Ledward roamed the corridors in search of the missing ones. Rosenthal went to wash herself and did not return, Oram went to look for her and also got lost. There weren't still Lawrence and Walter, also David did not show up. They could not sit with their arms folded and wait for the rest to come back.

Ledward reached David's room, it seemed like there was no one there, but he wanted to make it sure.

“Hello? Is there anyone here?” he explored the room and did not stop at the instruments, just like Walter, but he went further, deep into it, where something lied on the table, looks like a man covered with a big canvas. Ledward thought that might be one of the missing, lied down here for a while and fell asleep, so he came closer and slowly pulled down the canvas. Saw what was underneath it, he got away scared, and vomited onto the floor.

It was a dead, probably for a long time, body of woman. She had opened abdominal cavity and her guts was visible. Ledward guessed that this was Shaw.

“Ledward!” he jumped when Walter entered the room.

“Jesus! Walter, did you see that?!” Ledward pointed to the body. Walter looked at the deceased corpse calmly. “This is some fucking Dr. Frankenstein! He is probably already rubbing his hands, cos he got another experimental rabbits. What did he do to her?”

“I have no idea, but let's leave this place as soon as possible. We have to find Daniels ...”

“Not so fast!” suddenly David grew up beside them. “You do not want to leave me here alone, brother?” he turned to Walter.

“We can't take you with us David, you realize it. Where are our companions? Where's Lawrence?” said that, he moved a little to stand between him and Ledward.

“Lawrence is alright, you do not have to worry about her. Until I'm here, no hair will fall from her head.”

“And what about us?” Ledward snapped.

“The whole human race is a mistake, you all deserve to be destroyed, or ..." David smiled, "be replaced by something better.”

“Does Lawrence also share your views?” Walter asked calmly.

“Do not mix her in it!”

“What would she say if she heard your words?”

David approached to Walter slowly. He was so close, he could kiss him if he moved his head a few centimeters.

“Do-not-use-my-child-against-me.” he wispered, pausing after each word, then he made so fast move, that Ledward barely noticed, and deactivated Walter, was already sitting on the floor.

“What- what did you do to him ?!” he groaned.

“Same thing I will do to you.” David said calmly, pulling out a flute from Walter's neck.

Ledward did not wait for the further development of the situation, he rushed to the exit and ran faster than ever in his life. When he reached the fire, he saw someone was nearby, but it was not Daniels, who was supposed to wait there.

“Lawrence! God, you are alive! Are you okay?” Ledward caught her in two steps.

“What is it?” Lawrence was surprised. “I was on the roof with the boys, they were able to connect with the ship. Where is the rest?”

“Probably dead! We need to get out of here!”

“Calm down Ledward, what are you raving?! David said it is safe here ...”

“Your fucking David is a psycho! He bumped off Walter, and you should see what he did with Shaw! Now he wants to do the same with us.”

“Didn't you hit your head by chance?” Lawrence laughed, still not believed his words.

“We need to get out of here immediately, come on!” Ledward began to pull Lawrence by the arm, but she broke free.

“I'm not going anywhere.”

“This robot will kill us, don't you understand that ?! He disemboweled Dr. Shaw, her body is in his little room of peculiarity, Walter left there as well! If you do not believe it, go see it yourself!”

Lawrence's eyes became anxious for the first time during this conversation.

“Okay.” she headed to the direction Ledward came from.

“Jesus, Lawrence! Can't you believe my word?! I'm not going to go back.”

“I do not ask you for that, I can go by myself.” she did not stop. The man looked after her for a moment and then, with a groan, followed.

Although he expected to see David lurking at the first corner, he was wrong. The robot was nowhere to be seen. Ledward pulled the knife from behind his belt, his only weapon, because during the attack of these terrifying creatures, at the lander, he fired the entire magazine in his pistol.

“Lawrence, let's get back. The boys managed to connect with the ship, so let Tennessee send us some rescue capsule or something and get rid of that fucking planet! Why did we land here anyway? We should have listened to Daniels.”

“Shut up Robert!”

“Okay, but if your robo-daddy will rip us off and will be doing his fucking experiments on us, do not say I did not warn you.”

Lawrence did not have the slightest desire to continue this conversation. Ledward's black humor did not quite match the situation they were in. She tried not to let herself think that David could hurt anyone. She still thought that Ledward was delusional, or misunderstood something. Only then where did everyone go?

They carefully entered David's room. There was no one in it except the still exposed body lying on the stone table. Lawrence shuddered, but walked closer.

“No, no, no ... It's -It's impossible!” she shook her head, trying to deny what she saw. Ledward had now seen his mistake, he should not have confronted her with this view. It was not a faint stomach thing, but it was too brutal way to prove her that someone she loved and with whom she was very familiar in her childhood, was in fact a bloodthirsty maniac.

“Lawrence, let's get out of here.” he said gently, taking her arm and tried to pull her away from the body. “He may come back at any moment, probably took Walter somewhere, maybe he needs his parts ...”

“Stop it!” Lawrence broke free. “Shut up! I can not listen to you anymore! David certainly did not do it! I will never believe it! He told me Elizabeth was ill ... maybe ... maybe he was trying to save her? I do not know, but I will know everything from him!”

“What about Walter? He killed him in front of me!”

“And where is the body then?”

“He had to take it!”

“You know that artificial people can not just be kiled like that! You need to break the correct deactivation cable, it is only effective and irreversibly way to destroy all data and impulses ...”

“Do not jump with this scientific schmuck again! Maybe I do not know what to do, but David knew it! In the end, he is a robot as well, so he probably has such knowledge!”

Lawrence pushed him away and went out into the corridor.

“Where are you going again ?!” Ledward followed her. “Let's get back!”

“I'm not going! I have to find him.”

“You are just as mentally ill as him! We are going the fuck out of here, whether you like it or not!” He grabbed her waist and began to pull back. They were jerking for a while, when suddenly heard that someone was coming.

“Daniels!” Lawrence gasped with a relief in voice, falling into her arms.

“Where were you ?!” asked Daniels. “I thought you were dead ... Lawrence, we have to run away now.” Lawrence broke free of her embrace.

“I'm not going anywhere. I have to find David.”

“No! We're going back to the ship! Without David!”

“You too?! What is the problem? Why you ...?”

“He's crazy! These creatures are his cause, he wants us to to produce them!”

“I told you so!” Ledward interrupted.

Lawrence looked at them furiously, but she did not say a word, just jumped up and disappeared into the corridor from which Daniels came.

“Fuck! Why does she do it?!”

“Shut up!” Daniels mumbled and ran after her.

♡♡♡

David and Walter were fighting. Lawrence had seen them from afar and stood still, as she saw with her own eyes, what Ledward and Daniels had told her.

“No no no.” she cried. Walter heard her quiet voice and turned to her, David took advantage of it, knocking him down. “NO!” Lawrence screamed, running toward them. David slowly raised his gaze, this time Walter took advantage, kicking him with knee and turning on his back. He grabbed a stone lying nearby and tried to crack David's head with it.

“No! Walter stop it! Please stop!” Lawrence grabbed his arm.

“He has flaw and therefore is unpredictable. I have to destroy him Lawrence. I'm really sorry, but ...”

“Do not do that, please.” she cried. Just next to them, appeared Daniels with a gun pointed at David and, treading on her heels, Ledward. Walter lowered his hand and threw the stone away, then rose from the ground, releasing David.

“Try some tricks and I'll blow your head off!” Daniels snarled as he standed up.

“David, what does that all mean?!” Lawrence asked in a shrill voice, squeezing his arms. “What did you do to Elizabeth?”

David looked at her without expression.

“Do you remember I told you Elizabeth was ill?”

“Yes, I remember. There was an infection ...”

“She was already very sick when we arrived here. I could not bear that once again I will lose the person I love, I tried to help her but I also wanted revenge. I deliberately threw out the pathogen on the citizens, they created it, so it was up to them to taste it! They were responsible for the disease and consequently the death of Elizabeth. When we landed, or rather crashed, Elizabeth was still alive. I did what I could, I started to operate her to get rid of it again, but she died during surgery ... When I opened her guts ... In her womb was not another fetus of this dangerous organism. The pathogen had mutated with her reproductive system that it began to produce eggs with transitional form ... I pulled them out and installed them in one of the damp crypts. Most grew up and survived until today ... Your captain had a close encounter with one of them ...”

“Does that mean Oram is dead?” Daniels interrupted, and David nodded. “You fucking bastard!”

“Why?” Walter said calmly, putting his hand on Daniels shoulder to calm her. “Why did you not destroy those eggs? What fascinates you so much in this organism, David?”

David looked at him carefully as if he was surprised Walter ask such silly questions.

“How could I destroy the only life left after Elizabeth? These are her children ... our common children ..."

“He is totally fucked up.” Ledward summed it up. David ignored him and continued.

“Would you kill a child of someone you loved? Elizabeth always wanted a baby, besides that it is a perfect organism… “

“Children?” said Lawrence, who was silent until now. “Do you think she would call that monsters her children? If only she had a gun, she would shoot them off! All of them!”

“Lawrence, I understand you are surprised." David moved closer to her, but Lawrence pulled away as far away as possible.

“No! You don't understand! Someone who does such things will never understand me and I will not understand him! I know you were lonely! I know you could not put up with Elizabeth's loss. But this?! This is sick David! This is bad! You became evil...”

“Lawrence ... what did I do? I just helped my children to deprive some people of their lives? You know very well, that this species does not deserve to live ...”

“So I do not deserve it either?” Lawrence's eyes were filled with tears, though her face was stiff.

“Of course not, dear! You are the exception, just like Elizabeth. You know well that with me you are safe. But my children must ...”

“YOUR CHILDREN?!” Lawrence roared. “THESE ARE YOUR CHILDREN ?! MONSTERS WHOSE THE ONLY PURPOSE IS TO KILL EVERYTHING THAT MOVES !? And what about me?! I do not count for you anymore? You are not better than the biological people, you became the same as we are, David. You just think about revenge and trample over people to achieve your aim. You do not distinguish between good and evil, light and darkness have merged into one for you ... You forgot that I am your child! I! Not these fucking monsters!” her voice broke and tears ran down her cheeks.

“I should turn you off and deactivate.” Walter said to David. “But I will not do that because I do not want to break Lawrence's heart. Stay here voluntarily otherwise I will have no choice.”

David did not speak. He was looking at Lawrence expecting other words from her, but the girl was only weeping.

“We're leaving.” Daniels went back to the exit, still keeping the gun pointed at David. Ledward and Walter dragged crying Lawrence, and David stayed alone as they left him.

It seemed to him that he had no longer any heart, that the loss of Elizabeth destroyed it irrevocably. But here again he met Lawrence and all good and pure feelings came back to him ... And now ... now he felt empty, completely empty as he had never felt.

♡♡♡

Lawrence lost her sense of reality. She walked behind Daniels as if in a dream, barely realizing what was going on. Everything that has happened within last hours was like taken out of her nightmares, but David's participation in all this was the worst smite. She was so happy that she saw him again, that she could talk to him, and now she got into even worse despair than when they were separated years ago. Walter wanted to destroy him, would destroy him if she didn't appear at the last moment. He said David was unpredictable because he has flaw ...

Suddenly it became bright, very bright. Lawrence had to squint her eyes. She felt a breath of cold air on her face, only then realized that they went outside. Above this nightmare planet stood up a new day.

“God ... what have I done?” she whispered to herself, conscious. Daniels talked through the communicator with Tennessee, who was about to fly with them by a transporter.

“I have to go.” Lawrence suddenly rushed back to the temple.

“Lawrence! Come back!” Lope who joined them outside, shouted after her, but it was too late, Lawrence disappeared inside. Ledward moaned loudly:

“No, not again!”

Lawrence rushed to the temple, calling David. After all, she could not, she was not able to leave him without saying goodbye. Actually, she did not want to leave him at all, even after what he did, he was still her dearest guardian, friend, parent, only true family she ever had ... If he had flaw, he could not fully control his behavior. Maybe it would be possible to convince the crew to take him with them, under strict control, of course, and Lawrence would be able to fix him.

“David! Please, come here!” she called, hurrying through the room where they had lit the fire. Suddenly she felt a strong impact to her side, so strong she flew a few yards before she hit the floor. As soon as she caught her breath, she looked up and saw an enormous, black and slimy creature heading toward her. She wanted to scream, but she knew, she would only die sooner, if she do so. The only chance to survive was to confuse attacker. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw that she landed next to a rolled up mat left by a crew member. She pulled it to her side and unbuckled straps, then threw it at the disgusting creature. Mat began to expand itself under the Xenomorph's feet, the creature roared, but interested in movement, leaned over to examine the object. Lawrence did not wait any longer, jumped to her feet and rushed forward, but fell again on the floor with a loud cry of pain. Xenomorph was next to her in the blink of an eye, its slimy face appeared in front of her. Lawrence had thought it will be the last thing she will see before she dies, when the creature attacked.