Chapter 8

Back in time...

"Rev I never once tried to deceive you, I know it might come out a little weird, I never once lied about Gianna's condition." Another not so familiar voice of a woman was booming in Rev's head. He wasn't sure about the words coming out were 0.01% trusting. 

"It was Taabitha, Rev."

"She did all of this, why does she need to support you out of her pocket? Can you even make sense, she is supporting only your project without any problem. She fully funded your project, of course time travel is not a new thing now, but you also know that you cannot disturb any timeline by only one's foreign time object. I've seen it myself, why do you think she calls the wasteland - the leftover? It's not like you cannot survive ther-" The voice kept babbling about things Rev had nothing to do anything to it. But he was at least patriotic to his kind. His glare was enough to make it stop.

"She did everything to stop the destruction of this world. We would be floating as debris in space, lifeless. It would be more of a real wasteland, then. Why should I care about why the leftover still acting like fool. You have been manipulating all my studies, taking all the credit for my research. We have an equal share in it. It shouldn't have me or you in this team, but I cannot live for another stupid year of losing my face in the race of survival. You know what, this ends here." Rev shrugged off every emotion connected to this voice; he shrugged out every possible attachment he felt for this voice. They kept shouting at the back at the top of their lung saying that it was all a trap whatsoever. Everything sounded hazy and meaningless.

"Even if I say that Gianna was murdered!" 

The words rushed over every inch of his body. It was as if the voice kept a newer version of Rev back to reality. He turned around to see if the voice had a face or at least a body. He couldn't remember if it was a hallucination or just his lab partner's new trick to lock him down to the chains she tied to his foot. 

Every glance she gave back to the woman he looked at, and has been ignored over the period, finally suddenly looked like a familiar. She was the same person who deliberately aided in his projects. She was an assistant, a support; a woman that was exactly he saw maybe 10 years before.   

"Rev, I saw it she tormented my every movement, just because you could lose your trust in me. I am not lying. I have become a mess and you were nowhere to reach, Taabitha manipulated every way to make to feel left alone." 

"Bridget." Rev called out the name that belonged to this woman. After been left on the path of competition for survival and this survival got everyone at the edge. Not a single face was reflected their real selves. Rev lost the ways to identify the purity left in any person. However, not been part of war doesn't mean you are not part of battle. Bridget was everything to Rev in the days he survived as the director of his department. A war brought all the bright minds together and to keep every mind under control was Taabitha's work and Rev was her aid. Taabitha has an acquaintance to everyone in the lab, but no one knew her, her origin or any normal people-y about her. Somehow, she has achieved great events in the past, so her authority would speak on her behalf. 

Bridget face had many chances, Rev observed. The timely momentum he started walking peacefully to her. In the last five years, Rev lost the ability to keep the normal picture of people who have betrayed him. They smudge somehow the second he knows the reality of any dark faced uncovered. 

'Was Bridget had grey hair from the start? Why does she look so old?' Rev couldn't stop thinking about what she said. 'Gianna? But Bridget wasn't aware of her. Was she?' How long has it been Rev saw any person clear in his vision! Maybe, any mad scientist will end up dying on their own research table, but losing Bridget face was too much for Rev. 

He and Bridget have been through a lot, just the same amount of trouble as he and Gianna did but a non-romantic version here. " Gianna died because of cancer cells reached her bone -marrow. Cancer isn't something that can be contagious. She reached her condition because of her own neglect. How can someone who died of cancer be murdered?" Rev had a calm tone while talking but again he cannot contain the information newly added here.

Bridget was shocked by the mention of her; she hasn't heard her name so clear by Rev from last five years. She forgot every possible explanation she was justifying a while ago. Rev remembered her was more than enough, but he deserves to know the truth. 

"It was Taabitha, she made a surgery which was unavoidable for Gianna, it was a transplant surgery. She made sure that it was a cancer infected transplant. She killed Gianna by giving her a slow poison, can you not connect the dots?" Bridget was overwhelmed by what to say or what to do, she ended up riddled with everything. How come she never mentioned Gianna if she knew her already. " I was sent as a love interest for you, a new one. Why do you think I was aided for you, when I can conduct my own projects? But I don't plan to deceive you Rev, I respect you. You were kept under my watch, but I never reported any projects progress so they manipulated our research in the board meeting." 

" The leftover is not a place of people left with upgradation. They are the people you can survive without the system, Rev. The riot are the leftovers. The barren lands still provide us. They are going to free everyone from the control Taabitha brought on us. We will be free."  

 And phew-phew-phew. Well, no one dies, the sound is from water gun.