(+18) One Shots

IMMORTALITY

GRACE

I sighed quietly while heading towards the hotel bathroom, bringing along my towel and toiletries in one hand while I tried not to wake him up with the sound my footsteps, knowing very well that he could hear them even from a mile away.

Since he still wasn't so comfortable to be so close around me, I rented two rooms with a door in between to separate us. I chose the room with the exit door and bathroom while he stayed in the one behind me. It was costly, but nothing the treasury's we were given couldn't handle.

I had already mentioned my shower earlier in advance incase he would wonder if I had gone out or not. So without any more regards, I went in and closed the door behind me before checking out my reflection in the mirror.

I looked rather disgusting than I cared to admit, with the way my greasy hair shone in the light or the way my oily skin felt sticky and the way my makeup had smudge along with my chapped lips.

Ew.

Repelled by the way I looked, I laid down all of my things on the counter sink before stripping off all my sweat reeking clothes one by one with a grimace, before stepping in the shower where I set the water to a warm temperature.

I hummed in the delight when the water touched my hair and back while clouding my vision. I didn't expect anything better after spending an entire day under the sun without so much as any shade around me while I taught him how to play football.

Who is him you may ask, well, I'll get to that in a second.

My father had owed a debt to this organization of 1.2 million dollars after an experiment that he had conducted went horribly wrong, that which almost costed his and many other peoples lives.

No, the trial wasn't about war weapons or nuclear bombs or creating new bacterial infections to be more detrimental than the Black Plague. It was far worse (or incredible). This entire corporation's purpose was to start creating a new breed of humans who (might) will take over mankind's current generations in order to save what's left of the world there is.

As a result of what my father had done and gone through, he was left in no physical or mental state of ever returning back to the base to fulfill his bill. I was his only child and because of his previous salary, my mother had never had to work a day and remained his loyal house wife up to that point. This tragedy led to us barely being able to make ends meet with my mothers lack of skill and the only cheap paying nanny job she managed to attain.

So as expected, I was immediately hired and given the role as the watchman and examiner of said new species when I had come of age (at 18). It wasn't as bad as I had expected because nonetheless of my father, they had still given me a salary to have even if it was below average. I didn't mind, of course. With how my family's current situation is, anything at all would be cherished.

And on top of that, I was secretly a nerdy science freak that had always enjoyed learning more about the current scientific researches that came to life. So when I was paired up with these human hybrids, Instead of sulking around or quitting (even if it wasn't possible), I just liked to think of them as book I've yet to read and learn about.

Each and every one of them had their own personality and unique trades about themselves regardless of being cooked up in the same lab with each other. But there was something I noticed that they all shared in common; fear and shyness.

I could hardly blame them at all for feeling that way. I would too. If there's one thing I've learned with working with these species over the past 5 years, is that they are more easy to handle and communicate with if you treat them the way you would with any normal person. They are actually more human than what they were engineered to be.