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Here is the next chap.

A Night Of Work

It was around 9.00 pm, when Olivia and Rachel left the house of their parents. Ella had already fallen asleep on the couch, so Olivia carried her over to her car. She laid her down on the backseat. After that she got into the drivers seat and started the engine. She was still smiling about the day. It had been a welcomed variety to her usual day.

But when Olivia reached her apartment, reality hit her. She had a new case, so she had new work. While she thought about starting working tonight or better tomorrow, she carried Ella up the stairs and into the apartment. When she had laid Ella down in the bed and had covered her with some sheets, she went back down, to carry the boxes up to her apartment. When she finally had both of the boxes in the apartment, Rachel arrived.

"Hey, Liv. Are you going to work through the entire night?"

"Don't know yet."

"Okay, then. I'll go to sleep. Good night."

Olivia nodded and wished her a "good night", too, then Rachel disappeared into the guest room, where Ella was already sleeping. Finally Olivia decided, that she a least wanted to start with some of the work today, so she changed into her pajamas and put on her glasses. She put both of the boxes on the coffee table and opened them. In one of the boxes were photos and books, in the other were files sorted by date. It seemed to her, that it would be the best thing to start at the beginning, so she grabbed the files with the earliest date and made herself comfortable on the sofa. The first file was about the theory of Dr. Bell and the reason why he created the drug. Also there was some information on where and on whom they experimented.

Every humans mind is infinitely capable, but only at birth. But also there is a "limitation". Each force that encounters the mind, social, physical and intellectual, starts this "limitation"...

The designing of Cortexiphan was in hopes, to limit this "limitation". Cortexiphan should prevent the natural shrinking of brainpower. The result should have been people with increased mental abilities...

The first experiments on humans remained without any results...

We stared to experiment with younger humans. Most of them in the age around 20. There were minor successes, but I'm still not pleased with the result...It's 3 moth later and everything is back to the start. All the test subjects responding to Cortexiphan, are back to the normal. Everything seems like we never experimented on them. Maybe we should use younger test subjects...

Walter finally agreed, that we should experiment on children. We started the experimenting yesterday, but we already had the same success like we had with our test subjects around 20...3 moth passed and everything happened just like before. Every progress is gone. Again we had no success. Maybe it has to do something to do with the drug. I will try another modification of Cortexiphan...

It's to dangerous to experiment on other children right now. We want that nobody will ever notice, that we are experimenting on children so Walter agreed, after a long time, that we will test the new kind of Cortexiphan on Peter. He is three years old, so it should work...

Finally success. Peter starts to have some slight mental abilities. We will observe him a little longer...

6 moth passed and the abilities are growing stronger. No sign of fading. It worked...

Walter confessed to me, that he changed the old and the new mixture of Cortexiphan, in hope, Peter wouldn't respond to it, but it still worked. Now we have to find out why he was the only one, on whom Cortexiphan showed effect...

Olivia again was shocked by reading this, although she knew that Peter had been the only one Cortexiphan had shown effect on. She just couldn't understand why Dr. Bishop had agreed to the entire thing. A father should protect his son form everything, so why did he agreed on experimenting on him? She couldn't imagine agreeing to something like that. She loved Ella and when Dr. Bishop had loved Peter as much as she loved Ella, he never had would have agreed to something like that. What had been the reason for him acting like this? She would need to ask him that. But there also was something else, what she couldn't get of her mind. Dr. Bell had theorized, that there was something special about Peter and that this would be the reason why he responded to Cortexiphan. So what was it that made his special? She reached in the box with the files, but couldn't find any headword what was the reason he responded to Cortexiphan.

The sofa and the floor next to the sofa was covered with files. She decided, to sort them again and put them back into the box. After she had done that she took the other box and put it down next to her, on the sofa. She took some pictures out of the box and looked at them. Most of them showed Dr. Bell and Dr. Bishop surrounded by smiling children, most of them not older then four or five. On one of the pictures she saw a little girl that reminded her of herself in that age. One of the smallest from all of them, with a smile of a little angle, like her mum always had told her. But non of the pictures showed anything helpful, they only made Olivia question the humanity of the two scientists. How could they do something like that to children?

Olivia put the pictures back into the box and took out one of the books and opened it. It was something like a journal of the experimenting. Each day had several pages of a report which was rich in detail. After the first pages she threw the notebook back into the box. It was unbelievable. She couldn't read this. It was awful to read about the experimenting. Even though there were no comments about how the children behaved, she could imagine how scared they must have been. How they had cried and screamed, that they wanted to go home and see their mums. But they just didn't heard what the children were screaming and tied them to a chair. Even to imagine this made Olivia wanting to scream, that they should stop it.

With the thoughts of screaming and crying children on her mind, she turned of the light and took of her glasses. She went into her bedroom and made herself comfortable in her bed. Now that she had, unwillingly, imagined how the children had screamed and cried, her thoughts went back to Peter. How had Dr. Bell been able to do that to his own son? With this question on her mind she fell asleep. She knew, the first thing she would to tomorrow, would be talking to Peter.

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