Sarah looked at the tall, robotic man smile at her like he was about to do her a favor.
With her eyes widely open, she did the only thing that she came up with:
She looked and extended her palms towards him, making a T with her hands, moving them to call attention to it, while closing her eyes in fear...
And that was it for her.
Or... Instead, she realized that the blackness and the silence were just taking too long.
So, she opened her eyes.
At that moment, she saw the man, with a curious and surprised expression, looking at her.
She also looked at him scared and confused.
"How long will the pause take?" The man said, somewhat excited and impatient.
She shaked her head in disbelief. Just by doing a simple T with her hands, something only a child would take seriously, something she did as a kid to pause a game to say something... That worked with him.
Afraid to lose her only chance to live, she made another sign with her hands.
She made a 1 to make him wait one second.
The man nodded, smiling, interested.
Without taking her eyes of him, she took one sticky note of her desk, wich was by her side, and a pen. She then wrote something in it.
After a brief pause to breathe, she extended the note towards him, offering it with her hands shaking.
The man, looking at her red eyes shedding tears and frightened expression, stopped smiling.
Now looking quite concerned and disencouraged, he got near to her and took the note.
The note said:
"Why do you want to kill me?"
He stared at it, confused for such a question. Then, he looked at her and said:
"Well... To help you!" smiling just to think about it "Isn't this what you want?" He continued, bewildered.
She stared at him with a stronger expression, as that information gave her important insight into the situation.
Immediately, she took another sticky note and wrote something.
He was very surprised, she kept writing things instead of talking, he had never seen anything like that.
After a few seconds, she delivered it to him.
He took it and read it. It said:
"Why do you think I want to die?"
He immediately tilted his head back and saw her in shock.
"Huh?" He said, "Well... Isn't that what everyone wants? That's what all of you humans keep telling me! Besides, that's what your friend told me"
When Sarah heard those last words, she shaked her head in disbelief again.
She breathed deeply, thinking in a way to come out of that situation.
An idea came to her, and she rushed to write the last note.
It said:
"When you die, you can't feel anything anymore. You won't have the opportunity to enjoy anything else ever again... You know that, right? I don't want that"
He read it...
Sarah started to wander what happened because, even though he read the note, he didn't move.
His face kept showing more and more concern, as if he was realizing that he had done something horrible.
She, on the other hand, was fearing the worst; he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
"But..." He said, "then, why did all of those people asked me to do it?"
Sarah, then, wrote something else for him.
"Sometimes humans don't think things through... Other times, we don't mean to say certain words. The truth is, nobody can be happy while they're dead"
Completely destroyed, he got on his knees, looking down.
Overwhelmed by emotions, still covered in blood, looked up to Sarah and said:
"What have I done..?"
Sarah stared at him concerned and confused. She didn't know what to say.