WHAT HAVE I DONE? ━━ ❝ the one and only leta levinsky of a wealthy background wishes she could be more for the people who need her the most. what happens when she decides to visit the significant dr nash and get some insight on the slowly growing bu...
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Once she was seated into a comfy chair in a quite spacious office that too had windows that were see through, but only from the inside, which she found to be brilliant. Dr. Nash sat across from her and smiled.
"So, Ms. Levinski-"
"Leta." She reminded him with a smile.
"Leta, I am going to go over the basics of Cloning with you. When people come here and what to have something or someone cloned, it's because they miss that thing very much. So a lot of our customers who we have come to this institute are those who have lost a dog or a cat per say." He began, clasping his hands across the desk in front of them. "When we do this, we take the animal in mind, dead or alive- mainly dead as the ones who are alive are near they're end anyway- and we take skin cell samples from them called a Biopsy." He continued on.
"When we do that, we are going to try and replicate and create a genetically identical version of that said animal." He said, looking at her seriously.
"Yes, but have you done it on humans?" Leta asked, quite curious. The Doctor cleared his throat and leaned back in his chair.
"Well, we have done it once or twice. The first time was for a continued on legacy and the other was for an identical sibling. But ma'am, what I mean when we take these skin cells and samples from someone or something, they have to go through life's cycle all over again. There's no cheating that." He said in a matter of fact tone.
"So what your saying is basically they have to be reborn again?" She questioned. Dr. Nash nodded his head.
"Yes, exactly. So during that process, we find two surrogates. One to be the Egg Donor and the other to be the Surrogate mother." He explained, causing Leta to fall back in her chair in disappointment. "Then they go through the pregnancy process and once that baby is born, they will be an identical replica of that said person or animal."
"So, is there any way you can do what I'm asking?" She asked. Dr. Nash smiled.
"Well, please explain what you have in mind. I'm no miracle worker, but I can see what I can possibly do for you." He answered honestly.
"Well you see, I'm a very busy woman, can never catch a break, clear my schedule or anything of that sort. What I was wondering you could do, is clone me but in an AI, like the one that greeted me at the door." Leta explained calmly. Dr. Nash sighed.
"Well, I've never done that before, as all of our AI's are driven off of Data and Coding," he began, making Leta's hope diminish almost instantly, "but," he said, making her perk up at his remark, "I may just be able to do this for you." He said with a curious look in his eyes. She could tell he liked the proposition, the idea she had in mind, it was practically coursing through his veins with excitement. "I'll need a few things from you though." He said slowly.
"Anything!" She said in a chipper voice.
"I will need you to make me photo files of your everyday life, as well as podcasts and filmed diary entries. I need to know your everyday emotions, the people you talk to, who they are, who you are as a person, and most importantly what you do." He began, Leta practically bouncing in her seat nodding her head in excitement at everything he was saying.
"Yes, sir! I will have that to you as soon as possible-"
"Well," he started, a small laugh sounding past his lips, "not too soon. I need at least a month's worth of your life. If you want it to be legit as a- I'm guessing a stand in for you for events and work, then I'll need all you can get to me." He said quite seriously. He loved her anticipation, but science could not be rushed. "So while you do your end of the bargain, I will do mine, reconstructing your data, creating your AI and genetically matching it to you as much as possible. But most importantly, I'll need a brain."
"A what!?" She exclaimed in horror. "Not mine I hope!" She joked, causing Dr. Nash to chuckle.
"No, no. I just need a brain, possibly from a sheep or if possible a human. Although scientifically thinking if I were to get a human brain, I'd need to technically reprogram it with all of your memories and information we feed into data." He said, more so thinking to himself aloud that speaking directly to her. "Oh, I'll also need you to fill out some paperwork for me, sign a few contracts and come up with a payment plan. We'll also get you some licensing to prove you indeed own this AI which you'll need to renew every year if all goes well and some cell tissue from you." He said, touching a button on his desk that made a project-oral keyboard appear and he began typing on a computer screen, also projected like the keyboard. Leta was enthralled by the sight, she wondered if she ran her hand through the screen would it appear the same way.
After waiting a few moments as he typed and entered some stuff into the computer, he printed off some paperwork for her to look over and sign. As she did so, he began going over the process with her once more, as it was a part of the standard agreement and what the initial payment was going to look like. Being that this wasn't a regular Cloning service she was having done or AI replication, her payment was based on a curve-ball so Dr. Nash told her, which wasn't a problem with her at all. After an hour of signing things, he led her on down to the lab so they could get her measurements and so on.
As she was being led to this big machine she needed to step into so it could scan her, her phone began vibrating showing that Phoebe had been trying to call her. Ignoring it, she stepped up into the machine, held her arms out and looked straight ahead, standing as still as possible. A blue light projected in front of her and widened as it scanned her whole body, going around in a circle as it did so. She couldn't help the smile on her face as this was too cool to her.
Once it was done, which took no longer than a few minutes, Dr. Nash helped her step down and led her over to a lab chair.
"Now if you don't mind, we are going to take a skin sample." He said. "We'll put you to sleep for a few minutes, take a skin sample and then you'll be awake right after. Though you may feel a bit groggy, which is expected." He said. Leta's eyes widened in surprise.
"Oh, well I don't exactly have a ride home. You see, I drove here by myself tonight and don't really have anyone to come and pick me up." She said truthfully. If she was going to be coming off of anesthesia, then she definitely didn't want to take the couple hour drive home after that.
"No worries, we have room to board for the night for you." He said with a smile, which calmed her immediately. Though she was nervous at what they were about to do, she also couldn't wait to start the process.
