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serum was designed
to help people, which is what she did. Divya has worked on this project with me for the last
four years, and I trust her implicitly.”
    “But I‟m afraid I do not trust her, DoctorFahim.” the General said, breathing hard as
he staredat the doctor. “And I do not trust you either. This is why I was against using
civilians in the project in the first place. They can never be trusted to follow orders.”
    “Calm down,
General.” the defense Minister now spoke up, putting a hand on the
General‟s shoulder. “We cannot change the past. What has already happened is beyond our
control. We need to decide how to deal with this new situation. Miss Nayak, will you tell us
exactly what happened? We only know the barestdetails.”
    Divya took a deep breath and began to tell them what had happened at the intersection;
the accident, theboy‟s broken body landing on the road, his life ending in front of her, and
then the serum. The three men listened in silence.
“I didn‟t think I had a choice.” Divya said. She looked at Doctor Fahim almost
pleadingly. “The boy was dying in front of me.”
    “
It was the only course to pursue,Divya.” Doctor Fahim said quietly. “You did what any
decent human being would have done. Wecannot blame you for it.” The General shot a look
at the doctor, but did not say anything. Doctor Fahim ignored him.
    “I called the police on the way over.” t
he General said. “The man who was driving the
car was caught two miles later. Some idiot with too much alcohol in his body. He will be
jailed, of course,but the damage has been done.”
    “The question now is, what do we do with the boy?” t
he Minister said. He stared
abstractedly at a nearby table, his forehead still creased with worry. “Provided he even
survives the operation.” He turned to Doctor Fahim.“Do you think he will survive, Doctor
Fahim?”
    “It would depend on how long he can
be kept alive for the serum to take effect on his
body.” DoctorFahim said slowly. “I have already mentioned how remarkable the effect of
the serum is on the healing ability of the subject. I believe there is an excellent chance that he
will survive the operation.”
“So after all our preparations for an Alpha Soldier, instead we are stuck with an Alpha
child?” General Bakshi was no longer shouting, but the frown was still in place.
    “I‟m afraid you do not fully understand, General.”
Doctor Fahim said quietly, a strange
expression on his face. He glanced at Divya.“There is a side to this new situation that you are
not aware of.”
“What do you mean?” the defense Minister was looking at Doctor Fahim warily.
     
“There is a curious property of the serum that I have not yet shared with either of you.”
Doctor Fahim said slowly.
     
“At the secretariat, you said that you had told us everything.” the Minister said, his
voice less calm than before.
    “Everything that had a bearing on Project Alpha.”
DoctorFahim said. “But there was a
host of additional information related to our experiments that would have taken too long to
relate.”
“So what part of that information has suddenly become relevant to the project?”
General Bakshi stared hard at Doctor Fahim.
    Divya watched the three men, hardly daring to breathe. The information that Doctor
Fahim was about to give the other two men would show them how the situation had become
much more complicated then they believed.
    “The serum was tested on fully grown chimps, and the increased muscular and neural
capacity they exhibited was entirely satisfactory.” DoctorFahim said. “But a curious fact was
noticed when the chimp in question was younger. The effect of the serum seemed to be
compounded in their case.”
Doctor Fahim looked at the two men significantly, but from their expressions it was
clear that they did not understand the implications of this discovery.
    “It seems that the reason behind this
augmentation is that the serum directly