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It was the 1820s and Adam Bright paced up and down the hallway of his house as his wife gave birth to their second child. The wooden floor creaked under his feet as he paced the hallway. All he could see around him was the white wallpaper of the hallway that had paintings of Bright's before his time. Adam tried to drown out the cries of his wife as she gave birth to their second child. This time around Adam didn't care about the gender of their second child since he already had a son meaning he already had an heir to their family line and fortune but that didn't mean he didn't hope for a second son just in case there oldest dies as a child from sickness. Adam stopped passing the hallway when he didn't hear his wife screaming from the pain of labor but instead the cry of a newborn baby. He walked to his and his wife's room and opened the door, he walked into the room to see the doctor cleaning the mess from the birth, and then He saw his beautiful wife holding their newborn child. Adam walks to his wife's side and looks at their newborn. “ Is a baby a boy or a girl?” Adam asked his wife Evelyn. “It's another boy Adam." Evelyn said looking up at her husband with a tired smile before asking “What are we going to name him.” Adam thought for a while before answering. “ How about Jack?". 

A couple of years later when Jack Bright was 5 years old 

Adam and Evelyn Bright were sitting in front of their son's tutor. “Mister and Miss Bright, I want to bring something to your attention about Jack”. Jack's tutor Miss Evergreen said. “What did the little rascal do this time?” Adam asked the tutor as he held his pregnant wife's hand. “He didn't do anything, Mister Bright.” Miss Evergreen said. “Then why did you ask us to meet with you?" Evelyn asked, worried about her son."For the past year I've been working with Jack. I've noticed he's quite Intelligent for his age and for this period.” Miss Evergreen stated to Mister and Miss Bright. Evelyn knew Jack was quite the unique child ever since he was born but that did not mean she wasn't worried about her son. They are Brights for crying out loud. Their family line had many abnormal people in it since ancient times, and she didn't want any of children to be abnormal. She works for the SCP foundation as a researcher alongside her husband. She knows what will happen to her children if they turn out to be abnormal. Evelyn clams herself before asking Miss Evergreen “If he isn't in trouble why did you call us here then.”.  Miss Evergreen looked at the couple for a couple of seconds before saying “I believe it would be best for Jack if he was sent to the best school in the UK to study”.  Adam and Evelyn looked at each other for a couple of seconds before coming to an agreement. “We don't think it's best to send Jack away from his family.” Adam said as he still held his wife's hand. Miss Evergreen looked at the couple before softing her eyes and smiling before saying “If you think that's what's best for Jack then I will try my hardest to teach him everything he needs to know.”.

Couple years later when Jack is 8

Jack is playing with his siblings outside when he decides to climb a tree. As he was climbing the tree he heard someone asking him “Jackie what are you doing?”. Jack looked down to see his baby brother look up at him with his teal eyes as he held his stuffed bear. “I'm climbing the tree TJ” Jack said as he continued to climb the tree. “Mommy said it's dangerous to climb trees.” TJ said as he watched Jake climb the tree “Mom only saying that because she doesn't want us to ruin our clothes.” Jack said before he grabbed a branch that's too thin to wholed his weight. Before Jack could say anything else he falls to the ground hearing TJ screaming his name. Once on the ground Jack tried to sit up only to feel immense pain in his left arm, Jack looked at his arm to see that it was broken. TJ stares at Jack's broken arm not sure what to do in this situation, they then hear “ what the fuck did you do.”.  They looked up to see Mikell in front of them , not pleased to see the situation they have gotten themselves into. Before they could say anything Mikell bent down and picked Jack up carefully and started walking back to the house as TJ followed behind him. On the way back home Mikell scolded Jack about climbing trees and disobeying their mother. Once they got home Mikell walked to the living room and placed Jack on the couch before going to get their parents. Evelyn Bright walked into the living room with Mikell and Clarie behind her. She looked at Jack to see his broken arm before giving him a disappointed look before saying.“Jack Bright, what have I told you about climbing trees?” Evelyn said,not happy with Jack. “ Not too” Jack said, looking into his lap. TJ touches his older brother's hand to help cheer him up about the situation he's in but the next moment TJ was yelling and crying about his arm hurting. Jack quickly went over to TJ without thinking, once he got to TJ. He looked at his left arm to see that it's broken. Which should be impossible but that thought didn't last long when he realized he didn't feel pain in his left arm anymore. Jack looked up at his mother in  confusion but he only saw his mother looking at them in shock. 

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Evelyn sat on her and her husband's bed in shock of what just happened. She stared at the light blue wallpaper of the bedroom, confused about how she was going to tell her husband that their youngest son was abnormal. Evelyn and Adam had prayed that their children wouldn't be abnormal like her and their ancestors but here she was freaking out about how she was going to tell her husband that TJ had the ability to heal people even if he got the injury in return. Telling Adam about TJ was the least of her worries if she's being honest with herself. She works for the SCP foundation, so she knows how horribly they treat humanoid abnormalities. She doesn't want her child to go through that. Adam walked into their room and looked at his wife, concerned for her well-being. “Honey, are you ok?” Adam said as he walked over to the bed before sitting down on the lavender bedding. “I don't know, Adam, something happened with Jack and TJ today, I'm still in shock about the whole thing,” Evelyn said, placing her head on Adam's shoulder. “What happened?” Adam said, now even more concerned. “Jack, being the troublemaker he is, decided to climb a tree in the yard knowing he's not allowed to. He fell and broke his arm. Mikell brought him back home and sat him down on the sofa then he got me. I started to scold Jack when TJ touched his arm. Then all the sudden he started screaming in pain” Evelyn explained to her husband. “ What do you mean he started to scream in pain?” Adam asked Evelyn quizzically, fear slowly plastered across his face as he began to realize what Evelyn was leading on to. She took a deep breath before answering her husband. “TJ barely touched Jack before he was on the ground screaming in pain, Jack instantly got up to see what was wrong only to sit there shocked after he noticed his arm was fine." Evelyn finished right before a quiet sob erupted from her chest, not wanting to explain anymore than she already had, she knew Adam understood. Adam stared at the light blue wallpaper of their room like his wife had before he came home from the foundation. “TJ is abnormal” is all he could say before he heard the soft sobs coming from his wife evolve into crying from next to him. He hugged Evelyn, trying to calm her down. “ What are we going to do Adam?” Evelyn asked, her voice shaking as she cried in his arms. Adam paused, took a deep breath then finally responded “ We keep it a secret from the foundation”. He knew this was the best decision for his family; the foundation is cruel to humanoid abnormalities and he doesn't want TJ to go through the pain of being experimented on and possibly exploited for his unique abilities.

3 years later. 

At thirteen years old Jack Bright knew about the SCP Foundation, mostly because his parents worked for them. Jack didn't approve of how the foundation did things when it comes to studying the content of abnormalities, but he did understand they had to do it the way they did as it was important. The only thing the SCP foundation did that disgusts Jack was the way they treated humanoid abnormalities. What he heard from his parents was the fact they treated humanoid abnormalities as if they weren't human. Since his parents revealed to him this information about the foundation Jack had become overprotective of his younger siblings, especially TJ since his ability can easily be exploited by the SCP foundation and other rival organizations. Jack was never seen without TJ at his leg ever since they found out about his ability. Suddenly, Jack stumbled as he was pulled out of his thoughts by a sudden force tumbling him to his side only being stopped by hitting a solid force, he looked down to see TJ pulling roughly on his shirt. Jack sighed in relief and apologized to his younger brother for falling into him, TJ giggled and started following Jack as he walked on. Jack continued to walk around the house, trying to find something to do with his eight year old brother following him around. “Jack, what are you trying to do?” TJ asked, still following Jack. “Trying to find something to do.” Jack replied. They continued on walking around their labyrinth of a house, passing by the many rooms that seemed way too similar for Jack’s liking, it got a bit too confusing sometimes. Finally, they arrived at the library. The library would be good, maybe he could read a child’s story to TJ or perhaps teach him a few new words to expand his vocabulary as he goes into school. Jack walked into the library and started to look for something to read. Jack looked to his side to see that TJ was still with him. Jack smiled, “What book do you want me to read to you?" . TJ looked up and smiled before saying “ Brother Grimms fairy tales please”.  Jack stood on his tiptoes to grab the book, once he got the book he went over to the table that was positioned in the far corner of the room, it was smaller and shorter than the other table in the room as this one was specifically for the younger of them to read at, and sat down in the comfortable deep blue chair that sort of reminded Jack of a beanbag, just more stable and wouldn’t collapse the moment you sat in them. He waited for TJ to sit down before he began reading the tales to his younger brother. Two hours later Clarie walked into the library, she scanned the large room before finally spotting her brothers. “Jack, TJ, what are you doing?" Clarie asked, walking over to the two who were deep in their chairs. TJ beamed at his twin sister before responding “Jackie is reading me fairy tales”.  “Oh ok, well mother said dinners ready” Clarie said then turned at the doorway and left. Jack got up from his chair, struggling a bit as he had to bend his knees to sit, he was getting a bit too old for the kiddies table, he gently closed the fairy tales and looked down at TJ, who was still in his chair, awaiting for Jack to talk “Let's go TJ I'll finish reading the stories to you at bed time”. 

TJ nodded before getting up and following his older brother. 

Once they got to the dining room, they see Clarie and their mother sitting at the dark oak table, another thing they notice is that the table was full of food. Their mother never usually made this much food unless it's for a special occasion. So something must have happened, Jack didn't know something happened but he did just spend two hours in the library reading to TJ, many things could happen in two hours when you’re so absorbed in your imagination. Jack and TJ sat down in their seats at the table, Jack looked around the table to see mashed potatoes, whole chicken, steak, asparagus, salad, steak, and more. It was like a full Thanksgiving dinner but Thanksgiving wasn’t even close yet so something surely was up. Jack stared at the food for a couple minutes before realizing that most of the food on the table were Mikell's favorites. Did Mikell do something? Jack asks himself, staring at his hands now, ideas and concerns about Mikell started flying through his mind, numbing out all sound around him like an airplane going into turbulence; was Mikell leaving, like for college or possibly the military? Did Mikell get a girlfriend Jack didn’t know of and he was either getting married or was moving in with her?. Before he knew it his father and Mikell walked into the dining room and took their seats, snapping Jack out of his suddenly anxiety filled mind as Jack gave them his full attention. Adam coughed to tell his family he had something important to say, but before he said anything Jack blurted “Did Mikell do something today?" looking straight at his father. “Well I was about to get to that, Jack. Mikell officially joined the foundation today” Adam said with a wide smile, same goes for his mother when he looked at her. Jack just looked at his brother in shock. Jack knew that his brother agreed with the foundation's cause but he never thought he would actually join the foundation. Jack knows for a fact Mikell isn't a doctor or researcher, that means Mikell is a field agent.  Mikell has always been strong but knowing he’s now a field agent for the SCP Foundation just shocked him. Before he could say anything else they said grace and started eating.

8 years past 

Evelyn Bright is in pain, she's giving birth to her and her husband's fifth child. After hours of labor and pain, she gave one more push and the pain was finally over. But she didn't hear a cry from the baby, worry absorbed her every thought, her heart sank as she tried to listen for her new born baby over the dizziness and lightheadedness the pain from labor caused, hoping that it was somehow numbing out reality. But still she heard nothing. She asked what was wrong only to be told her newborn daughter was stillborn. The world suddenly felt like it was falling apart, like the world had been absorbed by a huge sinkhole, absorbing every inch of her happiness and glee and splurging out a volcanic ash of despair and tragedy that swept her entire body, leaving her nothing but a husk like the ash covered skeletons of Pompeii. She couldn’t mutter a single word, all she could do was cry. She looked up at her husband who was also crying at their loss.

TJ doesn't understand why his father asked him to follow him to his and his mother's room. Adam sat down on his and Evelyn's bed. TJ follows his father to their bed, confused as to why he specifically wanted him to be here, his sister was just born wasn’t she, but wasn’t she a stillborn? Wouldn’t they want all of his siblings to be here to see her then, maybe this was some sort of funeral memorial to see their family member gone way too soon? When he saw a bag on his parents bed, he was even more confused then before. Did they want to give him something? “ Why did you want me?”. Adam doesn't look at TJ before grabbing the bag and opening it, it seemed strangely heavy and made an odd squirmy sound as he grabs something out of the bag, TJ crouches to get a clearer view of what his father grabbed slightly out of the bag. He saw a big ball, oddly it had strange hair like strands coming out of it, was it some sort of weird sensory ball or something? Like one of those slap and stick toys? Turning to look more deeper into the bag he begins to see a more intricate object, it was long and weirdly slimy. Finally, realization struck him, it was a baby, a dead baby. TJ bolted up and looked at his father in shock when his father said “TJ meet your baby sister, Sarah.”  TJ now looked at his father in confusion, didn't his mother have a stillborn, wasn't his younger sister dead. “Isn't she dead?” TJ asked, if she was stillborn wouldn’t the nurses have taken her?. Adam stared blankly at TJ before saying “she's not dead, she's hurt, TJ. You can heal her for me”. TJ shaked his head at his father, not wanting to heal his dead baby sister. TJ is sixteen, he knows when a baby is alive or dead and his stillborn baby sister was definitely dead. He also doesn't know what would happen to him if he heals a dead person, he could die or contract the disease or whatever killed that person and it would soon kill him, all the possibilities is something TJ never wanted to find the answer for. Before he could say anything he felt a strong hand grip his wrist, taking off his glove and leading his now exposed hand to his dead younger sister, he didn’t have any time to process anything before he felt the touch of the cold, smooth skin and tiny hair follicles of the dead infants head his hand was now resting on. TJ started feeling light headed and dizzy, his heart felt like it had skipped a beat, fear struck him as he pulled his hand away from the baby, surely he was going to die, he was going to die young and he wouldn’t ever be able to accomplish anything he ever wanted to do in life. TJ started panicking, but to his surprise he wasn't dead, instead of not hearing anything at all he heard a cry come from the once dead infant. He looked down at his now squirming and crying sister, seemingly now full of life again, with confusion but he also felt a wave of emotions that he couldn’t identify before more came flowing through. Was he happy he had just saved his sister from death ? Was he freaked out? Was he terrified that he was going to still die or his life span had been shortened? Was he proud? TJ heard his dad yelp in glee as he looked at Sarah in shock. “You did it TJ! I knew you would.”. TJ looked away from his father and the baby as he heard the door slam open, standing at the doorway was Jack. “WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO DAD?” Jack yelled at their father as he stormed into the room before grabbing TJ by his hand and hiding the sixteen year old behind him before yelling at their father again, more demanding “What the fuck did you make TJ do”. Adam just smiled at Jack and said “He healed Sarah, Jack”. Jack stared at his dad, unsure of what to say, he felt disgusted that he would abuse TJ’s abilities like that, possibly scarring TJ. Suddenly there was banging at the front door. Before Adam or TJ could say anything, Jack ran out of the room with TJ. 

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Jack ran as fast as he could with his hand in TJ’s, he couldn't believe his father took advantage of his brother's ability. Jack knew his parents were heartbroken since Sarah was born stillborn but that doesn't give his father the right to take advantage of TJ's power like that. Now foundation knows about his ability and will take him away to experiment on him to see what he could do. Jack can't allow that to TJ, he doesn't want to see his baby brother hurt. Jack ran out of the house into the forest near their mansion, hearing the SCP agents yelling at him to stop running and to surrender but he kept running farther into the forest as fast as he could . Until he was shot in the shoulder by one of the agents, Jack lets go of TJ's hand before his ability works on him. TJ screamed seeing a hole in his  brother's shoulder where he was shot. The SCP agents then shot both of them with tranquilizer darts. The last thing Jack saw before he passed out was the SCP agents picking up form off the forest floor. 

 When Jack came to, he found himself in a cell, most likely a containment cell at the SCP foundation. Jack got up and started exploring the cell. He noticed that the walls are gray, same with the floor and roof of the cell. Before Jack could explore more of the cell the door of the cell started to open , he went to the back of the cell, looking at the door to see a SCP reacher walk in with guards behind him. “ Hello Mr. Bright,” the researcher said, looking at Jack. “ What the fuck do you want” Jack said glaring at the researcher, “Quite straight forward you are Mr.Bright.” the researcher said. Jack just glared at the researcher more before asking again “What the fuck do you want”. The researcher just looked at Jack unfazed before answering Jack's question. “ Well Mr. Bright, I heard about you from your parents and it seems like you're brilliant for your age. We want you to join the SCP Foundation.” Jack just stared at the man before he yelled at the man “Fuck no, not after you took my brother to experiment on like some lab rat?!”  The researcher just started at jack before saying “Well Mr. Bright if your answer is no, then we'll have to erase your memories about TJ and the rest for your family.” Jack just stared at the man shooked. He was going to lose his memories about his family if he didn't agree to work for the foundation. Jack has to help TJ every way he can.

Before the guards grabbed Jack he said “Fine, I'll join your stupid foundation”. The researcher only smiled at him before telling the guard to let him go. “ Welcome to the SCP Foundation Dr. Bright”

Six months later. 

Six months have passed since he agreed to join the foundation and he hated the job, sure researching the scps are fun but he hated the way they made him experiment on humanoid abnormalities. It disgusted him to see the pain on their faces as they are tested on because of that the foundation chose to only give him none humanoid scps. Jack was assigned to a new scp they found. He walked to the containment area of the scp. Once Jack got to the containment area he used his idea badge to open the containment door 9to the scp.He went inside and grabbed the clipboard that's on the wall and read what they already knew about the scp. 

SCP 963

SCP-963 is an ornate amulet approximately 15 centimeters in circumference made from white gold, with thirteen (13) ██k brilliant-cut diamonds surrounding a ███k oval-cut ruby in a starburst pattern. It was discovered in the personal effects of ██████ ███ who had been found dead by apparent suicide, surrounded by a number of supernaturally-related books. Our Agent in the area found that 963-1 was incapable of being damaged and brought it in according to protocol XLR-8R-██.

Jack blinked and read the file again, Jack knew he was new researcher at the foundation or in other words a Junior researcher at the foundation but what the fuck. He knew that junior researchers are usually working under researchers higher than them but to more interesting scps than an indestructible necklace. Jack put the clipboard back and went into the containment area for SCP 963. The scp was beautiful but they didn't learn all they needed to know about it. 

Five months later

Jack is annoyed. He had been researching the same scp for the past five months but they hadn't found  anything else abnormalities about SCP 963 other than it can't be damaged. Jack looked away from his desk where SCP 963 was to look around his office bored out of his mind, while looking at the white walls and then back down at his brown desk. Jack sees a letter on his desk from the O5 next to SCP 963 that he hasn't opened. Jack grabbed the letter and opened it then he read the letter. Jack put the letter down before getting up, as soon as he was up he grabbed the necklace without thinking and walked out of his office. 

Jack didn't know why the O5 asked him to move SCP 963 to a different site but they did. As Jack was walking through the halls of the site he heard the contaminant breach alarm go off. Jack stopped to listen to what scps were on the loose and at what sites. Then he heard something he wished he didn't. 

SCP 076-2 HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT IN SITE ■ 

SCP 076-2 HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT IN SITE ■ 

SCP 076-2 HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT IN SITE ■ 

SCP 076-2 HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT IN SITE ■ 

SCP 076-2 HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT IN SITE ■ 

Jack started to run until he heard the sound of a walk break behind him, a piece of the rubble hitting him in the back of his head. Knocking him to the group. Jack got up as soon as he could but before he could run he felt something from behind him. 

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I froze as I felt something going through me. I looked down to see a black sword going through my stomach but before I could say anything the sword was pulled out of me. I fell to the ground with a giant wound in my stomach. Is this really how I'm going to die? I have so much more to live for, I need to save TJ, I need to ask dad why, I need to see mom, I need to see Mikell, I need Claire, I want to go home to my family.

That was Jack's last thought before dying. 

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D1-113 is annoyed at the fact he has been chosen as one of the D classes to clean up the mess from the last containment breach ten days ago and god does the hallway smell like fucking death. He hates the smell of blood and death, especially after becoming a D class for this stupid Foundation. It made him nauseous, he never really liked blood in the first place, it always irritated him with its mechanical smell. D1-113 continued cleaning up the dried up blood on the floor of the white hallway, well what was a white hallway before people were fucking slaughtered and the floor got a new paint job of blood and mangled tissue and muscle, it wasn’t a pleasant sight at all. He hated the fact that this place was so stupidly dangerous, he didn’t even know any of these things existed. Why is it now his job to clean up after them?. He’s put himself in stupid situations before that posed risks but it was nothing compared to this dumb place. He could see and hear the other unfortunate D classes gag at the sights and smells, he completely understood as he picked up a swab of tissue off the ground that had been glued down by blood spilled ten days prior and gagged at the rotten, mechanically smell, it was horrible, he doesn’t understand why the D classes were the only ones responsible for cleaning up if it was the researchers job to, yknow, watch over the SCPs cells and all that, it was dumb. D1-113 hated his new “job”. Further into his deep cleaning, with speckles of the white floors and walls finally illuminating from the bloody environment he saw a stagnant body at the end of the hallway. D1-113 half-suspiciously walked over to the body to see the corpse of a man, who's mostly likely in his teens or early twenties. The man had the most vibrant ginger hair D1-113 had ever seen that went down to his shoulders, white skin with freckles all over, small, circle glasses now broken on the floor, and a lab coat with sleeves way too long for his arms. D1-113 could only assume that this was a new researcher that the foundation couldn’t give two shits about, not enough to even give him an actual lab coat that fit him, it was probably a hand me down from a previous researcher that most likely died before him, the foundation didn’t care for anyone, of course they wouldn’t, D1-113 scoffed as he mumbled his thoughts quietly under his breath. One of the agents turned over to D1-113 as he scoffed and he quickly went back to looking at the dead body in front of him, he’d always accidentally snitched on himself cause he can’t shut his stupid fucking mouth, it’s how he ended up here in the first place he reminded himself, he had to at least look like he was working to avoid the trouble. But the most interesting things about the body to him was the deep hole in his stomach and a necklace. The necklace was quite elegant, he thought, probably belonged to this ginger guy, D1-113 bent down and picked up the necklace but as soon as he stood up he didn't move. One of the agents who are watching the D classes looked over to D1-113 again to see him standing there not doing what they are supposed to be doing. “D1-113 GET BACK TO WORK” the agent yelled at the D-class. D1-113 looked at the agent, confusion plastered across his face as he looked around his environment “I'm not a D-class, I'm Dr. Bright” the agent just looked at the D-class with an unimpressed face “D1-113 you are not Dr. Bright, now get back to work”. D1-113 turned around, now facing towards the agent and stared at the agent before lifting up his arms outwards, slightly halfway up his torso, the metal of the necklace made a clinking sound. “I'm not D1-113, I'm Dr. Bright, see, right?” He said with even more confusion but with confidence. This time the agent stared at the D-class for a while after realizing they had SCP-963 in their hands before grabbing his tranquilizer gun and shooting D1-113 with it, then called for backup.

Later that day

Jack woke up in a SCP Foundation containment cell at the foundation with SCP-963 around his neck. The last thing he remembers is getting stabbed in the stomach by Abel then waking up and being called D1-113 even though he wasn't a D-class, then an agent shot him with a tranquilizer and now he’s just awoken inside a containment cell at one of the foundation's site's. Jack sits up on the bed in the containment cell, it looked exactly as he had expected it to look: white, soulless and bland; he's seen containment cells many times. The cold sting of the necklace around his neck catches Jack's attention, he’s sure he hadn’t been wearing the necklace before he had been stabbed, or when he was tranquilized, how come it was on him now? Did they put it on him, and for what reason? Jack’s thoughts were paused as he heard the handle of the door of the containment cell turn. The door opened to reveal a SCP Foundation researcher, the researcher entered the cell and agents followed suit. The researcher paused in front of Jack but the agents continued on into the room until two were behind Jack. They stood next to the bed where he was still sitting, but one stayed near the researcher. Jeez, it was like they were treating him like he was rabid and was going to bite any of them and infect them at any point, Jack was a researcher here too so why were they treating him so weirdly?   “I see that you're awake D1-113”  the researcher who was standing in front of Jack said calmly. Jack looked up at him, confused, why did they keep on calling him that? “I'm not D1-113, I'm Jack Bright” Jack corrected the researcher. The researcher looked at one of the agents behind Jack and nodded. The next thing Jack knows is that he's back in the dark void he was in earlier, Jack looks around confused about what's happening, he was just in a bright white room and now he’s suddenly in a vanta black, soundless void with no one, no color, no anything. He’d spent a while in here already so he’s already gotten accustomed to it, you kinda have to get used to weird places and scenarios when you’re in the SCP foundation, Jack stands in the void and crosses his arms, his thoughts racing as he tries to figure out what was going on, he is a researcher after all, it’s kinda his job to figure this stuff out. The researcher looked at the lifeless body with interest, tracing his fingers along the body’s wrist, then along their neck to feel their pulse, which he found there was none, they were dead. He then ordered the agent behind the body to put SCP-963 back on the body. Jack blinked, confused as to what just happened, one moment he was in this dark void and the next he wasn't. He pulled himself up from the bed, again, he was having dejavu, just this time slightly colder then he was the first time. He stared at the researcher. He was going to ask what had happened while he was in the void but the man spoke first. “Looks like we have a problem, Dr. Bright” the researcher said before leaving the containment cell with the agents he brought with him following behind him, then the door is closed leaving Jack in the small containment room, discombobulated.

12 days have passed. 

Jack didn't understand what was happening to him other than the fact his body felt weird, like it didn't belong to him, which he realized a couple of days ago that the reason he felt like that was because he wasn't in his body at all, he was in some random D-class’ body. The guy looked nothing like Jack, while Jack had ginger hair that went down to his shoulder this D-class has mildly short, scruffy, unkempt curly black hair that ended at their ears, the type of unkempt you’d expect to see from a stereotypical criminal. They were white, but had slightly more color than Jack and no freckles, they seemed to be the same height as Jack, maybe a little taller Jack couldn’t tell, they had baby blue eyes, contrary to Jacks teal eyes, that seemed to be unusually soft for the D-classes appearance as they seemed to try to “toughen up” their eyes by getting a eyebrow piercing on the far edge of their right eyebrow, Jack hadn’t seen many piercings as they were relatively new fashion before Jack got “hired” at the foundation . Jack didn’t spend too long looking at his new appearance, it wasn’t entirely what he cared about, he cared more about trying to figure out what happened. Jack didn't know how this happened other than the fact that it has to have something to do with SCP-963, the beautiful white gold necklace around his neck. He knew that SCP-963 had something to do with this when a researcher from a couple of days ago told one of the agents to take off the necklace from his neck when they tested him a second time. All of this left Jack confused and terrified, Jack couldn't become a SCP, he has to save TJ, he can't be trapped in this hellish foundation as some lab rat to be tested on when his baby brother is in pain physically and mentally because of this FUCKING FOUNDATION?! Jack paced around his room, well, actually his cell, it’s the only thing he could do. His thoughts had been racing since he came to the realization that he was an SCP, thoughts of confusion, fear and even amazement at the fact there was something abnormal about him, even if it was something seemingly so minuscule. Jack's legs were hurting at this point, he’d been pacing for about 3 or so hours now. His pace slowed to a halt when the door to Jack’s cell creaked open. Jack looked over at the open door to see o5-06 or as he knew him as big brother or Mikell Bright stood at the door staring at his younger brother with a mixture of regret and sadness. “Mikell?” Jack said confused as to why his older brother was here. Mikell continued to stare at Jack for a bit before finally saying “Hello SCP-963-2”. Jack looked at his brother in shock, no way he was referring to Jack, his younger brother, his family, as an SCP. Jack walked over to his brother, stopping 4 feet away from Mikell. He analyzed his brother, who was trying his hardest to maintain eye contact with Jack but every now and again breaking eye contact, looking away with regret and possibly guilt? “Mikell, I'm not an SCP, I'm Dr. Jack Bright, your brother” Jack said with tears beginning to form in his eyes, trying his hardest not to cry. “You are no longer known as Dr. Jack Bright, you are now SCP 963-2” Mikell said with sadness in every spot of his eyes. Jack stared at Mikell, he thought he was an SCP, well he didn’t think, he knew he was an SCP, no, his brother wouldn’t do this to him, he wouldn’t treat him as an SCP, this is the foundations doing, it had to be, Mikell wouldn’t call him SCP-963-2, he’s call him Jack. Jacks knees become weak as a wave of emotions spilled over his entire body as he realized his fate, Jack breathed in and out, rapidly increasing in speed as he tried not to burst into tears, no, no, this isn’t real, this all has to be a bad dream, maybe he’s still in the void and this is just a projection of his bored mind in the dark, his brother wouldn’t do this, not to Jack, not to TJ, what’s happening to TJ, what’s going to happen to Jack? Thoughts racing through his mind as his scattered breathing increasingly got faster and faster, becoming progressively difficult to breath as tears choked him, he couldn’t hold them back, he began to sob as he fell to the ground, placing his head into his hands, both to try to comfort himself but also hoping that the darkness would take him back to the void and this would all not be real. “please don't do this to me Mikell, I'm still your younger brother please don't let them experiment on me”. He choked through tears, it was difficult to get his words out through his sobs. Mikell stared down at Jack, he breathed deeply, seemingly also trying to hold back tears as he watched his younger brother cry and hyperventilate with regret, finally taking his head out of his hands to stare up at him in desperation, awaiting his response. “I'm sorry Jack, but the O5 had made their decision, you'll be moved to a new containment cell in a couple of days ” before leaving the containment cell, Mikell hesitated as he heard another sob break though Jack in the form of a gasp of Jack trying to yell out words but was held back by his tears and breath. Once the door closed Jack completely broke down, feeling betrayed by Mikell.

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Claire didn't understand what was happening. One moment her and her mother, Evelyn, were outside picking apples from the apple orchard near their family's mansion and the next she and her mother saw was SCP Foundation agents surrounding the family's mansion. Evelyn had dropped her basket of apples, Claire saw the most fear and desperation on her mother's face than she had ever seen before, and started running to the mansion to see what was happening. Claire follows her mother, trying to stop her from getting too close to the mansion, concerned that the agents were going to hurt her. The next thing Claire sees as she and her mother get closer to the house is Jack running out of the house with a pale and terrified TJ right behind him before running off into the forest behind their families mansion. She also saw SCP agents run after her brothers. Claire quickly grabbed her mother's hand and hid in bushes that were closest to the mansion. “Claire, what are you doing!?.” Evelyn asks her daughter in panic and shock, Claire doesn't answer her mother before closing her eyes and focusing hard, looking into the future to see what's going to happen. Claire sees her father being taken out of the mansion by SCP foundation agents, in the hands of one was a ghostly pale infant, who was crying and flailing with life despite their ghostly appearance. Claire's eyes widened in shock to see her stillborn baby sister alive in the agent's arms, something must have happened with her and TJ, Claire immediately assumed due to how pale TJ looked when she saw him and due to his abilities. Claire's stomach churned with nervousness as she realized why the agents were here, or rather who they were here for. The next thing Claire sees is Jack being shot in the shoulder and him letting go of TJs hand before TJs ability could work. TJ looked at Jack's shoulder in horror before screaming, the next thing she sees is TJ and Jack being shot with tranquilizer darts. Clarie comes back to the present, she turns to her mother, who was looking down at her with fear and anticipation, and says to her “ Dad did something”. Her voice trembled, she knew dad was distraught at the stillborn birth but she never thought he would do something like this to one of his own children. Evelyn stared at her daughter in shock, her breathing heavy before angrily asking her daughter. “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOUR FATHER DO, CLAIRE?!?!” Claire looked into her mother's distraught eyes “He seems like he used TJs ability to bring Sarah back to life”. 

Evelyn looked at her daughter in shock at the fact her husband used their son's ability to do something so stupid and incredibly dangerous. She knew Adam was more heart broken then she was when he learned that Sarah was a stillborn but she didn't think that her husband would use TJs ability to bring her back to life. It disgusted Evelyn to learn that her husband used their son's ability to bring their stillborn daughter back to life, even after they agreed to protect him from the Foundation. Now her little TJ is going to be taken away from her.

3 days later. 

Claire sat by her mother on the black sofa in their brown living room. Claire hadn't seen Jack for a while now. The foundation should have erased his memories about TJ and Sarah by now and sent him home but he wasn't home, not even a sliver of a hint of him coming back. She is trying to support their mother while she grieved the loss of one or two of her sons, they couldn’t be sure if the SCP Foundation had just killed Jack and that’s why he hasn’t returned or if they were holding him for whatever reason, but they knew they were keeping TJ to experiment on. This uncertainty about Jack had been stressing Evelyn out since he and TJ were taken by the Foundation, she had been more emotional than she had been before, crying over any little object, sounds or smells around the house that reminded her of her beloved sons. She was spending more time on the couch, she found it more difficult to sleep in her room after finding out that’s where TJ was forced to heal Sarah, every time she entered the room the imagination of the scene played in her head, the thought of that being the last memory TJ has of his family was too much for Evelyn and she refused to interact with her room. Claire felt horrible for her mother, she was dealing with so much, her husband has betrayed her trust and their family in his own distraught state of emotions and made a stupid decision that cost both of his sons and his daughter he brought back to life just to have taken away because he forced TJ to heal her. If Adam had just never done that, if he had taken the moment to think about that fact, that if he had Sarah healed she would be taken away anyways then maybe he would not have done this, but at the same time Claire could understand that he just wanted his daughter to be alive, that he was experiencing intense grief and people can make dumb decisions during grief when they can’t think clearly and are desperate for a solution. Claire rubs her hand along her mothers shoulder as tears begin to weld up in her eyes. Claire hears a knock on the door, she got up from her mother's side on the sofa and went to the door, opening it to see Jack standing right in front of her. Claire looked at her older brother in shock, he was home, he was alive, before punching him in the shoulder where he got shot, Jack yelped out of pain, grasping his shoulder. “OW?! What the fuck, Claire?”, “That's what you get for scaring the living hell out of me and mom you jerk.” Claire said glaring at her older brother before hugging him, Jack stood there shocked. Claire had never been the affectionate type of person so her hugging him was out of the norm for her. Jack hugged his sister back with a sad smile. It felt nice to finally see her brother again after being so unsure as to whether he was alive or not, so the hug felt special. They separated, Claire grabbed Jack's hand and led him to their mother, who was still sitting on the couch, now slouching as she tried to wipe tears from her eyes as she choked through them, loud enough to drown out Jack's voice from where she was. Evelyn looked up to see who her daughter let into the mansion to see her second oldest son, Evelyn’s eyes widened as she realized who was standing in front of her, she shot up and hugged him as tightly as she could before letting go. “ Jack I'm so, so happy you're ok! I thought you were dead” Evelyn said to Jack as she wiped tears, her voice trembling in a mixture of happiness and shock. Jack looked at his mother with a sad smile “I'm sorry for making you worry mom, but I have something to tell you and Claire.”.  Evelyn and Claire looked at Jack with worried and curious looks before sitting back down on the black sofa, while Jack sat down on a black armchair next to the sofa.  “ What do you want to tell us Jackie?” Evelyn said, smiling at Jack, though Claire could tell that she was apprehensive as she rubbed her thumbs together. Claire was also worried, Jack was away for much longer then he should have been, anything could have happened, this could be either good news or bad news. Jack took a deep breath, collecting himself.  “Well you must know that me and TJ were taken by the SCP Foundation.” Jack said, Claire and Evelyn nodded their heads. “The foundation gave me two choices when I woke up in a holding cell. The researcher they sent said that they wanted me to join the SCP foundation and that they had had their eyes on me for a while, or have my mind erased and forget about all of you. So I decided to join the foundation.” Jack said quickly as his heart beated faster and faster. Claire and Evelyn stared at Jack, trying to process what he had just told them as he sat, flurried. Once Claire processed everything she looked at her brother with anger. “ WHAT THE HELL JACK, WHY WOULD YOU JOIN THE VERY FOUNDATION THAT TOOK TJ AWAY FROM US TO BE EXPERIMENTED ON LIKE A LAB RAT!” Claire yelled at her older brother, she couldn't believe Jack joined the foundation, she was apoplectic. He always said that the foundation disgusted him but here he is joining them. Jack sat up quickly, “Claire, The only reason why I joined them is to help get TJ out of that situation." Claire calmed down a bit after hearing her brother's reasoning, but was still a bit pissed at the fact he had joined the foundation. Evelyn started to cry, the tears that had previously remitted at the sight of Jack forced their way back as they rode the waterfall of Jack’s words, she just learnt that her little Jackie is going to work at a dangerous foundation where he could get killed. She has been worried about Mikell since he's a part of the O5 council, but now Jack was joining as a researcher. She knows she also works at the foundation but just because her and her husband worked for the SCP foundation as researchers doesn't mean she wanted her kids to join them. Before her kids could comfort her, Evelyn stood up, wiping her tears, telling her kids not to follow her. 

She walked down a hallway that had paintings of her and her husband's ancestors. Evelyn made it to their bedroom but before she walked into the room she turned around and looked at the family portrait. She smiled as she looked at her children's faces smiling with joy, not having to worry about the hardships of life or of the torture of the foundation, living carefree in their youth as they enjoyed life, not knowing of what would happen to them in the future. The kind, gleeful, bright smile on TJs face was painful for Evelyn to look at, one of his two front teeth was missing at the time the photo was taken, in Evelyn’s opinion it had made TJ look more cute then he already was, it was one of Evelyn’s favorite pictures of TJ. Next to TJ was Jack, who had his arm around TJs shoulder, he smiled as big as he could, as he had been challenged by TJ as to who could smile the biggest, the argument they had over it had made Evelyn laugh then, but now it made her sad, knowing that there’s a chance that TJ and Jack could never get to smile at each other ever again. Mikell was beside Jack, smiling in a forceful way that the usual angsty teen does, but it was clear he was happy to be there, and Claire, of course, was next to TJ as she smiled softly. But once her eyes glossed over her husband's face she hardened her eyes and turned to her rooms door. She hesitated a bit when she took the doorknob and turned it, the sight of the bed made her queasy, but she forced down her collywobbles as she opened the door and walked into the room, she went over to a bookshelf in the room and removed a red book. The bookshelf moves to reveal a set of stairs. Evelyn went down the stairs, they were dusty and the dust was latching onto her pants. Once she got down the stairs there was a room full of herbs, liquid, human eyeballs, artifacts, etc. Evelyn walked into the room, she hasn't been in this room for years at this point. Evelyn and Adam agreed to never let their children find out she's basically a goddess.

1 month later 

Claire hated the fact that Jack joined the SCP Foundation but she understood his reasons for joining. Just because she understood why he did it does mean she agrees with him doing it. Claire decided she wanted to join a foundation that was against the foundation so she did. Claire joined the Serpent's Hand about a week after Jack came home. Jack doesn't like the fact Clarie joined a foundation, and a rival foundation to the SCP Foundation at that, but he doesn't say anything about it to her, afraid of coming off as a hypocrite when he joined the SCP Foundation even though he disagrees with what they do.

10 months and 10 days later. 

Evelyn is starting to get concerned, Jack hasn't been home in ten days and Mikell said there was a containment breach ten days ago. She hopes Jack is ok. Evelyn gets up to start making dinner when she hears someone coming into the house. She goes to the door to see her oldest child, Mikell, standing in front of the door, with his face in his hands. She hasn’t seen Mikell this distressed before, she goes up to Mikell and says, concerned  “Mikell, sweetheart, is everything ok?” looking at him, solicitous. Mikell takes his hand off of his head, looking at Evelyn with a crestfallen look. “Mom, Jack won't be coming home for a while.” Mikell said to his mother, now with a sad smile, but the tears welling up in his eyes exposed that he was sorrowful. Evelyn stared at Mikell, processing what he said, before screaming and falling to her knees crying. Claire came running in to see what happened, she went to their mothers side, trying to comfort her. “What did you tell mom?" Claire demanded her older brother, now incensed as to what he could possibly have told their mother. “Jack won't be coming home anytime soon, Claire.” Mikell said, looking at his younger sister. Claire only looked at Mikell confused before asking him to explain what he meant. “Ten days ago Jack died during a security breach while holding SCP-963, today while a D-Class was cleaning up the mess from the containment he found Jack's body and picked up SCP-963. Resulting in Jack taking over his body, so Jack is now known as SCP 963-2, he isn’t a researcher at the Foundation anymore, he’s an SCP, he won’t be coming back home.” Mikell said as tears started to run down his cheeks. Claire stared at Mikell before looking at the ground near her and their mother. Jack died and is now somehow an SCP. Her older brother, who was way too smart and kind for this world, is an SCP from the sound of it against his will.

 Evelyn started to cry harder after hearing what her eldest son just told her and Claire. Her son had died and is now an SCP being held at the Foundation like her poor TJ. She now hates the foundation more than she already had and wants nothing to do with it. The foundation is ruining her family. 

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TJ is scared, the last thing he remembers before passing out was screaming as he saw a bullet wound in his older brother's shoulder before getting shot with something that made him pass out. The next thing he knows is that he's in an all white room tied down to a surgical table by his wrists,ankles, and waist. The metal table was cold against his light skin. He didn't understand what's happening other than the situation he's now in, he now belongs to the SCP foundation so they could experiment on him and use his ability for their own good. TJ hears the door of the all white room he's in open. He turns his head the best he could to see doctors in full surgical scrubs walk in, while relying on a metal cart that has surgical tools on it. Seeing this terrified TJ, he doesn't want to be cut open so they could see what made him abnormal. “Hello SCP 590, I'm your head researcher Dr.Sanabria” TJ heard one of the doctors say to his left. TJ looked to his left to see a woman that has black hair with her bangs dyed pink, she has olive skin and brown eyes. She's wearing a turtleneck that has no sleeves with a long flowy black skirt, black boots, and a lab coat. TJ didn't know how to feel about the researcher who said her name was Dr. Sanabria other than she's pretty. “Well SCP 590 seems to be observing me” Dr. Sanabria said, writing it down on the piece of paper she had on a clipboard. Dr. Sanabria then handed one of the level 1 researchers to her right the clipboard before walking to the mental cart next to the surgical table TJ is on, grabbing a syringe that had some sort of liquid in it. She turned round and well back to TJ before leaning down, whispering into his ear. “You won't feel any pain” before putting the tip of the syringe into his wrist, ejecting the liquid in the syringe into him before standing up and walking back to the mental cart.
TJ started to freak out after she did that, trying to get out of his restraints until he didn’t feel his arm and hand. TJ stopped moving and looked at Dr.Sanabria who just smiled at him with a scalpel in her hand. She started to cut a line into his forearm, TJ watched as blood ran down his arm from the open wound.
Dr. Sanabria isn't a monster, she knows how it feels to be experimented on, but she does know what she’s doing.

5 hours later

TJ stared at the wall of his containment cell. He was in so much pain after getting cut open to see if there were any abnormalities with his body to explain his ability. Looked down to see the stitches that went from the base of his neck to his hips. TJ screamed while remembering everything they did to him in that room. They made him stay awake for the whole thing,making him watch as they cut into him to see what's wrong with him. Treating him as if he wasn't a human being but something dangerous that didn't belong in this world. TJ now fully understood why Jackie was so against this fucking foundation now. They treated human anomalies as if they weren't human and he was their latest victim.
Dr. Sanabria looked at TJ from the lookout room as TJ screamed, she felt sorry for the boy but she needed to do what she did to make sure he wasn't fully dangerous. Dr. Sanabria watched as TJ stopped screaming to lay down on his bed in the cell.

One year later

TJ sat in a hospital bed with a machine attached to him, making sure he was alive. TJ hated the fact he had to heal every researcher who was hurt by a SCP or had a deadly sickness. He didn't want to but they forced him like his father did with Sarah. After a while at the Foundation,he heard that Sarah was also a SCP like him. Her SCP number is 321,TJ wasn't shocked when he heard that she was also a SCP like he was. He was the one who brought her to life.
TJ heard the door of his containment cell open, he weakly turned his head to see who was coming in the cell. A few Researchers who worked under Dr.Sanabria walked while talking about something. TJ listened to their conversation as they worked on the machines. “Did you hear about what happened to Dr. Bright?” researcher 1 said, while looking at research 2. “You mean Dr. Jack Bright” researcher 2 said while paying attention to what he's doing to the machine that tracks TJ’s heartbeat. Hearing Jack's name pop up in their conversation interested TJ. He didn't know Jack had decided to be a researcher at the SCP Foundation until now, but knowing Jack, he was most likely trying to save him. TJ does want to be saved from this hell but he doesn't want to put Jack in danger while trying to do so. “Yes, but did you hear what happened to him?” researcher 1 answered and asked researcher 2. Researcher 2 stopped what he was doing and answered “You mean Dr. Bright getting killed by SCP 076-2 while holding SCP 963,then yes I do.” Hearing the researcher said that shock TJ, Jack died while trying to save him. TJ didn't know how to feel after hearing that, other than wondering what SCP 963 was and why was Jack holding a SCP. “I didn't mean that, I mean that a D class was cleaning after the recent containment breach, and found his body.” researcher 1 said to researcher 2 before he continued “The D class saw SCP 963 and picked it up, before standing completely still, one of the agents told the d-class to get back to work but it wasn't the D class it was Dr.Bright.” researcher 1 said. Researcher 2 looked at researcher 1 in shock before saying.” but how is that possible?” . They left TJ's containment room as they continued their conversation, leaving TJ with his thoughts.
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Mikel didn't know what to do when his younger brothers were taken into custody by the SCP foundation, other than doing his job as a O5 council member. After everything happened Mikel felt like he failed as an older brother and eldest son he promised them and their parents to keep them safe, but he failed at protecting them. Most importantly he blindly trusted someone he thought he could trust, his own father. Mikell couldn't understand why Adam Bright did what he did. He knew his parents were heart broken after finding how his baby sister Sarah was born stillborn. He didn't understand why his father thought it was a good idea to use TJ’s ability to heal someone who's dead. Mikell turns his attention to his computer on his desk to watch through the camera's the SCP foundation had in Jack's holding cell. While looking at the camera he saw Jack waking up and sitting up on the bed he was on to look around the room. Mikell watched as Jack turned his attention to the door when he heard it open. The SCP researcher walked in and asked Jack to join the foundation so they could use him for his brain. Jack refused to join the foundation after everything but mostly after what happened with TJ, but as soon as the researcher said it's either he joined the SCP foundation or lose his memories of TJ. He agreed to join.

6 months later

To say Mikell was shocked would be an understatement, after he found out his brother was killed by SCP 076-2 during a containment breach. Mikell stared at the email he got about his brother's death before putting his face into hands to stop himself from crying. He couldn't believe that one of his young siblings died before he or their parents did. Mikell took his head out of his hands and whispered to himself “What am I going to tell mom and Claire?”. Mikell didn't care about telling his father about Jack's death mostly because Adam most likely already knew about Jack's death but didn't care since the man has been overworking himself to get his “daughter” back. Mikell's mind went to when he and his mother confronted Adam about what happened with TJ, Jack, and Sarah. His mother Evelyn already knew what Adam had done thanks to Claire's ability to see into the future but she wanted his father to admit that he's done what he did to her face and well he did. For the first time in Mikells life he saw his mother slapping, she then started yelling saying “YOU PROMISE ME THAT WE'LL MAKE SURE TJ NEVER BECOMES A SCP FOR THAT STUPID FOUNDATION AND YOU GONE AND DONE THIS” with tears running down her face as she yelled at her husband. Mikell tried to comfort his mother the best he could after his father left.

While after

Mikell sat at a conference table with the rest of the O5 counsel to figure out what to do with his brother, well he was his brother but now he's SCP 963-2. When he heard the news about Jack, he was happy to learn his brother wasn't dead but remember that he was now a scp destined to have the same fate as their younger brother TJ. Mikell looked around the table to look at the other O5 members, They all looked at him expecting something from him. Once everyone was at the table they started their meeting. “What will we do about Dr.Bright being inside the body of a d-class with the assumed help of SCP 963.” O5 number 9 while she turns her head away from Mikell to look at O5 number 1. The person in seat one of the O5 counsel is the person behind and in charge of everything that happens in the SCP foundation. Well he wasn't the only one in charge but they are the most important person at this table. O5 1 stayed quiet, 05 5 goes on to say “We obviously put Dr. Bright as a new SCP” . After a while the O5 counsel started arguing with each other trying to figure out what to do with Dr. Bright and SCP 963. O5 one stood up from their seat and yelled “ EVERYONE BE QUITE” as soon as they said that everyone shut up and sat down looking ashamed of themselves. O5 1 sat down and said “ We are all adults here, start acting like it, I came to a discussion while you were arguing. O5 members number 6 Mikell Bright.” Mikell looked at the most powerful person in the SCP foundation wondering what they wanted from him. “Yes?” he said while sitting up straight in his seat, wondering what they wanted him to do or say.
“Your Dr. Jack Bright's older brother right?” they said while looking at him, expecting an answer from him. “Yes I am, why are you asking?” Mikell answered. “I want you to tell your brother that he is now SCP 963-2” O5 1 said.

After telling Jack

Mikell is walking down the hallway of a SCP foundation site, after letting his brother know of his new identity as a SCP. He hated the fact he was told to basically betray his own brother, became of something that was the SCP foundation's fault, but he must follow ordered no matter what.