"To this day, I am still confused about women…and I am positive they are confused about men or else they would have added seats in JCPenney"
-DJ GF
The sun had finally completely shown itself. Mac snapped out of his fantasy world and noticed that Zev was still asleep. Mac picked up the phone and punched in different numbers than he did last time, just the number three. He was going to use the intercom for all of the cell rooms. The phone didn't ring but instead it was a click sound, "Attention everybody. For those that wish to return to the way you came before that wasn't human, please report to the cafeteria. I repeat. Those wishing to return to the way you came before that wasn't human, please report to the cafeteria ASAP." Now he had to get done to the cafeteria, leaving sleeping Zev by himself. But Mac didn't really need to be long, he was positive Zev would be fine by himself.
Mac crept out of the office and silently left the room, closing the door slowly and silently as well. He carefully walked down the steps, making sure his feet didn't echo. As he reached the hallway, he went to a normal pace, not bothering to be quiet. He continued down the stairs at the end and went through the hallways again, heading for the cafeteria were everybody ate. As he came into the extremely large room, there wasn't that many people there, probably about a hundred. "Alright then, we're heading for the lab," Mac told them, "Just think about on the way though, do you want to be let out the door as soon as you are complete or do you want to wait with the others so you aren't in the desert."
They started looking at each other, but they still followed Mac. The lab itself was about eight hundred meters away from the main site (about two laps around a normal highschool football field.) It seemed smaller but most of it was underground. The inside was just like the main building as well, just much cleaner. Everybody managed to squeeze through the small hallways. Finally, they came to a stop. "I'll be right back," Mac just said, heading into a door.
It was the leader of the entire group of scientist. He looked up when the door opened. "Did you bring them?" he asked Mac, getting up from his desk in the corner that was stacked with papers.
"All of them, but it isn't much," Mac said, pointing to the door behind him.
"Well then, I think we can take care of them here, we should have enough room for a large group while experimenting," the man said, walking towards the door behind Mac.
"You don't mind that I stick around, do you?" Mac asked, wanting to make sure that they weren't going to be thrown in a nasty place.
"Not at all," the leader said, "It is your place after all."
In the next hour, Mac followed the group being put into cleaner cells, actually a bit more comfortable than the ones everyone else was at. It included what the others had, but also a small sink and a simple shower. After the first thirty were started, Mac left back for the office. As he headed back, he couldn't help but feel good about himself, everything was going to plan. Perhaps he had finally got his pay off for playing his cards right, waiting patiently for Dorjan to suddenly leave and leaving him with the place, the solution to the problem coming sooner than he expected, the whole nightmare that he had lived for five years and as well as others might end up with a peaceful awakening with their old life back.
"It's just to easy," Mac continued to think, but the one stain still came back, "But how will I know if it will also working completely for me as well?"
Surely his parents would think that some miracle had happened as to why he didn't appear to age, or perhaps they would say he isn't there son but still accept them, but what if they didn't? Mac shook the idea off his mind, replacing it with plans just incase the worst should happen. Mac went back up the usual stairs to get Zev, probably awake now.
Mac opened the door, but still slowly as to make sure that he wouldn't wake Zev up if he was asleep. He opened it more and stepped inside, closing the door behind him, "Zev?"
"Here," the familiar voice said. Zev was behind the chair, none of his body parts were showing from behind the chair, "Mac, can I tell you something else?"
Mac took a spot in front of the desk, "You know you can."
"And you promise not to tell?"
"Yes."
"Well, you see brother," Zev started, his voice holding something back hard, "You see…"
"Oh no," Mac said, rushing to Zev's side, rushing to Zev's side.
"I-I…" Water then started to form in Zev's eyes. Mac was already by his side and Zev jumped off the chair and grabbed around Mac's neck, hugging it for any comfort possible, "I…"
"Don't worry," Mac said, patting Zev's back to help him while he cried on Mac's shoulder, "Just take your time, let it out slowly, okay?" Zev continued to cry, now just sobbing. He snuggled his face against Mac's, doing whatever he could to ease the pain that Mac still didn't know about exactly yet. Mac took a seat in the chair, wondering what exactly was that Zev wanted to say but was chocking to say. Whatever it was, it was probably very big to Zev or perhaps there was many different things, his voice sounded harsh and almost like he was gasping for air.
"Take your time, take your time," Mac repeated over and over to Zev, "I'll stay here as long as you need be, I won't leave, okay?"
To be continued... :P