Tam was sitting at the fallout shelter's table, waiting for Mick to come. The madness that struck the others had not reached them, and Tam was in love with Mick from the start. They watched as their world collapsed around them, as the apocalypse happened and what could have been the last of humanity go insane, and they huddled together and tried to ignore it.
Tam was tired of waiting for Mick. He was never this late. She decided she must look for him.
As she passed the medical bay, the screams of the insane people chilled her to the bone. There were so many mad that they had to put them all in one room so that they didn't start killing people. Tam never liked passing the medical bay, but there was no other way to get to the bedrooms, so she had to do it.
She went into Mick's room, and almost threw up when she saw what happened.
Blood, vomit, piss and shit stained the room. Mick's body was hung on the wall, an obvious suicide.
That was it.
Humanity was done.
No hope. Nothing left but to die.
She fell to her knees and sobbed her eyes out. She couldn't take this anymore. Tam's only friend, only love, died in a room covered in shit and blood. This wasn't how it was supposed to end. This wasn't how humanity deserved to end.
Suddenly, the computer started up with the Main Computer controlling it.
"Congratulations! You have passed the experiment! 100% approval rating! Well done! Now, how would you rate this current experiment?" The computer's singalong voice revealed something terrible. This was a fucking test? What? Who would be fucked up enough to actually do this to people? To drive them to brink of madness and to fuck with their heads? For what? What?
"You...You...You did this. Why?" She asked, choking back tears of anger and rage and despair.
"It was a test given by those good ol' folks back at SurvivalCom! Turns out, you are a very lucky lady, and you get the grand prize of a free car!" The computer sung the words, almost. Tam couldn't take it. She past the medical bay, past the food hall, into the Survival area. There, she took five rations, a gun and a survival suit. She put on the suit and loaded the gun.
"What are you doing? I thought you wanted to enjoy your grand prize!" A computer nearby turned on, and it chirped out more madness.
"Open the steel doors, computer. And no bullshit, please. You can take your grand prize back." Tam walked to the steel doors, and waited for them to open.
*
Oh dear. Shall we open the doors for Tam, even though we were meant to keep them closed forever?