Chapter 1

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Would Silass Leroy please follow me to the delivery room"

        Silass had been sitting in the waiting room of the Helios Endo-Klinik Hospital in complete silence for the past 6 hours when the doctor walked through the door. It was December 4th, 2037 in Hamburg, Germany and his mother was giving birth to his baby sister in the other room. He had always wanted a younger relative, all of his aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins were killed in World War 3 back in 2021, so his household was about it. He knew that the younger kids get all the attention but he didn't care, he just wanted a new face to talk to.

        As Silass walked down the hall, he couldn't get the smells of Lysol and hand sanitizer out of his nose, he sometimes thought that hospitals may be too clean on occasion.

        As they walked past delivery rooms 1-9 Silass's heart pounded faster, the doctor was walking with a quickened pace and didn't even look at Sillass when he addressed him. Something was wrong, but Silass couldn't figure it out, his mind was clouded with joy which he was starting to think might be false hope. He grabbed Dr.Greene's forearm and stopped him dead in the hall. "What is going on? Why are you acting so weird? Did something happen to the baby?!"

      Greene sighed deeply, "Something happened during the procedure, I'll talk to you about it later, go meet your sister." Greene headed back to the waiting room to get someone else, slumped over and shaking his head.

      Silass walked into the room when he heard the crying coming from the other side of the curtain. He opened the curtain and saw his father holding Jane on the couch on the other side of the room. Tears began to well up in Silass's eyes, he finally had someone else, but there was a catch. There was always a catch. The bed his mother had been laying in just 10 hours ago was empty and all the equipment was still there. His father looked up at him with tears streaming down his face. Then it clicked...   

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