A Strange Turn of Events (private for Mahiro)

[FalloutZone]

Curt Connors could only look at Gwen with sad eyes, "I am so sorry," he apologised, "I didn't tell you about my history with your mother and father because I didn't know how to start or what I could say," he paused, "your mother was a remarkable woman and a brilliant scientist but I'm afraid I don't really know what happened to her," Curt sat down at his desk, "we worked together for a few years and we were close and I tried to stay in contact with her and your father especially after your mother's death but he was devastated and there was nothing I could do for him."

"Did you only hire me because of my mother?"

"Not only because of your mother," said Curt, "your scores show that you deserve your position here and so does your research I don't allow slackers here and you know that Gwen," he smiled, "your very much like your mother you know."

"That doesn't explain why my father hates you," said Gwen, "do you know how many arguments I've had with him since I've started working here? Just tell me the truth or at least something more?"

"He blames me for your mother dying," replied Curt, "I had a work friend who knew someone and well I was able to help your mother secure a job of sorts," he said, "I don't know what job it was but she died and your father never forgave me since."

Gwen simply nodded her head, "Well I don't blame you it wasn't your fault with what happened," said Gwen, "I-I'll see you tomorrow." she added taking her leave from Curt's office. The small blonde haired girl leaned against the wall and lowered her head in despair. It felt as if her mother's death was hidden from her by her father and Curt. It wasn't right but there was nothing she could do.

Gwen glanced at the window. She didn't want to go home right now despite the fact that it was night and she was getting tired she'd rather fall asleep at her desk.

[Mahiro]

Curt decided to leave the girl to her work

Doctor Olivia octavias frowned as she walked down the hall and spotted something quite odd? A tiny blonde girl sleeping in-front of a computer monitor. “How curious?” The normally reclusive and anti social woman with frizzy hair walked over with a frown.

She clicked the monitor off as she took her coat off and placed it over the petite blond’s shoulders and sighed “letting children work here” she sighed shaking her head. She watched the girl nap.

She sighed she couldn’t just leave her here? What to do.

She gently shook the girl’s shoulder “hey there hon? You alright” she asked in her best kind voice “you need a ride?” She asked the smaller girl with a deep frown as she looked the girl in the eye. “Are you feeling alright?” She asked with a sigh

“Are you feeling ill dear?” She asked concerned the girl was small and pale it was possible she had caught something which wasn’t good for a lab environment she frowned even more as she did some thing long.

[FalloutZone]

Gwen had worked for two hours straight before falling asleep in front of the computer unable to stay awake any longer the stress of the constant fights with her father getting to her more and more each day. Gwen understood that her father was stressed with police work yet he was getting lost in it and she was scared to lose him despite how much they argue right now.

Gwen opened her eyes slowly and looked up at the brown-haired woman tiredly, "I'm okay," she said quietly rubbing her eyes, "mhm no I don't need a ride, thank you though, I'll probably just stay here for the night and get some work done for Doctor Connors." she added wondering who the woman was, "Are you new here? I don't think I've seen you around here before?" said Gwen, "My name's Gwen Stacey," she held out her hand, "I'm Doctor Connor's assistant."

Gwen looked at the lab coat that was drapped over her, "Is this yours? You didn't have to put it over me," she paused, "mhm I don't feel ill just tired and probably over-working myself," laughed Gwen, "has anyone shown you around the lab? Anything you want to see?" she asked presuming the new person was likely a senior scientest giving that they already hired all the interns they needed.

[Mahiro]

This got a chuckle “I’m doctor Olivia Octavius I assure you I’ve worked here quite a while” she said in a warm way that showed she was not upset with the mistake. “I’m just a bit reclusive...” she admitted “and I’ve spent far too many nights in the lab” she said as she stood the girl up “come along this is no place to sleep regardless”

She took the girl’s hand and began leading her toward a deeper section of the lab she opened what from the outside looked like a normal janitors closet... but inside was a full sized bed and small TV set. “After a month of me staying over they got this set up for me” she chuckled “they said I get so much done I make up for it” she led the girl over to the large bed “if you ever end up staying the night or just need a nap you can sleep here” she told the petite blonde with a shrug as she went over to the most valuable thing in the room her coffee maker!

She began Brewing a cup as she really woke up. “You seem like a sweet kid lemme know if curt gives you trouble I’ll straighten him out” she said in a charming way as she took her cup of coffee. “I’m going to get back to work my labs the one marked b-5 down the hall and on your left” she told the girl as she left the converted closet so the girl could sleep.

[FalloutZone]

Gwen blushed, "O-oh I'm so sorry," she passed Olivia's lab coat back, "I-I normally stay close to Doctor Connors so I don't really know many other of the Doctor's here or what they are doing," she confessed, "I mostly do tours, reports, keeping care of the various animals we have here," she continued blushing a little as Olivia helped her to stand, "are you working on anything currently?" asked Gwen curiously blushing again as Olivia held her hand.

Gwen didn't pull away though as she followed the Doctor to a closet? Gwen's eyes went wide for a moment in surprise, "Oh wow you must be really dedicated to your work not even Doctor Connor's has something like this here and I thought he worked to much you must put a lot of hours into your work Doctor," she said in amazement, "thank you for the offer and offering your bed to me for tonight," smiling she looked at Olivia, "just kick me out when you need to sleep okay?"

Gwen smiled, "He hasn't giving me much trouble yet but thank you," laughed Gwen surprised by how charming Olivia seemed to be, "mhm I'm going to need to check on the spiders in a few hours," admitted Gwen, "they've been acting a bit more weird as of late and I haven't checked them yet," she mumbled, "could you wake me up at 6, please?" asked Gwen softly before falling asleep.

[Mahiro]

Olivia grinned widely “well I’ve been told I’m a bit obsessed with work” she shrugged “I’ll come wake you up don’t worry have at the coffee in the morning too.” She said as she got up to leave the room “don’t worry dear I just got up from a nap!” She reassured the girl as she left her alone in the little hidden away room.

She left the girl to sleep as she went back to her litteral infinite amount of work as she connected her prosthetics to begin sorting through her experiments. While one of her arms fed her another cup of coffee.

She sighed what a sweet girl hopefully Curt hadn’t been giving her too much trouble.

[FalloutZone]

Gwen slept peacefully throughout her small nap relieved to have somewhere to rest and re-charge from now on. Why hadn't Curt introduced her to Olivia before? He never talked about her at all to her for some reason? Then again she knew how busy Curt was so he probably didn't have time to tell her about anyone else in the whole building yet shouldn't she at least know the woman by name giving that she was Curt's assistant?

After only a few hours Gwen found herself awake and sighed a little. She'll go back to her nap after she checked on the spiders. Gwen got up and turned the coffee machine on and made a cup for herself and Olivia.

Going down to Olivia's lab she knocked on the door softly before entering with a yawn and placing the cup of coffee down, "I'm just going to check on the spiders now before going back to get a little bit more rest," she paused putting her cup down as well on the table, "how about after I do that I join you for coffee?" said Gwen with a light smile slightly caught off guard by Olivia's prosthetics but not to much as she left the woman's lab.

Gwen sighed as she paused at the big metal door and braced herself for the many spiders that were behind it, opening it she looked at the giant web they were all making guided by the machine helping them craft something beautiful that the lab could use in the future. Each spider was modified a certain way and they had allowed some to breed as well. They were behind on scanning and collecting data on some of the new ones that had been born recently. Everything looked fine and there didn't seem to be anything wrong? Gwen glanced at the monitor and wrote a quick report before going back to Olivia's lab.

"Thank you again for letting me use your bed," said Gwen picking up her coffee unaware of the spider moving along her back and towards her neck, "if you don't mind me asking I was wondering what you were working on?" she asked making sure not to go over to the woman unless she had permission to look.

Taking a small sip of coffee Gwen winced and put the cup down, "Ow," she yelped moving her hand to the back of her neck and cringing in pain, "what?" mumbled Gwen feeling a weird lump on her neck. Had something bitten her? Gwen's face grew suddenly pale more then it was and suddenly she fell on her bottom, "Doctor I don't feel well." muttered Gwen starting to sweat as her body stiffen up more causing tears to run down her face before blacking out entirely.

The small spider laid dead on the coffee table next to Gwen's cup. A weird blue colour squirting out of itself. The same colour dripping down from Gwen's neck. The change in Gwen was causing her body to twitch and shake slightly as it tried to handle what was happening. Gwen's body was focused on keeping itself alive whilst it went through this change to the point it couldn't focus on things such as her bladder which unfortuantly meant that Gwen had wet herself in mere seconds after the bite had happened.

[Mahiro]

Doctor Olivia octavius never had many people take interest in her work and wasn’t too caring on who she told. But before she could go into an endless tangent she heard the girl yelp.

She watched the girl collapse and wet herself while a spider lied dead. She picked the petite girl up with one of her extra appendages and the spider up with her real hands as she put it under a microscope and the blue stuff into a solution to help break it down.

She sighed as some of the machines came to life. She sighed... the girl was stable if nothing else. She used her extra limbs to rush to the small closet. She stripped the girl’s pants off l
And left her in the bed while she rushed back to the lab to decipher the mystery of the little blue spider.

She sighed her main program could wait for now. It took several hours even for a genius like her... but she figured it out whatever the solution was the spider had injected her with it would be affecting her dna? She’d need blood samples but it didn’t seem fatal. So long as she had multiple treatments on hand she could deal with this and curt wouldn’t know his little assistant got hurt.

She sighed as she sipped her coffee the girl would be out for a while

[FalloutZone]

Gwen laid in bed and remained unconcise for the entire day. It wasn't until around 10.30PM she opened her eyes again but something felt different? She felt weak? She felt heavy? Gwen whimpered softly as she moved her hand a little on the bed only to hear a crack? The bed instantly broke in the middle causing Gwen to stand up in shock only to fall moments later, "Fuck?" swore Gwen as she looked at the bed before placing her hand on a small table but that broke as well causing her to fall backwards.

She had terrible balance right now, horrendous, yet everything she touched broke? Gwen managed to lift herself up into a sitting position on the floor and looked on the verge of crying as she suddenly felt her body heat raising causing a fever to start. Maybe if she crawled she wouldn't break anything nor fall over? Slowly Gwen started to crawl and was relieved when the floor didn't break underneath her hand at all as she moved slowly towards the door before her entire body gave out causing her to lay flat on her stomach, "Doctor Octavius!" yelled Gwen hoping the woman was near or close after all the noise she had been making in this room had been loud, "Come on move...." whined Gwen trying to move her hand but the force caused a small hole in the floor.

It seemed forcing herself to move caused a lot of damage? But not forcing herself didn't yet her balance was so bad right now that she didn't know what she could do or if she could lift herself up, forcing herself up would make things worse though....

[Mahiro]

Olivia looked at the petite girl struggling on the floor breaking things. Luckily her arms were scar from delicate. She used the four prostetics to restrain the girl “it’s alright remain still youre running a fever” she sighed “the spider bite you got is non fatal” she reassured the girl.

“If I’m right the toxins will work their way through your body and you’ll be more or less normal with in the week...” she lied she didn’t know how to restrain the girls new Herculean strength but she was getting to that part.

“I need you to go back to laying down can you do that?” She asked with a frown “I can stay with you?” She offered the smaller girl. “I know you must be scared” she got the girl a glass of cool water.

She held the glass up to her lips.