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This lab had been their life for so long Vacations had been planned around ongoing research; even the question of whether or not to have a baby had been put off, again and again, by the demands of Alex’s work They had both believed it orth it for so long Was one act of ecoterrorise all that?
John was suddenly very afraid that it was
"I’m back here, John," said Alex’s voice It was soft, dull…dead Heart still ha the corner to find hilassonto the for in front of it, just like he had so many times before, but his shoulders were stooped He looked defeated
"Alex, you have to stop doing this to yourself" John’s heartbeat slowed as he saw that his husband was unhar behind Alex and sliding his arms around the other man’s shoulders "Come on Come home with me"
"I can’t" Alex indicated the"Look"
The hot room had been resealed after the break-in; etting out, but they could stop anything new fros were back in their cages So about their business, oblivious to the hu over thelass "What a? They all look perfectly normal"
"I’ve bathed the with half a dozen flus and an airborne fors died, but the necropsy didn’t show any sign that it was either an infection or the cure that killed it Sos just die"
"I’ with your lab ani healthy?"
Alexander Kellis pulled away frouished as he turned to face hiht the cure and which haven’t It’s undetectable in a living subject After the break-in, we’re probably infected, too And I don’t knohat it will do in a hu very young and very old at the same tiathered hi noises…but his eyes were on the anilass The perfectly healthy, perfectly normal animals Suddenly, it seemed like he couldn’t look away
Dr Alexander Kellis has thus far refused to comment on the potential risks posed by his untested "cure for the co itself "The Mayday Aria
The best description for the atia, was "tense" Everyone aiting for the other shoe to drop, and had been waiting since reports first ca the so-called Mayday Aren into the atmosphere The tension only intensified when Dr Alexander Kellis responded to requests forhis research, which detailed, at length, the infectious nature of his hybridized creation
One of the administrative assistants had probably put it best when she looked at the projected infectionwith rabies or so completely honest with himself, Dr William Matras wasn’t entirely sure that Alexander Kellis hadn’t just killed the to, entirely with the best of intentions The proteins coineered, so--increased stability, increased predictability in behavior--right up until the moment when the idiots in the Mayday Ar the world and the virus apart Now those same proteins ious, and, worst of all, extre host The lab animals they’d requested from Dr Kellis’s lab in Reston were known to be infected, but showed alns of illness; four out of five blood tests would coative for the presence of Alpha-RC007, only to have the fifth show a thriving infection Alpha-RC007 hid It could be spurred to reveal itself by introducing another infection into the host…and that hen Alpha-RC007 becaineered to cure the co itself up as a co, and superior, infection Once it was in the body, it simply never went away The specific structure of its capsid shell so that Alpha-RC007 was another form of helper cell--and, in a way, it was Alpha-RC007 wanted to help Watching it attack and envelop other viruses that entered the body was a chilling deical efficiency Alpha-RC007 saw; Alpha-RC007 killed Alpha-RC007 tolerated no other infections in the body
What was going to happen the first time Alpha-RC007 decided the human immune system counted as an infection? No one knew, and the virus had thus far resisted any and all atte host Unless a treatment could be found before Kellis’s creation decided to become hostile, Dr Matras was very afraid that the entire world was going to learn just how vicious Alpha-RC007 could be