Chapter 7

Robert lead his Daughter into a huge Lab, she looked around expesive looking machinary filled the place, she could see the people working away like ants would for the queen, Alex wondered for a second who the queen was, but the thought had passed as quickly as it had come, Robert lead Alex over to a small table, he told her to sit on it, Alex said

"whats going on, what are you doing Dad"

Robert turned and said "it's ok, we are just taking a small smaple of your blood and let you see it under a microscope, then we'll tell you how healthy you are from one drop of your blood"

Alex was nervous,

"well ok, but not too much I need the rest to live ok"

Robert said

"that shouldn't be a problem, it'll be alright don't worry".

The needle pierced Alex skin, Alex was surprised she didn't feel a thing, she watched as her blood filled the syringe, then needle was withdrawn and given to another technician who started to work on it, he put it under a micro-scope and then called Robert over. Robert looked into the micro- scope. He then turned to Alex and said "perfectly healthy, you have excellent blood condition, now we'll go and have a look and see what Lee's doing".

Lee was also having blood taken but he was proving much harder, it hurt a lot, as the technician put the needle in Lee winced with the pain, why did it hurt. Alex could see her brother through the glass, he looked scared, against instruction from the technician she ran in and stood beside her brother,

"hey you ok, your ok it's just a blood test it'll be over in a minute, I've had one too"

Lee closed his eyes, Alex knew this wasn't right, she hadn't felt thing, but Lee was in great pain........why?

Lee's arm felt like it was getting cut off, it hurt like hell, he looked at Alex then at his Father

"Alex it hurts why does it hurt?"

Alex looked at her Father, he nodded reassuringly

"it'll be ok, some people find it painful, you'll be fine, don't worry".