Chapter 55 - Face-to-face

Back home, Barry and Ella hugged each other, as they heard the front door being knocked on. Again... and again... and again... for what seemed like an eternity. It was clear that this person may never leave them. Evenually, he stopped, leaving Barry and Ella time to relax. What was that person's problem?, Ella thought to her brother. I don't know, but they're gone now..., he thought back. Just when are they going to come back?!

Meanwhile, at the hospital, as the wooden door creaked open, the first thing you could see was the T.V. It was still on, turned down on a low volume, so as to not disturb the other patients. There was a commercial about baby diapers on at the moment. How ironically poetic, I thought to myself. Then, he came into view.

He looked like he was in his 70's, with hair that just screamed "science". He was barely awake, but it was clear that he was very close to getting better. Next to him, you could see an I.V. inside him, with a heart monitor checking on him. He had tubing in his nose that lead to an oxygen tank. He had a cell phone on the nightstand directly next to his bed, but it's likely that nobody called him so far.

He looked over at us, and his face turned a deep tone of frustration. "Who the... hell are... you two?!", he tried to yell at us, reaching over to the remote to call the nurses over. His voice was incredibly raspy, which must have made it harder for the students to study if they were in a lecture. "Wait!", I said as he grabbed the remote. "I have someone here who wants to talk to you. It's someone who's been dying to speak with you."

He let out a big breath, putting the remote down next to him. "You have 5 minutes.", he told us. I stepped aside, pulling a chair over to the side of the bed, for my jelly boyfriend to sit in. Again, he was shaking as he stepped closer and closer to the man. As he sat down, he began to change the color of his Irises to his signature deep pink color. He picked up the professor's hand, holding it in between his two hands.

"Hey... what happened... to your... eyes?", Goyer asked as he stared into my jelly boyfriend's eyes. "Listen... you may not know who I am yet... But I think this will give you a big hint.", my jelly boyfriend told him. He looked back at me, subconsiously begging for me to be beside him. I walked up behind him, and put my hands on his shoulders, keeping watch at the open doorway.

My jelly boyfriend slowly revealed his true nature to one of his creators, turning his face into his natural pink. Goyer looked in amazement, with all of the thoughts flooding back to him. "Experiment... #6...?", he breathed. Slowly but surely, you could see his heart rate go up. Not enough to trigger the alarm, but it was definitely a noticeable change.

"I've finally... found you...!", Goyer said with a tone of happiness. "Yes, you have.", my jelly boyfriend told him, struggling to fight back the tears. Now he could see in the professor's eyes that his intentions were good, all along. I stepped away from my jelly boyfriend, to close the door. "You were... my crowning... achievement!", Goyer whispered to my jelly boyfriend.

"You were the first... one of your kind...! And now... you've learned... so much.. It's been... so long!" He reached up to hug my jelly boyfriend, to which he did. I rubbed my jelly boyfriend's back, as he cried into Goyer's shoulder. But then, I realized something. "Wait a minute, professor... the first of his kind?!", I asked. My jelly boyfriend stopped for a second, leaning back into the chair.

"Yes... we have made many new... discoveries in the past... gosh... I can't even... remember how long... it's been!", he replied. My jelly boyfriend and I exhanged looks, knowing something was up. "Discoveries... like what?", my jelly boyfriend asked. After coughing loudly to clear his throat, Goyer continued on the topic.

"Yes, we have created more of.. you. We had to learn more about you. We took the experimental N, and we looked at all the different properties of it. We've discovered another kind, which we then used on other experiments.", he told us. "Goyer... what do you mean, another kind? Do you know anything about what it does yet?", I asked. "All we know is this: They didn't come from artificial sources. Instead, we discovered it through natural means.", he replied.

"What do you mean, 'Natural Means'?!", my jelly boyfriend asked with a tone of anger in his voice. I quickly sat down next to him, trying to calm him down. "When we discovered the first N, it was first seen as useless. It was very unstable, and it tended to... explode, after a while. However, we stumbled upon a purifying process. He discovered a way to completely remove all of the impurities. What was left, was a pure substance. We wanted to test how this substance affected living organisms. When we experiment with living things, the first thing we go to is always mice. However, the mice that we had were already being used for examination."

"However, while we were scrambling for another orgamism to try out, there were news of a second kind of N, one that canceled the first. We knew both had benefits, so we saw that fixing the interaction of the two to be more important than putting it on animals. Eventually, on another chemist's birthday, we had an accident with the two kinds of N, and that's what made you!", he explained to us. My jelly boyfriend looked at me, with a look of amazement in his eyes. This was the most that he had ever known about himself.

"Why were you looking at me with malicious intent?", he asked Goyer, careful to not attack him. "What? I've never been malicious!", he said to us. "That is a lie and you know it! You looked at me like you wanted to hurt me!", my jelly boyfriend yelled. "I do admit... I was a little... angry at myself... during my years of college, but I do apologise dearly!", he said, begging for forgiveness.

My jelly boyfriend looked back at me, wondering if he should forgive Goyer. I quickly judged the situation. I mean, he did give us a lot of information about his past, and he looked to be sincere. But then again, we still didn't understand why he wanted to hurt Barry or Ella. Although, he says that he's never been malicious, so... there's something definitely behind the scenes, here...

I nodded my head, signaling that my jelly boyfriend should forgive him. He looked back down at Goyer, telling him, "I... I do, forgive you..." You could see his tears flowing down his pink cheeks, down onto the bed. This is by no means the end of it, and I'm already really depressed, I thought to myself.