Vacations End.

Chapter 9
Testing

Chapter 9

Sitting Andrea on the floor next to the dining room

table, so that she would not fall from a chair, Christopher

looked at Daniel and simply said, “I’m sorry.” Daniel

looked from Christopher down to Andrea who sat on the

floor, a full grown woman, sucking on her thumb, staring

inquisitively at the two men. Daniel looked back to

Christopher and asked what they were going to do; he

wanted to know if there was any way of reversing this, of

saving the woman he loved.

Before Christopher had the chance to answer, Andrea

interrupted them by crying, and a fresh set of tears that

were flowing down her small oval face. Daniel rushed to

her side pulling her into his strong arms, trying to calm

her and figure out what was the matter. Andrea continued

to cry and it was Christopher that came over to see that

she was favoring her thumb.

“I think she bit her thumb while she was sucking on it.”

Christopher stated. He gently took hold of her thumb and

began to blow softly on it. Immediately Andrea stopped

crying and looked up at him, still sniffling but much calmer

than a few moments prior.

Daniel bent over her and kissed her head, talking softly

telling her it was okay. She then realized that she was in

his arms and not Christopher’s, and suddenly she was

reaching out to Christopher again. Daniel let her go so as

to not upset her, but as he did so he questioned why she

was so against him. If she had regressed then there

should be no memory of her anger towards him. He just

couldn’t figure it out, but it really wasn’t the bigger of his

worries. He told Christopher that since Andrea had a

preference for him, he was going to go to the store and

grab some things that they might need until they could

figure out a remedy for this situation. Christopher just

nodded, and then went to sit on the floor next to the

young infantile woman who currently had taken a

fascination with her toes. Daniel grabbed the keys from

the doorstep stand, and walked out the door.

Christopher stood up from the floor and grabbed Andrea

up into his arms. While he had no interruptions or

hovering eyes, he wanted to do some testing to see if

there was any way of reversing the process. He took

Andrea upstairs to the room adjacent to his lab and sat

her on the floor. He turned on the television to Barney,

and placed some pillows and a blanket down by Andrea.

Before he walked away he took the gate that he had been

using to keep his dog in the other room and placed it in

the doorway so Andrea couldn’t get out. At least this way

he knew she would be safe for the time being. As he

walked away from the room, he glanced over to see how

she was doing. Andrea sat in the middle of the blankets

sucking her thumb, while she watched the program with

wide eyes.

He knew that she had the blue serum in her body, which

affected the mind only. If she had received the red serum

as well, then her body would have regressed, and it was

apparent that this had not happened. He pulled the

remaining vials of serum from the cabinet. They were his

backup supply in case anything happened to the ones he

sent to the lab; unfortunately they never made it that far,

so it was good that he had kept these here. Christopher

sat up his Bunsen burner and proceeded to test a variety

of methods that he thought might reverse the situation.

Finally, he was ready to test it on a subject. He couldn’t do

so on Andrea, so he did the only thing he could. He had to

test it on Sally, his dog.

While he waited for the serum to take effect,

Christopher decided to check on Andrea. At first, when he

reached the doorway, he thought something was wrong

because she wasn’t moving. He almost tripped trying to

get over the gate to reach her faster. Once he was on his

knees next to her, he heard a soft snoring coming from

her body. She had only fallen asleep while watching

Barney, on her pillow was a wet spot from where she had

drooled behind her thumb. He brushed her hair out of her

face and just watched her as she slept so peacefully. It

wasn’t until he heard a noise in the background that he

looked away.

The noise that he heard was a whimpering... a puppy

whimpering! The first part was to try and regress Sally, and

then he could test the counter serum, which wouldn’t take

as long to take effect. He drew the serum and injected it

into the whimpering puppy-like yet full sized dog. Instead

of getting what he had hoped for, Sally the dog instantly

started to regress in size to match her mindset. There was

nothing else that could be done; Andrea was stuck with an

infantile mind.

Downstairs a door opened and closed. Christopher

breathed a heavy sigh, and went down to tell Daniel that

all hope was lost’ praying that he wouldn’t do something

that he’d regret.

 

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