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The smell of coffee mixed into the air with hints of lavender mixing in from the conditioning room. Dr Samantha took a sip of her low caffeinated coffee as she exited the cell of Experiment:1188:Catnap and began to walk down the halls of Playtime Co’s labs. There wasn’t much chatter unlike the upper areas as the other scientists or staff that are assigned down in the labs would be either carrying the experiments to the prison or conditioning room, writing their reports/monitoring experiments, disposing of the dead experiments or working in the cafeteria.
Dr Samantha continued to sip on her coffee while heading towards her office but not before walking through the white halls plastered with Playtime co posters and drawings of flowers,fences and greenery in order to comfort the kids when taking them to the surgery room….
Upon entering her office that once belonged to Dr Harley Sawyer, the 39 year old Doctor/Scientist puts down her coffee and began to write her experiment report on Catnap and ██████ but soon after a familiar voice came from the other side of her office.
“Hey Sam may I come in”, Gracie’s voice came clear as day for Samantha prompting the scientist to open the door to let her co-worker inside her office.
“So what is the issue Grace”, Samantha said all the while she continued writing her research, as the other women sat down quickly cleaning her brown hair of any dust that was on her and opened her mouth to speak.
“Well Sam I am having some issues on the conditioning of Experiment 1222 as she won’t stop requesting for 1224”, Gracie said as she began to fidget with her hands while Samantha sighed.
“Did you use the shock collars?”
“The batch of replacements haven’t arrived yet”.
“….Alright I'm on it.”
Samantha got up and left her office with Gracie following her behind to head to the conditioning room that housed Experiment 1222: Mommy longlegs
The scientist and the counselor make it to the room and as Gracie opens the door she looks to see her co-worker throwing up into the trashcan causing Miss Gracie to slightly flinch in worry for her...friend.
“Are you ok”
“Yeah Im fine Grace just go make your videos for conditioning right now and I will make sure that 1222 will listen got it Grace?”
“Understood”.
“God I love when Sam speaks like that”, Gracie thought to herself as she went to go and record her videos knowing she is blushing furiously but quickly composed herself and began to make the video.
Dr Samantha headed into the room and pressed the red smoke filtration that filtered the eerie mist known as the red smoke/the Poppy gas out of the containment room that contained the pink stretchy experiment who was asleep for now. The doctor then went into the containment room and took out her own specially-made shock collar and slipped it onto the resting toy’s neck and quickly left the room to prevent waking her up.
Dr Samantha then went into Miss Gracie’s room to see if she was done and low and behold she was. The doctor then gestured to the counselor to go and have dinner as their shifts were coming to an end, Miss Gracie smiled at the gesture and left the room. Samanth then slightly smiled,which wasn’t something she did often, but it soon faltered to her own signature frown as she she turned often, but it soon faltered to her own signature frown as she turns on the controls to activate the shock collar to only produce shocks when Mommy longlegs would make mistakes or disobeyed. As she began to head out to leave and enter the cafeteria, she turned on the video that her co-worker made for conditioning and left.
Upon entering the cafeteria she spotted Gracie with her usual order of boiled ham,spinach and bread, alongside some greek yoghurt,sitting at one of the tables eating her food and as she heads to get her own order she spotted him……Preston WIllard
“Look at him, what a pathetic excuse of a man, plus like he is literally eating a Macdunulds ripoff like seriously is he mentally 4 years old? God save us all if he is my replacement while I'm gone”,Samantha thought to herself.
Dr Samantha then grabbed her food tray and sat down on the seat next to Gracie’s seat and begins to eat.
“So Sam, how's life been treating you?”Gracie asked with a smile on her face as Samantha continued eating her food while looking away causing Gracie’s smile to falter causing a worried expression to appear on her face, “Sam?”
“Im going on leave for some time”
“What but why?”
“Maternity leave”
“....WAIT YOUR-” Gracie then gets shushed by Dr Samantha and luckily for the two of them no one heard anything.
“Sorry Sam so your having a baby well damn I say I feel pretty stupid for not noticing earlier”
“Indeed you are correct Grace”, the Doctor said as she finished her food while Gracie looked at her in slight jealousy but mostly happiness.
“So who is the lucky man who got to be your husband hm~ oh wait let me guess is it Pre-”
“I would rather kill myself then be in a relationship with Preston because like he is very childish and immature plus if he didn’t want to experiment on the orphans then why take the job. Plus generally speaking he either 70% of the time panics at even the smallest of sounds or he just has a panic attack 10% of the time and the last 20% is him being immature especially considering he is eating a meal that is meant to be a ripoff of “Macdunulds” or at least Playtime’s version of “Macdunulds”, Samantha ranted on and on while Gracie listened with keen interest until another voice interjected into their conversation.
“First of all I'm a vegetarian and secondly can you stop insulting me at every moment you get to see me”, Preston called out to the older Doctor from his table as he began to get up and switch to a different location away from her.
But alas the Doctor didn’t stop as she continued insulting him with very childish remarks which funnily enough were definitely making Preston get angry/heartbroken while Gracie sighed as this was the fifth time that week that the two of them had argued. Then another person joins the conversation-defending Preston that being Dr Jessica Newman by revealing that the “Macdunulds ripoff”meal was actually hers and not preston’s but alas Dr Samantha rolled her eyes not seeming to care about what the younger scientist was saying. However before she could mock them by claiming Preston is Dr Newman's boyfriend or friends with benefits thing Gracie intervened with the goal of breaking the conversation to prevent things from getting even heated then they already were.
Dr Newman upon noticing Grace entering the conversation and greets her with “Good evening Grace…I see that you look very intrigued by Dr Samantha way too much to be um what’s the word “Glazing her”. Gracie sighs and greets her co-worker and calls out how what Newman said was cringe.
As Dr Samantha tried to continue the conversation in the way she wanted i.e insulting Preston for hours on end she felt like she was about to throw up but luckily for her Gracie noticed and got her out of the cafeteria. Well it was a false alarm, but Gracie knew better so she asked Samantha if she needed help in getting to her car. Dr Samantha nodded in agreement and then the two of them began to head to the exit which was blocked by a metallic door which required a key card to be opened.Gracie decided to flash the red keycard(even if Samantha interjected saying she could take her key card out by herself)-the key card that is only given out to specific employees like them. After flashing the card the door in front of them opened,revealing a set of stairs that the two of them began to ascend upon. While heading up the comedically long stairway Dr Samantha questioned why Gracie was so willing to help her only to be met with temporary silence which was broken by the phrase, “Because…that is what friends do”.
Eventually the stairs that seemed endless came to a halt and instead of more steps there was an elevator and the two of them entered it and pressed g1 and in a blink of an eye the doors closed and started going up.
It was dark,but a peaceful kind of dark outside for Gracie for the stars were reminiscent of pop rocks made of heat and gases. Gracie appreciated the view but knew the two of them couldn’t stay in the main lobby for long and headed outside with Dr Samantha who tried her absolute best not to collapse due to the nausea. They checked out for the day and headed outside into the parking lot which was a moment that didn’t last for long as Samantha spotted her car and took out her car keys inserting them into the keyhole and entered the car. As Samantha began to start the car Gracie called her name.
“WAIT SAM!”Gracie exclaimed quickly shutting herself upon realizing her mistake but it was too late for Samantha paused starting the car and stopped to listen.
“Yes Grace?”Samantha called out oblivious to the obvious fidgeting and blush on her co-worker’s face. Gracie began to stutter over her words before sighing and speaking up.
“I want to say…..I hope you have a wonderful evening and I hope that you have a wonderful life especially with your husband and hey if your available then maybe we can go out for a drink sometime how does that sound”.
“.....That sounds nice Grace and yes I will try to take some time out of my schedule to get some drinks with you. Alright got to go now see you in 3 months Grace, have a good evening”
“Then the car the Doctor was in started and she alongside the car were now gone driving off in the night. Gracie temporarily smiled before it faltered into an expression of sorrow as she took out a box and letter from her pocket and opened the tiny orange box. She sighed as she looked at the ring and confession letter in anguish wishing she could have told her feelings before she had gotten married.
“If only I could have told her”,Gracie thought to herself before descending down the street to her apartment.