InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Gen-Ex ❯ Gen.-Ex. ( Prologue )

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Prologue: Gen.-Ex.

1989, somewhere in the USA

"Dr. Collen, tell me, why did you quit your job at Gen.-Ex.?" the gray hared Doctor asked studying her file.

The handsome old doctor and his patient sat in his office, a dark comfortable room filled with wood and leather, and many, many books.

His patient was a beautiful, powerful, intelligent looking woman in her mid thirties. She sat stiffly in an over stuffed chair looking ready to go into battle, or faint. "I disagreed with some of their practices." Was her clipped response.

"There were rumors that you had begun human trials four years ago." The doctor set her file on his desk and leaned forward.

"Four years ago we entered into a government contract, doctor." She frowned slightly, "You must realize I cannot tell you anything about what we may or may not have done during that time."

The doctor leaned back, "Did you ever experiment on yourself?"

"Do you think I would have been aloud to retire if I had?" Dr. Collens' heart was beginning to pound uncomfortably in her chest. "What does this have to do with the baby?"

"We have found some…abnormalities."

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Gen.-Ex. was a small scientific company with brilliant minds and shallow pockets. They were concerned with gene therapy, replacing unwanted genetic problems with the "proper" information.

But without funds the company was close to bankruptcy, until they won a government contract. Funding was plentiful, life was good, there were just a few small changes in priorities.

Human test subjects were brought in, volunteers from the military. Most were young and with out families, bitter and withdrawn. One was an officer; his family was being wiped out by stomach cancer. He was handsome, strong and kind. He called her Dr. Collen, she called him Alwru, the names of the canine breeds he was being injected with. It turned his hair white and his eyes gold, it even roughened his voice a little and reversed his cancer. It was supposed to do that last bit.

But then his sister got sick. His only family and he couldn't be released to visit her in the hospital, couldn't go to her funeral. But he could go to Dr. Collen.

Two months later Dr. Collen resigned her position, claiming burn out. She would return to her first love, botany.

Then she got the news of the abnormalities. So severe they could not be easily hidden, so fundamental, they could not be taken away quietly.

She had to leave America, she couldn't let them know what happened. Her baby would not be a guinea pig.

Using her late husbands connections in the airlines, he had been a pilot, she fled back to her home. Japan.

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Six and a half months later

Dr. Collen woke up to a screeching sound. Everyone was screaming. There was a bang and she was flung against the seat in front of her, then the wall beside her. Something fell on her and all she knew was pain.

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When the paramedic reached her, she was in labor. Too far into it to move. He delivered the baby a few minutes later as others took care of the other passengers.

At first all he could do was stare. It wasn't shaped quite right, nothing he could put his finger on but it wasn't quite… human looking. And that's if you over looked the ears. Two fat little puppy ears far up on his head.

"It's dead." The mother moaned.

"No," the paramedic said, "It's… he's alive."

"No," the women pulled herself up by his shirt. "I'm dying," she groaned, she looked at the baby with so much love in her eyes, "He died. Understand?"

The young man looked at the mothers pleading eyes and nodded.

Dr. Collen smiled and faded away.

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A/N: Do I have your attention?