Bioshock: The Fight of Bill Winters, a short story by Kilroy1. Times viewed: 225
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- Intro: Not much to do but stare at the floor and pray that the splicer's don't come for us, but I have the strangest feeling that today may be the end...
‘We should have never come.' That's what I've heard from my wife and all of our friends. The City of Rapture has gone completely to hell and a civil war has erupted. That sonofabitch Andrew Ryan hasn't done a damn thing, not one damn thing, to prevent it. All he does is has more and more plasmids created for people to splice with. That man is digging his own grave, if Atlas doesn't get him someone else will. Me and my wife came in 1956 to this underwater city and we've lived here for four years. It was nice until Ryan imposed curfews on the citizens and soon after innocent people have been killed, including a few friends of mine. Since the 1959 new years eve riots, me and my wife have staid in our apartment in Mercury Suits at Olympus Heights. For the past week we've been pinned in our apartment by the Splicer's outside and I know that soon they'll try to get in. We must be prepared. I will not give them the pleasure of killing me.
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I sat on the couch checking the bullets in my pistol and prayed that I wouldn't have to use it. My wife sat beside me staring at the floor and trying not to cry. I have one electro bolt plasmid left and I'll only have enough to hit two splicers with it. I hate injecting that thing into my blood stream, it's uncomfortable and painful. I heard scratching on the door and a strange sounding voice say, "Oh Bill...let me in. I won't hurt you I just want to talk."
I could make out who it was, it was a friend of mine, George Tomlin. But he isn't the same George anymore. Him and his wife have gone crazy from all the gene splicing they've done.
"Come on Bill! I just want to TALK!"
"Fuck off," I shouted. "You're not getting in!"
"I doubt that," said a woman's voice. "I have some cooking instructions that I must share with your wife, Nancy." It was George's wife, Julie, her voice had changed and it sounded like finger nails against a chalkboard.
"Leave," I shouted.
My wife began to cry and she grabbed me and held onto me tight.
"Come on Billy, baby...if you let me in I'll show you something interesting in private. You won‘t have to tell anyone you saw it."
"You cheating bitch!" shouted George and he hit her with something.
I heard Julie scream in pain and she said in a whimper, "I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."
"George let us in," shouted George. "Us and some of our...friends...wish to meet you. I swear we wont HURT YOU!"
"No way in hell are you getting in my house!" I shouted and I pulled the hammer back on my pistol.
"Well see about that buddy!"
I heard intense banging on the door.
Nancy grabbed me tighter. I looked at her and I had to say something to her that I wished that I never would have to say.
"Nancy, take these."
I pulled a cyanide pill out of my pocket and I said, "Nancy I want you to run up stairs and hid in the closet in the bedroom and if they get to you...take that pill. If you don't take it you know what they'll do to you."
She looked at me and nodded and she took the pill out of my hand.
"Go," I said.
She kissed me and we held each other tight. The banging got louder and louder and I could hear George and the other Splicers outside chanting, "We're coming in...we're coming in..."
"Go," I said to Nancy and she got up and ran down the hallway and up the stairs on the right.
I sat on the couch and looked at the door as it began to break. A hole formed in the middle and I saw George stick his deformed face into the hole and look at me with an evil grin and shout, "Here's Georgie!" More and more cracks formed on the door and I swallowed hard. I pulled the electro bolt plasmid out of my pocket. I stuck the needle into the vain on my arm and I injected it into me. I saw electricity shoot up the veins and a large ball of electricity formed in my hand. I aimed my pistol at the door with my other hand and I waited. The door collapsed and George, Julie and about seen other splicers came in.
"Hello Bill." he said grinning at me
"Hi George." I said and I pulled the trigger on my gun and a bullet went through his face. I got up and ran down the hall way and they followed me. I turned and fired my gun and the bullet hit one in the leg. I go to the end of the hall and I went up the staircase of the right. I stood at the top of the stairs and turned around. They began running up the stairs and I threw a ball of electricity at two of them and they fell. The other splicers tumbled over him as they tried to get up the rest of the stirs. I turned and ran into the room on the right, which was the bathroom.
I shut the door and locked it. I walked to the bathroom wall in front of the door and I put my back against it.
"Spread out and find him," I heard Julie shout.
After a minute of waiting I heard one of the splicer's shout, "I found the Misses!"
"Shit, she didn't take the pill." I thought to myself.
I heard the splicer ask Julie, "What should we do with this one?"
I heard my wife cry and beg for her life.
"I have an idea." I heard Julie say. I heard my wife scream and I heard ripping noises and with each rip came a loud scream. Then all went quiet. Tears fell from my eyes and I thought, "Goddamn it...why god? Why did you let this happen?"
Then I thought, "No, god didn't do this. Man did, Ryan did."
I heard a knock at the door and I heard Julie say, "Bill...Nancy wishes to speak with you." There was a loud crash and the bathroom door had been broken down. I saw Julie with the other splicers standing behind her in the doorway. Her mutated face and her dirty clothes were covered with blood and in one hand she held a metal pole and in the other...Nancy head.
"Oh, look...he's crying. Let's give Nancy back to him."
She threw the head and me and then another splicer threw an arm, then a leg. I was filled with rage and my eyes filled with tears. All her body parts lay around me and I glared at Julie.
"Is Big Bill mad?"
"Fucking savages!"
"Don't worry Bill...it'll all be over soon."
Then I got an idea. "You know what," I said. "You're right. It's over. You win Julie. I don't need Nancy...I just want you."
She smiled and said, "Really Billy?"
"Yea, you're all I want. Come here Julie...I want to show you something."
She smiled and she casually walked over to me and she kicked Nancy arm out of her way. She got close to my face and she put her arms around me and said, "What is it baby?"
"Don't blink...baby." I said and I quickly grabbed the metal pole out of her hand and I knocked her to the ground. I got on top of her and I beat her head with the metal pole. Blood went everywhere and she screamed loudly. I beat her head in until there was nothing left. When I was done I got up and I saw the splicer's staring at me angrily.
"You all can go to hell." I said. I put the gun to my head and I pulled the trigger.* * * * * * * * * * * *
I now hope that man can fix it's own mistakes and prevent them from happening and hopefully someone can deliver this city from Andrew Ryan. I have a feeling that someone will and they will soon...
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