Harrison woke up hours later with a throbbing pain in his gut, he grunted aloud, then grinned at the memory of getting bested by such a small person. He was back in his room, and Kate came in a few minutes later with some water and a tray of medical equipment. "How're you feeling?" she asked stepping forward with a stethoscope and began listening to his breathing. "For being stabbed, I'm pretty alright, how about yourself?" Harrison asked, joyful as always. "Good, good, I'm glad," Kate replied, busying herself with taking his blood pressure.

"When you're well enough again we'd like to try you two meeting again, perhaps this time under more controlled circumstances," Kate said as she packed up her equipment. "Sounds great," Harrison replied, thinking of how excited he felt knowing that one day soon he'd see her again.

Across the complex, Lili sat stewing in the corner of her room, several uneaten trays of food progressively getting closer to where she had secluded herself. Her gaze had not moved from the mirror on her wall for hours, and the scientists that stood on the other side of it began to worry that she knew what it really was.

Constant monitoring of the patients was a must for Dr. Steve Hayden. He had worked for years trying to come up with a facility, an experiment, and the science behind it to back a suspicion he had begun to wonder about back in grad school. Were human behaviors and attitudes really determined by nature, nurture, or perhaps an excellent combination of both?

After several years of working with the top geneticists in the world, Hayden had come up with a serum that could alter the genetic code of a person to show all of the worst genes of criminals or of the best genes of saints. Things such as temper, charity, kindness, and jealousy could all be controlled by the push of a plunger, or at least so Hayden had hoped.

The premise of the experiment required that both patients were under the exact same care as the other for he wanted his patients to be as neutral on the nurture part of life as possible. Unfortunately for Hayden, Lili's dangerous behaviors had already made this rather difficult to maintain. And as she stared through the double sided glass, her eyes seemed to be locked right on Hayden himself, and this infuriated him. She wasn't supposed to know; she wasn't supposed to need extra precautions, she was ruining everything.

Harrison was under constant medical supervision for the next few days as Kate worked to heal his stab wound. He found the constant presence of company relieving, for when left to his own devices he began to sink into despair, waiting and waiting for his chance to see the girl again.

Four days after the incident, Harrison finally gathered the courage to ask some questions, "what's her name?" he asked Kate while she swabbed his wound with a warm washcloth. Kate looked up quickly, thought for a second, then stated "LA95." "No, her real name," Harrison pleaded.

Kate glanced back at the mirror, then leaned close and whispered "Lili." "How pretty! Like a flower!" Harrison proclaimed. Kate shushed him, "you're not supposed to know," she chided. "Oh, sorry," Harrison whispered, but his smile continued to grow from ear to ear.

That night, Lili finally broke her gaze with the window to her room and moved below it where she could not be seen. She rubbed and scratched at her chafed wrists till droplets of blood formed on the surface of her skin. She then swabbed them with her fingers and began to play with the red substance making it float above her, creating shapes, and finally hardening the substance to create a red glass-like sculpture of a small handgun.

She smiled for the first time in weeks as she continued to build and create every night below the two-sided window while the lab coat on duty snoozed in his chair.

The next day Kate bustled in with her usual tray of food and medical equipment as well as an announcement. "This afternoon we would like to try another meeting between you and LA95," she said with concern slightly shaking her usually steady voice.

Harrison's eyes lit up, "sounds great to me!" he cheered. Kate took longer than usual to check out his wound before finally clearing him for his next meeting.

Dr. Hayden himself arrived in Lili's room with a pair of thick industrial handcuffs. He motioned Lili towards him, but she refused even to look his way. Frustrated with her behavior, on top of everything else she had ruined, Hayden left and slammed the door. A minute later another man accompanied him with a long forked rod.

Hayden stepped quickly across the room towards Lili, but she scooted further away, hissing under her breath. Hayden motioned for the second man, who leaped out with the rod and an electric shock shook Lili's body so hard she couldn't move for several minutes after the attack.

Hayden handcuffed her and gruffly shoved her out the door, the other man right behind, his rod already hot with electricity.