Chapter 1:
A petite young woman of about seventeen walked down a sidewalk in Eureka. Passing people who looked ordinary enough, but she knew what made this town, and all of its residents different. I mean, she should, her grandfather founded the town.
Jasmine's P.O.V.
The last time I had been in this town, I had been about five. But even then I had only been in the town about ten times. My family has always kept to them selves, living on the outskirts of the town. I guess we have a long history of ASPD. But then one day, we suddenly just left. I never found out why, I just remembered my father going in to my room one morning and telling me that we were leaving. We had moved out of state and bought a home in the Colorado Rocky's. My dad was always antisocial, he worked from home, as much as possible. But working in Eureka, that's really hard to do. In Colorado we lived alone, basically. Accept for my dads friend Rick, and our butler Shaun. Rick lived a few miles from us, and he would bring us anything that we needed. My father hasn't stepped foot outside of our home in Colorado in over seven years.
I don't want to be a hermit like my father, for obvious reasons. I want to make my mark on the world. And Eureka is the perfect place to do just that. Eureka isn't just a town, it is, the future. Eureka is home to the worlds smartest people.
Maybe I should give some background information on Eureka.
With the help of my grandfather Thomas Eureka and other trusted advisors, President Harry S. Truman commissioned a top-secret residential development in a remote area of the Pacific Northwest, one that would serve to protect and nurture America's most valuable intellectual resources. There our nation's greatest thinkers, the uber-geniuses working on the next era of scientific achievement, would be able to live and work in a supportive environment.
The best architects and planners were commissioned to design a welcoming place for these superlative geniuses to reside, an area that would offer the best education for their children, the best healthcare, the best amenities and quality of life. A community was created to rival the most idyllic of America's small towns— with one major difference: this town would never appear on any maps. At least, none that haven't been classified "eyes only" by the Pentagon.
Thus, the town of Eureka was born. But for all its familiar, small-town trappings, things in this secret hamlet are anything but ordinary. Most of the quantum leaps in science and technology during the past 50 years were produced by Eureka's elite researchers. Unfortunately, scientific exploration is rarely what one expects, and years of experiments gone awry have yielded some peculiar by-products.
With the population's unique talents, troubled psyches and limitless resources, these small-town concerns have a way of becoming big-time problems. It is at that intersection, where human frailty and super-science collide, that Eureka began…
My grandfather had been Albert Einstein's mentor, and his good friend. My family has a long history of being uber-geniuses. I can even date my ancestry back to Galileo Galilei. Which is probably why one of my favorite subjects is Astronomy. If my father hadn't sheltered me most of my life I would probably already have graduated from several colleges with top honors. All in all, I am a genius, even by Eureka standards.
I walked into a small cafe, to my right. I remember coming here as a child, when ever I was in town. I wonder if Vincent still runs it. I sat down on one of the stools at the counter. A second later, Vincent walked out of the back. I remember Vincent gave me a tour of the back when I was four, I couldn't believe how huge it was.
"Welcome to Cafe Diem, what would you like to eat?" he asked cheerfully.
"Do you still serve, well, everything?" I asked with a smile.
"Yup, or motto is, if you want it, we got it." he said. I laughed and smiled warmly. "You know I remember everyone of my customers, but I don't recall you." he told me.
"I lived in Eureka as a child. This is the first time I've been back since we left." I explained. I'm not surprised he doesn't recognize me. It has been twelve years.
"Well, maybe I'd remember you if you told be your name."
"My name is Jasmine, but my friends call me Jazz" I told him. I didn't want him to know that I was a Eureka, just yet. I didn't want people to know me, just because my grandfather founded the town.
"You got a last name?" he inquired.
"Nope"
"Well that's cryptic. So what would you like to eat?" he said repeating his earlier question.
"Turkey and cheese sandwich, Swiss cheese please. With a small bowl of fruits, I don't care what, but no pineapple. And wild raspberry tea." I told him.
"Coming right up"
I smiled at him as he turned around and retreated into the back. I looked around at all the people in the cafe. Some kids lounging on chairs near the far wall. A couple laughing and kissing in the corner. The man was wearing a sheriffs outfit. The women looked up and saw me watching them. I quickly looked away. A second later Vincent brought me my ordered. I ate my food quietly, while I listen to Vincent talk about random things. When I was finished, Vincent took away the dishes.
"How much is that?" I asked, pulling my wallet out of her bag.
"Jazz, you obviously don't remember that here, you don't have to pay." he told me.
"Oh, right" I said, I forgot about that. "Hey, can you tell me where GD is?" I asked.
"You need to get to GD?" asked a woman coming up to her. I recognized her as the woman who had caught me staring at her and her boyfriend kiss. Her boyfriend was standing behind her.
"Yeah" I answered shyly.
"Why?" she asked.
"I want, to apply for a job there." I explained. The woman looked a little surprised with my answer.
"You can't just apply for a job at GD." she told me.
"I know, but I really want to work there." I told her.
"What makes you think you're GD material?" she inquired.
"Well, I have an I.Q. of 195, and I've written several papers. I've even written a book on quantum mechanics, never published though. I can show you them." I pulled a small circular device out of my bag. I hit a button on it an a holographic list appeared. I hit one of the options and a small stack of papers appeared. I picked them up and handed them to the women. "here's a paper I wrote, that disproves the String Theory." She flipped through it and stared up at me in amazement.
"Let's head to GD" she told me. "Oh and by the way, I'm Allison Black, head off GD." My eyes widened and my mouth dropped open a little. Directer Blake handed the papers back to me and headed out the door. I quickly recomposed myself and followed her.
Here it is the first chapter of, Well, that's Eureka for you. I hope you all liked it. Please favorite, or story alert, or whatever. And if you have any suggestion on how I can make this story better, please tell me. RR