A while back now, Elias had been an Artic Research Field Medic at the very start of your relationship with him. He’d been well established, then… one day they sent him home in a container.

You hadn’t known, but when you got to work, he was there in a containment zone, made to look like your old shared apartment. You were informed that he’d been infected and whatever had taken over him, at the time, had been the only thing alive when they found him. Nowadays, you were the only scientist working on the case and you felt like you were getting closer.

Today, a couple soldiers had come down to bother you about making Elias into a war tool, to which you’d turned them down. And Elias was starting to wake as they stared at him, you stood in the background.