For Gwen and Eleanor

[badtotheclone]

I'm generally not a patient person. I can't even say it's because I'm dying and have limited time. I just hating waiting for stuff. There's something about being forced to do nothing that I hate. Most of the time I'd actually prefer to do nothing but somehow when I'm forced not to do anything it grates on me.

I should probably be more thankful considering Gwen and Eleanor are trying to save my life but I've made peace enough with my death that I'm just annoyed. I've never been entirely comfortable in labs to start with and just waiting to see if they can cure me isn't exactly my idea of a good time. Part of me knows they wouldn't have actually had me come if they weren't close to a breakthrough but I figure it's easier to set myself up for disappointment.

I tried to see what they were doing for a while. I'm not an idiot, I'm a clone of an incredibly brilliant mind and my condition has made studying genetics a necessity. But they're so far ahead of even me with this stuff I can't really follow.

"Is this going to take much longer?" I ask for what I'm sure is the hundredth time. "I've got stuff I could be doing you know. I could go... do... something."

Okay, maybe I can't think of anything else I could be doing right this second but still.

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[behindmothersback]

"Perhaps you should have brought a book?"

I should be nicer, I know, but I'm frightened, Father. Or perhaps anxious is the better term? The first time I experimented with removing my own ADAM, I made myself ill. The first time someone else experimented with my ADAM, they put cut-rate plasmids on the streets, kidnapped people, and I was forced to kill a man in plain view of the city.

But this is Gwen. And she vouches for the increasingly irritating man sitting in the lab with us. So here I am, with several vials of ADAM I've extracted, waiting to see if the current series of tests are going to work or not. Gwen's hopeful and from what I can see, she has reason to be. The science is sound and I think even Dr. Tenenbaum would be impressed. I just hope that this stays between the three of us.

[makeithome]

It isn't too difficult anymore for Gwen to get lab time to herself, to have the space and time to work without any colleagues nosing in. They trust her around here, which is great, considering she's using DARKLab's equipment to run experiments they know nothing about. She's been trying hard these last few months to come up with a cure for Kaine, anything to save him; to have him come back into her life only to die would be too much for her to bear.

Thank God, then, for Eleanor. Without her and the ADAM she's provided, Gwen was floundering, no matter how much she tried. This, though, she's fairly certain, will make all the difference.

"It's almost done," she says, looking to Kaine with a wryness that somehow borders on fond. Of course he's irritable and bored. She can't fault him for that. "It'll just be another minute or two, and then we give it a go."