Chapter 47.
(Zac POV)
We were with the Girls and Lewis.
"I have been working all day, every day, And I think I'm getting close to figuring out what your transformation's all about," Lewis said.
"Lewis, It's Magic," I said.
"Lewis we've kind of figured that one out for ourselves," Emma said.
"Yeah for me it was the tails, Was it the tails for you, Cleo, or," Rikki said.
"Ease off on Lewis," Cleo said. "He's trying to help,"
"Exactly," Lewis said. "Science is the Key that unlocks the door to the mysteries of life, but you don't much care do you,"
"No," Rikki said.
"Lewis, They got transformed by Magic. Zac and I were born this way," I said.
"Look guys, in the next week for so, I'm going to have, the opportunity to well to, Forget it," Lewis said.
"Lewis, Spill," Mimmi said.
"Ok, There's someone arriving today, She's doing Dolphin research at the marine park, Her Name's Denman, She did her PHD at 21," Lewis said. "Can you believe that,"
"I'm tingling," Rikki said.
"These days she's one of the worlds leading experts in aquatic mammalian cellular evolution," Lewis said. "If I can tap into her research,"
"And how are you going to get access to a scientist like her Lewis," Emma said.
"I have my methods," Lewis said.
"No way," Rikki said.
"No, You're not going to tell a real scientist about us," Mimmi said.
"Guys it's me," Lewis said. "I'll be careful, what do you mean a real scientist,"
"She can't know about us, Lewis, This secret has been mine and Zac's life," I said.
"What if she wants to dissect us," Rikki said.
"What if she goes public on us," Cleo said.
"She's a marine biologist, and she'll have equipment that makes the stuff at school seem like toys," Lewis said. "If you guys want answers I need access, to it and her research,"
"And how are you going to do that without spilling your guts about us," Rikki said.
"I was thinking charm," Lewis said.
"No," Rikki said. "Seriously,"
"Come on Guys all I'm asking is that you trust me," Lewis said.
"Ok," Emma said. "We do need to know what's happened to us,"
"You'll never get to see her anyway," Rikki said.
"Yes I will," Lewis said. "Cleo,"
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"Dr. Denman, Ha, More like Dr. Baywatch babe," Cleo said. "What does she know anyway,"
"Well I googled her, She wrote some important paper as part of her PHD. Mutation in Aquatic Mammals, She's got a bit of cred," Rikki said.
"Ah she got lucky," Cleo said. "I bet she's not even a real blond, What, I'm just concerned about Lewis, and how he's feeling right now, You should have seen him before, I mean what if he's so influenced that he tells her about us,"
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"And what exactly are you going to say to her, Lewis," Emma said.
"Have a little faith please, All I want is access to her lab," Lewis said. "That's it,"
"You're a sucker for a pretty face," Emma said.
"A pretty face," Lewis said. "What you think I noticed whether she was pretty or not, I'm a scientist, Besides she wasn't that special anyway," As his phone went. "It's her,"
"He's got her number programmed into his phone already," Cleo said.
"Nervous laughter, Not good," Rikki said.
"Is he twirling his hair," Emma said.
"Looks like it," I said.
"We're in big trouble," Cleo said.
"Well, I'm convinced," Mimmi said.
"You can't be trusted," Emma said.
"What," Lewis said.
"Lewis forget about her for a minute, This is us we're talking about, Do not reveal anything to her, You got that, Nothing. We've got a lot riding on this, Zac and I have been like this our whole life," I said.
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"Lewis, She saw the sample," Emma said.
"Are you serious," I said.
"You're not getting the big picture, It was an accident," Lewis said. "And besides she's a scientist, This is what Scientists do,"
"Sell out their friends," Rikki said.
"No, Compare notes," Lewis said. "That's the thing about us,"
"Us," Mimmi said.
"We scientists," Lewis said. "Our need to know is what drives us, believe me, She's cool,"
"What if her need to know ends up with her dissecting us," I said.
"She's not like that, I have to go, I'll talk to you tomorrow," Lewis said. As he left.
"Lewis isn't usually this erratic," Cleo said.
"Those in favor of not trusting Lewis as far as we could throw him raise your hands," Rikki said.
"Agreed, Let's keep an eye on him," Emma said.
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"Did you think I wouldn't notice you guys spying on me," Lewis said. "I mean where's the trust,"
"The trust," Emma said.
"I think it died when you accidentally gave our DNA to a world renowned marine biologist," Mimmi said.
"No, I think it was when he agreed to take Dr Baywatch babe on a date to Mako Island," I said.
"You've gone to far Lewis," Cleo said.
"You don't trust me," Lewis said. "After everything we've been through, I've been working so hard to trying to solve basic questions about why you guys are the way you are,"
"Yeah Lewis, Magic," I said. "I've been saying this since the start,"
"And this is what it comes down," Lewis said.
"They're our lives, Lewis," Rikki said.
"Our lives at risk here," Mimmi said.
"We're being careful, Something my Brother and I had to do since we found out about what we were born as," I said. "You should be too,"
"You know what I think," Lewis said. "I think you guys are a bunch of kids, and at least Dr. Denman is a woman and a little bit more mature,"
"Mature, Yeah that going to bite you back on your backside," I said.
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"It looked like an article for a scientific journal or something," Cleo said. "It's the same stuff as you keep blabbing about Lewis, It proves she's still got the DNA Sample, It was a little white slide box,"
"Well Lewis," Emma said.
"She wouldn't," Lewis said.
"It looks like she'd been studying it doing tests," Cleo said.
"She's not like that," Lewis said.
"Time to face facts, Lewis," I said.
"Facts, You don't have any facts," Lewis said. "Cleo you read a bit of an article you don't understand,"
"I understand enough to know it's the same stuff you say," Cleo said.
"So," Lewis said. "Maybe I've influenced her thinking, I have a very forceful personality,"
"Ha," Emma said.
"Why do you think she wants me on her research team, Did it ever occur to you that there might be a reason, like she values my opinion," Lewis said.
"And your mopping," Rikki said.
"Not to mention using you," I said.
As he walked off.
"He's lost it," Emma said.
"Totally," Rikki said.
"We've got to get that slide ourselves," I said.
"We got to find a way to get into that lab," Emma said.
"Ah, Correction, You guys have to, I'm going to lose my job if I get caught again," Cleo said.
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I headed off on my own and headed there. Where I saw Lewis and Denman talking.
As I cloaked myself and headed into the lab. But as I was searching. Trying to find that slide. but nothing. As the door opened. As Denman came in as I managed to sneak out.
Where I found the others.
"I didn't sleep a wink last night," Cleo said.
"Me neither," Rikki and Emma said.
"The slide wasn't in the lab. She must keep it with her," I said.
"You do realize she'll eventually get it out of Lewis, Don't you," Emma said.
"What," Cleo said.
"Where the DNA came from," I said.
"We have to get that slide back," Rikki said.
"But she keeps it with her," I said.
"Lewis wouldn't sell us out completely," Cleo said. "Would he,"
"Stop having so much faith in human nature, He already sold us out, the second she got that slide," Mimmi said.
"You're the only one who doesn't think so," Rikki said. "Why is that,"
"I just don't believe it," Cleo said. "Lewis is our friend,"
"Where are you going," Emma said.
"I'm going to go talk to Lewis even if it is for the last time," Cleo said. "Well,"
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"That's her boat," Emma said.
"Come on, If anybody can catch her, we can," Cleo said.
"Wait," Rikki said.
"Are you nuts, That completely defeats the purpose of all the secrecy," I said.
"Oh you're right," Cleo said. "But are we just going to let him go like this,"
"Like what," Lewis said.
"Well you're just sailing away without saying, Lewis," Cleo said. "You didn't go,"
"Keen observation Cleo, Very, Very good," Lewis said.
"You got the slide back," Emma said.
"And she didn't suck you in," Rikki said.
"What are you serious, you think I'd buy that stuff about being a good scientist, Please," Lewis said.
"What about her records," Cleo said. "All the stuff I saw,"
"When she opens the file I think she'll find it's recently been erased," Lewis said. "No I don't think the good Doctor and I are a team anymore guys,"
"It's good to have you back Lewis," Cleo said.
That's all for this Chapter.
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