Griffin stepped into the break room to see David Hayward sat at a table with his head in his hands.

"Is something wrong?" Griffin asked.

After the incident with Bianca and working together to save her their relationship had patched to degree, although Griffin still didn't completely trust him.

David looked up and sighed. There was a medical journal open on the table in front of him.

"I'm ruined." David said. "My life's work stolen and no proof!"

He pushed the magazine across the table for Griffin to seen. The title of the article read, 'Is 'Lazarus' really the miracle we've been waiting for?'.

Reading a few lines, Griffin put his hand on his old colleague's shoulder.

"They haven't published; this is just reporting preliminary results. You can still fight this!"

"With what? All my research was stolen or burnt to ashes. Everything was destroyed!"

"What about your patients. There are people walking around alive and well thanks to your Orpheus serum."

"But there are no medical records for them! Almost all of them were treated in my facility and that is the medical data they stole! And the back-up was destroyed in the cabin fire."

David looked down at his hands as he spread them on the table top.

"There is only one patient who was treated in hospital with my serum and that wasn't a hundred per cent successful or one hundred per cent conclusive."

"Bianca." said Griffin, recognising who he was talking about.

David looked back up at his former student.

"She is the one piece of solid evidence I have that my serum works, but she won't let me continue her treatment!"

"But surely the medical records are enough. Why do you need to continue?"

"Because we don't know why she recovered so quickly the first time she was treated! One minute she was partially paralysed with slow recovery of movement on her right side, then after a fall she regained almost full mobility with the exception of her left leg. That is still something I can't easily explain! The second time she was treated, the poisoning of her drugs proved to be as crippling as her nerve damage. It is very hard to differentiate the results of the serum and her own body recovering from the neurotoxin. Neither of those instances are clear cut enough to allow me to present her as evidence for the success of my serum. The fact that she is still crippled also means that there is flaw in the treatment, there is still some part of her nervous system that the serum hasn't been able to regenerate…"

"And you want to know what that is." finished Griffin.

"I want to help her, and I know I can!"

"…And she'd be helping you too." finished Griffin, recognising the fact that David was hardly being selfless about this.

"Yes." said David, unashamedly. "This is my life's work I'm talking about here. If I can prove theft of intellectual property... that I am the doctor who created this treatment I can get my serum properly funded, recognised and researched!"

"Have you talked to Bianca about this?"

David sighed again.

"She doesn't want any more disruption in her life. She's happy. She is managing her disability. She doesn't want to be confined to hospital for months while I refine the treatment. I can't blame her."

Griffin was surprised by David's sudden compassion, only David spoiled the effect by slamming his fist angrily on the table top.

"It's just such a waste!"

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