"If you want to make someone to like you. Talk to them, with these you could find numerous things about them and the feelings you have for them." - Simeiosi
Epilogue:
The End is just the beginning
"The patient is waking up..."
"...beat stable..."
".. you?"
".... hear me?"
Peyton slowly opened her eyes and immediately closes her eyes when the painful light entered her sight.
When she could finally ease the pain in her eyes she once again opened her eyes and saw different concerned eyes.
Feeling her dry throat she repeatedly cough to ease it and the people around her helped her in sitting up and drinking water.
Peyton leans in the wall and blankly stared at her self. numerous things like wire were in her body and monitors were placed each side of her bed.
The room looks like the hospital if one would ignore the big monitors on the walls that has fantasy backgrounds and a character with white long hair and a pair of pink eyes.
The people who were wearing lab coats and surgical mask were asking her some questions but when they receive nothing. They all silently check her conditions and wrote in their notes.
"Where... where.. where am I?" Peyton asked in difficulty.
"you are in the Ztech laboratory. you were supposed to be sent o the hospital but you and your best friend were sent here by your parents." the one who answered her was a the male closest to her.
Probably because he was the closest one that he was the only who heard her or he is the one who's in lead.
"Why?" Peyton asked.
"They entered you and ms. lockwood. in our project 'Ressurection'. This is the project Ztech technologies has been working on since years ago. this project was pass down from generation to generation hoping for the desired results to finally be obtained. Fortunately, it did."
The other people bowed before leaving the room leaving her and the male inside the room.
"Project Resurrection is a project were it increases the rate of the possibility of a patient waking up from its unconscious state without damage in the nervous system." He turn picked up an object that look like a remote control and pointed it on the biggest monitor on the wall.
the channel in the monitor changes into a blue print of a world.
"Using technology, we wanted to achieve something that defines the logic of this world, and that is Resurrection." he pauses and cough lightly.
"Actually it is not totally resurrection but kinda similar to that. Waking up the dead. anyway, using technology we lead the patient's consciousness towards a world of fantasy where humans want to be in. Magic, mythical beast, strong friendship, wavered familial love, mysteries, and things people imagines to have in the real world.
After leading their consciousness in this world, their focus will remain in this place in their will to survive will increase because of the motivation the people around them gives. While their consciousness remain in that world, their body are in process of healing. so when they realize that reality can't be that beautiful their desire to wake up in this fantasy will appear. and there we have a dead waking up.
So this world is your dream which was connected with the others in the power of the system."
He showed Peyton the blueprint of the world and the beautiful surroundings of the place she assume to be the world he was talking about.
"inside this consciousness, the emotion you will feel is twice the actual emotion and it will double more every time the system reboots. so to avoid psychological impacts. After the patient wake up, the memories they had in that world will disappear."
The screen stop in a human figure standing and staring lazily at the camera.
"You, ms. kallid. is one of the luckiest patient that was tested in this world. and you and your batch is the first one to successfully wake up, well excluding one, it's your best friend."
Peyton remained silent and closes her eyes. the information given to her was still processing in her brain.
She thought that this project is very effective. she couldn't feel any extreme pain that a regular patient should feel after experiencing the burning pain of fire.
She only felt numb, the numb that a person will feel after sleeping for a long time.
and strangely enough she didn't feel any need to be with Hadley. it feel like she is already used to not being with her even though her memories were just from when she embrace the girl and waited for the burning flame to cover them.
She frown remembering the only girl who smiled at her, the only girl who bothers to know more about her, the only girl who held her hand warmly.
'I hate you'
Suzue stared at her hands and traces the lines in her hands.
'How cruel hadley'
Despite the hatred the girl showed and the phrase she declared. She couldn't hate the girl who smiled brightly at her.
'So cruel'
"Then i should leave you to have some rest."
Peyton didn't reply, The man seems to notice that the girl have nothing to say and left.
Peyton opened her eyes when she heard the door closes. she stared blankly at the figure that the man said was her when she was sleeping and sigh.
She felt calm, she silently wonders what kind of situation was she in when she was dreaming.
was it beautiful? was it the same as what she always desire?
"just.. once... i want to be smart..."
ah. yes, peyton remembered her wish when she was about to die.
did she achieve it in her dream?. did she follow her wish of not being a pushover?
Well it doesn't matter anymore. As what the project intended to achieve reincarnation she will grant it with her own. her own life with her will and her own decisions.
She pauses, Suzue wonders if this is one of the after effects of this project. Suzue have many questions in her mind but she strangely felt calm, it feels like she unconsciously put her trust on this project.
The weird thing is she doesn't remember being part of this project nor knowing a person related to it. Did something happened in her dream? Whatever it is, Suzue decided to trust her feelings.
Suzue slowly got up from her seat when she notice that the wires in her body were remove.
She pauses when she saw burned scars in her face, her skin and her neck. she look horrifying but Suzue didn't feel so insecure. Te dreadful feeling of insecurities was there but it wasn't too much so she just sigh, straighten the creases in her hospital gown and made her way out of her room.
She could probably ignore her insecurities because of the enhance emotions that she felt in the system. and when she felt insecure she just ignore it because it wasn't too bad. or is what peyton assume it should be.
Peyton started walking without a destination to go. the walls were transparent so she could see patients in a similar situations as her. she stop in front of a room that has a patient sitting in her bed seeming to be just awaken.
The girl has a short black hair and a pair of brown eyes she was looking everywhere looking like she was searching for someone.
she stop when the scientist said something to her and then cried.
Peyton could only read one word from her mouth 'Tristan'.
Peyton have this feeling of wanting to go to her and comfort the girl but she decided to ignore it and continued her way.
If this feeling is was because of the consciousness of that world then Peyton wanted to just forget it. if she couldn't then...
Pursing her lips she turn around and went back to that room and entered.
all of them turn around to her and Peyton ignore them and smiled warmly at the girl.
"Are you okay?"
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.
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A month after waking up, Peyton was ready to be discharge in the laboratory. after finding that Hadley doesn't wake up, she decided to live on her own. build her own business and live peacefully with jasmine.
Jasmine was the girl she met when she woke up.
Peyton found out how effective the project was. She met a boy who suffers Early Alzheimer and because of the system, he slowly remember stuffs and is still recuperating. There's also a kid who knock his head in the side road after being saved from a rushing car. He was sent in this project because he fell into a coma.
Then there's also a male who suffered Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP). She doesn't know what the system did to the male that he could finally feel pain. The pain was less than normal but it's a positive result. A male that volunteered to be a test subject of the project also woke up and just like her, He didn't remember anything.
Hadley on the other hand refuses to wake up, She was declared as another failed subject. And her situation made the scientist to alter the system, They said they wanted to erase the possibility of making the subjects refuse to wake up from reality.
Suzue sigh and continued packing.
Suzue heard someone knock on the door and she turned around and walk towards the door and opened it, then there she saw a familiar handsome face that was now marked with burnt scar in his face.
"Hi." "It's you." they simultaneously said.
the pair pauses and chuckled.
"I'm Nicholas Sawyer, the president of Ztech corporation and responsible for the Project reincarnation but I... I decided to pass it to my brother and become one of the patients. it's nice to meet you." The male introduced unaware of how he was acting out of his character.
Peyton chuckled at the nervous male and walk towards him. she raise her hand and the male immediately accepted it and the pair shake hands.
"I'm Peyton Kallid, one of the patients of the Project Reincarnation and the first survivor. It's nice to meet you too... Nicholas."
End