"Professor, what's wrong?"
He continued reading the test results in his hands before looking at his assistant, who was hesitant about going anywhere near the man.
"Were the samples tampered with before hand?"
"No sir but we did have to change the girl's diet. She's eating no where near what she's supposed to"
He frowned and sighed before placing the file on his desk and running a hand through his raven black hair. This had been the forth time that they had tried this experiment and the forth time that it had failed. He turned to his assistant.
"What about the serums?"
"Her body's rejected them. I wonder if the over use of the serums has caused the tests on her bones to fail"
"It could be. Is there any of the sample left?"
His assistant shook her head and crossed her arms over her chest before turning a stoney face to him. He just glared back.
"Are you still pissed because I stopped sleeping with you?"
His assistant pushed herself away from the wall, all the while never looking away.
"Not exactly. What pisses me off is that ever since that monster got here you've wanted nothing to do with me anymore"
"If you don't like it then leave. Keep one thing in mind Marie, I don't need you on staff here so I couldn't care less whether you stay or not"
He turned towards two men clad in black standing by the door.
"Go get our little half breed and put her in the lab"
They nodded before disappearing and the professor looked at his assistant, who left before he did. He knew she wouldn't be participating in this 'extraction' but it wasn't like he cared anyway. He looked to the now open door to find a raven haired teenager standing there.
"What is it, Brian?"
"The lab's ready"
He nodded and pushed past Brian to head down the long corridor that would lead him to his lap and to her. When he entered the room she was up on the table wrapped in the usual blanket with her back to him.
"You know, hiding isn't going to get you out of this"
He moved about the room getting things set up so he could extract a piece of bone from the lower part of her rib cage. When he went around to where she was facing he noticed her watching him with her sapphire eyes; she knew what was coming.
By the time he had her knocked out and the piece of bone extracted he was too tired to do much of anything. The bone itself had fought with him to come loose and it took almost all his strength to pull the tiny piece free. Putting the bone in a small glass vile he set it on the table beside him before stitching his subject up and slipping into a chair.
He motioned for the two men that had brought her here to take her back to her cell and then called for Brian to take the bone to Marie to have it tested. Once he slipped back into his office and into his over stuffed, leather arm chair he found himself dozing. It had certainly been a long day.