Jack hurried through the corridors, Splicers were chasing him...
too many to fight.

Jack hurried through some doors to an office...

screaming echoed through the dark corridors...
Jack could hear them gaining on him... and ran onto a metal beam only for it to collapse underneath him.
He leapt up to grab a door frame... and hung there by one hand...

after some struggling... he hoisted himself up into the open door... and entered another dark hallway. this time he had no splicers behind him... not yet anyways.

He walked for about an hour before he heard them rushing behind him again... he was running through a tunnel... finding a door then diving through it.

He wished Atlas was there but the radio wasn't functioning right now... signal was down...

Jack screamed as he watched the Splicers arrive, almost getting to him before the metal doors that had appeared to be broken before... slammed close and splattered their blood all over the room and himself.

He shook, panting as he looked around to see whatever could have caused that...
then he noticed a light...
he walked towards it... and then he heard it...
"Jack? Jackaboy are you there?" The voice was coming from that room...

Jack's heart fluttered... no it couldn't be...

He peeked in... and there he was... the man himself... Atlas.
Jack stepped into the room, Atlas wheeling around in a swivel chair...

they stared at eachother for a silent minute before hugging tightly.
"You're here! You're actually here!" Jack sobbed with delight as Atlas chuckled tearfully while petting Jack's hair.
"And'ja made it lad! I was beginnin ta worry...."

Jack and Atlas were finally united... finally having met one another...

Jack shook, he finally felt safe...
Atlas shook... he finally had Jack safe in his arms...

The two snuggled into eachother, just holding eachother and listening to the sounds of eachother's breathing for a while.
"Jackaboy... Let's get you cleaned and rested up, hey?" He asked as Jack nodded.

They reached a bathroom... it'd been a while... Jack stripped down before remembering Atlas was right there. He was quick to cover himself much to the amusement of Atlas. "Ya forgot bout me already, hey?" He snorted humorously before saying.
"Ya have yer bath... I'll get ya some of me old clothes fer ya to wear..." He then left the room...

Jack showered, happy to find shampoo and soap and CONDITIONER! He was so happy he almost wasted it all in one go but he knew they had to ration it so he curbed his excitement.

He was so happy to feel so clean and when he got out, he saw the clothes and put them on after drying himself off.
It was like... home.

before this awful place...

After he exited the bathroom, he sat with Atlas for a bit... talking about his adventures while Atlas nodded along and Jack ate some food for once in a long time...

Then once Jack's hair was dry... he played with the soft fluff, running his fingers through it and fluffing it while Atlas read a book...

by the time it was time to sleep... they'd passed out against eachother.