Chapter 4- Eternal sleep

When Oliver came back to the main lab room Sebastian was already done with his call so he told Oliver," Ollie I have informed the chief about everything about your orphanage to human trafficking. He told us that we will take care of things and will also send 2 cars of police officers for our protection. So you have nothing to worry about." Seeing the smile back on his dad's face he too calmed down and nodded in reply.

After 15 minutes 2 police cars were stationed around the lab. Seeing that they finally signed in relief and went back to the main lab room.

Sebastian said with a huge smile on his face," since finally all this is done, we can finally come back to the main reason why I was calling you to the lab. Project Z is almost complete just finally stage is left."

After listening to this Oliver was shocked," Didn't we still had some final tweaking to do. How come..." "Yeah I was awake all last night and finally this morning I was able to complete it. Now only testing is left, I have already written the codes for it just need to finish the testing," said Sebastian with a bit of tiredness in his eyes. "Help me with finish tests so that after that we can finally see how good this baby is." to this Oliver replied YES with enthusiasm and started working side by side with his dad.

After 2 hours Oliver almost yelled, " Dad all the test show a 100% result. Project Z is a complete success, so much so that it shows perfect rest in all the tests!" "Eureka!" Sebastian laughed and said. " I think it's a bit late for that." Oliver also laughed. Sebastian picked up the bracelet like object from the platform and looked at it closely. The bracelet-like object was pure black with circuits lines all over it which gave of a feeling like it was carved very carefully which gave it a futuristic and an ancient vibe at the same time, overall making it a very beautiful ornament at first look. But only Sebastian knew that it was much more than a beautiful ornament. How could something on which the world's one of the best scientist spent his last 10 years developing be an ordinary beautiful ornament?

"Ollie thanks to you we have finally completed it." "What are you talking about dad, I have just helped you with some minor task past couple of years. I haven't done anything major, so much so that I don't even know what does it do. All I did was check some circuits and run some tests" hearing that Sebastian just laughed.

After a minute of silence, Sebastian looked at Oliver with love-filled in his eyes, "Oliver, I know I am a bit late but this is your birthday present. Congratulations on turning 20, my son."

Oliver's birthday had just gone by a couple of days ago but both father and son were busy with project Z that they didn't even remember about the birthday. Oliver's every turned watery "Dad..I..." But before he could finish Sebastian said, "Why don't you wear it... Didn't you like it? Common wear it fast and show me how does it look." He laughed.

Seeing this Oliver also smiled and wore it on his right hand. The band perfectly fit his hand. Seeing this he felt happiness deep from his heart. The band really was beautiful and with Oliver wearing it, it brought out a touch of elegance from him. Although the band was beautiful, it wasn't so much that it looked girly but quite opposite it looked something that males models would have with them, it looked as if it was custom designed for him.

He turned his hand to show it to his dad and said: " So dad how do I look!" "hmm really handsome, just like me." Both of them started laughing.

Then Sebastian said," Why don't start it up and..."

[BOOM]

[tinnnn....]

Both Sebastian and Oliver were on the floor and their ears were ringing due to the heavy explosion right near them. Suddenly the heavy door that was bulletproof fell and debris fell all over. It took a couple of moments for them to realize what had happened and a couple more for their ears to stop ringing. They slowly stood up just to see a man in full black military-type clothes and a handgun in his hand coming through the door casually.

Seeing him come, Sebastian suddenly said " Who are you. Do you who I am, Do you know what you are doing?" Even though Sebastian was a world-famous scientist, but in front of a man who had just blown apart his bulletproof door even he was scared.

Seeing this the man in black said coldly" Of course I know who you are, who doesn't. You are The Sebastian Christian, the genius scientist whose every single invention have saved or helped more people than the vaccine of coronavirus of 2020."

"If you know all this then do you know what will be the result of hurting a single hair on my head"

"Of course I know, any ordinary person would be hunted by all government of almost every country to ends of the world and not even his ashes will remain. But that catch is that you should be an ordinary person. And this time the person you have offended is for from ordinary." replied the man with a smirk.

"You shouldn't have messed with the business of Mr Ram Sharma. Now you have to pay the price."

Seeing the horrified face of Sebastian the man sighed: "Actually under some conditions, you could be left alive but he has to die." The man pointed at Oliver while saying.

Seeing the man point at him Oliver was scared for his life. He didn't know what to do next. But he woke up from his daze as soon as Sebastian came in front of him and yelled "NO... You can't kill him."

Seeing this man said, "I guess we have to do this the hard way then." And then pointed his gun towards him.

Suddenly Sebastian said to Oliver without even turning his head towards him "Oliver I will push him down, till then you run away from here."And before Oliver could understand what he was told Sebastian already dashed towards the man.

This truly surprised the man but that was it. He was clearly well trained and experienced to fall for such a childish trick.

[BANG]

A gunshot was fired. Before Oliver could make understand what had happened he saw Sebastian's body falling to the floor.

"DAAAAD" Oliver screamed and ran towards his dad's body. He saw a single bullet hole in his chest out of which blood was flowing continuously. Oliver was on his knees holding his dad trying to stop the bleeding when Sebastian said his last words "RUN" before he finally died. Oliver was in shock with tears continuously flowing from his eyes.

Seeing this the man slowly came near Oliver pointed his gun towards Oliver's head and said " This is what happens to ordinary weak people, they die for stronger people. If you had quietly died just like your little friend before maybe your father would have lived. Huh, what a waste of such talent, died for just an adopted child."

Only then did Oliver came to a realization that when the man entered the room there was already blood splattered over his clothes and face. So does that mean Theo...

[Bang]

Before he could contemplate anything more the man shot him in his head. His body too slid down on the floor. He could feel his consciousness fading away. Although he was shot in his head he could only feel pain in his heart. Regret that was what he was feeling, a great amount of regret. He couldn't save his best friend he couldn't save his father and even after his father sacrificed himself for him, he couldn't even save himself.

But in all this regret he remembered the days he spent with his best friend. Doing all kind of troubles together, fighting against others together, eating together, sleeping together. And his days with his father, when his father adopted him, all these years that he treated him better than he would treat his own son. He taught him lots of stuff in past years and gave him everything that he needed and more. He always took care of him till the last second and loved him with all of his heart. In the end, all he could remember were the faces of his best friend and his father smiling back at him right before his consciousness faded away and he went for eternal sleep.