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Author's notes: The story takes place around the middle of Season 4. This is one of my first tries of writing something with a real plot and also a tad bit longer than my other work. Please have patience with me concerning updating and all that for the story's in the process of being translated since my first language is not English and the same time rewritten at several places.
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Summary: Spike has been captured by the Initiative and been some time at their loving care, still is (since it is around Season 4). He's about to get a really close look at some special project of theirs while being their guest.
The Experiment – HST 17
by Belladonna
~Prologue~
Science is something that can help us making our lives easier; easier for us to live and to enjoy living in general. Science has brought us many achievements of modern life today; small things that might seem so unimportant on the first glance but which without the science and all the research that are behind them might never have been achieved at all.
Yet still, as much as we consider this progress that we gain for ourselves with science a gift from God himself, as much are we taking it upon ourselves to playing God at times.
Just how often are we putting our conscience behind any reason, hiding it in the farthest corners of our minds and all that we consider righteous or wrong, so that they won't bother us in doing our work, or might even hold us back from doing it at all?
How easy is it for us then to exchange both sides, the one that restrains us from acting foolishly or that which leads us directly to that path of folly? This fine thin line between arrogance and vanity towards righteousness and inner peace of mind and soul does in fact blur at times.
With science our own chosen path through life can lead to a much easier way yet the same time we are just stepping over the stones upon it. And not often stumbling.
But the truth about the rightness of our doings does not lie within that but far deeper underneath, hidden beneath the dark cloaking veil of reality, righteousness and immorality.
And reality, the true reality is far from being revealed by this.