Portal sentences written for 1sentence LJ challenge.

Warnings: AU's, run on sentences, death threats, run on sentences, punctuation abuse, different AU's...


#01-Air

"It's funny, really-you need it so much to live and it can be so quickly, taken away. "

#02-Apples

She'd found a half eaten apple in the last of the "rat man" holes and as she bites into the fruit she doesn't care what it tastes like, it's better than nothing and with GLaDOS setting up more and more turrets...she's going to need the strength.

#03-Beginning

"Hello and again-" Chell winces at the AI's voice, as for the fifth time she wakes up and realizes that she's once again back at the beginning.

#04-Bugs

Chell used to think there was something wrong with the AI, a virus, a glitch or something of that sort but now as she finds out more about this place, she's starting to wonder if it was actually the people who built GLaDOS that had something wrong with their heads.

#05-Coffee

The coffee machines still work at least and Chell uses one to make herself some boiling water, the bubbling sound is at least something else she can concentrate on instead of the AI's never ending stream of insults.

#06-Dark

Sometimes she sneaks out of the girls dormitory and spends the night laying under the mainframe of the AI, it's quiet and the humming of the computers helps her sleep, the fact that GLaDOS promises she won't be caught is a bonus as well, and GLaDOS tells the best stories.

#07-Despair

Her legs are sore, her stomach is empty, her companion cube is gone and GLaDOS is coming up with even more ways to keep her awake, all in all, Chell is starting to wonder if she died a long time ago and this is Hell, after all, "Good people, don't end up here."

#08-Doors

Another infuriating puzzle sends Chell banging on the door in frustration and GLaDOS chiming in after that, telling her the exact impossibility of her being able to open the door that way, doesn't help much.

#09-Drink

She didn't try to ask GLaDOS for something to drink because she knew the AI would just use the chance to make her more promises, more lies about what would happen if she only just kept going forward with the testing.

#10-Duty

Chell looks down at the logo on her jumpsuit as she listens the slogans GLaDOS spits out and has to wonder, just what sort of place was she working for that they thought she owed them this much.

#11-Earth

For all she knew GLaDOS could be lying and they might really be on some planet halfway across the universe.

#12-End

As she goes unconscious, the last thing Chell see's is the metal case with her name on it; apparently even after her death GLaDOS still has to get the last word in.

#13-Fall

The first time it happens, she misjudges the distance of a ledge and goes plummeting to what is sure to be her death; and the AI's laughter at her astonished look is enough for her to shoot the camera a glare as she gets up shakily but unhurt, the springs on her legs apparently are there for something other than decoration: nice of GLaDOS to mention that.

#14-Fire

She wakes up in the middle of the night now, hearing the screams of the dying AI, the roar of the fire, and wonders yet again whether or not GLaDOS was telling the truth when she said she could feel pain.

#15-Flexible

Chell manages to make her way through the underbelly of the facility, through all the broken rubble by walking very carefully, moving very quickly and taking none of GLaDOS' advice.

#16-Flying

She goes soaring through the air and even though she doesn't say anything, she silently agrees with GLaDOS' line of "weeeeeee."

#17-Food

There is nothing to eat here and listening to GLaDOS chatter on and on about the cake that is waiting for her is one of the main reasons she pushes on, whatever's ahead of her it has to be better then starving to death.

#18-Foot

GLaDOS decides to wait and let the test subject find out what the heel springs are for by herself; it should be highly amusing and she has to remind herself that moving the floor out from under the test subject to quicken this revelation is against test protocol, however fun it would be.

#19-Grave

She burns the bodies of the former scientists and continues to do the same with the failed test subjects, after all there is no one here and she is far too busy to think of the dead.

#20-Green

Chell isn't really sure what the stuff on the floor is, and GLaDOS doesn't seem to want to tell her, but due to the fact that it is green, she really doesn't think its water.

#21-Head

Thinking quickly was the difference between life and death in the Enrichment Center and GLaDOS was pleased that this subject was using her head more than the others did, some of the other test subjects had truly been too stupid to live; something, she'd been more than happy to prove.

#22-Hollow

Test subjects were so easy to manipulate, and while it-she was rather frustrating to deal with, GLaDOS was actually quite happy the current test subject was behaving in a way that seemed to prove there was more than just fluff and air in her skull; it would almost be a shame to kill this one.

#23-Honor

She had been killed, destroyed by that idiotic test subject, and even though she wouldn't freely admit it, at least a part of her knew that she now held a small level of respect towards the woman.

#24-Hope

As she started the tests she hoped she'd be able to figure out what was really going on and maybe even get something out of being here but now as she hides from another near miss of turret fire and hears the mocking voice of GLaDOS calling her to come out, she just hopes she'll be able to survive.

#25-Light

They were both pulled out of the room as it exploded and as Chell blinked through the storm she saw the light above and wondered if GLaDOS could see it as well or if she was already long gone.

#26-Lost

She didn't like to think she'd lost to a human, or in the very least she'd lost only once and now that she was back she fully intended to even the score.

#27-Metal

She was made out of metal and plastic and while that meant she could be destroyed, as Chell found out, it also meant she could be rebuilt

#28-New

The Enrichment centre is a gleaming white, no matter what room she goes into, and it's the bleached newness of it all that scares Chell even more then the dark and dirty underbelly of the facility does, she is aware GLaDOS find this very amusing.

#29-Old

She knows nothing about herself, save for her name and what GLaDOS tells her, but GLaDOS lies about things and the name on her jumpsuit might be fake, so she's left wondering how old she is, if Chell is her real name and what on earth she is here for.

#30-Peace

It is quiet again in the facility, the test subject is curled up on the floor, fast asleep and while she does, GLaDOS watches her and wonders how humans can look so peaceful when they are at their most vulnerable.

#31-Poison

Chell chokes as the poison fills the room, GLaDOS seems to find this even more amusing then before and continues point out amusing facts about the various functions of Chell's body that are shutting down as the toxin works its way into her body.

#32-Pretty

Chell catches her reflection in some of the shiner metals of the facility, but she just tries to ignore it, at the moment trying to survive the homicidal AI's attempts to kill her are a little more important than her looks.

#33-Rain

There is no weather of course in the Enrichment Center and the lack of windows means that the only rain GLaDOS has ever seen is in video's and other false media, this is true with everything outside the facility really and since she's nothing if not bitter, she's decided that if she can't see it for herself she's not about to let the test subject to have the chance.

#34-Regret

GLaDOS doesn't regret what she's done to the facility, no matter what this current test subject is trying to prove by her will to survive, she did it all for Science and in the end that's all that really matters.

#35-Roses

Chell spares a moment to look at the dead flowers she comes across on one of the scientist's desks, there's a note of congratulations on them and she wonders if they've really been here since GLaDOS was first activated and if they were, how long ago that was.

#36-Secret

The programs are kept a secret, something that Chell learns the hard way as GLaDOS takes over the facility, quickly and without anyone knowing the wiser.

#37-Snakes

The room is filled with cables that snake up every which way and Chell has to remind herself that no, GLaDOS is not able to use them to bite her.

#38-Snow

Chell knows what weather's like of course, but when GLaDOS brings up the topic of snow she panics after she realizes she's been in here so long she doesn't even remember what going out in the snow feels like.

#39-Solid

Chell kicks one of the broken piece of the AI and can't help but think GLaDOS would have approved of the amount of pain she got by doing that stupid, stupid thing, at least now she doesn't have to deal with the mocking to go with it.

#40-Spring

Chell dodges another round of bullets and grasping the ledge she almost springs over onto her head, and as the AI comments about her lack of grace and agility, Chell just tries to get her breath back.

#41-Stable

GLaDOS is anything but stable and Chell finds even having a normal conversation with the AI is nuts as she seems to have a tendency to go off on random topics that make sense only to her, there's also that fascination with cake.

#42-Strange

Chell isn't sure what's stranger, waking up to find you're suddenly part of a testing experiment for some sort of gun, or being told all this by the sarcastic AI that apparently runs the place.

#43-Summer

The only way to know the season outside is to ask GLaDOS, and given that they're on their fourth summer of the year, Chell has decided not to take her word on it any more.

#44-Taboo

There has to be something extremely wrong with becoming friends with the homicidal AI that tried to kill you multiple times, but they're both trapped in there and GLaDOS happens to be a better conversationalist then the turrets.

#45-Ugly

"Perhaps no one likes you, because you are so ugly, I wouldn't be surprised you know"

#46-War

This is war, and GLaDOS may have the most firepower and forces under her disposal but Chell has nothing to lose.

#47-Water

She knows something's really wrong with the place when she wakes up and finds water and GLaDOS is even less happy about that then all the trees everywhere.

#48-Welcome

She's welcomed so many different test subjects she is even getting tired of her normal opening spiel, so to this one she adds some Spanish that manages to make its way through before being cut short by static, randomness, she decides may have its purposes after all.

#49-Winter

Chell isn't sure how GLaDOS knows it's winter but she comes into a room to find a fire going and a cube with a Santa hat on in front of it and she can't say she's surprised.

#50-Wood

The trees are new and ignoring the protests of the AI, Chell picks a branch of one up and examines this strange new texture.