Disclaimer: I do not own Uglies.
Hey, to all you readers, I made a little change in the story. Dr. Lakson is now a girl. You'll see why soon.
-Max
Doctor Lakson's P.O.V.
I watched the expressions that crossed the child McKenzie's face. Excitement, pride, and maybe a little smugness. This was the typical dance of emotions that crossed a new Special's face when his or her job begins. I had seen it several times, even though I was only 24 and had been here for 3 years.
"You will report to sublevel J, room 327 for your training," I had said to her. "Good luck, McKenzie Cable."
"Thank you," McKenzie had replied. She had almost skipped into the building. I watched her run to the nearest elevator and rush in.
I had chuckled. Yes, we had definitely found our girl.
The thing is, the surgery that we gave McKenzie – perhaps I should call her Dr. Cable now – the surgery we did on Dr. Cable involved a new structure in her brain. The structure – or the Special Lesions, as we like to call them – manipulated previous thoughts and made the Special change their outlook on their past. Every Special had gotten the new surgery eventually. Even I had gotten it.
Dr. Cable was, as I had suspected, a natural. She performed the surgery with ease, and always stayed on task. She moved up through the ranking with ease.
I was not surprised when, 4 years after Dr. Cable joined Special Circumstances, Dr. Cable took charge. Since I had had a hand in her training, I was, in a sense, her right hand man, or should I say woman? We became good friends, and in private, I called her McKenzie and she called me Maxamilla.
She was very supportive when the day came that I married Colin Feaster, one of our colleagues. My life with Colin was wonderful, and the way we acted with each other, you'd think we were love stricken new pretties. Everything was wonderful.
Until the day that she came.