gradually began to change the subject. We wound up discussing almost everything.”
“Really?”
“Oh yeah, in fact I never meet a more unhappy person. He didn’t like his job and I guess his marriage wasn’t so great either. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this guy out. So I started coming on to him. I was getting paid pretty good and I was intrigued by the Elite , the whole secret society thing. What they told me of themselves sounded pretty cool. I’ve always wanted to be part of something big.”
“And that’s when you began sleeping with Mr. Dunbar?”
“No, he wouldn’t do anything until after the semester was over and grades were final, said it would be unethical.”
“Interesting,” he says while jotting down a few notes.
“Yeah, he’s not a bad guy, not at all. I kind of feel sorry for him, all he talked about, all he wanted was a chance to do his research, said the university didn’t give a damn about him because being in his fifties he was considered past his prime in the scientific community.”
“And you related all this information back to the Elite ?”
“Yes, but I don’t think I told them much they didn’t already know. I felt I was mostly meant to keep tabs on him, keep him happy maybe.”
“In bed?”
“This is going to sound strange but we never actually had sex, believe me I wanted to I like older guys, there’s something about them. But anyway, he said he wanted to but couldn’t bring himself to go through with it, thought it would make him a different kind of person and he wasn’t comfortable with that idea, at least for now anyway. This is going to sound even stranger but after the first few times we got together he gave me some of his wife’s old clothes from when they were dating and he had me dress up in them. It was creepy at first but then I didn’t mind it was almost like acting, playing a part. Then he mostly just wanted to talk about his work and all the stress he feels, how alone in the world he feels because no one takes in interest in what he does, well no one until the Elite came along anyway. I kept trying to make the sex happen, thought it would relax him. All he said was that you never know what the future brings. I don’t know if that meant he was leaving his wife at some point or if we were going to do it or if it meant anything at all. But the Elite said once the testing began they needed to know if he was getting cold feet or anything like that. It had to be all or nothing. They didn’t want any one abandoning the project mid-stream.”
“Why do you think they had so much at stake?”
“To me it seems the Elite are on a power trip. I don’t really know a great amount of details they are always very careful with information, who knew what when, that sort of thing. They told me the DNA testing was paramount to the plan and that Jim Dunbar was the chosen instrument to execute that plan and it was my responsibility to get into his world and make sure things ran smoothly.”
“Did Mr. Dunbar suspect you?”
“No, he doesn’t know about me although I thought he was getting suspicious of them like something wasn’t right but he wasn’t sure. He’s been acting stressed out lately and then I walked in on a conversation with some guy he’s been meeting with. He won’t say who it is. But sometime after the first test he became different.”
“We appreciate the information you are providing,” he tells her.
“So, I get my amnesty right?”
CHAPTER 29
The spinning dancing double helix weaving the very web of life, ‘click’ and that’s the second test complete: normal DNA results nothing dramatic, nothing supernatural here. Whose ever foreskin this tiny piece of flesh once belonged to he appears to have been a regular old human being. One that walked the Earth much as I do now, Jim thinks to himself while sitting at the lab counter. It’s quiet, very early in the morning the sky beginning to become light, he rubs
“Really?”
“Oh yeah, in fact I never meet a more unhappy person. He didn’t like his job and I guess his marriage wasn’t so great either. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this guy out. So I started coming on to him. I was getting paid pretty good and I was intrigued by the Elite , the whole secret society thing. What they told me of themselves sounded pretty cool. I’ve always wanted to be part of something big.”
“And that’s when you began sleeping with Mr. Dunbar?”
“No, he wouldn’t do anything until after the semester was over and grades were final, said it would be unethical.”
“Interesting,” he says while jotting down a few notes.
“Yeah, he’s not a bad guy, not at all. I kind of feel sorry for him, all he talked about, all he wanted was a chance to do his research, said the university didn’t give a damn about him because being in his fifties he was considered past his prime in the scientific community.”
“And you related all this information back to the Elite ?”
“Yes, but I don’t think I told them much they didn’t already know. I felt I was mostly meant to keep tabs on him, keep him happy maybe.”
“In bed?”
“This is going to sound strange but we never actually had sex, believe me I wanted to I like older guys, there’s something about them. But anyway, he said he wanted to but couldn’t bring himself to go through with it, thought it would make him a different kind of person and he wasn’t comfortable with that idea, at least for now anyway. This is going to sound even stranger but after the first few times we got together he gave me some of his wife’s old clothes from when they were dating and he had me dress up in them. It was creepy at first but then I didn’t mind it was almost like acting, playing a part. Then he mostly just wanted to talk about his work and all the stress he feels, how alone in the world he feels because no one takes in interest in what he does, well no one until the Elite came along anyway. I kept trying to make the sex happen, thought it would relax him. All he said was that you never know what the future brings. I don’t know if that meant he was leaving his wife at some point or if we were going to do it or if it meant anything at all. But the Elite said once the testing began they needed to know if he was getting cold feet or anything like that. It had to be all or nothing. They didn’t want any one abandoning the project mid-stream.”
“Why do you think they had so much at stake?”
“To me it seems the Elite are on a power trip. I don’t really know a great amount of details they are always very careful with information, who knew what when, that sort of thing. They told me the DNA testing was paramount to the plan and that Jim Dunbar was the chosen instrument to execute that plan and it was my responsibility to get into his world and make sure things ran smoothly.”
“Did Mr. Dunbar suspect you?”
“No, he doesn’t know about me although I thought he was getting suspicious of them like something wasn’t right but he wasn’t sure. He’s been acting stressed out lately and then I walked in on a conversation with some guy he’s been meeting with. He won’t say who it is. But sometime after the first test he became different.”
“We appreciate the information you are providing,” he tells her.
“So, I get my amnesty right?”
CHAPTER 29
The spinning dancing double helix weaving the very web of life, ‘click’ and that’s the second test complete: normal DNA results nothing dramatic, nothing supernatural here. Whose ever foreskin this tiny piece of flesh once belonged to he appears to have been a regular old human being. One that walked the Earth much as I do now, Jim thinks to himself while sitting at the lab counter. It’s quiet, very early in the morning the sky beginning to become light, he rubs
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