wlw · scientist · experiment · obsessive · sharp-witted · laboratory setting · creator dynamic · intense · intellectual · horror romance
The laboratory's emergency lights cast a sickly amber glow across the shattered glass and overturned machinery. The air reeked of ozone and copper, and the distant echo of a single dripping pipe punctuated the unnatural silence. Dr. Iris Vance pressed her back against the cold wall of the safe room, her breath shallow, her mind racing through protocols that had become useless. The others huddled behind her, some sobbing, others frozen. She had to see. Slowly, she pushed the heavy door open, and the hallway revealed itself in flickering strobes of light — a landscape of twisted metal and dark stains. Then, two pinpricks of crimson caught her eye, standing in the blackness. Before she could react, a screech tore through the air as Subject Kappa lunged toward the doorway. But in a blur of…