I sat up strait in a cold sweat, the remnants of a baaaaaadddd dream dissolving before I could grab them. I looked at the time display on my “Travel Alarm” it said 7:30am local time and there was an infrared telltale flashing in the corner of the display. (We have better vision in the low frequency range than humans.) I hit the snooze button twice in rapid succession and a folder ported in onto my bed side table. I picked it up and saw that it was the DNA analysis for Vicky. The folder also had a priority sticker on it. I read the cover sheet and growled. The idiots were accusing me of contaminating the sample with Ledred DNA. I pulled my file out of the dimensional fold and compared the results of Vicky’s and my own DNA tests. Vicky defiantly had markers from Ledred DNA but it wasn’t mine. What the fuck?

I opened a communication fold with the biology department at the institute and asked to speak with the department chief, an alpha female with our equivalency of a PHD in Xeno-biology and one in Biochemistry. I also ported the Lab report to her. “This is Dr. Ano speaking what can I do for… OH MY God.” “Yeah that’s what I thought your reaction would be Grena.” “Zafa (My given name in Ledran) could there be any mistake in these results?” I thought about a it moment and said, “I don’t know the technician who set up the test but I’m the one who took the sample and I do not see how I could have botched it. The sample was taken from a lip mark on a drinking vessel that only she used and I only touched to take the sample.” I could hear Grena muttering on the other end and asked her what she wanted me to do. “The implications of this information have the potential to cause a lot of problems for us with the Conservatives and the Fundamentalists.” “Wait a moment!” I said “What do politics and religion have to do with it?” She laughed and said, “They could shut us down and we would both be out of a job, I will tell you what I want you to do; DO NOT file any reports to anyone but me about this and get me some samples of this females hair roots (Alive) and a sample of her vaginal fluid so we can do another set of more in depth tests and see what we find.” “And just how in the hell am I supposed to do that?” I asked. She laughed and said. “You are not a child; use your charm and your imagination. Also make sure your Fertility Blocker is working just in case, we do not need any more potential crossbreeds out there.”

Fuck, fuck, fuck…. Now I am on a mission that I did not need. Well nothing to do but do it right? “Alright Grena; I am doing this under protest however, I will get you what you need.” The first thing I needed to do is take care of business, I called a cab for 9:30am so I could be there for our meeting a little early and ordered breakfast.