クレジット
タイトル: Decoy
著者: ©︎agatharights
翻訳: Popepape does not match any existing user name
原記事: [* https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-decoy]
参照リビジョン: 13
作成年: 2010
Clef felt a little regretful, he would have to admit. He’d always found Rights very agreeable, if not the brightest bulb on the chandelier. At the very least, he felt sorry enough to sit at her bedside with a small sigh and take his time prepping the weapon. It really was regretful, he sighed, that it would come to this. Of all the people to ever get out of the foundation, Rights seemed like a good candidate to be able to stay out.
She had chutzpah.
Hell, anybody who left the Foundation without the Foundation’s express approval or a full memory wipe had chutzpah to spare.
And very good friends to smuggle herself out.
He absently hummed to himself as he screwed the suppressor onto the barrel of the gun, checking it over and re-checking it, before glancing back at Rights. She was still asleep, brow furrowed in fitful dreams. He paused, and wondered what life must have been like for her outside of the foundation, raising her little monster.
The years had taken their toll on both of them, it seemed. In forms of grey hair and deep lines and arthritic hands. He mused over what sort of strange traits the years and years of exposure to SCPs had awakened in her.
He had to do this quietly.
After all, even he wasn’t bullheaded enough to consider going up against even a low-level reality bender head-on anymore, if there was a choice. Especially one that knew him. He was getting far too old for that.
For too old indeed, he thought as he stood, feeling his joints creak a little.
Old, but still the best.
He leveled the weapon to her temple, and pulled the trigger with a dulled pop, like a car door slamming. She twitched once, the reflex tossing the blanket off her, and then went still permanently.
Clef took the time to say “I’m sorry.” And rearrange the blankets back around her.
After waiting a few seconds and listening to make sure nobody else awoken or was listening in, and then he crept back to the hallway, moving slow and checking the rooms as he passed them. Bathroom. An empty guest room. Work studio. Nursery…
He slipped into the nursery and glanced over the edge of the crib. The tot was fast asleep, thumb in mouth, holding on tight to a handmade quilt, entirely unaware. Clef sighed. This was too easy, but he’d rather too easy than too hard any day. He reached into the crib with the weapon, and with another dull pop, the porcelain head of the doll burst into fragments.
And he reeled back.
This wasn’t the target.
He reached into the crib, and his fears were confirmed. A doll, just a doll. It may have looked like a toddler in the dim light, but it was just a doll. He pulled the quilt off, and froze. A small black box with a post-it note on it sat there, amidst the broken doll and baby clothes.
He picked it up.
“Clef,
I knew you’d come for me,
I never did get to say goodbye.
-Hugs and Kisses
The former Dr. Rights”
There was a long moment of shocked silence, followed by intense cussing.
The man sat in his car across the street, window rolled down, and glanced up quietly as he heard Clef’s voice carrying, and rolled up the window. This was going to be loud.
Clef paused as he heard a noise, just a faint, high-pitched pinging, and glanced down. On the little black box, a red circle lit up. Followed by another. And another.
“Oh, come on-“
The man smirked slightly as the explosion rocked the car, before frowning when the child sleeping in the backseat stirred and let out a wail. “Oh, oh…hey, hey girl.” He murmured as he climbed into the backseat with her, offering a soft smile and taking the little girl’s hand, his middle-eastern skin so much darker than hers, pale as porcelain. Even this young, Bijhan could see the resemblance to her mother. “Shh, shh, shh…don’t you worry, Ophie. Lets get you to your new home…”
She looked up at him with such pale, pale eyes with no shine to them at all, glassy and inhuman, and sniffled.
ページコンソール
批評ステータス
カテゴリ
SCP-JP本投稿の際にscpタグを付与するJPでのオリジナル作品の下書きが該当します。
本投稿の際にgoi-formatタグを付与するJPでのオリジナル作品の下書きが該当します。
本投稿の際にtaleタグを付与するJPでのオリジナル作品の下書きが該当します。
翻訳作品の下書きが該当します。
他のカテゴリタグのいずれにも当て嵌まらない下書きが該当します。
言語
EnglishРусский한국어中文FrançaisPolskiEspañolภาษาไทยDeutschItalianoУкраїнськаPortuguêsČesky繁體中文Việtその他日→外国語翻訳日本支部の記事を他言語版サイトに翻訳投稿する場合の下書きが該当します。
コンテンツマーカー
ジョーク本投稿の際にジョークタグを付与する下書きが該当します。
本投稿の際にアダルトタグを付与する下書きが該当します。
本投稿済みの下書きが該当します。
イベント参加予定の下書きが該当します。
フィーチャー
短編構文を除き数千字以下の短編・掌編の下書きが該当します。
短編にも長編にも満たない中編の下書きが該当します。
構文を除き数万字以上の長編の下書きが該当します。
特定の事前知識を求めない下書きが該当します。
SCPやGoIFなどのフォーマットが一定の記事種でフォーマットを崩している下書きが該当します。
シリーズ-JP所属
JPのカノンや連作に所属しているか、JPの特定記事の続編の下書きが該当します。
JPではないカノンや連作に所属しているか、JPではない特定記事の続編の下書きが該当します。
JPのGoIやLoIなどの世界観用語が登場する下書きが該当します。
JPではないGoIやLoIなどの世界観用語が登場する下書きが該当します。
ジャンル
アクションSFオカルト/都市伝説感動系ギャグ/コミカルシリアスシュールダーク人間ドラマ/恋愛ホラー/サスペンスメタフィクション歴史任意
任意A任意B任意C-
- _
注意: 批評して欲しいポイントやスポイラー、改稿内容についてはコメントではなく下書き本文に直接書き入れて下さい。初めての下書きであっても投稿報告は不要です。批評内容に対する返答以外で自身の下書きにコメントしないようお願いします。
- portal:8207850 (22 Aug 2022 22:39)