AN: To anyone reading this story... thank you for the reads. Just giving this story a chance is really great, and I greatly appreciate that, as this is the first story I've ever publicly posted on the Internet. Now, I'm sorry that this took a while to post. Maybe upcoming chapters will take a while to post because I hit lots of hard writer's blocks and I can't get onto computers freely, since I don't have one at home. Anyways, enjoy, and... thanks for reading!
The news of the entire murder of the Richardson family had spread throughout the community like wildfire, and by 4 days, the research facility at the edge of the small Illinois town knew every single detail about the brutal homicide.
The Richardson family was apparently throwing a party and an uninvited guest decided to take advantage of the situation. Lots of blood was shed, but investigators were more baffled by the arrangement of the dead victims. Everyone was seated at a dining room table, decapitated, with their own heads sitting on a plate set in front of them.
On a wall, CONGRATULATIONS, GO TO SLEEP was written out in blood and two chairs were empty at the table. Mostly everyone from the Richardson family were dead, but neighbors told the police that the owners of the house had a daughter, and her body wasn't there. She simply disappeared.
Everyone (even the shocked neighbors) were trying to form theories and figure out the meaning of the words on the wall, and why dead people were arranged at a table so neatly.
But scientists at the research facility didn't care much for that. They had enough technological security to feel safe and protected from a killer on the loose. They were, however, interested in the bodies. They wanted fresh corpses for a new experiment that they planned to conduct, and it would be a scientific breakthrough if it worked.
Dr. Aldine and Dr. Schwartz were fairly confident that it would. As leaders of the experiment, they put years of hard work and dedication, coming up with the ingredients for the chemical and the means to do it. The experiment itself was controversial. Was it humane or not? Would the government back them up or thwart their attempts at this?
Dr. Aldine wasn't too sure and expressed her wavering confidence to her coworker.
"It doesn't matter if it seems inhumane at the beginning, Carol." Dr. Schwartz reassured her. "If the results work perfectly, the government will surely sway towards our side."
Carol Aldine studied the records and flipped through her coworker's notes regarding the purple chemical they had worked years on. They tested it on many animals, and after many processes of trial and error, they were fairly sure that they had perfected it. They both jokingly dubbed the chemical "Liquid Hate" because all of the test subjects they used it on showed an unusual amount of aggressiveness and their fur or skin had changed to a darker colour.
"Alright," Aldine agreed "but what if the experiment goes wrong? We got it right for animals, but not humans. Not yet."
"Carol, we're going to experiment on a dead human. If the experiment goes well, they should come back to life. If not, it's not like we killed or did anything wrong, because the person we tested on is already dead!" Schwartz grinned, perfectly proud of his reasoning. He was so sure that this was going to work, as opposed to his worried partner.
"I guess so..." she said hesitantly. "It is worth a try after all the work and research we've been through." Aldine bit her lip and set down the records.
Paul Schwartz walked over to a large metal container set on a counter next to some beakers and lifted the cover. With gloved hands, he lifted a large glass capsule bigger than his head. Inside, dark purple liquid sloshed around and he marveled at it proudly.
"If this works, everything we went through will be worth it." he said, more to himself than to Aldine.
All they needed now was a dead body.