The silence of the night grew stronger as the echo of a small black ball point pen clicked over and over, in the hands of a middle-aged woman, with blazing red hair. She continued to click the pen over and over, seemingly in a frustration which was painted along her face loud and clear, despite the oversized goggles obscuring her face. She seemed to be the only one left in her office as the halls of the Loop were empty. The facility for once was quiet. Too quiet, as the dead air ringed out any sort of noise. Finally, with one last echoing pen click, firey red-head exploded.
“URGH. GOD DAMN IT. WHY COULDN’T HE HAVE LISTENED? WHY DID HE DO THAT?! WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT THESE KIDS?!”
She erupted, followed by a wave of destruction, as she flipped her entire desk with relative ease, across the whole room, letting it slam loudly against the wall as it echoed through the empty halls.
“EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING SHE WORKED FOR, I WORKED FOR, IS GOING TO SHIT BECAUSE OF YOU!”
She whipped back, the pen darting out of her hand and shooting sharply into a picture frame, with the glass shattering into a thousand pieces. The pen shot through a face, leaving a hole in the center of where it once was. In the picture, there were three people, two young black haired Asian women, one with traditional hair sticks in her hair, and the other with a rather normal ponytail, adorned with large red tinted glasses. In the middle between the two was a significantly taller, chubbier man, with an iconic purple vest and pink bow tie.
The anger shown in the dilated eyes of the woman glinted clearly through her red goggles as she continued to breathe heavily. After a moment, she walked over and snatched the portrait and stared at it. Then her expression softened, settled into something more blank and for a moment, the world stood silent once more, with only the tick of the clock going by in a lonely, vacant office.
The red haired lady looked once more down at the picture, her gloved thumb swiping away some of the broken glass from the frame, her goggles growing foggy and breathing erratic. The frame in her hands began to shake and slip, eventually clinking onto the floor in front of her feet. With that she reaches her gloved hands to her eyes, taking the oversized tinted goggles off and tossing them aside, revealing the angry, slightly tear swollen eyes behind them. As she then drops to her knees and begins to sob in anger at the picture frame.
“Why...why...you helped us didn’t you? After everything we’ve been through together, why would you just leave us...What we’re doing is good right? You said so, you said ‘I'd fit like a glove’ for the job...You said we’d help people. You said I could finally belong. Did you lie to me Samuel?”
Memories of the past flooded back to the woman in the lab coat, as she continued to stare at the hole-faced figure in the picture frame. Flash after flash, she once again lived through every moment of her life again, from fleeing the war, to meeting her foster parent, to meeting Samuel for the first time. Then she remembered the one day she broke out of her depressive spell. The one time she finally felt like she belonged. The time when Samuel helped her rekindle her love for science, and introduced her to the Loop. The red-head’s sobbing grew louder, echoing through the empty room as her expression warped from a rageful one into pure sadness, the pain in their eyes shining through large globs of tears streaming down her small face.
“You helped me Samuel...I was a lost cause to everyone but you...I trusted you...why would you do this to me Sam? I belong here right? You said I belonged with the Loop...I do, don’t I? Samuel?”
With that the door behind her opened. As a black heeled shoe stepped into the room.
She stopped as she glanced around the destroyed office, carefully scanning every asset broken. The fox eyed lady doing so resembled the one in the picture frame on the floor, despite her greying hair and blue gloved hands. Then the lady’s eyes fell onto Yingsu, who was on the floor sobbing at a picture frame, the only light illuminating her from the door of where she was standing. The grey haired lady let out a sympathetic sigh, as she placed her clipboard down on the cupboard shelf that once held the picture frame, the shards of glass shimmering in the moonlight. She leaned down on one knee, and pulling off a glove, set her hand on the back of Yingsu.
“He probably had his reasons, Yingsu. We probably won’t ever know those reasons, but I understand your pain sister. But...even without him we must move on.”
As the fox eyed lady’s soothing words washed over Yingsu, she eventually calmed down enough to put herself back together and returned the goggles to her head, without placing them over her tired, tear swollen eyes. Her expression was blank and hollow for a moment as she stood up and turned to stare back down at the individual who was comforting her. And after a quick deep breath, Yingsu’s face split into a terrifying chaotic grin, despite her eyes showing an intense burning anger painted with ever so slight hints of pain in her eyebrows. Finally Yingsu lets out one final remark at her sister.
“I’ll make those kids pay for what they did, Meigui. They took away everything...They’re the problem. They changed Samuel, and took him away from us right? Now they’re going to change Loop...Boulder...everything...they’re going to take everything from me...So I’ll take everything from them first.”
Yingsu leaves in a vengeful fury, leaving Meigui in the aftermath of her office...and before Meigui leaves, she takes one last look at the shattered picture frame. Her face drops in disappointment as she shakes her head.
“I can’t believe you of all people would do this to us. You were like a brother to me Sam.”
With that, Meigui sighs, and turns the knob just so, quietly letting the office door click close, as the echo rings out through the now destroyed office. With nothing but the moonlight illuminating the room, reflecting the shards of the broken picture frame. The hole-faced figure standing behind and holding the young Longs, smiling like a family.
Hey thanks for reading! This is a super old fic from like 2019. It’s of my villain Yingsu and Meigui, for an old TFTL game I was a part of. Yingsu is not meant to be a good person hNGHHH (check the tags if u wanna learn more about em)
