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I love this AU!!

Still Wakes The Deep: Nightfall AU

I sadly didn't manage to do many drawings for this, so all I've got are a bunch of rough sketches here and there.. regardless I hope you guys enjoy!

Read first goofy aaaah part here

Cameron's head feels heavy, his vision is quite blurry for a moment. He can barely recognise the tall trees nearby, feeling the moss covered ground he's laying on, where is he?

Moving his head around, he sees the grass that surrounds him. Roy walks over to him to see if he's awake, calling his name a few times before Caz gets up to look around.

It's an incredibly vast forest where the sky somewhat shimmers in rainbow colours. It's incredibly quite, no animals are nearby, not even any insects can be seen.

A lot of the crewmates are missing. There are no signs of Roper, nor does Rennick seem to be here. Same with Gibbo and Addair, tho they hope they can find them at some point, together with the others.

Everyone is wearing their jumpsuits, even crewmembers who became infected are back as human beings. For some unknown reason, they gained the ability to transform back and forth whenever desired.

"This dinnae look like home" Muir immediately lays back down on the moss covered ground, staring at the tree tops. This man experienced one of the worst transformations back on the rig. Seeing him in a completely normal shape feels strange for Caz.

Everyone looks around in silence for a few minutes. Archie walks around, plucking a few plants to observe them more closely, while Brodie is trying to figure out how they got here. Trots has a few theories, but gets cut off by Finlay, who is fed up about everything at this point.

Letting out a small sigh, Innes sits down next to his friend. Watching the others argue about the current situation.

Are they dead? Did they wash up somewhere? Is this some sort of hallucination? This doesn't look similar to any place they've been to, everyone's heads feel quite heavy.

No one knows if anyone else is here, or if something watches them. Trots feels incredibly uneasy, but can't pinpoint as to why. He suggests they find a place to hide later. Just to be on the safe side, incase it's needed.

Muir and Innes volunteer to explore the area a bit further. Trots, feeling a bit irritated, tells them not to go too far, otherwise they might loose track of them. But Muir assured him that it's gonna be fine, due to the shape, he and other previously transformed crewmembers can sense one another across great distances.

"Aye we'll be back in a bit" the two men walk upwards to the tall trees, dissapearing behind them. Looking up, Trots can tell they won't be back in a while.

Caz also offers his help, he can explore the lower parts of the forest and look for any other surviving crewmates there. Even if Roy protests and wants to come with him, Caz tells him he can do it alone. He won't go too far. Maybe the other people they're missing are nearby.

Worried, the big man gives him his cross necklace, which Caz finds absurd. But Roy insists that he keeps it with him while exploring, they don't know what could be out here. Slightly confused why his friend has this cross with him, considering he left it in his cabin, but he decides not to question it.

With that, Caz makes his way down, looking at the necklace for a bit before tucking it away in his chest pocket.

It's strange how big the enviroment seems to be, all of the plant life is tripple the size. The flowering plants shine in a variety of shimmering colours and have an intense sweet smell to them. Even grass is incredibly tall in a lot of areas. Tho Caz tries to avoid them, to not loose track of where he is.

McLeary hopes to find something or any clues to get out of here, but... it's just trees everywhere. It feels like they keep repeating over and over again. He's starting to feel unsure if he remembers his way back at all, so he keeps looking around.

After a while he spots something in the distance... , something big is laying on the ground. All curled up and surrounded by tall grass, trees twisting the closer he gets to it. Earlier they did not see any fauna present at all, what could this be? Or why is it here?

Not sure what to think of it, he slowly makes his way towards it, he's starting to get quite nervous the closer he gets. When he was close enough, he took a few minutes to observe it. It appears to be some sort of dragon, it's dark scales shimmer in a variety of colours.

"Weird... I better keep my distance..."

Clearly not wanting to wake it up, whatever this being is, he slowly walks back the way he came from. Unfortunately, he trips on an exposed treeroot and curses as he falls down.

"FAAACK-"

He hears it move and makes a run for it. This thing is nothing he wants to mess with, but to be sure it doesn't follow him back to the others, he takes an alternative route.

Hiding behind a few trees, he looks back to check if it follows him.

Nothing is happening for a while. Until something starts moving in the distance, walking towards Caz's direction, he looks around to try and find a better hiding spot.

Weirdly enough there are quite a few bushes nearby he can crawl into. Making a run for it, he quickly reaches them before the creature catches up to him. McLeary stays silent and tries not to move. This is the last thing he needs, some giant dragon chasing him? This must be a big joke.

It's growls shake the air, scanning the area for a while without much success, it hasn't seen Caz, thankfully.

It slowly moves back to the direction it came from, but stays nearby, unknown to Caz.

Wondering if the air is clear, he slowly crawls out of the other end of the bush, the shimmering lights of the tall grass is almost blinding. Slowly getting up, he peaks out from behind the bushes. Looking around, Caz doesn't see anything, not above him nor behind any trees. It seems to be safe for now, tho he walks slowly, his gut feeling tells McLeary that it's still nearby.

Each step makes him nervous, expecting something to jump at him at any moment, he goes back to crawling in between the tall grass cursing under his breath "This is a fucking joke, where am I". Barely being able to see anything he makes his way back to the others, feeling unsure if he even knows where they were.

Unknown to him, Trots is walking nearby, he noticed something was off and went after Caz to see what's going on.

"Caz, get up!! What are you doing?" scaring McLeary who quickly lifts up his head and warns Trots "Why are you here?? We need to go back, it's not safe".

"Crawlin your way back won't help ya lad. We have to go, move it." grabbing him by the arm, Trots looks around, clearly being extremely nervous about something.

Frustrated McLeary follows him, looking around to be sure the thing isn't following them.

"… Have ye found anyone else yet?" looking back at Trots who sounds incredibly tense. "Nah, we found nothin thus far. Whatever this place is, it's not… normal..."

Without saying anything else, they continue onwards, the way back feels longer than it should. Tho they don't feel exhausted walking for so long. The view is quite breathtaking, these trees are incredibly large with different kinds of flowering plants growing on the branches. Everything about this place feels quite alien.

"That one looks strange" Caz points towards a dark twisted tree, it reminds him of the thing they saw back on the rig. But he doesn't know what to make of it.

Each step feels heavier the closer they get back. They start seeing multiple twisted plants growing nearby. Trots is slowly starting to panic, constantly looking behind his back, expecting something to happen which confuses Caz.

"What the fuck are you doing? Is it nearby?" Mclearly feels irritated by him. Tho Trots eyes widen in confusion "What do you mean by "it"?".

"This, dragon... didn't you hear it?" standing still, he looks at the commie man who struggles to say something at first "Dragon?! I, I didn't hear anything, I only had a strange feeling.. Caz, why didn't ye say that earli-"

The ground shakes beneath them, both fall over being unable to move for a bit. Trots quickly moves his head up, feeling something coming towards them, looking around frantically.

Quickly standing up, he grabs Caz and orders him to run. In that moment both look back, seeing a large shadowy figure neabry, which makes both of them panic "FUCK".

Having no clue where they're going, Muir and Innes reach an open grassland. The young lad feels a bit uneasy about everything, but quickly distracts himself by transforming back to his mutated form to mess with his friend. Distorted giggling can be heard before he grabs Innes with one of his tendrils and starts carrying him on his deformed arms.

Even if the old man is somewhat bothered and wants to yell at Muir, he stops himself. He has a better view of the landscape from up here than from the ground.

It's hard to see the sky at all, trees are so tall that their branches cover every inch of open sky, only letting small beams of shimmery sunlight through.

In the distance they spot a small lake, Innes climbs down to take a closer look at it. He can see a clear reflection of his face and takes his hat off to observe his balding head for a bit.

Small hairs still cover the top, it started falling off in his late 30s. It took him a long time to adjust to his aging body, the reoccurring backpain, frequent headaches and feeling more tired than usual. He'd still have to work a good amount of years until he could retire, but that's out of the picture now.

Somewhat yearning to be younger again and loosing himself in his thoughts, he doesn't notice Muir approaching him.

Without much hesitation Muir uses one of his tendrils, to kick Innes into the lake. His friend only had a very short second to curse at him before plunging into the water.

Giggling, he drops to the ground and rolls around, laughing for a long moment, before he notices that Innes is still underwater.

A bit confused and worried that his friend takes so long to come back out, he walks closer to the edge. Suddenly Innes reappears, gasping for air, crawling back out and yelling "For heaven's sake, warn me next time, before ye throw me in unknown liquid, ken?!".

Muir takes a few step backs, something changed with him, transforming back to his human form to observe Innes a bit closer.

His friend appears to be much younger than before, even having hair on his head again. Innes is probably only slightly older than Muir now.

A bit confused by Muir's expression Innes looks back at his reflection and is bewildered what this water did to him. He looks back at Ewan who is clearly staring blankly at Innes, only to notice he has been caught staring and quickly looks away.

Innes touches his head to make sure he isn't going crazy, tho it seems this strange lake made him young again. As if it knew what he was thinking about...

"I cannae believe what I'm seein'. What happened in there Innes?!" eyes widened, he clearly couldn't grasp that his friend looked like this when he was younger. Even if they went through their photo albums together. Seeing him this young is extremely confusing.

Innes couldn't even give him an answer, his mind blanked after plunging into the lake "I... ".

"Well Innes, now I can finally braid your hair, just like ye mother did." giggling to himself while grabbing a few flowers, putting them in Innes' newly grown hair.

"I'm gonnae throw ye into the lake if ya put another flower in ma hair" clearly irritated he wants to grab Muir, who quickly transforms back and makes a run for it.

Innes utters a loud sigh before running after him, yelling his name "MUIR, GET. BACK. HERE, YE WEEGIE BAM".

They've been out here for hours, at least this is the general feeling they have. Nothing but tall trees surround them, everything gets a bit distorted the further away it is. But at some point they reach a taller tree, this one seems incredibly odd in comparison to everything else. Muir feels somewhat tired and lays down near it, the soft mossy ground invites for a nap.

Innes sits down nearby and stares off into the distance for a while before laying down. He closes his eyes and everything feels at peace, the wind gently glides across their ears as they fall asleep. If they were dead, it didn't feel like it would matter anymore, this place feels oddly nice. But before they could even enjoy their sleep, they found themselves in a room.

Waking up, both look at each other in confusion, they get up and slowly approach the table nearby. They see something in front of them, it's a bunch of sticky notes with scribbles, placed on an empty table. Innes is extremely confused what is going on, grabbing one of the notes and looking at it for a while. "What is this?"

Muir sees the scribbles connect to each other, he slowly starts to move the notes on the table. Until he heard a noise, when he placed one of them down correctly. It doesn't take long until they realise they need to sort them in the correct order. "What is this about...?" still bewildered, Innes' eyes widen when they suddenly had new objects in front of them.

From frames, to pieces of paper, to books, pins and even postal stamps. Muir gets extremely frustrated after a while. It doesn't look like there is an end to this.

At one point they need to sort flower petals, which made Muir aggressive. So much so that he transforms to his mutated form and throws the entire table to the wall "Junks!".

He clearly had enough of this sorting "Why are we here??", laying down and staring to the ground, squeaking in frustration. Innes looks at his friend for a while, before sitting down next to him. They have no idea where they are or when they are.

To break the silence, Innes starts talking about his favourite books he would read in their cabin.

Muir turns back to his human form, feeling dissapointed, he looks at Innes "Aye, you'd talk about it each night. I ken it all". Innes smiles and looks back at the books they sorted earlier "You came over a few months ago, to choose books we should read through when we get back on the rig. I ken you aren't the biggest fan of literature, but this reminded me of your visit."

"It was quite nice, eh, didn't I annoy ye with my pipes on that day?" Muir looks at Innes smiling before looking back to the ground. Giggling, his friend comments on it "I spilled my tea when ye started playin, then you laughed at me for doin so."

"Hah, you threw a pillow at me!" he stands up, walking towards the books they sorted earlier. Innes turns around, almost getting hit by a book "H-Hey!" He stands up and walks towards Muir to stop him from throwing more books at him.

"I still need my head you Eejit. This can hurt, you know?" grabbing the book from his friend and putting it back on the bookshelf. Muir giggles a bit before he looks around the room, he forgot how long they've been here already. He doesn't want to sort anything anymore, it drives him nuts.

But it doesn't feel like there is a way out of here. He can still feel the shapes influence on his mind, memories repeating themselves in front of his eyes. Making him feel extremely insecure.

"Am I bothering you?" the young lad looks over to his friend, who feels a bit confused about the question "Muir. You aren't bothering me, get that thought out of your head."

Not feeling sure what to answer him, he looks around, before looking back at Innes "My father dinnae like me. He felt quite bothered about everything I did. I... I still worry about it. That no one likes me."

"He was no good man, Muir." Innes struggled a bit to say something. He knows the lad for a few years now, he never had anyone to talk to about his struggles. Not having a mother figure while growing up. He lived with his step-father for a few years, before moving to his own place.

Family has never been an easy topic for this man, whenever he hears Gibbo talk about his mother he gets confused. Caz talking about his little weens, or Dagleish getting mail from his family. He doesn't really know how it feels like having a loving family, his step-father was rather dismissive.

Innes puts a hand on Muirs shoulder, trying to comfort him in some way. Ewan looks over to him, sounding incredibly tired ".. Can you promise me something...?" before looking back to the ground. "You won't leave me? I, I dinnae want to be alone in this nightmare... I have no idea what's going on, are we ded I mean why are we in this fuckin room this is insanity-"

Before he could go off on a rant Innes stops him midway "Ewan I won't leave ye. That will never happen. We'll get through this, whatever we have to do. Alright?"

Muir looks back at him in an instant, being unable to say a word to what he just said, as if something hit his heart in that moment.

It doesn't take long until he breaks down into tears, both go in for a hug, while Innes comforts him. "It's alright, it's alright, let it all out"

After a while Muir notices something in the room, a door appeared behind them. They slowly stand up and make their way to it. Slightly confused why it's there, the young lad opens it and they find themselves back in the forest.

"What?" both look around in confusion. Things are starting to make no sense aymore. The room they were in, dissapeared afterwards.

But something feels odd, Muir is starting to feel extremely nervous that something is watching them. He walks over to a moss covered tree stumb and looks at something odd in the distance. It's one of the dark twisted trees, but this one looks quite blurry for some reason.

He could only look at it for a bit, before he starts to hear a strange sound nearby.

Wanting to warn Innes he turns around... but. He's gone. Which does not make any sense, in utter panic he tries to look around to find him, but no sign of his friend. The intense feeling of being watched is growing as he tries to understand what is happening. But for some reason he is all alone. He goes back to the tree stumb to check what could be observing him.

Nothing seems to be there, his vision starts to distort the longer he stares off to the distance, which makes him so uneasy he turns around and starts running back to the forest. Because something started flying towards him, the loud howls can be heard in the distance.

Muir, running as fast as he can, tries to call for Innes without much success. His friend does not seem to be anywhere. And this Dragon is quickly catching up to him.

Trots thinks they've finally shaken off this beast. IT doesn't seem to follow them anymore and they see Brodie running towards them "Caz! what the hell was that?"

"I dunno, some dragon thing! Whatever it is, I think it's gone." McLeary yells back at him, while looking around in slight panic "Did you find anyone?". But Brodie could only shake his head "No, but we found a safe place to stay for tonight. The others are waiting for us there.".

It feels like this forest is never ending, no matter how far they look, all they can see are trees. In this small moment of silence Caz remembers a bizarre memory. He vividly remembers rushing to the bathroom, looking at the mirror, but he doesn't remember what he saw in the reflection. All he knew was that he was covered in this stuff, feeling extremely nauseous and disoriented. He could hear Rennick's voice in the back of his mind, but doesn't understand what he is saying.

Feeling irritated by this Caz looks back to his crewmates to snap out of it, but gets caught offguard by a distant scream "You hear that?". The other two look to his direction, multiple screams seem to echo through the forest. Until they notice who it is.. "Muir...". McLeary, without hesitating, starts running and follows said screams.

Brodie orders Caz not to go alone, but he didn't listen to his words. Trots and Brodie run after Caz, with a significant gap between them.

In a matter of seconds Innes loses track of his friend, he blinked and Muir suddenly popped out of existence. Feeling shivers going through his spine he starts to panic. Only a moment ago he had promised not to leave his side, only to end up loosing him again... Innes calls for him but can't find him anywhere, no response from his friend.

Walking around the entire area he can't find any clues where his friend had gone off to, it's like the forest swallowed him in an instant, or it might play mindgames with him. Frustrated he keeps looking, until he hears a faint scream in the distance. He follows it.

Caz starts to run, he can hear IT nearby which doesn't seem to be happy about something. The surrounding vegitation slowly starts to get higher with each step he takes. He couldn't see anything anymore, all he could do is follow its howls.

Thankfully he was able to locate the dragon but notices it struggling with something. McLeary's eyes widen when he hears the voice- Muir was hanging from its mouth, trying to keep it open with his tendrils, but it doesn't seem to go well for him.

"HEEYY, OVER HERE YOU DOBBAR!" throwing a rock at the massive creature, Caz stood there waiting for a reaction.

But he became incredibly nervous when it slowly started turning its head, facing Caz and locking eyes with him. The sudden realisation hits when he notices that, this dragon, has a human head. And it's...

"Roper...? What the fuck, fucking fuck. ROPER, LET HIM GO!".

All Caz could do is scream at him, only to see Muir getting squished by him and thrown to the ground "NOOOOO, MUIR! SHIT....".

His friend laid there motionless , blood covering his mutated body. Even tho McLeary wanted to help him, he had to flee before Roper would do the same thing to him "fuck fuck FUCK".

With a small delay Brodie and Trots make it to the scene, their eyes widen at the sight of the creature, "... What in God's name happened to him... ?" Brodie's horrified by what he's seeing, but they could only see him for a short while before Roper dissappears, chasing after Caz.

Innes ran as fast as he could, he feels extremely disoriented with the tall vegetation but kept going.

Eventually he finds Muir laying on the ground, near broken trees which are affected by the shape. The sheer sight of his friend's condition shocked him to the core.

His friend seems to be bleeding heavily, groaning in pain and not being able to move. "Ewan...?" slowly walking towards him, he notices deep bite wounds in Muir's body. Horrified by what he's seeing, Innes walks closer to him. But he gets interrupted by a voice calling him in the distance. Moving around he sees Trots and Brodie running towards him, before he could utter a sound Muir screams in agony.

Those screams start to turn into extremely loud roars as his body twists and grows. Expecting to see him turn into his usual form, the three crewmates were bewildered to see Ewan turning into something similar to what they have seen with Roper. Frozen in place Terry watches Muir's transformation. His dragon like body shimmered in deep dark blue colours, wings growing out of his body which were equipped with razor sharp claws. But before he could properly observe everything, Broodie had to snap him out of it, dragging him away.

Not feeling good to run away from his friend, he follows the other two to get to a safe spot. Hearing distorted Roars behind him, it suddenly starts to rain... and it seems the rain will not stop.

Roy, hiding together with Finlay and Archie, get caught by suprise by the neverending rain. "This is new.."

Archie, feeling unwell, looks outside and sees trees distorting nearby. A flower he picks up starts to wither within seconds "I have a bad feeling about this. I think we should go".

"You think?" Finlay, clearly not having the patience for this, instructs the two men that they should follow Brodie's trail to avoid wasting time waiting.

"Noo, what if there is another creature looking to bite our heads off? I'm staying here..." The chef is extremely afraid of this place. As if god send them down to go through a special kind of purgatory. "Waiting might be more dangerous, than getting back to the others, come on".

Grabbing him by the arm, the engineer drags Roy out of the hiding spot, they run the path Brodie went through earlier. Archie looks around nervously, the rain becomes heavier the further they go, trees are slowly loosing their leaves as they twist and turn.

It didn't take long until the pilot sees something in the distance "Over there!"

It's Trots and Innes, both groups quickly make their way to each other and exchange a few sentences to form a plan.

"I need to get back to Brodie and Caz, you four make your way further up in the forest to escape the rain, we'll get to you later"

Innes looks extremely distraught by something, but he stays silent for now. Until Roy realises his friend has way more hair on him than before "Hey where did you get that new look?". "I, well me and-" but before he could finish, Innes gets caught off mid sentence. The ground shakes heavily, which alerts Trots "I'll get going, make your way up, NOW."

Their surroundings are slowly being twisted by the shape, all the lush grasslands and trees are a mere shadow of what they were at the beginning.

The only thing Caz can do is run, Roper can be heard screaming in the distance as he runs after Caz. But at this point Ropers body became extremely distorted, the shape is piercing through his entire spine. And his skin is full of blisters, wounds and cancerous tissues that make him look extremely bloated.

Not to forget the extra amount of faces and eyes covering his torso now, but Caz doesn't have enough time to closely observe what was happening with him. Something grabbed his legs, falling abruptly to the ground and not being able to free himself. Cameron couldn't do much aside from watching the angry beast sprinting towards him. He let out a loud scream before his vision turned to black.

Caz woke up in a different area, unlike the lush forest he was in previously. Everything was dark and grey with thick clouds covering the sun. There were no trees, only bushes and tall grass.

It's extremely windy on this island, but it doesn't feel cold, it feels just right as he walks the overgrown path.

He sees a red light shimmering up on a mountain and decides to follow it. It's strangely quite here, no human soul in sight, only one lone gull flying above him. He could hear Suze's voice coming from the wind, whispering. "... Come closer..." her voice clearly comes from the mountain he is heading to.

It felt like he was walking for hours, but eventually reaches the top of the mountain where the light came from. It was already night time when he arrived. It became extremely cold up here, the clouds started covering the moon until he could barely see anything. But to his suprise, a familiar figure appeared. It was Roper.

Standing near the construction, holding his clipboard, waiting patiently. He's still wearing the same suit as the one he wore on the Beira

A bit confused Caz looks up to the red light and back down to Roper who held the clipboard out, wanting McLeary to take a look at it. He's hesitent at first, the man didn't utter a word, but Caz reaches out and takes a closer look.

What he saw made him very confused.

"What...?" the notes didn't make any sense, they were hinting at something but what did it mean? Out of frustration he asks Roper a bunch of questions but he stays silent. Only looking back at the red light above them.

McLeary looks up, something about this red light reminded him of something, he could hear a faint alarm emitting from it. But before he could pinpoint what it was, the surrounding environment suddenly exploded. The Shape bursts out of the ground and takes ahold of the metal towel.

Before he knew it, he found himself back on the rig, disoriented and confused. All he could register was fire bursting out of the derrick and rapidly spreading. Caz clung at the edge of the deck to escape the fire, but it didn't take long until he was forced to jump off. Landing in the cold waters of the north sea, his vision goes black once more, it's where he suddenly finds himself in Marine Control.

However, he seems to be inside Ropers body again, feeling utter pain and hearing all the thoughts his infected crewmates have. Still stuck in the chair he looks around, he's not sure at which point in time he is. Suddenly the monitor caught his attention, it displayed the Cadal logo, next to a bunch of files that were transferred not long ago.

Frozen in place he observes the screen for a few minutes, something about Cadal's logo made him feel extremely uneasy. Until he noticed the transfer date of the files and snaps back to reality.

"Huh, hold on a min" with one of his hands he tries to navigate the window and take a look at the files. "Those were sent a few minutes ago, how did he...What... ?", opening one of them, he sees Muir, who looks normal at first but he was laying on the ground, rapidly moving. The quality of these files are extremely low, but he could identify a bunch of his crewmates on the deck.

Eyes widened as he witnessed his transformation, everyone ran away and he could hear Innes scream in the distance. The video cut out after Muir accidentally throws one of his friends at the camera.

Bewildered he takes a look at other files, Trots was screaming in one of them, the next was Addair howling in the distance. Another one was a picture of the Shape, creeping it's way up Leg C. Caz couldn't understand what he just saw, the list kept going.

"How did he? We were off Radio for hours, did he-"

He heard footsteps outside coming closer, McLeary slowly realised what was about to happen. He quickly put on another window on the pc and stayed silent when he saw himself walk inside the room.

"Alright mate don’t mind me, I’ll keep out your way nae bother"

Voices slowly creeped up his mind, he could hear Rennick cursing and tormenting the man inside his head. In utter panic he tries to communicate to his other self, but he knows nothing can be done.

For some bizarre reason the other Cameron gave him a cigarette and put it on his mouth. Out of sheer pain he accepts the offer and smokes for a bit, calming his nerves for a short amount of time.

“I’m with you, just wanted a smoke aye, don’t blame ye, things turn to shite around here.”

Then he hears him talk to the phone with Finlay, but this conversation is not the one he had when he was in Marine Control. He doesn’t sound nervous by one bit, on the contrary, he’s quite angry at Finlay for bossing him around.

"Hey Caz, go and get Chesper the big scary cunt. Hey Caz, why don’t you go climbin down after the fucking chopper. Here McLeary! Why don’t you goin off and suck Rennick’s dobbar, see if that calms the cunt down. If it’s a shite job, just give it to Caz he’ll love it.”

It started to become incredibly painful to listen to the conversation as his other self raises his voice. Ropers ears are extremely sensitive to sound due to the shape's influence. But his panic became worse when he realises Rennick is alerted by it.

"R-Rennic..." speaking was difficult, but his other self brushed him off and continued his phone call. Tho what he’s saying next confused him even further.

“Hey Finlay, something’s going on here right… Roper, O’Conner even Muir!”

“They’re, they’re still in there somewhere, yeah, I mean they’re all fucked up. But if you don’t threaten them…, they’re almost, I don’t know, they’re almost themselves…”

Finlay doesn’t seem to share his views in this regard “I don’t know what you’ve been smoking McLeary, but as far as I’m concerned we sort the Ballast, get the fuck off this rig and let them all fucking drown, eh *sniff* Must have been thinking, these beasties they don’t like the salt water […]”

After a short discussion on the phone, his other self walked over to the other room, turning a few switches and heading over to the pontoons dashboard, pressing the button. When the Forward Pontoon flooded, his other self witnessed Muir loosing his balance and getting crushed under debris.

Roper feels a sharp pain going through his body, Muirs and O'Conners final screams echoe through his head, it feels like he is drowning and being stabbed at the same time.

"Jesus Christ what the fuck... You didn't deserve any of that Muir.."

His other self quickly made his way down to Drill Ops, leaving Roper alone in Marine Control, exposed to the crazed Installation Manager.

McLeary takes another look at the PC before observing the room once more, he feels unsure what this all means. Before he could even come to any conclusions, something smashed the door open in the kitchen and was making its way towards him.

His heart starts to beat rapidly, he could hear Rennick inside his head, while simultaneously hearing him come closer. There was nothing he could use to defend himself, Roper is permanently stuck on the chair, his crewmate that tried to help him earlier is permanently bound to the ceiling. Everything he can do now, is scream. The moment one of Rennick's tendrils reached his office, adrenaline came rushing in, he screamed at the top of his lungs while cursing at the big headed freak. The sheer imagery of being shred into pieces by his boss terrified him to the core.

All he could remember of this moment was Rennick mauling him, his vision became extremely distorted as his body couldn't register the pain anymore. Voices that were whispering to him became extremely loud. Until he heard a familiar figure talk to him.

It was Brodie, suddenly everything became clear again and he found himself back to the forest Roper was chasing him in. But this dragon, seems to be dead. The cancerous tissues took over the entire beast, the face is barely recognisable at this point.

He wasn't fully awake yet, McLeary notices that Brodie is nervous about something. Trots comes rushing in and helped him get back up on his feet. Caz leans on him for support, but the look on their faces confuses him a lot. "Brodie..*coughs*.. What's going on." still a bit wobbly on his feet, the others instruct him to move faster while picking up the pace.

Caz gets ahold of himself and starts running. He wonders why the others were so worked up, considering Roper is laying dead on the forest floor. But Trots informs him, that Muir has gone nuts. Quite bewildered he continues to run, eventually they meet up with the remaining crew, further up in the forest.

Not long thereafter a distorted roar could be heard. It was raining heavily at this point, large pools of water formed as they kept running. The ground became slippery and small parts of the Shape slowly grew out of the ground, the surrounding trees became dull and blood starts coming through the bark.

Innes is feeling intense dread as they keep going, he didn't want to leave Muir, but he has no idea if his friend can recognise him now. Still haunted by his first transformation on the deck, he gets caught offguard by the shape which grabs him by the leg. Making him fall face first on the ground, unable to free himself.

Screaming for help, Caz wants to run back to him, but Muir already caught up to them. Throwing McLeary back to Trots and spitting icecold water to push them further away. He looks back at Innes, who is frozen in place not being able to say a word, both staring at each other.

Roy and Finlay come rushing in, wanting to distract Muir, but he notices it and grabs Innes with his razor sharp teeth, flying away to the flooded forest.

Innes, in complete pain and panic, falls unconcious. His vision became extremely distorted and he could hear the voices of various crewmembers calling out for him.

Eventually he wakes up and finds himself back on the Deck, hours before the explosion happened.

#still wakes the deep: nightfall au #brodie swtd #swtd #caz swtd #innes swtd #muir swtd #finlay swtd #still wakes the deep #and some more characters #yes

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Yes. Just yes. Knock Rennick down a peg

Marshall: What if it wasn't Rennick who mutated in the helicopter, but the pilot, Archie? Rennick managed to survive, but he was overwhelmed by the debris of the platform, injured by rebar, and lost consciousness after the explosion.

The helipad and the place under it are quite far away from the main part of the Beira D and the living rooms, so the only person who, as Rennick remembers, should be nearby is McLeary, who didn't have time to board the death carriage. But Rennick is more likely to just call someone, anyone, for help, and McLeary, who has come to his senses, responds, "damn him".

Caz could leave him and walk away, thinking it was karma, but he can't leave, even if there's a man he hates (mutual) under the rubble. McLeary responds, curses Rennick for his cowardly attempt to take off alone, and, following the voice, finds him without glasses, with his face smashed by shrapnel, pinned to the ground by rebar and pieces of a helicopter, and, judging by the shadows on his uniform, wounded.

They continue to quarrel while Caz takes apart the rubble and assembles a kind of lever from the plates and fittings to lift the piece that clamps Rennick's leg. In the moments when Rennick is silenced by the returning pain and the fading adrenaline, Caz slaps him in the face or pisses him off with words, just to keep him awake. McLeary sacrifices his T-shirt under his uniform to put a pressure bandage on Rennick's leg, lifts him up on himself, throws his arm over his shoulder and drags him to the medical unit, promising to resurrect and kill him again if he dies in his arms. The medical center has a bed, an anesthetic and everything for first aid.

After that, Caz will contact Roy by phone, informing him that the evacuation plan has gone wrong, that he is with the wounded Rennick in the medical unit. And he tells Roy to wait for them for a couple of hours - the way isn't close, and the corridors aren't safe. In the meantime, Caz has to lower Rennick's pants, inject painkillers into the thigh muscle, unbutton his shirt from below, examining and feeling the bruises on his ribs, hoping that they aren't broken, and bandage Rennick's leg in not the most sterile conditions, stubbornly pushing aside thoughts-memories of how Rennick, half-delirious under the rubble, asked "don't leave me alone" in the pause between swearing at him.

@volatile95: When they get out, Rennick will be very angry and annoyed with the way McLeary slapped him on the cheeks and pulled down his pants.

Marshall: That's for sure. Out of hurt pride. Caz, of course, was able to slap Rennick a couple of times with impunity, but the circumstances and emotions were completely different from those he had vengefully dreamed of in the past.

Caz might not give a damn about Rennick's pride and convenience, but walking with an almost blind man through a crumbling oil rig with a thousand ladders and holes is a bad idea. So Caz locks Rennick in the infirmary for a while and returns with a spare pair of glasses from his office. Rennick feels better being less dependent on Caz, and Caz apologizes a little for his actions with such a "gift."

Volatile: God, Rennick clearly needed to knock the crown off his head.

Marshall: Oh yeah. Is Rennick loud but safe?

Volatile: Yes. Like big dogs. They are calm, they don't bite for no reason, but they bark loudly.

Marshall: Rennick is freaking out with his helplessness, right?

Volatile: He gets very stressed without glasses. And yes, at first he thought Caz would leave him forever. He cursed him with his last words. Maybe he attacked Caz when he returned to the infirmary. He's really scared, he can barely see, he's stressed.

McLeary knocks Rennick down on the couch, presses his weight against it and growls so that he doesn't twitch and puts glasses on him. Who would have thought that their iron king would have a panic attack. Rennick breathes deeply, clutched Caz, pulled him to himself and hugged him tightly. He shakes silently, his nerves gone. Caz is still on adrenaline and on a whim scoops Rennick into his arms. Caz's paternal instinct works even towards an infuriating old man.

Marshall: Rennick pulls away first. He habitually adjusts the glasses on his nose with his finger, and quietly thanks hoarsely, it isn't clear, for the support, for the glasses, for not abandoning now, or for saving then after the crash, or for everything at once.

Volatile: Yes. He also stealthily wipes his cheek from tears. Caz gives him crutches and helps him up, then he will help him down, and so on, to get to Roy. Rennick stuffed his pockets full of insulin for him.

Marshall: Caz could have brought Rennick a jacket along with his glasses (there's another one on the hanger in his office). Moreover, Caz would have come in it, not in his hands to carry it.

Volatile: Oh, this jacket suits McLeary, but it's small for him.

Rennick: "McLeary, you're as caring as a wifey, my wife is far from you." He also has problems with his wife, a divorce. Caz, unlike her, is the perfect wife, ehe

CAZ DOMINATED RENNICK, SLAPPED HIM ON THE CHEEKS, AND HELPED HIM, AND DRESSED HIM IN WARM, DRY CLOTHES. A JOKE IS A JOKE, BUT THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND HAS ALREADY MADE A NOTE

Marshall: Roy and Rennick will also spend a lot of time together while Caz runs errands on the platform. They're both scared, but not as much together as they are alone.

Volatile: Yeah, and Rennick's keeping an eye on Roy.

Marshall: So that Roy doesn't smoke the whole pack of cigarettes?

Volatile: Rennick forced Roy to chew a carrot, took the cigarettes and took his hand.

Roy's probably still with the ladle. Rennik with crutches.

Marshall: AND CAZ WITH A SCREWDRIVER. THE BEST TEAM. They sit and eat carrots with sour cream and sugar. SO FAR, CAZ HAS A HAPPY HOUSE

Volatile: Caz crawling into the kitchen Roy: "You know, Caz, I quit smoking." Rennick: "We quit" Roy nods and puts his hand on Rennik's shoulder: "And you don't smoke anymore either, after all" scratches Caz's beard and gives him a bowl of carrot salad

Marshall: Caz, starving and with his mouth full of food, "uh-huh". And he's content with a caress, asking how Rennick's leg is, how Roy's sugar level is.

Volatile: "The tourniquet was lowered a little, Dave drinks a lot of water and urinates. Both of us," Roy chuckles, Rennick echoes. This means that Davey is doing well with his kidneys, and Roy is shedding excess sugar. Roy also says quite happily that Rennick has pockets full of insulin, both short-acting and long-acting. A walking first aid kit.

Supply Officer, Defender and Breadwinner, awesome team

Marshall: When they move to the control room, they will bring water and canned food for Finlay and Brodie, because the living rooms, and with them the dining room, are beginning to flood.

Volatile: Caz is, as usual, a porter, a protector, and a guide (Rennick actually leads everyone. He knows the whole Beira D without maps and is able to navigate it with his eyes closed.)

After the rescue, Roy and Rennick lie in the same hospital room. Roy talks a lot, talks about Caz's background. And Rennick doesn't think he's such an asshole anymore (who brought the police to his door)

Caz, remembering that his friend is in the same room with Rennick, takes two bags of fruits and goodies. And two extra pillows. He puts one under Roy's neck, the other under Rennik's leg.

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#still wakes the deep #swtd #text post #fanfiction #fanfic #artists on tumblr #swtd caz #davey rennick #swtd roy #swtd rennick

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