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Your Hollow Heart	By : KyuKitsune Category: G through L > Hollow Man Views: 3682 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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~oooOYOHOHOooo~

Chapter 10

"…And when I look back there he was, lying on his bed and that's it." Sarah was telling Joey what happen on her shift as soon everyone showed up that morning and she and Sarah were busy getting stuff done around the facility. Or at least Sarah was attempting to as Joey took notice of the state she was in while they were down in the lab together. She wasn't entirely too sure but thinking that maybe last night's shift hadn't gone so well for her yet having no idea what exactly went down when they had left the other day.

She was clearly troubled over something and seeing how distracted she was by whatever was going on inside her head. Though she tried to remain on top her work, Joey saw her move about in a sort of confused daze. When Sarah came over asking to borrow her notes, Joey had handed them to her but since she wasn't really paying much attention, she let the folder slip from her loose grasp and spilling papers all over the floor.

"Dammit, I'm so sorry Joey!" She apologized while bending down to pick them up, looking every bit flustered as she saw the mess she caused with her unexpected clumsiness. Joey went to help her seeing that not many had been scattered and were easy to put back together without too much trouble.

"Sarah did something happen yesterday that you want to talk about?" She knew that was a rhetorical question but it never hurt to be polite and thinking surely it wasn't that bad was it?

At first it looked like she wasn't going to answer but then Sarah changed her mind and finally told Joey what's been bothering her lately. She explained what went on during her shift or what she thought happened since she wasn't entirely sure herself and was very conflicted by the whole situation then.

She didn't exactly tell her everything and Joey could tell that she was keeping something out of her story but wasn't going to prod her for more details. Yet Sarah did seem to be more at ease now that she got it off her chest and having someone listen to her help relieved some of her earlier anxiety and trusted Joey with her issues.

"I really thought that Sebastian was trying to freak me out or something. I realize how that must seem pretty farfetched but was kinda unnerving being left alone with an invisible guy who could be in the same room with you and you wouldn't even know it. Sounds like something out of one of those horror films doesn't it?"

"Yeah it does sorta and you shouldn't have let it get to you so easily." She could understand that sometimes the mind can cause one to see and blow things out of proportion even when there was really nothing to fret about.

Sarah sighed as she had to agree and thought how ridiculous it was to go thinking like that. "Well, that's one of the many reason I don't like watching them so much. I mean clearly you can obviously picture yourself in those typical scenario as that one chick who's bound to get her ass kill by the monster/serial killer or whatever. I know this is the real world but even you can't disagree that with what we're doing seem close to the same thing Hollywood comes up with and feeling like those characters who winds up getting off later on set."

"Well not all of them die you know, sometimes a few make it in a comeback for the later sequels though it's more like a direct to cut video and aren't even worth watching honestly."

Joey saw this got a weak chuckle out of Sarah and thought that all she would eventually get over this whole thing later within the day as long as she knew she was there for her at least.

Although it didn't seem likely anything occurred last night and Sarah hadn't really report the incident yet had her reasons for it. She didn't go mentioning that very odd sensation she had while she was sleeping, the feeling of someone's icy cold hands rubbing her breasts or the fact she was scared shitless while in the room but finding nothing out of the ordinary. It didn't stop her from trying to make sure her top was fully button up to the collar or that she had to keep from fiddling with them to make sure they were all closed.

She had thought it was because she might have been over stimulating from that one raunchy scene from her book. Yet dream or not, she could feel something had been touching her skin and brought out the cold shivers down her whole body.

Joey though was thinking that even if it was likely nothing and Sarah might have been jittery about the whole thing yet she couldn't let go of the possibility that it should be reported. "Did you consider at least notifying Linda or Matt about this?"

"No because I wasn't too sure myself and I was pretty tired so I might have thought it was but just me."

"Well if you really think that's the case then…" She wasn't going to push this any further as she saw that Sarah taken a seat and was busy running a tired hand through her hair.

Joey could honestly see from her perspective how disturbing the idea of being alone in a place like this with a person who could move around unseen would scare the bejeesus out of anyone.

But this was not some stranger, it was Sebastian for Christ sake. Surely Sarah should know that there was nothing to really fear down here and yet a part of her didn't feel so reassure.

"Maybe one of us should go and have a talk with him, or ask Linda to as he might very well listen to her."

"No, it's fine, I mean I kinda just got myself worked up over nothing and really we shouldn't go bringing this up to them anyways. Just forget I mention it."

"You sure?" Joey saw her nod and then Sarah decided to change the subject with asking how her evening had been outside these walls. Joey's had been rather so-so, doing a bit of this and that yet she did complete her findings yesterday and was planning to check out the new data once they were acquired and see whether they were still the same levels as before.

Sarah snort and had to resist the urge to roll her eyes, "You and work, man you'd think you kick back a little and go out or something. I mean you should be just relaxing but then again with this, I imagine no one would think to just take some time to live a bit until we get this project over with."

"Well I agree but you know this is very important to everyone here and couldn't just let this sit to the side burner and not get it all done. Beside we got a deadline on hand and sure Sebastian wants to see we have everything all set. Just think, only two more days and then it's over."

That seem to put a small smile on Sarah's face as she thought that and would be so grateful when things could go back to normal around there, well as define normal for their group.

~oooOYOHOHOooo~

Joey was walking down the hall and heading towards one of the main labs area to acquire her latest samples that should be ready right about now. She was also hoping that she could have a bit of a private 'chat' with Sebastian if he was there as well. She knew she really shouldn't be jumping the gun but she couldn't put this to the side and simply ignore it as it is. She had a tough time believing that he'd be like that but still…

Though Sarah may have been okay with letting it slide and forget it, she herself couldn't. Considering that Sebastian always had his issues with some of them, especially with Sarah and the likelihood that he would go to such length to go scare her during her shift did cross her mind.

If Sebastian really went to pull such a stunt on her watch…of course she'll give him the chance to say his side, benefit of the doubt just to be sure. She felt that he might have gone a little too far for her liking and had a few choice things to say when she got her chance.

Well let's go see what he has to say for himself shall we? With a strong purpose in mind, she entered the last room on her left as this was where Sebastian was supposed to be at this hour. She saw he was there and with Matt who was talking about something while looking at his notes.

She gently rapped on the door frame with her knuckle but was loud enough to get both their attention to see her standing there and smiling when she came in. "Hey, sorry to barge in but I'm here to see if those samples are ready yet for me, hope I'm not interfering with anything."

"No not at all, I'm just waiting for the readouts here but you know how this thing loves taking its time and kinda reminds of Sebastian here being an annoying wiseass if you catch my drift."

"Hey I resent that remark!" She saw Matt was ignoring him but turn his eyes to Joey, "I can take a quick look for you and see if they're done already. I need to go and stretch my legs since I been sitting in this damn chair the whole time and my foot falling asleep. Think you can make sure this guy stay put here, don't want him to go running off before I get back."

Joey had no problem with doing that and watching Matt got up to walk to the other side where the machines were running with their analysis and checking the status of those samples. She went to make herself comfortable in one of the available chairs before turning her attention to Sebastian and asking how he was.

"So far so good or at least we should know once the results are in but then everything should be fine as we still got more test to run and then some." Sebastian was sitting in the examination chair with electrode wires that seem to outline his form partial with them sticking out all over him.

He was wearing the standard scrubs though had his upper torso exposed as he removed the robe and shirt to set aside so they wouldn't get in the way with the pads themselves. His vitals seem normal from the monitor behind him but they were waiting for the rest to finish up and should be any minute now.

"Yeah I kinda figure that, so want to talk about how your first night went?"

"Restless. Hard to sleep when you can't close your eyes." She noticed that when he talked that the electrodes around his jaw move up and down, so it was easy to distinguish where to look precisely. Joey raised a brow while leaning back in her chair, "So what did you do exactly?"

"Got up a couple of times and walked about the compound then went to lie back down afterwards."

"Ah Sarah figured that when she saw you weren't in your room and didn't respond when she called you on the intercom."

She saw him shrugged nonchalantly, "Didn't notice really, you know how I get when I'm lost in my own thoughts."

"I see, well in the future you'll wanna tell the on-call where you're going…just in case something happens to you and we certainly don't want that do we?"

"I'm touched by your concern, but really it's not a problem, you have nothing to worry about."

"Well you may not think it but we don't want it to become one in the event something occurred and we just rather be safe than sorry." She found that his answer wasn't as satisfying as she would have like and didn't exactly clear him either.

He may not admit or deny it, but she wasn't about to let him off the hook so easily and decided she'd give him a heads up so he wouldn't get any funny ideas in the meantime. Turning to see that Matt was still busy and not paying much attention yet decided to speak in a low whisper so only Sebastian could hear what she had to say.

"You know, Sarah had this funny notion that you were messing with her head the other night and course we both know you'd never do that kind of thing now would you? I mean if I thought that if someone had try to pull that kind of stunt while I was watch, I'd be pretty damn pissed about it and hate to think that you of all people would stoop to that kind of level with one of us."

Sebastian was thankful he was invisible otherwise he might've given it away how shocked he was by what she said yet school his features too well. He could hear the angry drawl in her tone and sound close to hissing her words out to his face.

He kinda figured Sarah would've blab to Linda and Matt about it, but hadn't hazard a guess that Joey would've shown this kind of assumption yet she obviously had some suspicion otherwise why would she bring this to him.

"And what makes you think I would ever try such a thing, hmm? Honestly that's pretty strong to go accusing me of when you don't have much to go by."

He saw Joey crossed both arms and seeing her brown eyes boring into him, "I'm not accusing you of anything Sebastian. All I'm saying is that if you did such a thing, we wouldn't be having this conversation now would we? I mean I don't want to go throwing wild allegation but honestly I have to ask is one I'm curious to know and wondering, supposedly that is, would you have done it if it was me here that night?"

Though she did not out right say she consider the odds that he may or may not have did something but couldn't help laying it right out there. She thought long and hard that while she didn't want to think the worst, she did think him highly capable with his condition and how he could likely get away with it if he tried.

Yet before he even had the chance to say anything, whether it would have been relevant or not, they heard Matt coming back with a box containing her samples. "Here you go Joey, we'll have the rest ready when they're finished."

She thanked him once he handed it over to her and quickly exit the room, without so much as another word to Sebastian on the way out. She didn't know what his answer would've been but she thought she rather not know because she wasn't entirely sure whether he'd be exactly truthful if he did say anything.

Matt hadn't notice the sudden awkward silence as he had his focus on the monitors and seeing the EEG and EKG readouts and looking to what the scans show. "Readings are normal Sebastian. Sebastian?" He didn't seem to hear what he said and had to call his name before he got him to turn his attention on him.

"Huh sorry?" He then looked to see Matt pointing to the screen and saw the findings were as he said. "Okay good, next I want to run a VV and UVF analysis of the platelets."

"We'll have to draw some more blood then." Sebastian suppress the urge to groan knowing who would have to do that and thought this day just couldn't get any better.

~oooOYOHOHOooo~

It didn't take that long before Sarah showed up with the necessary equipment after Matt called her over the intercom to come down and give them a hand. He would've been there to help but then Carter came and told him Linda needed to speak with him about something and left to go check what it was.

Leaving just the two of them alone together. Sebastian could see that Sarah was acting once Matt was out of the room and seem apprehensive being by herself. She was rolling up Sebastian's sleeve, revealing nothing but empty air sitting there. She had the bungee cord wrapped around his arm, pulling on it tightly before spraying the inside of his elbow with the blue dye.

She had been very quiet and avoid looking his way even though there wasn't anything to look at on account he wasn't really there. "You okay?"

Sarah almost dropped the spray can when she heard him speak and though try to put it off as something else, "Yeah why?"

"You just seem a little nervous is all."He could tell she didn't want to be anymore in his company than she would've like but since everyone else was busy and left it to her to gather the necessary samples needed. The surface of his skin was shining in the light as she searches for a vein and then slapped his arm several times.

"No I, I'm fine. Now remember to hold still as this will sting a bit." She inserted the needle into his skin and saw that it remains in sight after slipping through the visible surface. She presses down on the hypo plunger, releasing a dye into his bloodstream.

Yet Sebastian wasn't really taking any notice of this as his mind kept replaying Joey's words in his head.…would you have done it if it was me here that night? This had baffled him and left him utterly speechless after hearing her ask that. He was thinking to himself and wondering would he have try anything to Joey like he done with Sarah?

He had found it funny scaring Sarah and messing with her head yet now…if that had been Joey and she had realized it was him doing that to her…Geez why was this getting so complicated! He really wished he stopped having them and wish they could just leave and not come flying back to him like a goddamn boomerang!

He turn his gaze toward his forearm and saw the red dye twisting itself into long red snaking tube that went up and down and seem to be making like a circuit system right there for them to see.

"Sebastian…" He heard Sarah and turn his gaze on her and seeing she was staring at him, "...this might sound stupid, but are you are you looking at me?"

"No. I was looking at the clock. Why?" Sarah said nothing and drew the plunger back, sucking Sebastian's blood into the hypodermic chamber and then yanking the needle out. "It's nothing, just it feels like you're staring at me is all."

Sarah got the vial out of its' container and went to pencil in the label and would see to delivering this to Joey when she got out of here. After a few beats the red dye in Sebastian's bloodstream started to dissolve and disappear as does the liquid in the vial. Sebastian watched as Sarah then took off and getting out of there before anyone had anything to say.

~oooOYOHOHOooo~

Within the next forty-eight hours, there had been a multitude of different tests that went from doing MRIs scan, bloodwork to even submerging Sebastian into a large tank of water. They were doing just about anything they could think that would be good to jot down for the board to see what they did within that time frame. Everything seem to be showing that it was all normal according to the results and no one seem to have any problem seeing that it would be over soon and could move on with their lives.

Tonight was to be the last night for the experiment which also happen to be Joey's shift for the hour. Everyone had left to get some rest before the big day tomorrow and she was doing some last minute checking on the notes she had on file.

Everything look just about right after double checking it and leaving no margin of error within her words. She was absolutely certain this would please those officials once they got to look them over themselves along with the others after they got it all into one form. Every single data had been accounted for and seeing nothing amidst as she went to put the papers back in the folder to file with the others.

Hopefully this goes well and nothing bad occurs that set us back. She was passing one of the main lab down the corridor when she heard noise coming from within that very room.

That's strange she could've sworn everyone had gone home, leaving just her and Sebastian here, so who else was here? She stood out there listening and then recognized one of the voices coming from behind the door. She realized it was Linda and hearing the other obviously belonging to Sebastian.

She was confused before it occurred that Linda must've been still here working late and Sebastian was probably there to speak to her about something. That was probably it, no doubt about it.

She knew it was wrong to eavesdropped what had to be a private conversation between them but it was hard not to when she was right there and hearing what was being said behind the door.

~oooOYOHOHOooo~

Linda had been rather busy going over her own last minute checking while Sebastian sneaks into the room undetected. He was watching her as she worked through the hour and decided to have a little fun on her expense. After all this was to be his last night and didn't think he could resist having a go with her.

She had been so focus on looking at the slide under the microscope and taking a sip from the Diet Coke she had and set the can within reaching distance when she needed it. She was turning the knob and looking at the blood samples and taking note of what she was seeing there.

She lifted her head to go jot this down in her journal before reaching for the can only to scowl when her hand felt nothing but empty air there. She turned around and saw it wasn't where it should've been.

That's strange, now where did it go…she was looking around before her eyes found it on the other side of the microscope. "Okay that's weird."

Weird was just only a mere definition of what she was truly thinking but shrug it off as nothing since she had been working late and maybe had misplaced it.

She took a quick sip and went back to work and after a while lift her head and was about to write in her book only to find it wasn't where she left it. Now she was starting to think this can't be right because she always kept it on her right as she was right-handed.

Just where was it?! She was frantically searching the table before her gaze wander to the rest of the room and saw it at the opposite one over there.

Okay that was too much of a coincidence and knew the culprit was somewhere in this room with her, "Sebastian goddamn it!"

She heard his laughing voice and knew it had been him this whole time. "You've no idea how much fun this is. You should try it."

"I'm sure I'll have my chance…" Not really, she wasn't all that interest in making that attempt for herself and thought how cocky he was when he was like this. "Don't you think you should be getting your rest."

She wish he took the hint and leave but then felt his hands reaching to touch her. She stiffen but hear him breath inside her ear, "Relax will ya, it's my last night, so I thought we'd try one more experiment."

"Sebastian." She felt his hand moving down her shoulders, feeling his fingers dig in through the fabric and heard him bending forward, his warm breath against her ear, "Do you like what I'm doing, how does it feel?"

Linda was turned around and then felt his lips coming down on hers. She had her mouth close and keeping them together since he was doing nothing to respond to it even when he was trying to get a reaction out of her. "A little too familiar."

Eventually he stopped what he was doing and pulling away only to hear him speak again. "I bet you're probably curious and dying to know what it's like to make love to an invisible man?"

Typical cocky Sebastian, she felt his hand wandering down and knew she had to put a stop to this, growing tired of having to say it over and over again. "It would just be like old times."

If Sebastian had visible eyebrows, one of them would be raised while looking at Linda confused. "What do you mean?" His hand stopped and though she could hear him wanting to know what she meant by that comment.

Linda didn't think she really need to spell it out for him though at times she would have to knock it through to make him see reason. She decided she was tired of being nice and decided it was time to make it clear for him once and for all, no matter how hurtful the truth was to say to him. "You were never there."

~oooOYOHOHOooo~

Joey had thought she heard just about enough and thought maybe now was a good time to skedaddle before those two were to come out and find her there. She was trying not to focus too much on that while heading up towards the observation room and taking an empty seat and sitting down for the moment.

Geez what's the matter with me?! Normally she would never have done that in her entire life, listening in on someone else's conversation was not what she did but it had been hard to pull herself away while hearing those two discuss it in there.

It was a good thing that she left before they were to leave the room, she didn't know how she would even explain herself, much less look Linda in the eye, though Sebastian it wasn't going to be easy since he was invisible.

"It's okay, it's not like you were listening to them having sex or something…now that would have been very awkward…" She pushed herself back in the chair and was staring up at the ceiling, her thoughts running wildly inside her head and trying to get them to stop and take a moment to process them.

Okay so it was obvious that Sebastian and Linda had been a couple once, she had learned that they had a relationship before she was brought on the team. Sarah had made mention of it when they were out to lunch and having an open discussion while Linda wasn't around.

She had found out that those two along with Matt went to the same university together and were close friends, but Linda and Sebastian were dating for at least five years before they broke up and she had moved on with her life.

Actually Sarah had eloquently put it, 'Linda decided she couldn't take anymore of him and dump his sorry ass.' She understood that most couples had their problems and even in a working establishment it was complicated for most to handle.

Yet they both seem way too professional to let their former feelings get in the way, or so she thought. She recalled a few months back that Sarah brought up something about dating former ex's or in this case co-workers and remembering what it was when she told her.

"It's obvious that Linda now has a new man and Sebastian can't seem to get the big picture that she's got someone and he can't seem to get it. I say that he deserves it for being such a prick and about damn time that she found someone and is getting some action."

Janice had added her own two cents to the conversation but she hadn't made any comment on it though seem a little mixed on the subject as they were mostly discussing past relationships and hers was over two years ago and wasn't technically dating anyone.

Joey closed her eyes and thought there was a lot she had consider before about Sebastian. It was true that he can be a Class A jerk, he was rude, sarcastic, arrogant…yeah he had a lot of those issues but having seen also the few sides of him which showed he wasn't completely an ass.

She hadn't guess that he was still carrying some lingering feeling for his ex and kinda felt sorry for him. She then looked back to the monitor and saw his heat signature appearing as he enter his room. Guess he was turning in for the night and didn't have to guess how his conversation went between him and Linda.

She saw he was lying down on the bed with his hands behind his head and staring up at the ceiling. She knew he couldn't hear it but still couldn't help hoping for the outcome that tomorrow may bring. "Sleep tight Sebastian, we got a big day ahead of us so you better be ready for it."
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