a strong light wakes me up, still dazed I try to get up, but I feel my body immobilized, I look around and realize that I am once again in the laboratory!

I try to wriggle, I scream but there's nothing to do, it's all happening again like the last time, I see the door open and both men in lab coats enter the room, one of them says to me "how long, last time we were late, but not this time, we'll be able to recover the sample" then turning to the other man "let's start the checks, we don't have time to waste! prepare the probe" so he leaves the room while the other writes on a terminal, I try to talk to him, to scream but nothing, I can't even get him to answer, after a while the other comes back into the room, he comes closer to me and holding my head down he shoves a tube down my throat, making a green liquid drip into it, forcing me to swallow it, then he removes the tube covering my mouth, in the meantime I realize that the other man is inserting the probe into my vagina again, I try to scream but with my mouth covered by his hand I can't, the probe starts to pulsate, both men start writing on a terminal talking to each other, then I leave the room, like the other time I feel my eyelids heavy, my eyes close making me fall asleep

suddenly a sharp pain makes me wake up, panting I look around, I can't move I'm still tied up in the room, another jolt of pain makes me bend over, and I notice something, my belly is very swollen again, I scream, I'm pregnant again, those bastards when they raped me came inside me both, damn them! without having time to think about anything else, the door opens, letting the two scientists in, one of them immediately starts typing on a terminal while the other one arrives with a container full of liquid, placing it under me, between my legs, then approaching the other one telling him "let's get started, everything is ready" so he types on the terminal and a jolt runs down my back, my belly hurts so much, I feel pressure, I recognize this sensation! I'm about to give birth! but very little time has passed! it's impossible!

but now it doesn't matter, I want to get rid of this damn thing, so I start pushing, until it finally comes out, I hear something fall into the container, one of the two men quickly closes it with a cap reporting to the other "excellent! this time the sample seems to be healthy and free of mutations, I will proceed with other tests" and then leaves the room taking the container with him.

The other man approaches me and injects me with a syringe something in the arm telling me "now that we have a healthy sample we don't need you anymore for now, until we need other samples we will make you sterile, we will look for you when we need you"

wait? what? I try to talk to the man, to tell him to wait, but nothing, he leaves the room closing the door,and  a gas begins to fill the room, making me fall asleep

I hear a familiar voice speaking, I open my eyes and find myself in Frank's room, he is sitting on a chair, next to the bed, in front of the bed then there is Brian, seeing me awake Frank exclaims "finally you are awake girl, you slept for almost 3 days! I had Brian come here because we thought you were physically ill, but luckily you woke up on your own" I don't understand anything anymore, a little while ago I was trapped in the laboratory, now I'm at home, lying in bed, my stomach is flat as if nothing had happened... worried I told everything to both Frank and Brian, but unfortunately their response was the same, no one in this place can do anything against the institute, but after talking a bit Brian tells me "Frank had me come here to make sure you were okay, but in reality I also came here to talk to you about the tests we did the other time, your whole body is normal, you have very little radiation except in the intimate area, your ovaries are very different from normal, they are more developed, much more big, that must be why you get pregnant so easily"

so basically they made me mutate with radiation...but then there's no way to cure me from the radiation?

Brian replies "that's not the problem in itself, I would just need to inject you with a rad-away, the problem is that your ovaries wouldn't go back to how they were before. then if you tell me that they've made you sterile now, I should check you again, when you've recovered go back to my lab, I'll try to do some more tests so I can understand more"

so we waited a couple of days and went back to Brian's lab, where he did an x-ray and immediately said to me in amazement "my god...now your ovaries are atrophied, they've become tiny, for now yes, you should be sterile"

I don't understand anything anymore, those two scientists are basically playing with me, but at least for now it's one less problem to think about, I think.

So Frank and I went home, leaving Brian at his lab, when we got home we went up to the room, Frank closed the door and came towards me

"I don't know how to apologize, you suffered so much, they did horrible things to you, because of me, only because of me" then starting to cry

I look at him, I lift his face and wipe his tears, Frank it wasn't your fault, it wasn't your fault in any way, we're alive now, that's what matters.

Frank worried says

"the next time they come, I have to make them find their money, otherwise they'll kill us for sure, I have to think of something, but I don't want you to end up in the middle of it, it's no longer safe for you to stay here, run away!"

NO Frank, I'll help you, you helped me when I needed it! Now it's up to me to return the favor! I'll find a job here in the city, together we'll make it! How much money do you owe them?

Frank, amazed by my words, says "Thank you, thank you so much, when all this is over, I will make you the happiest woman in the world!

I owe him 10,000 caps, so far I have accumulated about 6,000, I still have 4,000 to go, we still have a couple of months to go!".