My Pet Human {UNDER SERIOUS EDITING}

Chapter Fourteen: 'Impossibilities'

"You're Genesis Adam?" The Director asked in astonishment, yet Axel could still sense the lies concealed by the man's excited tone. "I never thought I'd see the day where I'd get to meet you!" He glanced around Adam, and then at Axel himself, confusion settling on his face. "But where's Genesis Eve?"

"Why does everyone know we're mates?" Axel heard Adam mutter under his breath in irritation, but for some reason, his eyes that had been filled with sorrow only moments ago glittered with amusement. The expression moulded back into annoyance as quickly as it had come though, as Adam cleared his throat and shot the Director a stone cold look. "She's with a Laquanian. He abducted us." He snapped. "Now would someone let me go back to the surface so I can look for her?"

It was Axel who answered the question with a long sigh. "I've already told you, Genesis, I've gotta help close the floodgates for the day. Mission schedule's over." He turned to the Director, annoyed. "I swear to Godpheus this guy's been a freaking question generator for the past hour or two!"

"Godpheus..." Adam murmured suddenly, as if in a daze. Axel slapped his forehead with a palm.

"See? He's delusional!"

The Director chuckled, smiling crookedly. He gestured to the door. "Go help with the floodgates, Axel. I'll take care of him." He said. Axel mouthed a quick 'thank you' before turning to leave.

"Why does everyone call me Genesis?" Adam asked out loud. Noticing Axel's departure, he whipped his hand out to plant it down on the younger boy's shoulder. Axel jumped on the spot and angrily slapped it away, but Adam continued to stare at him with icy blue eyes. "You promised to help me find my mate." He said firmly. Axel rolled his eyes and continued to the door.

"I didn't promise anything!" He griped, but at Adam's hurt expression turned around and sighed. "Look; we can talk about this in my tent. Meet me at the food station later this arvo." He instructed. Adam grumbled something unintelligible for a moment before nodding.

As soon as he was sure Axel had left the shoe box building and was well out of earshot, Adam turned back to the Director with renewed smugness. "So this is where you've been hiding all these years, Abel." He said. "Honestly, I couldn't have picked a better place to rally up a heap of soldiers and what? Send them out to do your dirty work, while you sit down here in your safe little box while Cain went through hell and back?" Adam shook his head in disgust. "Godpheus set up the whole operation in his lab, Abel, and Eve and I had to watch."

At this, The Director flinched, hanging his head in shame. "I was scared, okay? Look- I saw an opportunity to escape and took it. Besides; it isn't like you've done any better, father."

Adam bristled. "You know I don't have a choice." He said, his voice low. "But you did! Why didn't you take your brothers with you when you came down here? Why did you have to abandon them after everything you three have been through together?"

It was true that Adam's first born child and his two brothers, Cain and Seth, had been inflicted with the same experimentation as their parents had, and despite the fact that Abel had aged far more than either Adam or Eve due to having less Laquanian DNA in his body, the telltale scars of where Godpheus had dug pieces of his skin out for testing still remained. It had hurt Adam more than any scalpel on his own skin to see his children being brought into the lab at times to have their fingers torn off or blood sampled, without any form of painkiller.

But nothing hurt more than what he'd seen happen to Cain.

Or Seth, for that matter.

"You're one to talk, abandoning Eve like you've obviously done!" Abel fired back, standing up from his desk.