David sat on the porch taking a long sip of his coffee in the morning sunshine. He was forcing himself to take a short break. After Cara had given him Bianca's medical notes David had been working tirelessly to find the cure. All the lab equipment from his Orpheus facility had been moved out to his cabin in the woods a few months back; at least all the equipment that could be saved after the disastrous flood.

He had spent the last two days and nights shut up in his cabin and despite his hard work he was no closer to solving the mystery. And it was a mystery; Bianca should not have reacted the way she did!

David sat starring into the horizon mulling over the last few days and the answers that were so far eluding him…

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The first thing David had focused on was the brain scans. Cara had explained to him what Griffin had shown them but he wouldn't believe it until he'd seen it for himself. He was genuinely shocked by the intense brain activity in Bianca's pain centres; shocked as he had no idea how Orpheus could have caused this. There was nothing for it, he knew at that point he would have to go back to the beginning and build up from scratch a picture of what was happening to Bianca's body.

Fortunately for David, Cara had copied Bianca's complete medical history starting with her anorexia treatment as a teen. Before the shooting she had only been hospitalised nine times, but alarmingly four of those occasions were due to a head injury. David went back to the brain scans. This time rather than focusing on the pain centres he started looking for any other anomalies.

He examined every inch of every brain scan. But after about fourteen hours, pulling in close ups, starring at the blobs of green white and yellow until they all bled into one, he was forced to admit that there was nothing there to see. Bianca's brain was fine, there was no brain damage. Which meant the problem was something else… maybe some undetected physical damage?

David moved on to review the trauma caused by the shooting. The nerve scans taken at the time gave a good outline of the injury and the paralysis. The Orpheus serum had done its work back then stimulating the compromised nerves and promoting repair. The results had been surprisingly affective and almost miraculous in their speed and extent. Bianca proved incredibly receptive to the Orpheus treatment. The paralysis, with the exception of her left leg, was cured within six months of the accident, which for this kind of injury was unheard of.

This earlier success only made the latest treatment failures all the more frustrating. When he went back to look at the evidence surrounding the hand tremors, the nerve damage was clear to see. She should have responded to the treatment the same as before. In fact David had been so confident about Bianca's compatibility to the Orpheus serum he was certain within a few weeks she would be fully healed. But instead her symptoms worsened, the stronger the dosage the worse the effect which made no sense at all. He had engineered his last treatment specifically to both combat the muscle pain and induce nerve repair; using an almost identical formula to the one that had worked so successfully on Erica…

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…David stopped and suddenly stood up, almost knocking his coffee cup to the floor.…

"Of course!" he cried… something had changed…

He swore under his breath and rushed back to his lab, hurriedly pulling chemical bottles down from the shelf and examining them in turn. He paused over one vial in particular, a bottle of 8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide and he stood starring at the label - Globalnox. After the flood he had been forced to restock and bought in chemicals from cheaper third party companies. Following a worrying hunch David pulled down other vials from the same company and turned back to his lab table. Meticulously he began, one by one, comparing them to his original drug.

After several hours David sat back with a groan and rubbed his eyes. He turned back to his computer screen and pulled up the test results. There it was, right there in front of him, the cause of Bianca's pain, the reason the treatment failed so spectacularly. How had he been such a fool?

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David knew what was wrong with Bianca and more importantly he knew how to make it right again. The only problem was he would have to convince Griffin and admit his mistake, something that would probably be infinitely harder than the cure itself.

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