Dead of Night - Part 39
by Ada Woods
5 HOURS LATER
Ada?
Is this still your number?
Adam? Is it you??
Yes.
I know you probably can’t forgive me...
but I’m really happy to hear from you.
I don’t blame you for anything, Ada.
You’re no more responsible for what you are...
than I am for what Seth made me.
And what is that, Adam? What are we?
We’re different.
I know that much.
No, I mean you and I are not the same -
We’re different from each other.
How?
I’m better than you.
Look, obviously you’re still pissed -
And I don’t blame you.
I’m not angry. I’m being clinical.
Being locked in the lab gave me a chance to look into my father’s work.
So Seth WAS your father?
In a rudimentary sense. Yes.
He created me.
In the lab.
I think he created me too.
No. He altered you. You’re still human.
But a highly evolved human.
An evolutionary leap, not a step.
And you?
I was made from scratch...you could say.
Like in a test tube?
Everything about this – you and I, this virus – has to do with genome construction...
Genetic recipes, so to speak.
The combination of genes you and I possess result in a superior genome.
A superior human.
You’re saying we have traits that are beyond human?
I’m saying you and I lack many of the flaws.
Flaws that make humans human.
I don’t know exactly what differentiates you from me...
Because we’ll continue to evolve as we grow.
Seth made it that way.
But I do know you’re vulnerable to Uncle Noah.
And I am not.
I’ve been wondering about that.
He is the only infected who attacked me.
All the rest fled like mice when I came near.
Do you know why?
I do now.
Noah wasn’t infected. He was vaccinated.
What?
The vaccine your mother injected you with...
it's the same one Seth gave to Noah and to me.
I don’t understand.
I’ll make it very simple, because I NEED you to understand.
I don’t like where this is going.
It’s not good.
The vaccine developed from your DNA makes people like you and me even stronger.
People with altered – and I guess you could say superior – genes.
And those with ‘inferior’ genes?
Become Uncle Noah.
What is he?
He’s like them, the infected.
Only better. Stronger.
And he’s immune to the cure that saved your mother.
And he’s immune to me.
They all are.
What do you mean, “They?”
It took a week for the vaccine to manifest as a disease in Noah.
Oh fuck.
You’re telling me this isn’t over?
I’m saying it hasn’t even begun.
Every person who has been vaccinated in the last few days...will turn.
That’s over two billion people so far.
I have to contact my mother.
Will she believe you?
Yes.
Maybe.
Fuck. I don’t know.
But I have to try!
And I need to get you to her.
I was coming to let you out, anyway.
So I’m almost there.
You can’t.
I don’t care what Seth said.
I should never have locked you in there in the first place.
It’s too late.
I’m already out.
And so is Noah. And so is Seth.
Your dad is still alive?
He injected himself with the vaccine he made with your blood...
before that commander looking guy shot him...so yes
Seth is still alive. But he's no longer my father.
Jesus
And Ada…
This isn’t going to be the same thing you just lived through.
There’s much more to this…
And it’s going to be much worse.
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