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Rated: E · Short Story · Drama · #1979181
A Scientist has spent his entire career torturing his study subject and now...
I don't have to listen to this stuff! I quit!

What is the point of being a criminal if I can't get anything done?

The police tell me I'm doing the wrong thing and if I want to save myself some time behind bars; I better turn in the big guys.

How can I turn in the big guys when they are the ones paying my salary?

The lawyers say I have no case to stand on in court.

My whole career is based on what they are calling criminal behavior.

It all started out so simple... All I had to do was determine why this alien was here and acting all smart.

What could go wrong? All I had to do was drug it, operate on it and monitor it.

Who knew it would start doing good things and people would get upset and jealous about how good it was?

Who knew it would be sabotaged and tortured because of rumors?

Now I'm stuck with this tortured and terrorized alien disguising itself as a human with all kinds of stuff inside of it to put me away for the rest of my life.

Do I operate on it some more to take it out and risk getting caught or do I let it go and find its own way to deal with its "body of evidence?"

I guess it really comes down to how much time I want behind bars. There is no way of getting out of it now.

Why not have others join in? Yeah, that's it... If there are too many of us, they will never catch all of the bad guys. Yeah, my work can continue even when I am behind bars.

Why did that stupid alien have to come across my path in the first place?

Oh, was I supposed to be nice to it and make friends instead of turning it into a science project?

Hmmm... Hindsight is 20/20...
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