When I walked in the door of Evan's office he was working intently on his computer. I looked at his screen to try and figure out what exactly he was doing, but I couldn't really. I saw a couple strands of DNA, which gave me an idea that I didn't think practical Evan was likely to be working on, but he was pretty unpredictable.
"What are you doing, Evan?" I asked hesitantly. Sometimes you didn't want to know what the scientists here were doing. I waited patiently for a few minutes until Evan pushed his rolly (sorry had to use that) chair away from the desk with a triumphant smile.
"Hey Brooke." he said happily. "I was just toying with some DNA." He said simply. I glared at him; that much was obvious. His smile widened and I sighed as I knew what he was about to say.
"Did you want to know something else?" he asked with his evil smile on his face. I glared at him and sighed but told him what he wanted.
"What exactly were you doing? Happy?" I asked. He nodded. Sadly he tended to make people ask for exactly what they wanted. Then the young scientists face lit up again.
"I'm trying to figure out if there is any way to make a hybrid, you know, half human half Pokemon. This," he motioned to the computer, "Is a basic design for a human-Charmander hybrid." He said, looking at the screen proudly.
"Why Charmander?" I asked, curious. Evan glared (they do that a lot don't they?) at me.
"Because Charmander make everything better." He said as if it should be obvious. I personally like Bulbasaur, but I wasn't going to start an argument with Evan of all people. Then my expression turned confused. This sort of project had been tried many times before, surely Evan knew that. He was the best scientist at the lab, possibly in the country. If he was taking this undertaking he must have a new idea. He answered as if from my thoughts.
"I know this has been tried before, but this time I really think it will work! See, I'm not doing it like it has been done in the past. They all tried to mess with the DNA before the child was hatched." He said it like that explained everything. I gave him a blank look and he sighed.
"I'm trying to make it so that it takes an already existing child and changes it! See, this is a virus that takes over the cells in someone's body and changes them to match the DNA splices I've made. So over the course of a week or so they're changed into a hybrid (kind of like turning into a vampire if any of you like Twilight- actually a lot like it). Get it?" he asked. Though defiantly strange, this new method just might work.
"But," Evan said with a crestfallen look, "I don't know how I'm going to get permission to test. I guess it is a bit cruel, but maybe if I would look after the child? I'm sure no one else would…" he said. Poor compassionate Evan, not wanting to hurt anyone but wanting his experiment to work. He sighed.
"Well, I guess that means that this won't work…" he said sadly, putting it into the "Improbable Experiments" folder on his computer. I felt bad but knew that it wouldn't work orthodoxly.
Though we would never know, putting that file in that folder and not getting rid of it was the worst thing we could have done.