Scott cups his hands and drinks again, he stumbles back and breathes heavy, "You realize what he's doing right? He's drowning us. You can die from water poisoning."
Some of the others stop and look at him, an older woman looks totally confused and asks "What?! No you can't, water can't poison you."
"Oh it can, there was this radio contest once, and this woman drank cup after cup of water, and when she went home later she died. I don't know what its called but its possible." Scott holds his knees, hunched over and tries to catch his breath. "I don't know if I should drink anymore, I've drank a lot."
"If Ross was here, he'd know what it was called." Dalton takes another drink.
"Well he's not here, he's dead, with no thanks to you." a man from the crowd pushes him to the side and goes to drink.
"He's not dead!" Anne shouts out. "I mean we don't know for sure whats happened to either of them. Right Liz?" she turns to her friend who looks at her with empty eyes.
"Right. We don't know. I don't think Cypher would kill them like that and not show us, so I'm thinking they're still alive." she rests her hand on Anne's shoulder and tries really hard to comfort her.
"Yeah. He'd totally drop their bodies in on us to show us they're dead, and he wouldn't kill Daniel, he needs him for the 100 days." Dalton rubs her back.
"Don't." Anne walks away from him and gets back in line to drink the water.
"So wait, your saying if we keep drinking this water we could die." a thin woman with a dancer's body, Natalia waits for an answer from Scott.
"Yeah, its possible." He says sitting on the floor.
"Well I'm done." She gets out of line and goes to sit up against the wall. "I'm petite, there's no way I'm risking this." Natalia walks to the wall and sits down.
"What are you doing!" Liz yells at Scott. "You're going to freak everyone out and get them all worked up for something we aren't sure of. Why would you do that."
"Why would you give your friend false hope that Daniel and Ross are alive? We were sprayed with their blood for nearly 18 hours, you don't live through that." Scott stands up to get in her face and reply.
"What is wrong with you! Are you purposely trying to destroy what little moral we have around here? If everyone doesn't help with the water it will over flow, if it does, we all get electrocuted. You want that?!" She shoves him gives it right back as good as he's giving.
"Hey, hey calm down." Jim grabs Liz and walks her away from the situation. "Liz honey calm down."
"Don't you #%$%%! call me honey. I'm not your honey." she wiggles out of his grasp.
"Liz listen, I know you're hurting, I know you're upset and depressed." Jim he moves in to try and hold her and calm her down. "We're all upset, you just need to calm down a bit."
"I'm upset? I'm depressed?! Are you serious right now?! We are trapped in a room by a mad man who's goal is to torture us EVERY DAY. We are hammered over and over again physically, emotionally and its tearing apart my soul like nothing ever has before. I'm looked at as being this pretty girl with a smile on my face, to keep it together and then that @$$%&^% starts talking doom and gloom tearing down the little walls that I have built in my head to protect me from this world we're in, I can't take it anymore, I don't want to be here, I don't want to be in this room with you, or with anyone, I just want to be alone at home in my room by myself and try to forget this life ever happened." she's shaking, she doesn't want to but she can't stop.
"Liz, first of all no one here looks at you as 'the pretty girl' mainly because you're beautiful, and no, I don't have to say that to you right now to calm you down. I'm only going to tell you the truth right now. The truth is I want that too, I want out of here, I want to lie in a nice warm bed in a hotel. Not my home bed, a hotel. Because there's always just been something about being in a fresh bed that just calms me. I don't want this, I don't want to hear that we could die from drinking the water, in fact I already knew that, its why we formed a line, to divide it up equally. I don't right now want to think of Daniel and Ross, I know its only been a little over two weeks, but if they are really gone, I don't know what I'll do. I have been trying to be strong in here ever since I saw you step up and say something, because I thought that poor girl can't do this on her own. You stood up to our captor time and time again, shouting at him and each time I stood by you because I was not going to let you be alone. I know what its like to feel alone in a room full of people, its not good, and I think you know what I'm talking about." she nods to him. "There were one hundred of us in here when we started and I felt alone, then I saw you. This isn't me flirting or wanting something from you, like I said, its just the truth. We're not going to get a second chance at this, we have one life and right now its with each other. So if your walls feel like they're cracking, take my hand, and lets walk back over there, and lets do this, lets shine, because people are watching us, and while I tend not to care what they think, I do like to think that we're strong, and we got this, even when....no especially when, we know we don't." he extends his hand.
Liz wipes her tears from her face and smiles, she grabs his hand. "All this crying, its kinda made me thirsty."
"Ugh, I'd kill for a glass of water right now." He smiles
"Damn, I'd kill for a glass. I don't like my hands, my fingers are too long." she smirks.
He pulls up his hand that's holding hers their fingers interlocked. "They seem just the right size to me."
End of Day 18 part 2
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