Chapter 3
Back to the horror
As he knew they would, they gladly gave him back his former position,complete with his assistant Hojo. Lucky me,he thought to himself. At least the sick man had never told anyone about his "secret". Getting back into the swing of things was not easy for him, since his mind was usually on his wife and the baby inside her. He knew he had to find some answers before the baby arrived. The pregnancy was a hard one, with Veronica suffering from the very beginning. It seemed like she never had any energy or strength, like the fetus somehow robbed it from her. And the more she seemed to deteriorate, the more the baby within seemed to prosper. Around her eighth month she begin to resemble a wraith, her full belly only adding to the nightmarish visage, with swallow pale skin under her limp lifeless hair she looked more dead than alive. It was at this time he decided that it would be best to take the baby now, wait any longer and she would surely be dead. As they prepped the surgery room and assembled the instruments the professor fell deep into his thoughts again.
Ive spent all this time trying to find a way to stop themacho in my child's blood, to try to save her, but what have I found? Nothing to show for the seven months of study, nothing at all. If only I can save Veronica, my love, now wasted away to next to nothingness, a vessel carrying what? A baby? A abomination? Who could tell? The baby seemed in the ultrasounds a normal healthy little girl, but then why did it affect Veronica so? He thought this and a thousand other thoughts like it. He decided He had to act now if he had any chance to save the one he loved.
After preparing Veronica for the upcoming procedure they waited until they were sure she was totally under. They checked her vital signs and those of the the baby's. Time to make cut. One last check to make sure everything was stable, and he began. He was the only one in the room preferring to go about the procedure alone rather that subject his poor wife to Hojo. All went as was planned and he beheld his daughter. She was perfect in every way, even being a month premature, she looked more developed and perfected than a child of two months. She has a shock of black hair, more hair than he could ever recall having ever seen on an infant. She had all her little perfect fingers and toes. But a few things weren't right. Her eyes, when she stared up at him and screamed, were not blue, nor green, and not the usually dull blue of a new born, no, these eyes glowed up at him with an eerie blue green radiance. It reminded him of another glow... The mako. Even though her eyes had a blueish tinge, that glow was unmistakable. While he was busy noticing this in his daughter, what he didn't notice was his wife slowly bleeding to death on the table. He set the baby gently down in the bassinet to turn his attention on his wife. When he saw her bleeding he rushed to stabilize her. His eyes were on her only, he didn't notice the blood that had begun to pool on the floor. His frantic rush to the table ended in him slipping in that very blood to slam his head on the edge of the table and land in a crumbled heap on the floor. . As Veronicas life slowly ended, the machines connected to her beeped with their alarm,The baby let out a final scream.
The first to this horrific scene was Dr. Valentine, a new researcher on the project. Having had a wife who had died bearing his son ten years before what he saw shook in to his very being. He knew what had happened, just hrs ago he had offered the professor his assistance in the surgery knowing how hard it would be for him to do on his own. The professor had refused, so being who he was Dr. Valentine didn't press the issue. He looked upon Veronica on the table and knew there was nothing he could do for her now, he turned his attention briefly on the baby, who was sleeping peacefully in her bassinet, then turned his attention on the professor. He reached down to the unconscious man. He had pulse, it seemed like the blow just knocked him out. He called for help while he tried to help the man wake up. While he was helping the professor into a wheel chair he noticed Hojo come into the room.
He didn't spare a glance at the professor nor poor Veronica, his eyes were only searching for one thing. The baby.