Pov sam
Things had gone to shit too fast, since Victor's "fall" the situation had gotten out of hand too quickly.
The distrust and supervision they had over us had been quickly reinforced, Benoit was doing nothing but consuming in Industrial quantities his shit. I had hoped I could count on him but fear had gotten the better of him.
I never thought I would regret choosing him over Victor in my escape plan, at the time it seemed obvious, Benoit was perhaps a little too far gone when he was taking shit but still the rest of the time he was normal but Victor was different, at first I approached him because he seemed like an overcommitted researcher, I thought that maybe if he relaxed a little we could understand each other.
But... I quickly realized my mistake, he only thought about having fun all the time and did not consider the consequences of his actions.
For the first few months I only thought he was dispersing himself through drugs and women, but then he started using more and more, then he even used drugs at work.
At first I thought he did it out of frustration, he only did it when he was engaged in the investigation but then he started doing it all the time, he started hallucinating like Tony Montana that we wanted to betray him and steal his great "discovery".
I thought he had made some breakthrough in the research or it was a symptom of the mounting pressure but Benoit quickly dismissed it.
He informed me that the stupid guy had been working on drugs during working hours.
The investigation did not go as planned, it had one complication after another and eventually we realized that it was impossible to achieve what we promised, I decided to ally with Benoit to escape, we were going to pin the blame on Victor but we did not count on the fact that they already foresaw it.
They killed Victor without hesitation and left his body at the entrance as a threat, inadvertently burying the investigation along with us in the process.
Victor was too suspicious so he made sure that no one had access to his notes but him, he had sprinkled some powder on the pages that when the folder was opened incorrectly and came in contact with the air it caught fire.
We could not recover much of his notes which was a catastrophe when we discovered that the advances were based on his theories and formulas, he turned out to be a genius of the type that you do not realize because you take him for granted and he does not claim the merit.