Beth Breaks Down
Family's New Shrink Ray
chapter 37
by
copier
· original author:
pats2015
Debbie was eager get far away from the smelly reminder of all the death she had indirectly caused. Steve was eager to run some final checks once the girls loaded up the prototype. Beth... Beth just sat on the side of the road staring ahead, eyes glossed over.
"Beth? Beth? What's wrong?" Debbie asked the catatonic woman.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?! Look around! Everything's wrong!" Beth screamed.
Debbie took a few steps back. In all this time she had never heard Beth yell like that. Before Debbie could offer any support Beth began to expunged all that she had been keeping inside her.
"Debbie this whole day has been like a bad dream! A never ending nightmare! So many people are dead! So many more will die! And no matter what we do something always goes wrong! I can't do it anymore! I just want to go home!"
Beth had endured so much on this day. Still she swallowed it all down and kept pushing forward. It was seeing the bones of her friends and coworkers incased in Erica's giant bowel movement that finally broke her.
Debbie sympathized for the young woman. She didn't ask for any of this. She woke up and started the day working in a simple university lab. Over the course of less than a day she had seen so much death and destruction. It had changed the once bubbly blonde. She was worn down, traumatized and defeated.
Steve approached Beth and tried to comfort his distraught lab assistant.
"Beth. No one wanted this to happen but we can't change the past." Steve said.
"But Steve it was our work that made this monster. We are reason so many of our coworkers are gone. How can you be so calm?"
"Because I am a scientist Beth. And so are you. Scientists make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes hurt innocent people. But a scientist preservers because they believe in what they are doing. A scientist deals with setbacks and forms new plans and that's what were going to Beth, because we are scientists."
Beth turned to face her boss and quivered as she spoke.
"Me? A scientist?"
"Yes Beth. Science created this problem and using science we'll fix it, together."
"Beth? Beth? What's wrong?" Debbie asked the catatonic woman.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?! Look around! Everything's wrong!" Beth screamed.
Debbie took a few steps back. In all this time she had never heard Beth yell like that. Before Debbie could offer any support Beth began to expunged all that she had been keeping inside her.
"Debbie this whole day has been like a bad dream! A never ending nightmare! So many people are dead! So many more will die! And no matter what we do something always goes wrong! I can't do it anymore! I just want to go home!"
Beth had endured so much on this day. Still she swallowed it all down and kept pushing forward. It was seeing the bones of her friends and coworkers incased in Erica's giant bowel movement that finally broke her.
Debbie sympathized for the young woman. She didn't ask for any of this. She woke up and started the day working in a simple university lab. Over the course of less than a day she had seen so much death and destruction. It had changed the once bubbly blonde. She was worn down, traumatized and defeated.
Steve approached Beth and tried to comfort his distraught lab assistant.
"Beth. No one wanted this to happen but we can't change the past." Steve said.
"But Steve it was our work that made this monster. We are reason so many of our coworkers are gone. How can you be so calm?"
"Because I am a scientist Beth. And so are you. Scientists make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes hurt innocent people. But a scientist preservers because they believe in what they are doing. A scientist deals with setbacks and forms new plans and that's what were going to Beth, because we are scientists."
Beth turned to face her boss and quivered as she spoke.
"Me? A scientist?"
"Yes Beth. Science created this problem and using science we'll fix it, together."
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