Addendum 2: Interview SCP-2368-G

Interviewed: SCP-2368

Interviewer: Dr. Arthur Poidevin

Date: 12 November 2014

Foreword: After Dr Poidevin conducted initial interviews to build trust with SCP-2368, this was the first post-containment interview to deal in detail with the anomaly. As part of information-gathering protocol, SCP-2368 was informed that she remained incarcerated in HM Prisons. As such, Dr. Poidevin assumed the role of prison physician, and addressed SCP-2368 by name.

Dr. Poidevin: Fiona, the interviews we have been doing are to help establish an understanding with you about your incarceration here. You have been very helpful so far, and I think we have a good working relationship?

SCP-2368: We do indeed. I haven't ever spoken to a prison officer as much as I have to you. I get so desperate just to talk, sometimes.

Dr. Poidevin: Well as you may have noticed, this facility is not like other prisons.

SCP-2368: It's certainly a lot nicer in here than the last place. Still a prison, of course.

Dr. Poidevin: Yes. And as you know, we have a treatment-based approach to rehabilitation, so we need you to give us as much information as possible.

SCP-2368: Okay. What do you want to know?

Dr. Poidevin: Let's start at the beginning. Can you tell me about your husband?

SCP-2368: All that way back? Well… Jack was a tanner, you know? Last of his trade - living out of town, on his own. His hands, I always remember. Such strong hands, and the smell on them sharp and sour, with oak and leather beneath.

Dr. Poidevin: And how did you end up marrying him?

SCP-2368: The first thing to know is that when I came to Orkney, I was very young. Naive, like. I'd not really been around people, strangers. And Jack was so much older. So I would tease him, and dance around him, and laugh when he wouldn't come swimming in the bay, but I was fascinated with him. I wanted to know him - really know him. And I could tell he wanted me for his own. So one day I kissed him. And he kissed me back, and then that night he took my - well, he took my heart away, put it like that - so there was nothing for it but to be married. But I never poisoned him!

Dr. Poidevin: It's okay, Fiona. I'm not here to judge. Why don't you tell me what married life was like with Jack?

SCP-2368: What marriage is like? Are you married, doctor?

Dr. Poidevin: Uh - yes, I am.

SCP-2368: Then you know what it's like. It's a little bit perfect, and a little bit exhilarating, and a little bit of you is lost. With Jack, I learned about what it is to love, and I learned happiness too. I was part of him, and he was part of me. But I wasn't free anymore - I wasn't my own self, able to come and go as I pleased.

Dr. Poidevin: You wanted to leave Jack?

SCP-2368: No. That wasn't it. I was always close to him, and I wanted that. I wouldn't let him stay away from the house for long - maybe I was jealous. <laughs> But I would look out from our doorway, down to the shore, and know that this was the boundary of my world. The world beyond, where I grew up - he needed me with him, and I couldn't leave him. Not while I was married to him, while he had my heart.

Dr. Poidevin: What happened to Jack, how he died - do you know how it happened? Why the same thing happened to Alison?

SCP-2368: I - can I trust you, doctor?

Dr. Poidevin: I want to help you. If you didn't kill them, I need to know how they died.

SCP-2368: I didn't murder them. I mean, I was friends with Ally, too - I wouldn't hurt her! But you won't believe me. You'll think I'm crazy.

Dr. Poidevin: I told you, I won't judge.

SCP-2368: It's like… no. No-one understands, and I don't have the words - I just keep talking in loops. <pause> I was a dancer, you know. Back where I grew up. We all were - we danced all the time.

Dr. Poidevin: Fiona, I don't -

SCP-2368: And when two people danced together, the rest of the world faded away. The dance became the world, and each partner's dance would grow and change, together. But in Orkney, here, no-one knows my dances. I loved Jack, and I tried to teach him, but - and we had so much time together, to learn. And now, even if I don't want to, the dance goes on, getting faster and faster. <muffled> I didn't know. I was so young.

Dr. Poidevin: It's okay, Fiona. Do you want a tissue, some water? It's okay. I think I'm starting to understand.

SCP-2368: This, this really isn't like other prisons, is it?

Dr. Poidevin: No, it's not. But it's fine if you don't want to tell me any more right now. We can stop if you like. And I should be back to speak with you in another few -

SCP-2368: Wait - doctor?

Dr. Poidevin: Yes, Fiona?

SCP-2368: I have to ask you. At our house - mine and Jack's - did they find anything?

Dr. Poidevin: What do you mean? What would they find?

SCP-2368: He hid it from me, after he took it. He knew I was looking for it, he knew that if I had it, I could come or go - back to my family, to my children.

Dr. Poidevin: Slow down, Fiona. Did you say you had children?

SCP-2368: Across the water, and waiting for me. I wouldn't have left, you know - not left him, but now my Jack's gone, and I don't know where he hid my - could you look for it, doctor? Find it for me?

Dr. Poidevin: What do you want me to find, Fiona?

SCP-2368: I can't tell you - I can't. You'll know it, doctor. When you find it. Please.

Dr Poidevin: Okay, Fiona - I'll do what I can. Try to get some rest, now.

SCP-2368: Thank you, doctor. Thank you for listening. I - I … thank you.