I'm still going to keep writing the Teen Wolf fan fiction. I just wanted to try Alphas out.
Don't hesitate to tell me what you think. I'm open to positive and negative comments. Let me know what you guys really think. I won't cry over it. I just want to improve my ideas and writing.
"So, which person is the original?" Cameron asked, after skimming Clara Sumter's file.
"You skimmed, didn't you?" Nina asked him while painting her nails. She looked at them, decided the color didn't fully match her outfit, and started to wipe her nails with acetone.
"No, I didn't."
"Yes, you did. If you actually read the files instead of skimming, you wouldn't have asked that question."
"Please, no bickering," Dr. Rosen interrupted. He strolled into the conference room with a black coffee in one hand, newspaper in the other. "Every morning I come in, I always hear the two of you arguing over something." He thanked Rachel as she pulled out a chair for him. She handed him the files they each had.
"Clara Sumter… Yes, I remember her," he said, seeing the name on the front of the folder. "She was more of a friend to me than a patient." He took a sip of his coffee and grimaced. "Awful. I don't think the barista put enough sugar."
"No. Dr. Rosen, you're not supposed to change your morning schedule without telling me. You're not supposed to. You always get that rabbit smoothie at Sebastian's, not a black coffee," Gary said, rubbing his wrist.
"Yes, well, I decided it was time for a change, Gary." Dr. Rosen smiled at the young man. "And it's not rabbit, it's just green and organic. I'm getting old, Gary, I need to keep myself at the best condition I can."
"Alright. Enough about the coffee, back to Clara Sumter," Bill said, rolling his eyes.
"Ah, yes. Ms. Sumter. Well, she was a shy little girl when I was her doctor. And curious. Oh, yes. Very curious." Dr. Rosen leaned towards Rachel. "Rachel, do you mind putting some sugar in this? A lot?"
She smiled. "Of course, Dr. Rosen."
The old man waited until she came back to continue.
"Rarely said anything. But she knew and understood everything. Like a walking encyclopedia." He took a sip of his drink. "Ah, thank you, Rachel. Much better."
"Photographic memory. So what? What does this have to do with her Alpha ability?" Cameron asked, flipping to the end of the reports where the photos were. She was gaunt and pale from the... experiments... she was subjected to. Her eyes were dull from losing hope that she would one day be free. Despite all that, Cameron could see that if she hadn't been a "patient", she would have looked very different. "Huh. She's really pretty," he said to himself.
"Slow down there, hot shot. She's way too young for you," Nina said, laughing.
"Well, what happens when our I songs run out of memory?" Dr. Rosen said, choosing to ignore Cameron and Nina's side conversation.
"iPods, Dr. Rosen. iPods," Gary said, chuckling. "Maybe if you stopped drinking that smelly coffee and went back to your rabbit smoothie, you'd remember it's called iPods."
"Yes, yes, iPods. What happens?"
"Nothing. When the memory is full, you can't put anymore songs or videos in it. Unless you take some out," Bill answered.
"Or, or, or you can just buy a new one. Like my neighbor does. She doesn't like to delete her songs because she likes all of them. So she just buys –"
"Yes, Gary, exactly," Dr. Rosen interrupted. "Well, what Clara does is, in a way, the opposite."
"What do you mean?" Nina asked, curious.
"She reads, watches, listens, smells, feels much better than all of us… Much better than Rachel. And she remembers it all. And contrary to popular belief, the mind actually does have a limit. Clara proves it. Her mind is like a computer. And when her computer is full, instead of deleting old files, she creates another computer. And another, and another." He finished his coffee and walked to drop it in the trashcan.
"And to keep track of which computer has which files, she separates and organizes the files based on subject. So one computer has this and these subject, another has that and those subjects... So on, so on."
"I don't get it," Cameron said. "How is that an Alpha ability? Shouldn't that just be... a psycho with OCD?"
"She's an Alpha because she knowingly and willingly creates these... people. She's able to distinguish one from the other, choose who she wants to be," Bill explained. "It's difficult to make a final list of her people because she absorbs knowledge like a goddamn sponge so she keeps creating new people to accommodate." He looked back at the file. "Michelle Conners is a hacker genius with a nerdy personality, Elizabeth Cooper is an equestrian expert with a very sensual nature, Fiona Selay is a multi-linguist with amazing cooking skills."
Dr. Rosen nodded. "Yes, exactly. And none of her people coincide. Conners is afraid of animals, Cooper only speaks English and Japanese, and Selay is very introverted and a lesbian virgin."
"Freaky," Nina said, drying her nails. "Kinda like Dissociative Identity Disorder. Only… Well… Alpha-ish. For lack of a better word."
"But they don't seem that dangerous. Well, except for the hacker," Cameron said. "So how did that get her in Binghamton?"
"That's not just it, Mr. Hicks," Dr. Rosen said. "She has a few other identities… Very, very dangerous ones."
"Blair Gordon, a creative contract killer with no sense of morals. Hanna Mesh, a manipulative, charismatic artist who's suspected of leading a self-torture-loving cult. Iris Bennett, a calculating arms dealer who –"
"Okay, I get it," Cameron said. "So she's bad and dangerous. And we have to capture her and send her back to Bing –"
"No."
The team looked at Dr. Rosen.
"No? But Dr. Rosen," Gary, said, forgetting about the video of a tap dancing dog. "She's bad. We need to –"
"No. We're not going to send her to that godforsaken, torture facility. We're going to keep her here. With us. I want her to be the newest member of our team. So, we need to find her before Clay and his team does. And then convince them that it's better for her to be with us."
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And what do you think about Clara's ability? Is it Alpha enough?