Hey, it's one half of the Lady Bonbons (Abby) just adding in a quick author's note. This is the first joint fic we've done, so please review. The paragraphs tend to be like that because I wrote the first Paragraph, Lauren wrote the second etcetera, etcetera. Also, we have about 16 k words, and editing has been a nightmare so far... so we'll be slow (or rather, I'll be slow- it's my fault) to update. Sorry. ^^;
The small lamp flickered above the two intently bent over heads, concentrating on their work. Wires upon wires were attached to the hand that lay motionless on the desk. Silence hung in the corners heavily, waiting for something to happen and break the tension.
'Alright, we're all set. Are you ready, Miss Lair?' The first to speak was a tall, broad shouldered woman of maybe 28 years of age, although it was hard to place- her face was young yet her eyes had seemed to have seen so much more. Her white lab coat showed signs of blood and it parted at the bottom to show black jeans. Her shoulder length hair was held back with a pony tail, and clips held her fringe out of the way. As she moved, the light bounced off her straight locks, giving it a purple sheen against the black.
The young woman of 22 looked to her peer. Her long wavy red hair was tied into a scruffy ponytail that gave the red hair a wild, rugged edge. She too was wearing a lab coat, but it was decorated with colourful badges depicting messages and pictures. Her dark skinny jeans could just be seen. "All set Cairo." Eva replied.
"This is strictly business; you will refer to me as Miss Benevolent."
"Whatever you say." Eva couldn't help but roll her eyes.
Cairo Benevolent kept a straight, serious face. Any other time, her eyes would have glistened with a smile, but not now. Now was too important. She steadied her hand as it hovered over the big red button. At the time, the inevitable red button had seemed a good idea, but now, it made the whole thing seem childish and made a mockery of the situation. Miss Benevolent scowled. With a final glance to Eva, a well manicured finger pressed the button, sending a jolt of electricity through the hand.
Eva couldn't help but shudder slightly as the hand twitched. After a couple of minutes of the hand twitching and slightly jerking it stopped.
"3 minutes and a half." Eva stopped her stopwatch and wrote the results on her clipboard. "That's the longest time by far. If we try to get the rest of the body to react with this we might get further,"
"If we stay with the hand then that can get stronger and then the body can wake up by itself." replied Miss Benevolent, a scowl dancing on her voice
"Am I the only one here that feels like Doctor Frankenstein?" Eva muttered. Cairo glared slightly at her co-worker.
Cairo scratched her nose and sighed, leaning against the table. Shrugging off her lab coat, she looked Eva in the eye.
'Eva, if this works, if we do this, we'll have won over God. We'll be the only Goddesses around, heaven, earth, anywhere." Cairo paused and raised her eyes to the ceiling, as if she was challenging whatever was out there to make its move, but it didn't. She then returned her gaze to her co-worker, annoyance and frustration suddenly creasing her forehead. "But we've run out of money. This is the last experiment we can fund. We need help; big help. But we needed this God damn thing to work for longer than a measly three minutes!' In anger, Cairo knocked the hand to one side then looked at the floor.
The hand grabbed the edge of the table to prevent rolling off.
Eva had about to comment that it was actually 3 and a HALF minutes when she saw the hand. "Did that just...?"
"Move. I'm pretty sure it did." The hand climbed to the middle of the table.
"Now I really feel like Dr Frankenstein,"
"We have just caused a hand to come to life and you're making jokes. We have won over God."
"So we beat God and... Satan? What next Cairo?"
Cairo smiled a large smile, an almost sinister smile. A small laugh escaped her lips.
'We've done it, Eva, we've done it. Now, go put that in a specimen chamber, keep it alive.' She walked over to a metal door and pulled it open. Inside was a man, just over average height with dark spiked hair and a slightly tattered suit, suspended in false animation. Cairo reached out and touched his tank, almost touching his face.
'Soon, my dear friend, so soon. And you'll walk the earth once more.'