Even though I love Marta I wonder how Aaron with deal with a woman who not only spoke her mind but had feistiness about her. Meet Lily the girl who thinks that she owes Aaron for something that happened in their childhood so long ago and that he doesn't even remember.
Chapter two: Lily
Dr. Lily Carmichael found herself wondering how she often found herself in certain situations. Maybe it was her inability to say no or her need to repay an old debt. Whatever the case she was here and now she needed to observe. She needed to find out what was really going on inside the facility. Rumors had been swirling about in the science community about what was really going on and since she was somewhat responsible for certain parts of it she needed to know. So here she was, watching. Her job was to observe test subjects, record findings and above all not to ask questions. They had been very animate about not asking questions.
Lily was a shy person by nature which made her not speaking to people very easy. However her moral and natural curiosity always seemed to push at her. Yes the testing had been going well, the results stellar and the test subjects were showing remarkable skills. All was as it should be, until she saw him. Number 5 was what they had labeled him. That was when she decided to started to really look at old results, findings and reports. Her reaction to what she truly had found was disbelief which quickly turned to anger. So she started testing things herself using old samples, and old data after hours. For weeks she would stay behind and work, using the excuse of getting to know the subjects better to make an accurate report. This worked for now because they thought her to shy and quiet to make any noise. Dangerous she knew but she just had to know what was really going on.
The original project was set up to help people with certain problems and disabilities. She was the one who had brought the research forth but instead of its intended use they were using it to rewrite and change the subjects DNA and not to their knowledge. When she had first published her findings about the rewrites that could be done to help cure things like autism and other metal issues she did it anonymously because she had been so young. People had never taken her seriously so coming into this facility had proven to be easier then she had anticipated. But then it had all changed for her.
She had met him once before a life time ago and so very far away. Of course he didn't remember her; she was so different than she had been then. But she remembered him and his eyes. He had kind eyes and an empathy that she no longer thought existed. He saved her life on that horrible day so long ago. So she started to watch over him she owed him after all and since he showed the "most promise" in the program of course she would always be there. That's when he started to notice her in the background. Maybe he was starting to remember or maybe he was just curious, he always had been and she was a relatively new face to the program. Whichever the case she knew it was now her turn to save his life.