Chapter 3: The Experiment
A couple months later Rose began to get curious as if her parents really wanted her back. She had been having fun with Dante, playing games, working on work, and stuff like that. Yet she was curious on why her parents hadn't came back for her yet. One day she walked up to Daniel who was fixing dinner.
"Um, I have a question." she said, scampering up onto the stool next to the count.
"Yes Rose?" he asked, putting down his spoon.
"Why haven't my parents came to take me home yet?" she asked, tilting her head. Daniel was surprised. He never suspected her to ask him so soon. He held up his finger.
"Before I answer, I need you to take this pill. Its for your health." he said, and dashed down to his lab in the basement. He ran over to his table and grabbed the pill. He made sure all his papers were still there and ran back upstairs. Reig and Maji just watched him and sulked. He appeared upstairs and gave Rose the pill. He poured her a glass of water and handed it to her. She grabbed both things and swallowed the pill that was chased by the water. She shook her head and began to feel woozy. She fell off the stool and Daniel caught her before she hit the ground. He fanned her and she stirred a little. She soon opened her eyes and looked at Daniel.
"What happened?" she asked, tilting her head. Daniel smiled. She forgot what she was going to ask and why she was in the kitchen. His pill had worked. It affected the brain on the recent events and this worked. She sat up and her nose twitched. "Noodles!" she exclaimed. Dante watched the whole thing. What did his father do to his best friend?
"Come back here!!" shouted a ten-year-old felis sapien, chasing a fourteen-year-old boy around the living room of a big house. The boy held in his hands a collar with a bell on it. He jumped over the couch then onto the table. He waved the collar around while Rose ran at him. He laughed and jumped off the table as Rose began to climb onto it. She let out a whine and began to slurry across the table. Dante laughed until he ran into something and fell down. Rose looked up from scurrying across the table and sat down. Daniel looked at his son then at Rose.
"Rosalyn, what are you doing?" he asked sternly.
"I… I was trying to get my collar back," she said soft and innocent like. Daniel laughed and walked over to her. He picked her up off the table and sat her down.
"Come on, your BLT is ready." he said smiling. Rose squeaked and ran towards the kitchen counter, hungry for lunch. Daniel looked at Dante and snatched the collar. He walked away and put it back around Rose's neck as she ate her BLT. Dante's shoulders drooped down. His father had been so close with Rose yet he ignored him. He sighed and kicked at the ground. He snapped out of it when a fuzzy white fluff ball batted at his face. He looked up and noticed it was just Rose's tail and he laughed. She gave him his BLT and smiled. She raced off to the couch to watch some TV while Dante ate his lunch.
Daniel threw open the door to his laboratory and slammed it behind him and he grabbed his white jacket and threw it on. He looked at the two weak creatures in their little containment and just sneered. All those years he had been researching them, nothing much had came through. He had been studying their DNA structures as much as he could with every possible free time he could get, which now he wasn't able to. Leaving the two kids unattended spelled trouble with a capital T. They couldn't stay out of trouble for the life of them. Yet all that would change once Rose got older and began to mature. He ruffled through his files and papers and grabbed a yellow sheet with blue ink on it. The title of the paper was 'Felis Sapiens and Human Relations' In the first paragraph was his hypothesis on what he thought was going to happen between his son and Rose. He also had been keeping down notes of the way they acted the way they did. He threw the papers down and went over to the cage that Reig and Maji. He began to take some more of their blood for his tests and some of their fur. They tried to scratch at them, but the drugs he had given them earlier were kicking in. He began to analyze his findings when he heard a loud thud and muffled crying from upstairs. He groaned. Don't those two ever stop?
Later that day Daniel was standing outside with a spatula in his hand, flipping over a couple hamburgers. He just had a grin on his face. Once he raced upstairs he was expecting to see Rose on the floor crying. Yet to his amusement it was Dante on the floor, holding his head. Rose was standing over him saying 'Come on! Don't be a sissy!!' He found out that they were wrestling on the couch for the remote until it fell to the ground and they both began to fight for it. It ended up with Rose slamming Dante to the ground and that was how he got there. Daniel just smiled as he looked back to see where the two had ran off too. Dante was playing with the knife Daniel had got him and Rose was breaking the lettuce for her own dinner. Strange little thing she was. She wouldn't touch any kind of meat but bacon. He never asked why she only ate bacon but that's the only kind of meat she ate. He'll have to research that. Once Rose was done she looked up.
"May I go play with Dante please?" she asked. Daniel nodded as he watched the dinner cook on the grill. Rose squeaked and ran towards Dante.
Rose ran and hid behind the bushes over by the trees leading down to the pond at the bottom of the hill. She crawled into it and looked around. She was perfectly quiet, her breathing soft and gentle. Her big eyes darted around grinning brightly. 'He'll never find me here.' she thought, grinning brightly. She couldn't hear any movement at all while she waited in the bushes. She heard the footsteps of Dante run past here and heard no more. She grinned to herself. 'Ooo… he didn't find me... that's so cool.' Her ears twitched and Dante pounced on her from behind, the two tumbling down the hill, their bodies barely missing the wooden steps that went down the hill. They came to a stop, Rose's braids touching the waterside. She giggled and batted at Dante's nose.
"You…" she spat and giggled. She smiled up at him, and Dante smiled back. Dante just stared at her, her green orbs looked up at him, a small twinkle in them. Dante's eyes just looked a little confused as he looked at the small girl. What was that he felt? His thoughts were interrupted by the voice of his father. They got up and dashed up the wooden steps up the hill to the tablet where the food was set out. Dante grabbed a couple hot dogs and began to chow down on that while Rose nibbled on her salad and bacon. Daniel just grinned and ate a hamburger.
Daniel opened the door to his bedroom and sat down at his desk. He grabbed a little journal out of a stack of books and opened it to the last page. He started on a new page, dated it, and began to write.
'The relationship between my son and the felis sapien have grown since the last time I wrote in you dear journal about them. Their feelings towards each other have grown so much more since the day I had brought Rosalyn home. Rose seems to think of Dante as an older brother she never had. Dante… he seems to take a great liking to Rose but I can sense something else… something that is going to develop beyond a brother sister relationship. I think he's starting to like like her. Now… that would be something very interesting which I have been keeping an eye on… Maybe... just maybe Rose will start to fall for him as well..'
He sighed the entry and sat the book aside. He crawled into his bed, lights off, and slowly drifted to sleep.
"Take it." said Daniel, handing the pill to a fourteen-year-old felis sapien. She sighed and took the pill and swallowed. She blinked once and walked off. Daniel sighed, running his hand through his hair. He glanced at his watch and leaned against the counter. "BACK TO WORK!" he shouted, and headed down to the lab to take more tests on the quickly aging felis sapiens. The fourteen-year-old neko girl ran into the kitchen and sat down. She opened her math book and groaned as she worked on her algebra 2. She groaned softly as she worked on her problems, rubbing the eraser of the pencil on her little nose at times.