If this were a movie, Ross thinks, this would be that moment where there's no talking, just some soft music playing over the top of everyone walking into the rooms, like Coldplay or Nickleback.
"Well maybe not Nickleback." he says out loud.
"What?" the woman walking behind him asks
"Nothing." he says without even looking up to her.
He looks across the room to Daniel and puts his finger along side his broken nose and points back to him, sorta letting him know he owes him one, he smiles and Daniel smiles back and nods over to where Liz is standing. Ross looks over to her, she looks back and smiles, he preforms a gentlemanly bow, she does an imaginary curtsy. She smiles and looks over at Anne, she blows her a kiss with her two hands, for the first time in the room lets a tear roll down her cheek and doesn't wipe it away immediately. She then helps an older woman who's having difficulty keeping her strength as she enters the room. Liz then turns after her exchange with Daniel and enters through the doorway.
Ross looks all the way across the room, Anne and he lock eyes and he smiles an awkward smile. He slides his palms across one another, then holds up two index fingers, brings his fists together and points at her. Hoping she gets it, he does it again and mouths as he does the sign language, 'It was nice to meet you.' She smiles a big smile and gets a bit excited and starts signing back to him. He signs back 'Happy Birthday'. She looks at him confused and signs 'what'? He then shouts. "ALL I KNOW IS HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND IT WAS NICE TO MEET YOU!" she laughs. She puts her hand over her heart, touches her chin with her hand upward and then pulls it away, mouthing 'thank you', she blows him a kiss and turns and walks into the room.
He stands there, being one of the last to enter, several of the P90s have their weapons aimed at him he looks around and thinks that the best friends he's ever made have all just disappeared. The only reason Cipher would have wanted them in four separate rooms would be he want one or two of us dead. Cipher knows that the four of them have become some what popular in the room and by killing two of them not only will it destroy the other two but it will kill the morale of the room. He thinks he intentionally left Dalton and Jim out of the mix because it might cause a break between all of them, come to think of it where was Dalton, which room did he go in?
Ross goes in the room, the last to enter the door shuts and the dim lights turn on he takes a seat on the floor and does what everyone else does, he waits. "What room are we in?" he asks and he looks around the room.
"South room." Scott walks over and sits next to Ross. "How's your nose?"
"Broken. Anyone else in here? Have you seen Dalton?"
"I'm pretty sure I saw him in the West room, so he must be with Liz. Come here, let me fix your nose or you'll never be able to breathe right again." he slides over to Ross and grabs his lower jaw. "Now this is going to hurt, but we have to set it. I had my nose broken a couple times and we need to take care of it now or else you'll end up looking like Luke Wilson." he grabs Ross's nose.
"Luke Wilson isn't such a bad looking guy, is there anyway you can make me look like...OWWWW!" Scott snaps his nose back into place and blood pours again from Ross's nostrils. "Could you have warned me?!"
"Just stop, tilt your head back you'll be fine now. What happened up there with the two of you?" he wipes the blood on his shirt.
"Nothing really, Daniel broke my nose so Cipher would think we hated each other, but it was all a ploy so he'd leave the girls alone." Ross balls up his shirt and stuffs it in his face to stop the bleeding.
"Good call. Okay, I'm going to take a head count, see who we got in here. You going to be okay?" Scott stands up and puts his hand on Ross's shoulder comforting him.
"Yeah, for now I guess, I just hope the others are okay."
The North room Daniel lays on the floor and stares at the ceiling, others around him walking around him the occasional look at him and the mumbling takes place. Jim walks over and sits next to Daniel but doesn't say anything. Daniel breaks the silence "What is it? You going to ask me to pray with you or something, because I'm not going to."
"Nope, wasn't going to ask that, I'm pretty sure we'll be fine in here." he responds but stares off zoning into the nothingness.
"And why is that do you think?" he still stares up as if he were studying the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
"Because you and I are in here. So I'm actually afraid for the other rooms, I think he's going to kill them all." still zoning off.
"What?" Daniel looks over to him breaking his stare. "What do you and I being in here have anything to do with anything, and why do you think he'll kill the others?"
"He hates you and I, well he hates me, but he needs you around till the end to give you crap for 100 days. So I'm guessing that's why I was told to go in this room when I said my good byes." Jim looks down at Daniel. "He'll probably kill the other rooms so he has a smaller group to work with and less people to worry about. I mean I could be wrong, but why tell me to go to the same room you're in, unless there was some purpose behind it." he shrugs and goes back to staring off into space.
Daniel jumps up and runs over to the door. "Hey! Don't you dare put this on me! Don't you dare kill my friends for your own sick pleasure, you know why?! Because they would be far more hurt if I died than I'd be if they died! You hear me you sick bastard!"
A monitor comes on in their room. "Oh I hear you. I hear you loud and clear and because of that its time for the first round." Cipher speaks "But its not up to me, its up to fate." The monitor switches to four colored blocs, like a Simon game, the colors begin to randomly light up and shuffle through the colors. This happens in each of the rooms the monitor beeping like the game and randomly shuffling though the colors, until it stops.
Red
Gun shots fire. Not single shots as if some one was aiming and then firing, no this is more just mass shooting an emptying of a clip, a reload and an emptying again.
The people in their rooms scream and cry, they cover their ears and try and drown out the shots with loud pleads to make it stop. This goes on for the entire time the bullets fly, and then suddenly they stop, the room pauses with their crying but only for a moment as they realize whats just happened. The tears and shouting reignite and last for hours before it turns to whimpering and then quiet.
Daniel sits, frozen with fear and pain, which of his friends were killed, why is this happening and when will it stop. The hours go on and he and Jim just sit waiting for this day to be over, but its not over yet, suddenly the monitor turns back on and now where the red block was its black. The blue, yellow and green light up and the shuffling between the three begins again. "NO! Come on...stop this!" Daniel screams. But the lights still flicker and then they stop.
Blue.
Gun shots fly again, like a devils drum roll they fire and rain down on their victims and the screams once again begin. Daniel drops to his knees in front of the monitor, his head on the wall and images of Liz, Anne, Ross and the others, he claws at the wall as if he were trying to climb it and it gets no where.
The room again cries, this time it doesn't last as long as the first and some in the room realize this and hate that they've become desensitized to these horrors. Others seem relieved and they hate that, two colors off the board gone, to rounds of gun fire, and they were still alive, all they hope is that its over. The hours pass its gotten so late, their spirits so crushed they just want to go to sleep. They curl up on the floor and give themselves over to their exhaustion. The room is silent as they sleep and try not to dream, but then they're suddenly awoken. Its the monitor, its come back on and now only shows Green and Yellow. Everyone looks so confused, why would they be on. Before anyone can get out anything other than "what is going on?" the colors begin to shuffle; back and forth between Green and Yellow, back and forth, back and forth.
Green. Gun Shots.
End day 13.
