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Chapter 1 – The Experiment

The scene is of a lab, sterile white and filled with very expensive equipment that were so varied in their function that many had little to do with what the man sitting on a stool in the very cente of the lab was doing, peering into a microscope

He was in his early fifties with thinning iron gray hair dressed in a white lab coat

His attention was pulled away from his microscope by the air lock hissing open and he looked up to see his lab assistant Tyler entering

"Tyler can I do something for you?" the older scientist asked

"No Doctor Samuels, I just came to give you the news" Tyler told him looking glum

"What news?" Samuels asked him his heart sinking as his suspicions rose

"Their putting the project into cold storage" Tyler told him regretfully

"What!" Samuels yelled, immediately jumping to his feet "This project could cure nearly every disease on Earth!"

"Might cure" Tyler corrected him "Its the side effects they're worried about" he told his superior "Using Eve's cells to create anti-bodies against nearly every disease we could think of so cures could be developed but by using her unstable blood mix, the alien strain might be past on in those anti-bodies. Its a risk they just won't take after what happened with Sil. So all the research is to be stored and the anti-bodies we already made put in liquid nitrogen to be examined again some day" he told him

Samuels slumped back onto his stool, his head lowered in despair

"We were so close" he lamented "Just a few more weeks and we would have been there" his despair growing with every second, his life's dream that he was so close to succeeding in was being snatched away

Tyler sighed looking at Samuels before walking back out the air lock, leaving Samuels to grieve for the lost of his dream

A Year Later...

Laura Baker sat in the chair opposite her doctor's desk, waiting for him to return with the results of her tests, with tension building every second

Over the last few weeks she had been feeling nausea, pain and blurred vision, as a scientist she knew that these could be symptoms of any number of diseases but as the old saying went it was better to be save than sorry

Then her Doctor, Doctor Carter came in and she immediately looked up to see his glum face, her heart fell

He sat down at his desk and said "It's Poltar Syndrome, there is no cure; I'm sorry" he looked at her with sympathy in her eyes

Laura slumped back into her chair and scenes began rushing through her mind; her beloved uncle, a bright strong intelligent man who was reduced into a dried out husk who lived in constant pain, unable to even breathe unassisted. The man Laura had had to help care for till they turned off his life support to let him go

She resolved to never end up like that, there must be a way to cure herself

There must be...

My first attempt to make a Species story rather than just one-shots

Poltar Syndrome is a disease I made up for the story

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