CAPTURED

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Chapter 5

Questions

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Beta: The magnificent MIST

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Bella POV

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I was in front of my desk top computer - surrounded by the results from the tests I had run - in an analyzing daze. Trying to make sense of the incredible information I had acquired from the few observations I was able to make from this creature.

This is insane. Temperature is elevated to 108*F. His immense size is massive. 72 inches in length. I agree with that asshole. This poor thing is the size of an 18 hands horse! I wonder if the sedative dose caused the rise in temperature?

To make matersmatters worse the results to the DNA test came from a contaminated batch.

Inconclusive. Has to be. How else would I explain this animal having human strands? I will have to run these tests once more today-later though.

"Gonna have to do this quick..." I muttered to myself, thinking of the three poachers I had to get rid of before my boss arrived. I was also thinking about all I had to do before I locked this room.

I was given my personal lab after working with the research department for three years.

Currently I helped Dr. Cullen with his research while I found my own project to work on.

I was concentrating on how the growing pollution in Washington was affecting wolves in their

environmentEnvironment, diminishing their population, and possibly causing them to migrate.

With no current funding, my employer became interested and decided that my cause was worth his millions.

The subjects I acquire are captured beasts from many, some rescued from poachers,

Etcetera. After acquisition, they are nursed to health, then tagged and released back into the wild.

Data of their migration patterns is collected electronically and studied by yours truly. So far I have collected data from ten packs thanks to the process. And only one fatality.

I knew that my next step was to get the intelIntel needed from the poachers, then nurse, tag, and release.

But this was not a regular wolf - meaning, this peaks my interest further - so more research was

required to find answers to my questions. And I needed to keep this very, very quiet.

I walked to the cage of my new subject. My beautiful new enigma.

I crouched and reaching his sleeping form to caress his softer than silk fur. I told him, "bBe right back, tough guy."

I walked out of my lab, and into the lunchroom down the hall.

They were stuffing their faces with junk food from the machines. There were wrappers and crumbs everywhere-on the table, on the floor- and their feet were propped up on the tables as they leaned back, teeter-totting on the rear two legs of the chairs.

Ugh. Disgusting pigs.

"Well gentlemen, I have some questions for you," I said as I pulled a chair to the wall by the door to sit on while I 'interviewed' them. No way was I going to sit at that table until it was cleaned thoroughly and sanitized.

Gross.

I proceeded to ask a series of questions with a recorder in hand, planning to take notes from it later. Also asked for their phone numbers to be reached in case of further inquiries. Something that earned me very unsettling innuendos.

ughUgh. Did I mentioned...eewww!

I was able to get them out with ample time to get my new wolf taken care of before my boss arrived. I made sure to leave plenty of water and meat, plus access to a patch of grassy flooring inside the quarantine area. This required me to use the forklift once again to reposition the large cage in which he was in.

By the time Dr. Cullen arrived, I could barely contain my excitement and was mentally distracted by my new subject.

Keeping my new friend a secret is going to be harder than I thought.

A/N:

Sorry its such a small update after so long! I'm working on it!