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Chapter 2
It was all over the news. The gist of it was something like this, “We have a strange story that your going to have to see to believe.” On TV's and computer screens all across the world was the hotel in the sky. It was no longer gaining altitude anymore, it was simply hovering there as if to say “Hey, look at me.” The rockets were still firing off, but not anymore than necessary to keep it from falling.
Inside the floor was no longer shaking, only a dull vibration from the rocket thrusters.
“You mean to tell me you had no clue you had Apollo 13 under your hotel?!” the father told the clerk behind the counter. The clerk was a husky fellow with a shaved head and dark skin. He held up his hands, “Look man..I'm just as confused as you are, I wanna know too. If only these dumb phones would work.” he stared back at his cell phone sitting on the counter with disgust, shaking his head.
Claire was in the restroom bent over the sink rinsing her eyes, they still stung a little. She got the worst of the gas since she was closest when her evil twin decided to go off on them. “Are you alright?” asked her brother who stood beside her.
“Yeah..are you?”
“Yeah..I just hope whoever is behind all of this has mercy on us.”
Claire straightened herself and grabbed some paper towels, looking at him with regret, “I'm sorry I brought you into this..I shouldn't have.”
“It's not your fault Claire,” he smiled, thinking she was absurd, “I mean, who in the world could have predicted this? This is unreal.”
She smiled back, “Yeah, I guess your right.”
“Really I'm glad I came. Imagine how worried we would be if you were up here alone? No..at least here we can protect you. And if we die, so be it, but not so long as I can help it.”
“Thanks..” she said and leaned forward to hug him. As they hugged she began to tear up and say “I just don't want anyone else to die because of me, never again.”
“Oh..that,” memories of his mother's death flooded his mind, “I know..I know. We'll get through this, be strong.”
After a very brief moment of silence he said, “Ya know..people have to know we're up here. There is no way you miss a hotel lifting off. This isn't NASA for crying out loud.”
Claire pulled away from him, “I know..assuming we don't gain too much altitude they could just send us some choppers. In the meantime..” At that moment a light bulb as it were went off, her blue eyes began to glitter with ideas.
“What is it?” Jack asked.
“Why are the lights and water still on? We are up in the air, we aren't connected to ANY grid whatsoever.”
“Uh..yeah, I hadn't thought of that.”
“This place must have a power source of it's own, and if it has a power source..it must have a control room. We have to find it, come on.”
She walked past her tall brother to leave and his eyebrow raised, “What? You think this is a spaceship?”
“I don't know, but then again, anythings possible now. What I really wanna know is..who's behind this? Maybe we can find out when we find the control room?”
“Maybe it's your evil twin.” he said as he followed her out.
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