Ross sits up a few feet from him, makes some odd mouth noises, adjusts his glasses and looks over to Daniel. "Good morning." he smirks scratches his chest and stands up and offers his hand to Daniel to help him up. "Today's Bonny's day isn't it?" he says to Daniel as he too stands and scratches.
"You know it is, we talked about it all last night."
"Ah yes, it was hard to hear everything with the buzzer screaming every 20 minutes or so, and not to mention you mumbling all the time now." Daniel slaps him on the back and walks over to the others.
"I don't mumble." Daniel mumbles under his breath.
"What're you mumbling about now?" Liz walks up to the two of them, with Anne right behind her.
"I don't mumble!" Daniel shoots back.
"Yeah you do, its been like over two weeks now since Cipher jilted you on actually meeting him, really dude, you have to let up on that, look around there's a hand full of us left."
"There's like 30 of us, you must have big hands." Jim joins the fray.
"Hey don't make fun of my hands." Anne puts them behind her back and moves away from the group.
"Dude, not cool." Ross passes by Jim and heads over to the center with Anne.
"What I say?" Jim looks to Liz.
"You don't make comments about a girls hands, its like saying something about her feet." she pats him on the shoulder.
"What's wrong with her feet?" Jim asks
"AAhhhh! Shut up." Anne growls at him. "Can it be your day to leave."
"Nope, its my girls day to leave." Renee walks up with them to the center, Bonny right in front of him, she has tears in her eyes but says nothing and just smiles at the group.
The group assembles and awaits for the monitor to turn on, it buzzes and lights up and there sits Cipher, in the same clothes and mask they've seen him for the past 40 days. "Hello everyone, glad to see no one took their life yesterday with that little annoyance you had to deal with all day."
"Little annoyance? It was like the worlds loudest and worst fax machine ringing in your ear every fifteen minutes!" Scott shouts at the monitor.
"Whine, whine, whine, when you all get out of here, and I truly hope you all do, you'll be able to sleep through a plane crash. You should be thanking me."
"I'll be happy if I could just sleep again." Anne nuzzles next to Ross.
"So where is Bonny, our number 40, come forward please." Cipher awaits at the monitor as Bonny steps up and waits for the door to light up for her to leave. "Are you ready to go Bonny?" Cipher asks, and the group thinks, what a stupid question.
"Not yet." she suprisingly replies, she turns from the monitor and faces Renee. "Renee these past 40 days you've kept me safe, you've kept me sane, I know you get out tomorrow so don't you dare do anything stupid over the next 24 hours." she touches his face and glides her fingers down his jaw line. She looks over at Jim and Ross, "You two, you keep him safe, understand me."
"Yes mam." they both reply, smiling happy to see the person who's become their friend get her freedom.
"And you two..." she looks at Anne and Liz. "Don't be afraid of what you're feeling in here, its real, I know it is, you never know how you'll meet someone, it could be the best circumstances, it could be the worst, but if somethings there between you and someone else, don't ignore it, flames shouldn't be ignored they should be stoked to see what happens." she smiles and runs over to hug the two women.
"Time to go Bonny, the group has some important things to get to today." Cipher encourages her to rush. "I feel like the Wizard in Oz. Hurry up now, you've said good bye to the lion and scarecrow." Cipher chuckles but no one laughs with him.
Bonny kisses Renee, a long slow kiss where they hold each other's faces so gently, their time here started so bad, and it got really worse before it finally got a whole lot better. She runs over to the lit up door and steps inside but places her hand on the edge of the door, keeping it ajar. She looks back at the group and shouts out. "Daniel!"
Daniel looks over to Bonny, he knows they didn't start out on the right foot but after a sometime they actually grew closer. After he returned to the room after the Dalton incident she went out of her way to talk to him, to try and make him feel better and console him. He always suspected that maybe she knew, that she sensed that he had blood on his hands since as he knew, she had some on hers as well. She never said anything to the group however, when anyone asked what they were talking about she would say "Art." or "Just you know...things." and that would be it. He raised his hand to her to say good bye and she raised hers in return. She shouts again "Be careful and get answers!"
'Get Answers' he thinks, what does that mean? He looks at her oddly, his hand still in the air as well as hers. Hers is clenched in a fist and as she opens it he sees several tags fall to the floor inside the room. His eyes pop as he realizes she had more numbers, numbers she took and lied about giving back, lower numbers! Lower than his 100, and she kept them from him. Her door closes and she's gone and so are those tags.
"What the hell was that?!" he looks to the group and no one answers. He runs to Renee. "Hey man! What the hell was that?! She had lower numbers?! Why didn't she give me one! She said she was my friend!"
"She was your friend, and she did give lower numbers away, just not to you, she couldn't and that's all I'm telling you, and its for your own good." Renee pushes him to the side and walks away.
Daniel runs over to Ross, "What is going on here?!"
"I swear to God, I have no idea." Ross holds grips Daniels shoulders trying to calm him.
"I'm sorry Daniel your question will have to wait its time for Day 40s adventure to begin." Cipher comments from the screen as if he were the host of a children's show.
"No way! I want answers! NOW!"
The P90s enter the room on the upper balcony and take aim at Daniel.
"I'm not going to shut up! I want answers now!" he screams again regardless of the red dots dancing across his chest from laser scopes above.
"You're friend doesn't know whats going, on, some people do, but I had to keep the right ones out of this little scheme, but if you're not going to cooperate today, fine. P90s, 'Beta 4'" Cipher sits back in his chair and the P90s remove their lasers from Daniel and take aim at Liz, Anne, Ross and Jim. "Ready....Aim...."
"Wait! Stop! Fine." Daniel sits down and shuts up.
"Excellent. Now everyone split up, groups of eight to three walls one group of six to the south wall, Daniel you go to the south wall, Daniel's groupies you head to the North wall." Ross hears Ciphers and turns around as he was already heading to Daniel.
"This isn't over." Daniel mumbles and heads to the South Wall.
Day 40 begins.
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