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On humans 18th birthday, they started to see the red thread that guilds them to their soulmate. Most people would meet their soulmate before the age 25, but there were some cases that left them up for debate.
On your 18th birthday, like everyone else, it appeared.you had jumped with so much excrement and ran to the kitchen to show it off to our parents.
“Mom! Dad! Look” you shouted with complete joy.
“Did your thread pop up?” Your father looked up from his laptop with his glasses perched on his nose.
You ran over and practically shoved you finger up his nose from excitement. He laughed and shoved your finger from his face and held it out in front of him.
“Look at this, ma. She gonna get married!” you blushed at your dad and pulled you hand away.
“Dad! I haven’t even met him yet!” you said to him as you stuck you nose out in the air.
“Or her!” you mom chided from pantry.
“or her” you echoed back more quietly to yourself as you looked fondly at you finger holding you hand close to your face.
“Well. yank it.” you dad said looking back at his device.
“Yank it?” you looked at him questioning
“if you yank it your soulmate will feel it and more than likely yank it back, its how your mom and I met” you father looked over to the pantry.
“well, more like I yanked it so hard with the thread being almost complete that I pulled your father over a stair case banister….” walking out of the pantry with a loaf of bread blushing at the memory.
“See, Y/N. Almost killing your soul mate will be handy when your thread is almost complete.” Your dad barked out a laugh when your mom smacked him with the loaf of bread.
You let out a nervous laugh as you looked at the faded off part of the string. you gently tugged on it a couple times hoping for something. For a long while nothing happen. You felt your heart tug a bit and when nothing clearly happened.
“Dont worry, my dear.” Your mother walked around the table and hugged you close. “You’r thread is still young, not only that your soulmate might be younger than you. Do not fret, there is still so much time for you to meet them.”
The reassurance your mother gave you raised your sprites immensely. You nodded at her. “Thanks mom and dad.” you hugged your mom back and kissed your dad on the cheek.
As you got older that small event still stuck with you. You knew something was off about it you just couldn’t properly put you finger on it. Slowly the years had passed and your thread didn’t get any longer like those around you. you started to think that maybe, your soul mate was long gone.
The hushed whispers, the pitied glances, and the heartfelt looks but did nothing but fuel the anger and misery. So, if the world decided that you would would be punished for something that didn’t even know what you did, you would help in in return. Medicine became your haven.
Specifically, technological medicine. Cyrostasis, prosthetics, you name it. you had blue prints, prototypes, information that would benefit the world, or in the wrong hands destroy it.
Looking at the prototype of the cryostasis and its blue prints with it a hand holding a cup of coffee moved passed you, placing the cup above the blue print. You looked up and saw your assistant.
“Roger, Thank you!” you grabbed the cup and drank the liquid greedily. Roger smiled. “I thought you could use a pick-me-up.” he said walking around the blueprint table and to the proto.
“So, how well do you think this is going to work. People have high hopes for this, especially the buyers.” he tapped on the panel that open the top. The top made a whine noise and the top opened up like a flower. he looked on the inside looking for any type of leak.
“Well, its a proto. I expect it to work with some problems. Its almost complete and it works better than i anticipated.” you droned off as you fixed a part to it. “We rather large diamond to function as it power sources.”
“A diamond?” Roger shot up and looked at you with shock. “Y/N you cant be serious! Where did you even get something like that?”
“A generous donor. In fact I expect it much sooner than later.” You said as you got up and put the part in it respective place. “It that?” Roger walked around to watch you put the part in. Your hand expertly placed it in and when the powered finally hit it, the diamond glowed and shined. You pulled your hands out of the gap and tapped in a code that promptly locked and secured the power source.
Roger clapped and turned his head and looked at the clock and gasped. “Aw man I gotta get home! The Mr is expectin’ me!” he scrambled around for his stuff, you laughed.
“Tell Robert I said Merry Christmas!” you yelled at him as he ran off.”I will, Merry Christmas, Y/N!” You waved at him until he disappeared around the corner of the door. You sighed at looked down at you hand.
“Merry Christmas, love” you kissed the thread on you finger. After you looked around at the mess in your lab and huffed.
“Well, I should pick up shouldn’t I?” you rolled up all the tools and extra parts. Shuffling around as you wiped up spills, and swept up the debris on the floor. After you were finished, you picked up the blue print and scanned it into the computer putting the file in a USB on you necklace. After the scan was finished you put the necklace back on and the blue print in a safe.
“Ah man its late!” you looked at the clock. Suddenly, hands grabbed you from behind.
“Open the safe and no one gets hurt.” A deep voice rasped from behind. all you could do was nod as the man dragged you over to the safe. The man let go of one of your arms but still had his hand over your mouth.
“Open it.”
You shakily moved your hand towards the spin lock. Gripping your hand to a fist you elbowed the guy int the side hard enough from him to let go. Adrenaline running though your veins you ran to the phone only to be picked up and shoved on a glowing table. You tried to fight him off but he suddenly had his hands around your throat.
Blood pounded in your ears are you tried to claw him off, your vision going spotting from lack of oxygen. After what seemed like years, the hands were gone and as your vision returned to you you figured out why.
The Cryostasis pod’s top was locking up.
“NO!” you tried to keep it from closing but all was fruitless.
“HELP!” you pounded on the pods hatch “PLEASE!”
“Stasis online”
“Holy shit, it works.” you gawked at the lettering on the hatch door.
“Cyro activating in 10 seconds.”
“N-No! Abort!”
“9″
“STOP”
“8″
“Computer Stop Countdown!” You screamed hystarically
“7″
“PLEASE!”
“6″
“stop…please..”
“5″
“4″
“3″
Tears dripped down your cheeks.
“2″
You looked down at your finger and eyed the thread
“Im sorry..”
“1″
A mist started to spray over you. Knowing what it was you tried to hold your breath to from keep from breathing it in. On the hatch’s screen appeared more lettering.
“Start Date December 25, 2016″
“End Date December 25, 2616″
Your eyes widen in shock and you took a huge breath of air. As fast as that breath was taken in darkness filled your vision; numbness ran though your body.