Listening In

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**Site-14**
**Sacramento, California**
**Oct. 13th, 2024**

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Elias Bissel sat at his desk, monitoring calls. That's practically what everyone did in the Foundation's [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/telecommunications-monitoring-office-hub Telecommunications Monitoring Department.] Sit at a desk, and listen to calls. Over and over and over again. //Even though it's boring as hell,// Elias thought, //I get paid... decently.// All he has to do is report calls involving anomalous activity to his supervisor. Fortunately, during the span of eight years Elias has worked in this department, that has never happened.

Until this fateful night, of course.

Elias arrived at 7:00 in the morning, just like he did every day. He always tried to avoid talking to his coworkers. His goal was to complete his shift, then go home. He was never a "people person", as some would say. He sat down in his cubicle with his coffee, and started to scan through emergency calls. Everything was normal. A man calling the police after his garage was broken into. A woman calling the fire department after a gas leak. Typical 911 calls. Eventually, a call caught Elias' attention.

"911, what's your emergency?" A woman spoke into the phone.

"I know you're //listening.//" A man with a gruff voice said.

Obviously confused, Elias thought //What is this guy talking about? Of course the 911 operator you just called is listening to you.// Elias took another sip of his now cold coffee.

"//Elias Bissel.// I know you're //Listening to me.//" The man on the other end hissed.

Elias, startled, disconnected the line. He sat there, thinking about what exactly just happened. No one should be able to hear him while he was monitoring lines. As a matter of fact, Elias didn’t make a sound the entire time he was listening. //how did this guy know I was there?// Right before he messages his supervisor, the power went out. Everything was dark.

Elias slowly stood up, and peeked over his cubicle. He could see the windows. Surprisingly, the outside world was dark, too. //What the hell? I only started work 2 hours ago. What happened to the lights?// Elias opened a cabinet in his cubicle and grabbed a flashlight. He clicked it on, and stepped out of the confines of his cubicle and into the dark room.

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Elias has been walking the dark, and now empty Site-14 for what seemed like hours. He could not find a single soul in the whole building, nor a sign of a way out. Every floor he climbed down lead to an identical looking floor filled with cubicles and dark windows. He could not reach the bottom floor with the exit. "Hello? Is anyone there? Hellooooo?" Elias called out. He was looking for any sign of human life. After a few more minutes of going down steps that lead to the same floor over and over again, he started to panic even more than he already was.

"Hello?! Anyone?!" He shouted. "I want to leave. Let me go home. let me go home!” He screamed. Elias kept walking, going down each flight of stairs, always leading to the same floor of the same building. He tried everything to get out. He tried to break the windows. It didn't work. He tried to go back up the stairs he came from. Nothing changed. He picked up the phones in the cubicles to try to reach someone. Anyone. All of the phone lines were dead. Eventually he gave up and laid down on the cold, damp carpet. He was hopeless.

After a few hours, a phone rang. Elias jumped to his feet, searching for the source of the ringing. He found the phone in the corner of the floor, inside of a cubicle. Unlike the other floors and cubicles he had searched, this one was completely empty; no family portraits, no posters, no computer. The only thing in the cubicle was the small, dated landline phone. Elias, with a shakey hand, slowly brought the ringing phone to his ear. "H-hello?"

**"You shouldn't have listen in on my calls, Elias. Welcome to your new home."**

"//What?// n-no! Let me out dammit! //Let me out!//" The phone disconnected. Elias screamed and slammed the phone into the wall of the small cubicle. He started to sob.

The man on the phone was right. Elias Bissel was not leaving anytime soon.

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**Short email to all staff members of site-14**
**October 17th, 2024**

Recently, we have noticed that Elias Bissel, one of our level 1 telecommunications specialists, have been missing for the last few days. He was last seen on CCTV entering his cubicle on the third floor. He was not seen leaving the building. We have members of our security staff currently searching the building for him. If you have any information on the whereabouts of Mr. Bissel, please contact a member of site security staff.

Thank you,

Subdivision Director Gabrielle Lauser
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Martha Abbot and Johnathan Walton stood by the water fountain on the third floor of Site-14, chatting about their day. After a while of small talk, they got to the topic of the email that was sent to them yesterday.

"Hey," Martha spoke. "Did you get that email about that Elias guy?"

"Yea, I did." Responded Johnathan. "I've saw him a few times, we never spoke, he definitely wasn't the social type. Maybe he just up and left."

"I don't think so. He's been working here for years. He also just vanished from his cubicle? Weird if you ask me. Anyway, I gotta get back to work. See you later, John."

After the conversation, Martha walked to her small cubicle, and sat down at her desk. Before she could start her job of monitoring calls, she got a call herself. //Probably my supervisor or something.// She brought her corded phone up to her ear. "Hello?"

**"You shouldn't listen in on other people's private business, Mrs. Abbot. What a horrible, //nasty// job you have."**

The power went out, and she was shrouded in darkness.

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