Kitty Kibbles: I wrote this a VERY long time ago on a note pad while I was on vacation in Ohio...there is absolutely nothing to do in Ohio!!! HAHA! Sorry to those of you who live there but I'm talking about the farmland part! Anywho, I hope you enjoy it! It's a bit out of the ordinary...

Updated 6/14/04: used all of your suggestions and fixed everything ( hope you enjoy!!

A bloodcurdling scream was heard as it echoed through the chambers of the laboratory. Doctors, nurses, and scientists ran down the overwhelming stark white halls towards where the scream had originated. Through a window a woman could be seen, she was crying in pain as she went into labor. The nurses attempted to gently and carefully lift her body in the air to lay her on a moveable stretcher in order to bring her to the operating room, but the thrashing woman would not let them touch her. She lashed out irrationally letting her limbs flail in all directions, doing anything she could manage to just keep them away from her. All she wanted was to be left alone.

"Hold her down!" The woman's blood froze in terror at the sound of that voice. It was like an icy substance that never melted. That voice could only come from one person: a person with no heart or soul. No compassion for another human being's suffering.

The woman pushed against her captors who restrained her from moving and whimpered against their muscles to get away. Out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of the one man who caused this pain in her life. The tall figure stepped closer to her and his features became apparent. His hairless head reflected the light that shone from the ceiling. Beady eyes were hidden behind think-rimmed glasses. Calmly walking up to the bed, he looked at the clear liquid held in a needle. He looked down at the woman with a cold smirk and jabbed the needle into her arm pushing the medicated liquid into her system. The medication took its effects immediately and the woman's body lay limp on the bed.

The operating room was chilly and just as white as the rest of the laboratory, all except for the crimson blood that stained the doctor's clothes. With all the success of the recent cloning, biogenetics was becoming a huge hit with the scientific community. Genetic manipulation in humans was a new venture that this staff had wanted to explore, even with the turn down of the government to allow them to do such an experiment. With this specimen, they would get their conclusion to their questions. This was their first work on a human specimen and they wouldn't let her go to waste. She was a prisoner of war from a middle-eastern country who had been kidnapped by a soldier and thrown into a concentration camp. With the vast variety of human specimens that lay in that camp they chose the most active and healthy.

Crowded around the operating table, interns stood, taking notes on their observations. One intern studied the situation very closely and jotted down his notes feverishly:

Experiment Title: Crossbreed Trial Test. Specimen Number: 387265
Female
Age: 32

With the help from the Human Genome Project, a project who's mission was to identify the full set of genetic instructions contained inside a human's cells and to read the complete text written in the language of the hereditary chemical DNA, this experiment was well under way. Also, The National Animal Genome Research Program had much to do with this experiment as well, for they helped to assign animal genes to specific locations on chromosomes, so that they can be more easily manipulated in breeding programs designed to enhance expression of specific traits.

With all this information, all that was left to accomplish was to actually create the crossbreed. They first had to extract a genome sample – all the genes that make up the master blueprint for building a man or woman – from the female specimen and splice it with a sample from the animal they wanted to use. Afterward they would inject the spliced genome into the female for incubation and they would hopefully have the outcome they desired.

The interns began to whisper quite loudly for something amazing was occurring. "Here it comes!" the Doctor announced. Everyone in the room squeezed as close as possible to see the tiny form in the doctor's hands. No one knew what to expect. The crowd was in shock as the doctor lifted a furry black and white life-form. The kitten mewed tirelessly, wanting to get out of the cold of the room, and a gasp was heard. How had they created this? The kitten looked like a human baby except for the fact that this baby had a tail, fur, and two pointed ears atop its head. The kitten was much smaller than a human baby, only weighing in at 3 pounds 2 ounces and 8 inches in length.

The baby cried louder and louder attempting to find its mother and be comforted, but instead the baby was handed off to a nurse who quickly wrapped the tiny shape in a blanket and carried it to the nursery where he would have constant observation.

The woman, however, was quickly stitched and cleaned by the other nurses while the doctors went to celebrate a success. The woman was placed on a movable stretcher and rolled down the hall to an observation tank which was created especially for her. One in which she could not escape, which she had done so frequently in her other enclosures. She had become an expert at picking locks but with the electronic key code lock she was unable to do so.

She was lifted and placed into a firm bed that sat in the corner of the tiny room. The room was nothing but bare walls, a door, and a window to see in but not out.

"What a freak this woman is! Can you believe what she gave birth to? That little creature won't live for a week!" The nurses were laughing menacingly, and the woman cringed as she was coming out of the medication. She had heard what they said and tears ran down her face with no control. What had she done to deserve this torture? What had her baby done to deserve the torture? She had to get him out of here. She quickly fell back into a deep sleep.

She was left in the room until the next morning when the scientist would observe the mother with her new infant and take note of any changes in her personality. This was going to be a masterpiece of the scientific community!

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