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you listen.”
    “ El,” Dean called her, “it’s all right. Just go in the special lab. All right?”
    “ Are you sure?” She laid her hand on his back. “I can stay.”
    “ Go.” Dean lifted his head. He heard her footsteps and then the special lab door opened and closed. “Frank, now what is ...”
    “ El!” Frank yelled at her. “What are you doing? Go!”
    Dean couldn ’t believe it. Ellen pretended to leave? She thought she’d get away with that with Frank, but Frank wasn’t the one blind. “Go, El.”
    “ All right,” Ellen whined and opened the door. “I’m gone.”
    Again , Dean heard the door shut. “Is she gone?”
    “ You don’t know?” Frank asked.
    “ I don’t feel like looking.”
    “ Man, are you lazy. Anyhow.” Frank stood right behind him. “She’s gone and we need to talk. I do have a purpose for being here.”
    “ Then talk.”
    “ Now something is going on and I need to know. It’s a dead giveaway, Dean, the time you two are spending together.”
    “ Frank.” Dean could hear it coming, Frank thinking he was with Ellen. Trouble and interference is what would happen, if Frank felt strongly that he was. Dean couldn’t have that. “Frank, I know where you’re going with it. I do. I want you to know there is nothing going on between me and El. Nothing. I have no interest in her.”
    “ Really?” Frank smiled with a closed mouth and nod. “Bonus, I didn’t even ask about that.”
    “ Bonus?”
    “ Yeah. That isn’t what I wanted to ask you about ... And, Dean, Alex writes better than you.” Frank pointed to the notebook. “She at least writes in the lines.”
    Dean tried to ignore Frank ’s bad wit. “If that wasn’t what you wanted to know, what is it then?”
    “ Oh.” Frank cleared his throat. “Are you fuckin dying?”
    “ No!” Dean snapped. “Why would you ask that?”
    “ Just thinking about it.” Frank shrugged. “Oh well. I’ll see you guys later.”
    That ’s it? That was the big Frank question. That was the other reason—aside from almost being run over—Frank came to the lab? It was perfect. It was short, sweet, and almost painless.
    “ What did Frank want?” Ellen asked as she returned.
    “ He wanted to know if I was dying.”
    “ I hope you told him no.”
    “ I did ... now can we get back to work?”
    “ Oh sure, Dean,” Ellen said, “but one thing ... while I was in the special lab, I noticed three rabbits had died. Numbers 16, 19, and 23.”
    “ Shit.” Dean brought his hand to his forehead. “They weren’t supposed to die yet. They weren’t.”
    “ They folded under pressure, Dean. They couldn’t take it anymore.”
    “ You know what this means, El?”
    “ No.” Ellen shook her head.
    “ It means we no longer can put in the background, the things we have been.”
    “ Such as?” Ellen asked.
    “ Such as, we have been swamped trying to beat this virus. When I’m starting to believe the virus may not kill us after all.”
    “ That’s good news,” Ellen stated and smiled.
    “ No, El. That’s bad news. Because if this virus gets here and it doesn’t kill us, the symptoms will. It’s time to get to work on that.”
     
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    Robbie would look at her through the corner of his eye , look away, and then look back again. What was up with Andrea, smiling and buzzing around his father’s house? His head jolted up to a loud thump above his head. Robbie walked over to the stairs. “Frank! I hope you don’t have those kids in my room.” He shook his head at Frank’s ‘shut up’ and walked back into the living room. “Henry.” He spoke to Henry who sat on the couch, a notebook open on his lap, “It’s Sunday. What are you doing?”
    “ Working, Robbie.”
    “ On what?” Robbie looked over his shoulder.
    “ If you really want to know ...”
    “ Not really.”
    Henry grunted .
    “ Just kidding. What is it?”
    “ Well I am learning the SUT programming and I am going to reprogram the second