rooms you had already been in. A sense of unease washed over you once you looked through the other doorway. The outside of SCP-205's containment chamber hadn't changed. The door you had sealed SCP-049 behind was still shut.
Curiosity got the better of you, and you approached it. Your remained silent when you stepped in front of it to listen. There was little movement heard inside. You heard some slight rummaging, and assumed it was trying to find a way out. You debated trying to speak to it, desperate for some comfort in the weird situation you found yourself in, to have someone to speak to. But you decided against it. You stepped away, turning on your heel to find your way out again.
"I can hear you," the voice of the anomaly sounded behind the door. You paused briefly, glancing over your shoulder.
"I will not give up on you this easily."
No reply came in return, and you went on your way. You backtracked a little, seeing the open doors you had been through before. You closed them, hoping to avoid SCP-173. You moved through familiar terrain until you once more entered a few rooms you assumed you hadn't seen before, though you couldn't quite tell as they all looked the same.
Some doors were locked completely, not allowing you to pass through. You wound up in a four-way room. There was a desk behind a window. A poster hung on the wall next to it. It was a human falling backwards from a trash can, a stag sticking halfway out of it.
You blankly looked at the text before taking in your surroundings. You had moved your character through here before you replaced him. To your right was the room leading to SCP-173's containment cell. A dead D-class was propped up against the wall, face half decayed. You opened through the one door you had not gone through. You stopped in front of the door as you heard commotion behind it. It were footsteps. You took a deep breath, pushing the button to open the door before immediately jumping out of sight.
A nervous male voice called out, shaking as he got out the words. There was a moment of silence as you contemplated getting into view.
"If… if you're human, we can work together." A few slow steps walked closed to the door you had just opened. When you didn't reply, he spoke again. "Please, I'm so fucking scared."
Slowly, you came into view. It was a man in a full guard uniform. He raised his gun immediately, and you raised your hands. The man was shaking like a leaf, and you doubted you looked much better for wear.
"How the hell are you still alive?" His voice cracked midway through that sentence as he stepped back from the elevator that was opened next to him.
"I got lucky," you grimly muttered in reply, your hands still up. The guard slowly nodded, the shaking in his body decreasing slightly.
"You know, protocol says I should kill you on sight."
The guard took a moment to decide, slowly approaching you, still aiming at your face. After looking you up and down, and looking over your shoulder, he lowered the gun.
"No, we're better off working together," he replied as he looked at your designation. You couldn't gauge his expression as his face was hidden behind the helmet's visor.
"D-9341…" he mumbled as he looked at your ill fitting jumpsuit. He raised his head slightly to look at you. "Did… did I not escort that guy to 173?"
"He died," you quickly lied. You doubted trying to tell him the whole story was gonna go over well. "My own jumpsuit got ripped so I took his."
"Yeah… I didn't really expect he'd make it that far." The young man sighed, his shoulders slouching a bit. He glanced behind him before looking at you.
"Yeah, about the other anomalies, most of them seemingly already broke out." He nodded his head to the direction you came in. "Did you encounter anything?"
"The plague doctor," you simply replied, trying to tuck your hands in the pockets of your jumpsuit, only to realize there weren't any. You awkwardly placed your hands on your hips instead, keycard still in hand.
"How did it get here from heavy containment so fast?" he wondered, likely more to himself than to you.
"Dunno, I managed to lock it in the shadow lamp's containment chamber." He seemed a bit more at ease at that information.
"Good, one less thing for us to worry about." The guard nudged you into motion, gesturing for you to turn around. "Come on, we're sitting ducks out here."
There was a moment of silence as the two of you entered the room you had just come from. The guard looked at another poster , this one taped to the glass window.
"He was right," the guard muttered solemnly as he stood in front of the poster. He let out a humorless chuckle. "Could've sworn it was tuna casserole."
"Have you been working here long?" you asked him, clinging to the one somewhat human connection you had in here.
"Uh… no, not really." The guard turned his head to look at you. "It was my first month here, I mainly escorted researchers and D-class."
He nervously tapped the ground with his foot as you nodded, some awkward silence settled over the two of you before he spoke again.
"So uh… how long have you been working here?"
"Right… sorry." He cleared his throat as he gestured for you to get a move on again. You felt a bit more at ease, the footfalls of another human being comforting you. He glanced at you. "So… what did you do, y'know, to wind up here."
"I looked a bit too deep into something," that wasn't a complete lie. The guard took a moment of silence, his gun hanging loosely by his side now.
You two didn't get the chance to banter further as the sounding of scraping filled your ears. You looked up from him just in time to see SCP-173 inches from the guards neck. The man froze, shoulders tensed.
"Got my eyes on it, move," you hissed. That's all the guard needed to hear as he stepped forward before whipping around. The two of you began backing away.
"Blinking…" you muttered, your eyes starting to burn from staring at the statue. The guard nodded.
You blinked a few times, rubbing them before locking your eyes on the statue again. The guard spoke up next.
You moved through the door behind you, the guard following after. He shut the door before turning around to face you.
You didn't need to be told twice. You moved through the hall, the guard in tow. Once you got a few rooms between you and the guard, the both of you caught your breath.
"We should head to the evacuation shelter," he said, leaning against a wall. "At the very least there should be other people there, even if it isn't entirely safe."
"With that decaying corpse walking through the walls, I doubt anywhere is safe," you replied bitterly. He sighed.
"I'm not sure what else to do, I mean we could try holding out here, but I doubt we will get far."
"We should try leaving the facility." He looked at the ceiling, contemplating your response. His fingers tapped the side of his rifle as he thought.
"Yeah, you're probably right," he admitted as he pushed off the wall. "I don't really know how we're gonna achieve that, this place is a damn maze."
"But what choice do we really have?"
"None." With that simple reply, the guard steeled his nerves. "We got no choice, we should try to escape to the best of our ability."
"I lifted the lockdown to the heavy containment zone, we should be able get through," you explained. The guard tilted his head slightly.
"How did you even pull that off?"
He sighed, clicking his tongue as he gathered himself.
"Doesn't matter right now, let's go."
You complied, walking beside the guard. It felt a lot safer now, and a lot more real. With the added assurance of a companion, you delved a bit deeper into your thoughts. That headache had begun to fade a little, allowing you to think more clearly.
The guard seemed just as lost as you were. It wasn't uncommon for him to signal for the both of you to turn around.
"I think we've been here before," you mumbled as that familiar poster of the stag coming out of the trashcan came into view.
"We went in a damn circle," the agent grunted as he slouched his shoulders. You placed your hands on them, gently shaking them.
"Hey come on, we haven't died yet, we're gonna be okay." To your surprise, he didn't try to to move out of your grasp.
"Yeah, you're right… I'm just scared is all." He let out a weak chuckle. "You heard about these kinds of situations from older personnel a lot, you just never expect it to happen to you."
"I can imagine," you replied as you released him. You really needed him to pull it together if you wanted to get out.
"What's your name?" That seemed to catch him off guard. He seemed to study you, eyes vaguely visible behind the visor.
You smiled, gently smacking his right upper arm.
"We'll get out of this Carter, together."
"You're more put together than I am," Carter replied as he gripped his gun firmer, rolling his shoulders as he stood fully upright again. "Kinda impressive for a D-class."
"I'm just as scared as you are," you admitted as you glanced around the dark surroundings, shifting on your feet. "I don't know, I guess the reality hasn't fully set in yet."
"Can't really blame you," Carter mumbled as he gained the willpower to step forward again, his heavy boots sounding against the metal floor. "I can't imagine how rough it must have been for you, being a test subject and all."
"You get used to it," you vaguely responded. Carter seemed to accept that answer, leading you through another open door you had been through multiple times. As the two of you went into a hallway, he paused.
You came to a halt next to him, looking into the doorway he was staring at. It looked like an endless loops of hallways. You remembered this place, having moved your character through here absentmindedly.
"Infinite hallway," you stated the obvious. Carter hummed uncomfortably, shutting the door. He seemed a bit more at ease after.
"This entire facility is a death trap, I don't know who approved of this."
Finally, the two of you reached another set of doors leading to heavy containment. Carter watched as you slid your keycard into the reader, the doors opening. The both of you wasted no time stepping through, met with another door. This one led to a chamber of the heavy containment zone. You bit back a sigh of relief, not wanting to cheer too early. An elevator to the left led to SCP-409's containment cell. In front of you stood another door. Carter walked towards it while your eyes remained on the elevator. You could hear a few beeps coming from Carter's position until you heard him curse.
"Something wrong?" you questioned as you went over to him. He nodded solemnly, sharply inhaling.
"We can't open this door, it requires some sort of DNA sequence." You looked at the small blue light replacing the usual door button.
"Maybe we could try the elevator," you suggested. Carter looked over at it before slowly getting into motion. He seemed to read the sign for a bit.
"I don't know what this SCP is," he admitted quietly. You joined his side, pursing your lips. "If it's down an elevator it's usually not a good sign."
"Dunno, that's what Ulgrin said."
He caught the questioning look you gave him before facing the elevator again.
"He uh, he was my superior."
"Not sure what happened to him."
There was a moment of silence before Carter hesitantly stepped into the elevator. You followed suit, pressing the button to go down. The entire ride was filled with silence. When the elevator dinged and the doors slid open, Carter was the first to exit. He had his gun drawn as he surveyed the area.
"I can't see a thing in here, did the breach shut off the lights or something?"
The two of you now stood in a hallway. The signs hung next to each other. One pointed left, reading 'maintenance' . The other pointed right and read 'SCP-409'.
"We should try heading left, don't think anything good comes from waltzing into a containment chamber," you said as you glanced at the door to your right.
"Yeah, that's fine by me." Carter kept his eyes on the containment chamber as you headed towards the door leading to the maintenance tunnels. You slid in the keycard.
You tried again but there was no response. You gritted your teeth, frustration welling up. Every single time you thought you found a way forward, it was blocked off from you.
"Either my cards clearance isn't high enough, or this thing is busted." Carter turned around immediately after you were done speaking.
"Please tell me you're joking," he muttered as he walked over. He pulled out a keycard of his own. Your eyes slowly moved to look at it. The orange color of the level two keycard contrasted with the darkness of the hall.
"Don't think that's going to work, I got clearance level three," you grumbled. Carter looked at the card you had been holding this entire time.
"Where'd you even get that?" he questioned, the suspicion leaking through his voice. You tensed slightly at the slight shift in the atmosphere.
"I got my hands on a level zero keycard, opened a room with a level one keycard, used it to open a room that had a level two keycard."
"I can't really imagine anyone just leaving their keycards behind in situations like this," he said, the suspicion fading away into a solemn tone.
"Probably weren't alive long enough to take it with them."
Carter flipped his visor up, and it was the first time you could see his eyes. He was pale, you being unable to fully make out his eye color due to the low lighting. The rest of his face was covered by a black balaclava. He rubbed his eyes with his gloved hand.
"I guess so," he admitted, brows slightly furrowed. You could see the red circles underneath his eyes, and you felt a pang of pity.
"You think they'll send someone soon?"
"If they do, I hope I don't wind up with a bullet hole between my eyes." Your reply caused him to cast his eyes downward. You walked past him, ready to head towards the elevator again.
You paused in your footsteps. Carter was now looking at you, a determined glint in his eyes as he caught up with you.
"Y'know, convince them not to." You mulled the idea over in your head. You had been banking on the idea that the foundation would know something was up. A D-class suddenly completely changing in identity was anything but normal. It was nice to have a back up, though.
"You think you could do that?"
"It's worth a shot, we'd have to get out of here first though."
You gained a little more hope as you stepped back into the elevator to go back up. Carter had flipped his visor back down at this point, obscuring his face once more. After the elevator doors opened back up, the two of you were back at square one.
"So," you began. "Where to next?"