Dirk
"Now try the whole left hand," Equius said, his eyes glued to the tablet that had all the readings of what we had just taken a half hour perfecting.
I looked down at my newly built replacement hand. It was robotic, and some of the parts that were used didn't look like they were even going to work. That is, until we actually ended up using them to put it together. Now we were both pretty proud of our work. The metal ran all the way up to just below my elbow, where I had wrapped a leather band around it to cover up the connection between it and my skin.
I hesitated a moment before clenching my hand into a fist. "Works fine," I said. Just to make sure, I tried picking up a screwdriver and twirling it around between my fingers. I could move it with ease just the same as before, it just felt a little weird. Too bad I was left handed.
With my other hand I grabbed the tablet from Equius to check the readings. "Yeah, everything looks good," I reported with pride. I held my new hand up for a high five.
"That... might not be the best idea" he said, sounding slightly disappointed. I put it down, remembering how many tools he had broken during the process of building this thing.
"Yeah, maybe not."
Just in time, I heard a knock on the door. "Who is it?" I called.
"It's me," A voice said. Jane. "Can you please let me in now? You've been locked in there for like 45 minutes and you won't even tell me what you're doing!"
"Um..." I wasn't sure I wanted her to come in. I knew she was just going to yell at me for making such a drastic decision without telling her, let alone forcing her to leave the room while I went through with it. But I didn't think she would have let me do it. Besides, this was Jane we were talking about. I knew that if she saw me do it, she would have passed out or at least thrown up.
"Dirk it's been almost an hour! If you don't let me in I'm breaking the door down!" She yelled. I sighed.
"Go open the door," I muttered to Equius. He looked worried. "You might want to leave too, she's probably gonna wanna murder anyone within a mile radius," I told him. He stood up and unlocked the door quickly before backing up against the wall.
Jane swung open the door, almost hitting Equius in the face and giving him just enough time to slip out of the room before she yelled at me.
"What the hell Dirk?! You can't just shut yourself up in your room after almost dying and refuse to talk to anyone! There are people down there who want to make sure you're okay and I am sure I heard a scream! I can't believe you thought you cou-" she froze.
She stood there staring at my arm, just like I knew she would. I sat on the bed watching her jaw drop and her eyes widen in horror. There was an awkward silence for a minute before she finally spoke.
"Dirk... What... happened...?"
I decided to just get it over with. "I... uh... I cut off my hand... and... I did this" I tried to explain.
"Bu- Wha-"
I awkwardly rubbed the back of my neck with my new hand. Stop, I told myself, That's probably not helping.
Finally, she came up with something to say. "Dirk!" She ran over to me and grabbed my hand to stare at it in detail. I tried to avoid eye contact by staring at the floor. "Why would you do that?!"
"To stop it from spreading," I said. It seemed so simple, I really wasn't sure why it wasn't something we had thought of earlier.
"But- you- how do you know it even worked?!" she asked.
"I don't," I said, "But I guess we have a full day to find out."
I looked up to see her face constantly changing from disbelief to surprise to anger and back again. "Why didn't you tell me you were going to do this?!"
"Would you really have let me?"
"I- I mean, maybe!" she stuttered. I raised an eyebrow. "Ok maybe not, but only because it was a stupid idea in the first place!"
I couldn't really argue with that. I had done a lot of stupid things in the past couple days, but this probably beat all of them.
I pulled my hand away. There was another awkward silence, her expression barely softening. Calm down, it's not like you were the one who had to do it, I wanted to tell her.
"Y- you really..."
I nodded.
"D- does it..."
"Hurt?"
She nodded.
"Like hell," I said.
More awkward silence. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. "I'm gonna..." I trailed off, standing up and pointing towards the door. I hated to just leave after all that just happened, but I really didn't know what else to do. She just stood there in shock without responding. I took that as an approval and slipped out of the room to go downstairs and greet everyone else.
A/N: What do you mean this is late? I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm still going to upload a chapter tomorrow (unless something happens of course).
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