Lost

Lost
Male former test subject reader x Chell


You squinted your E/c eyes as the morning sun blinded you momentarily, its warm rays of light filled your body as your skin had only recently regained its S/c shine which it lost from to much time in suspension sleep. You turned behind smiling to the only human contact you had. Chell. With her help you had both somehow managed to best GlaDOS at her own game or perhaps test would be more accurate? Anyhow thanks to a certain moronic yet endearing blue eyes core Chell managed to knock you from suspension sleep and the team was set.

You chuckled remembering Chell's face when she first broke your suspension sleep, a deep look of confusion and relief seemed to wash over her perhaps relishing the fact that for who knows how long she met something that operated on a thinking brain and a beating heart. While she could be kind she was also very aloof always trying to do everything herself and arguing with her was a mute point and not because she was mute. Her stubbornness actually saved your life a number of times, but you managed to return that favor plenty of times over with your own sarcastic yet level headed personality that would stop her from anything suicidal.

Snapping her fingers Chell made a face of worry as she began waving her hands in front of your face "oh sorry I got lost in thought" you chuckled. Checking over the endless sea of wheat you groaned "as far as we know all we can do is move forward" nodding Chell grabbed the burnt companion cube hoisting it over her back and began the slow walk up the hill "you know I can carry that thing to" you called out causing her to hug it defensively her cheeks red in embarrassment "it's just a cube with hearts I don't get it" you sighed following quickly after her. It was true that after leaving Aperture Chell had guarded that damn cube like a mother always keeping you away and wiping away the burnt scars as best she could when it rained. Finally you reached the tip of the hill the wheat below glowed with the sun making it seem like a river of gold, the breeze picked up cooling you down, and far into the distance you could still see the entrance to Aperture "can you believe that almost a month ago we were deep below this earth?" You whispered to yourself. Deep in reminisce Chell shook your shoulder violently before sighing realizing you were once again gone in thought, heaving up the cube she tossed it at you slamming straight into your jaw "are you trying to kill me?!" You yelled holding your jaw as Chell dropped into a dry laughter "alright laugh it up ill get you later" you sighed reaching for the companion cube "it's incredibly light!" You said throwing it up a bit before Chell ripped it from your hands laying it squarely by her side.

Night came quickly perhaps it was because of the lack of adrenaline vapor but you're bodies seemed to have managed a form of addiction to it and because you were exposed to it 24/7 you both tired much easier without it. Luckily the sun was setting and the near bottom of the mountain shielded you both from the breeze, but it got cold at night forcing you and Chell to sleep relatively close to each other to share and maintain body heat. Truly if it wasn't a matter of survival Chell would've beaten your head in with the companion cube the moment you mentioned it.

Stranded in the middle of nowhere, nothing to eat, drinking rain water from the dirt, and constantly traveling in the hopes of finding anything resembling a human made structure. You sighed in exasperation as your dirtied and aching feet stung from the wheat grass cutting it open "Chell" you began but paused noticing the way her gaze was set at the endless space of the sky "you're worried about Wheatley aren't you?" While he wasn't the brightest that being an understatement  if it wasn't for Wheatley neither you nor Chell would have been able to avoid the majority of GlaDOS traps including shutting down her turrets or neurotoxins which was accessible thanks to him. By instinct Chell began to hide herself away using the companion cube to block you from coming closer.

Chell never cry's. you found that out very quickly and you only ever saw her cry twice, once when Wheatley banished her to Under Aperture and the other when she fell unconscious after he was banished into space, you had been there but your left leg was broken thanks to a misadventure with a turret you didn't see coming leaving you unable to help her rip Wheatley from the grips of space and you hated yourself for it. Though she had forgiven you saying it wasn't your fault in her own way. Unconsciously you rubbed your cheek setting yourself besides her and smiling “you know I wonder sometimes" staring back at you Chell quickly snuffed out her tears "we survived a lot of crap don't you think?" Immediately you both began laughing and talking with you doing the talking about all the funny and weird and scary and everything that Aperture seemed to offer and then she just jumped you. As If finally letting the feelings she had pent up inside for who knows how long "you kept your sadness pent up but now you shouldn't worry anymore" looking back down you found her sound asleep tears still welling slightly "it's not weakness one person just can't hold on to sadness for years at a time" you smiled pecking her on the forehead before Falling asleep yourself.

Months passed as Chell picked up her pace vaulting herself over a few wayward rocks before gasping in surprise her face In the widest smile she gave in a long while "we're finally here!" You wiped a few tears from your eyes both from your own sorrow and the joy of meeting people. Years passed as you traveled through the world as a photographer and journalist. Meanwhile Chell had all but vanished and you hadn't heard from her in a while. Your plane was delayed the storm stranding you in a large airport "damn now what!"?" Lost in thought you didn't realize when a woman approached you smiling "do I know you?" And then it hit you. Chell smiled and opened her mouth "it's nice to see you again Y/n".