{Dominic}

"Well someone seems rather irritated today!" Uncle 42 exclaimed.

I looked at him. "Huh? What do you mean?"

"You haven't been beating up my lab rats as much lately," Uncle 42 said. "Normally you're all too happy to do it! With the last batch of lab rats I got you don't seem interested."

I was sitting on the couch in the living room at my house and Uncle 42 was sitting in the recliner chair next to me.

"Actually I'm more distracted than irritated," I said.

He groaned, "You know you could just give everyone that you have watching her the go ahead to capture her."

I shook my head. "Nope! Not yet, I'm having way too much fun watching her be on edge."

"Exactly how long do you intend to watch her?" Uncle 42 asked.

This whole entire time I've been watching 32401 I've been thinking about that. I had to flip a coin to finally help me decide. But what I did know was that I wanted to wait until she felt like she was safe and then strike. "I'm going to wait one full year!"

Uncle 42 choked. "Are you nuts? A year! You know your father won't be too happy about that. He's starting to lose his patience and he's not happy about losing his second greatest experiment he's made. Let me be more correct on that, the second greatest experiment I've ever made!"

I raised an eyebrow. "She's the second greatest experiment ever created? Who was your first?"

He smirked and gave me a rather pointed look. "Who do you think it was?"

I knew exactly who he was talking about because he was talking about me. Ever since the first time I visited my father's lab when I was sixteen and I saw the project he was working on I wanted to become a part of what my dad was doing. I wanted to become one of his experiments. Little did I know it wasn't really my dad who was doing the experiments, it was Uncle 42 who was doing them.

I loved it after he did the first test on me because I felt stronger and my reflexes were faster. The coolest part about being tested on was that I gained new abilities that a normal human wouldn't be able to do. I'm now able to transform into a full grown loin and I also have psychic powers that I can use to mess with people's minds. I haven't used any of my psychic powers as of late because things are playing out in an interesting way.

Although, I might just use them on Mr. Anakin and 32401 to push them together just to see how dependent they become to each other. The last time I used my psychic powers I used them on 32401 to see how she would react to it. I had planted a couple of images from a horror movie in her mind to give her nightmares. The result was something that I thought might happen. I thought she would get so scared that she'd run to someone she was familiar with for comfort. I thought for sure she was going to run to Sargent 22 for comfort but what surprised me was that she ran to me for comfort instead!

I would often let her sleep in my bed to help her deal with the nightmares. When that happened I would use my psychic powers to calm her down.

"What's that look for?" Uncle 42 asked.

"What look?" I said.

"The mischievous one on your face right now," Uncle 42 stated.

"Oh, I was thinking that it's been a while since I've used my psychic powers on anyone…" I said with a smile.

His eyes went wide. "You're not thinking about doing what I think you're thinking about are you?"

I nodded. "Oh yeah I am. But I'm not sure if it's going to work because of the distance between us. I'm curious to see what my limits are with that power." I chuckled, "I remember when I first used that power on 32401 when she was younger."

Uncle 42 shook his head. "I would ask but I don't want to know what sick fantasies you had going through at that time and I still don't want to know."

"Oh come on, it's not that you haven't thought about her in that way before," I teased.

He hung his head as if to show a sign of guilt. "I did at one point in time but it wasn't right so I stopped doing it."

"Why was it wrong? Was it because she was too young?" I prompted.

"Not necessarily," Uncle 42 answered. "She was old enough to be thinking about her that way but I had to remind myself that she was an experiment of mine and it wouldn't be proper-"

I laughed, "Seriously? You'll do all sorts of testing on people you call your lab rats putting them through a lot of pain, but you won't have sex with them? Wow, I guess even crazy people have their limits."

He nodded. "Mhm, I know you find that funny but I don't! And yes I know about what you did to her when she turned eighteen and I wouldn't be surprised if she's Asexual because of that!"

I rolled my eyes. "Okay first of all I'm not that bad in bed and second, I doubt she's Asexual she just started a relationship with her boss and from what I know of she didn't have a relationship until now, so I think she's just hesitant about having sex."

"Yeah, yeah whatever," Uncle 42 said. He stood up from the recliner after he stretched. "Alright it's time for me to get back to work."

I nodded. "See ya!"

After Uncle 42 left, I figured now would be a good time to take a nap. So I grabbed a pillow and blanket and curled up on the couch and went to sleep.

***

I remember when I first laid eyes on 32401 twenty years ago. I knew she would be the next leader of A- Circle. She looked so adorable with her beautiful green eyes wide as saucers staring at me in fright.

"W-w-what is this place?" She stammered.

"This place is called A- Circle and it's where you'll be growing up and when you reach your full potential you'll be so much stronger than what you are now," I answered.

Her face brightened. "Really? I'll be stronger than what I am now? How?"

"You'll have to endure a little testing and you'll be able to do things that you won't be able to do as a normal human," I said.

"Um…" I could tell by the look on her face wanted to say something but wasn't sure if she should.

I rolled my eyes. "Come on, spit it out. I know you want to say it. Because I'm not going to beat around the bush with the answer."

"Um… Will it hurt?" She squeaked.

I smirked. "Yes, it will hurt! It will hurt a lot!"

She gulped.

I paused as I remembered something that I saw on 32401's birth certificate. Her birthday was coming up in two days and it would be the perfect way to bargain with her. "Your birthday's coming up in a couple of days isn't it?"

She went from being terrified to sad as soon as I said that. "Yeah it is. Why? Would that day still count considering my mom doesn't even want me anymore?"

I thought about it. "Hmm, what if I give you a new birthday?"

She gave me a look of confusion. "A new birthday? What do you mean?"

"Well how about this," I said. "You go through the test's for me and the day you develop your first powers will be your new birthday! You don't have to celebrate the birthday that your mom gave you if you don't want to. You can celebrate the birthday I give you! Does that sound like a good idea?"

Her face brightened. "Yes, that sounds like a good idea! I don't want to celebrate anything that my not-mother gave me any more because it makes me sad thinking about how she just dropped me here for no reason."

I chuckled, "Oh so she's your not-mother now?"

She shrugged. "Why not call her that? She doesn't want me anymore so she's not my mother anymore."

I paused. "Interesting logic for a child but okay then. So you cooperate with the testing and the day you develop your first powers that will be the day you get your new birthday. Do we have a deal?"

She smiled and shook my outstretched hand. "Deal."

***

I got snapped out of my memory when I felt someone shaking me awake. I looked up to see Sergeant 22 staring at me with excitement. "Okay what's up?"

"Guess what time it is!" Sergeant 22 said.

I looked over at a nearby clock, the time said it was midnight. I raised an eyebrow. "Uh, it's midnight, what's so exciting about that?"

Her jaw dropped. "Seriously? You might want to look at that clock again and see the date on it."

I did as Sergeant 22 suggested. "It's Nov 1st, and?"

She looked at me in disbelief. "Who the hell forgets about their own birthday!"

I blinked a couple of times and I have no idea why it took me a moment to process the information I just received but it did. "Oh? Oh!"

Sergeant 22 rolled her eyes. "Wow, it took you long enough. Of course the party's not until one o clock, so you can either go back to sleep or have birthday sex with me."

I decided that I wanted more sleep so I told her that and she didn't look too happy about it but it's not like we won't have sex on my birthday because we always do. I also remembered that 32401's birthday is on the same day as mine. The birthday that I gave her and not the one on her birth certificate. Her birthday is an hour later though.

I remember finding out how she developed her first powers like it was yesterday. It happened an hour after I had cut the cake and noticed she had gone to the bathroom claiming to be sick. I told Sergeant 22 to follow her to make sure she was okay.

I heard a squeal of excitement coming from the bathroom moments later and I ran over there only to see 32401 sitting on the bathroom sink transformed into a Gecko. I remember the look on her face when she managed to transform back into a human. She wasn't too happy about being able to change into a lizard.

I smiled as I remembered.

"Oh and do you remember who else's birthday it is today?" Sergeant 22 said.

"It's 32401's birthday too," I answered.

She grinned. "Yup! And even though she's not here, maybe we should give her a gift anyway?"

"Oh and what do you have in mind?" I asked.

"Well I was just thinking about giving her a simple teddy bear," Sergeant 22 said. "You know and put a cute little shirt on it and how long do you plan on toying with her before we capture her?"

"One year," I said.

"Alright then," Sergeant 22 said. "Okay so dress the teddy bear up and have the shirt say happy birthday on it. And then we give her a one year anniversary card with nothing on it but the words Happy Birthday and one year."

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I gave her an evil smirk. "You are so bad. The question is how do we deliver the present without you blowing your cover?"

"Maybe we could have Elite 46 drop it off at her front door?" Sergeant 22 suggested.

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea," I said. "Set the gift up and have Elite 46 drop it off after 32401 is at work. Because Elite 46 is posing as Mr. Anakin's best friend and it's amazing how I managed to get him a mask and he changed his voice so Mr. Anakin wouldn't recognize him."

"No kidding," She said. "Now go back to sleep since that's what you want to do right now. And I'll go back to planning things for your birthday."

After Sergeant 22 left I did exactly what I wanted to do. I grabbed my pillow, went to my bedroom and went back to sleep.

***

{Emily}

I felt a little bit down today because tomorrow's my birthday and I just knew Toby was going to say something about it.

"Why not just talk to him about it?" Anna asked.

I was debating about how to even tell Toby not to do anything for my birthday this year considering I don't celebrate either birthday I have. There's the birthday my mother gave me of course. There's also the birthday Dominic gave me.

I sighed, "I don't know about that. But-"

Anna raised an eyebrow. "But what?"

I sighed again and shook my head. "I don't know. I was thinking maybe I should celebrate it at least once with him but I'm not sure because I know it'll just make him want to continue doing it."

"Or maybe you should try to do it? You might find out that you actually want to celebrate it this time," Anna said.

I groaned and put my head down on the kitchen table. "I don't know what I want to do! Or maybe I should just keep my mouth shut and not say anything about it? I don't celebrate my original birthday because I want nothing to do with my mother ever since she dropped me off at that hellhole. And I'm not sure about celebrating the one Dominic gave me either. I remembered the first time I left A- Circle I did celebrate the birthday Dominic gave me."

Right on cue, my cell phone rang. I answered it when I saw it was Toby calling me. "Hello."

"I got a question for you," Toby said.

"Yes, what is it?" I said.

"Do you celebrate your real birthday or the fake one you gave me when I first hired you?" Toby asked.

"The fake one," I responded.

"Oh? Why?"

I explained to him the story behind the fake birthday and why I hate my real birthday. If I were to celebrate my real birthday it would be coming up in two weeks. If I celebrate my fake birthday then it's tomorrow which is coming up really fast considering midnight is only two hours away.

"Okay then, what do you want for your birthday tomorrow?"

"Nothing," I heard Toby sigh and I could only imagine how frustrating this might be for him.

I heard a short silence on his line and when he said, "Alright then, see you tomorrow at work."

"Okay, see you tomorrow, bye," I said.

When I hung up the phone I looked over to see Anna smiling. "See, that wasn't hard now was it?"

"Yeah it did seem a little bit too easy to convince him about not celebrating my birthday," I said.

She shrugged. "Well maybe he can understand and not push so much?" Then she paused. "Or you could be right about that and he's planning something regardless?"

I shook my head. "I have no idea."

***

{Toby}

I smiled a mischievous smile when I got done talking to Emily. If she really thinks that I'm not celebrating her birthday she's not another thing coming to her!

"What's that smile for?" Jason asked.

"If Emily thinks she can get out of celebrating her birthday she's wrong," I said.

Jason tilted his head. "What do you mean by that?"

"Her birthday is tomorrow and I already have something planned. Of course she did tell me she didn't want to celebrate it though," I said.

"Did she say why she didn't want to celebrate it?"

I told him about what Emily told me about her birthday. Jason shook his head in dismay. "Yeah if you go through the celebration one of two things could happen or both. She could either kick your ass into next week or she could just break up with you. But I wouldn't be surprised if she did both."

"Yeah well I'm not going to let her go so easily," I said. "If she tries to break up with me, I'll stalk her until she gets the point that she's mine and no one else's!"

"Okay now you sound like a possessive creepy boyfriend," Jason put his hands up to show he surrendered. "If Emily heard you say that I wouldn't envy her position."

I paused. "You wouldn't envy her position? You mean you envy her position now?"

He snorted. "Wow your mind really went there? No I'm not gay or bi and if I was you most certainly wouldn't be my type. I'm envious of Emily because she has a caring boyfriend and I wish I had a caring girlfriend though."

"Wait, don't you already have a girlfriend?"

"I did have a girlfriend but I broke up with her last week."

I nodded. "Oh."

"Anyway, what do you have planned for her?" Jason said changing the subject.

I told Jason what I had in mind and Jason couldn't stop laughing about it for whatever the reason. After a moment or two Jason regained his composure, "Okay I find it funny because I have a feeling that Emily's going to at least kick your ass into next week for that."

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, yeah I know and that's a risk I'm willing to take."

***

{Dominic}

I couldn't stop laughing as I watched security camera footage at the office where 32401 works. It seems that Mr. Anakin decided he was going to throw a surprise birthday party for her and she didn't look too happy about it.

Mr. Anakin should know that she doesn't like celebrating her birthday even when she was with me. I still have no idea what her reservations about celebrating her birthday are but I'm going to assume it has something to do with the feeling of being abandoned by her mother. I don't blame her for feeling that way. Being abandoned by someone hurts because I know that pain all too well. My ex-girlfriend before I got together with Sergeant 22 left me without saying a word. She didn't send me a text, a letter or anything to tell me why it was over between us.

32401's mother just dropped her off at A- Circle Labs and didn't give her any reason as to why she gave her away.

I was sitting on the couch eating a slice huddled around the computer with Uncle 42, Sergeant 22 and my Dad watching 32401's reaction to her surprise birthday party.

I heard 32401 scream at Mr. Anakin, "I swear I will kick your ass into next week for this!"

Her face turned from anger to smiling when Mr. Anakin reached over and kissed her. I almost choked on my slice of cake I was eating when I saw that. Although I did give my approval to go ahead and date the guy for some reason the sight of her kissing someone other than me makes me want to gag.

"Awww is somebody jealous?" Sergeant 22 teased.

I shook my head. "Nope! I'm not jealous! I don't do jealousy!"

She rolled her eyes. "Uh-huh, sure you don't! If I recall correctly, you got jealous when I kissed Mr. Anakin when I was 'dating' him! And by the way that was your idea. Just like you gave 32401 permission to date Mr. Anakin now. Although I don't think she would ask for your permission now that she's not at A- Circle at the moment."

Dad chuckled and stood up. "Okay then I think that's my cue to leave. See you tomorrow son."

He patted me on the back and left the room. Uncle 42 yawned and stretched. "Yeah I'm out of here too. See you later!"

After Uncle 42 left I turned and glared at Sergeant 22. "Good job Sergeant 22 scaring my Dad and Uncle 42 away."

She snorted. "What? I couldn't help it when I noticed that look on your face when 32401 kissed Mr. Anakin."

"Okay I get it. I just couldn't help it," I said. "It's too bad she's not with us or I would have my hands all over her right now."

Sergeant 22 gave me a flirting smile. "You wanna have some birthday sex?"

"Sure. But let's go up to my room for it," I said. "There's too many people around here at the moment."

"Sounds good to me!" She said.

I grabbed her hand and took her upstairs to my room for sex.

***

{Emily}

I sat down on my bed staring up at the ceiling. I was tired and kind of wanted to sleep but Toby said he had another surprise for me for my birthday. I had no idea what he was thinking of but to be honest I was kind of excited about what he might have in mind. Anna was right, maybe if I celebrated it with Toby at least once then I'll find I like celebrating it again and I feel I like celebrating it as long as I'm with Toby.

The doorbell rang and Red started barking. When I got to the door Toby was standing there with a big smile on his face.

I smiled. "So what else did you have in mind for my birthday?"

He gave me a flirting smile and pulled me into his arms after closing the door. He started kissing me and when he sat me down on the couch and when he started unbuttoning my shirt like he usually does and that's when it dawned on me. Toby wanted to have sex. That was something I had been debating about for a while. We've been dating for a couple of months and I had thought about letting him go further than just making out with me but every time I thought about it I kept chickening out.

You know what? I'm going to do it today! It's now or never! And Toby isn't Dominic so that's a bonus, I thought.

He stopped kissing me and looked at me. "I was going to ask if you want to try and have sex but I don't think you're-"

"Let's do it," I cut him off.

He paused. "Are you sure?"

I nodded. I didn't say anything else. I started kissing him again and I took off his clothes. I made the mistake of looking down and saw his erection. Let's say he's um, big. That's all I have to say about that.

He smirked. "What is it?"

I blushed and shook my head. "It's nothing."

"Okay then, I say we take this slow," He suggested.

I shook my head again. "Nope, let's just do this before I-"

I couldn't finish my sentence when he started kissing me again. Once we were both completely naked and he put two of her fingers inside of me and started to thrust them inside of me slowly. I moaned with each thrust and after a moment or two I climaxed. I screamed in pleasure when it happened.

After I screamed Toby went back to kissing me. He didn't give me any warning when he put his dick inside me and started to thrust slowly and then he went a little bit faster. I kept moaning and he kept kissing me as he thrusted into me. When he climaxed inside of me, I climaxed a moment later.

After we climaxed he finally stopped kissing me and we were both panting trying to catch our breath.

"Wow," I said. "Just, wow."

He chuckled, "Well I'm glad you liked it. Honestly, I thought you were going to be angry with me for celebrating your birthday when you didn't want to. But this outcome was even better."

"Well at first I did want to kick your ass but then I thought, he's celebrating my birthday and it's not like he committed a crime or anything like that," I said. "Besides, birthday sex is a wonderful gift and you're not Dominic so that's a bonus!"

His face kind of darkened when I mentioned Dominic. I looked at him and sighed, "Don't be like that. I'd rather have sex with you than anyone else any day."

I reached over and nibbled on his ear and that seemed to calm him down. Judging by the way his body was reacting to me he wanted to go again but then the doorbell rang and Red started barking with excitement. I groaned, "Of course someone had to come when we were getting ready to do it again."

He laughed at that comment and he laughed even harder when we heard Anna shouting while ringing the doorbell over and over again, "Emily and Toby! I know you're in there! Open up, I have you surrounded!"

I groaned, "Anna chill out I'm coming, give me a minute okay?" I whispered into Toby's ear, "Grab your clothes and go to my room to get dressed and I'll grab my clothes and get dressed now because she's not going to stop shouting until one of us answers the door."

He suddenly had an evil smile on his face. "Or maybe I can answer the door instead?"

I bit the inside of my cheek and then after a moment or two of Anna ringing the doorbell and shouting at the top of her lungs I decided to let Toby answer the door after he got dressed. Before he answered the door I ran back to my bedroom to change clothes. When I went back out the living room I got a surprise when Toby made sure to look like he just had sex with someone by coming to the door with his clothes looking disheveled.

"Oh I see I'm interrupting something!" Anna said in a sing-song voice.

I frowned. "Seriously Toby?"

"What? It's the truth we were going to-" Toby started.

I put up a hand and shook my head to silence him. "Okay, I think she gets the point."

Anna nodded and smiled. "Oh I get the point alright!" She was getting ready to say something else when there was a knock on the door.

"Special delivery for a Ms. Emily Key?" Someone shouted behind the door.

I looked at Toby and then at Anna. They both shook their heads. I answered the door and was surprised to see a delivery man with a medium sized box on the floor next to him. He held out a clipboard and asked me to sign it and I did. When I took the box inside the apartment, I got a little bit of a shock.

I opened up the box to see that there was a brown teddy bear with a pink t-shirt on it that said, "Happy Birthday!"

It wasn't the teddy bear or the t-shirt that shocked and pissed me off. It was the card that came with it. It said, "Happy Birthday Lizard! Your days of freedom are numbered, you only have one year…"

Toby frowned when I looked up at him. "What's wrong?"

"This is what's wrong!" I said.

I pointed to a box sitting on the kitchen table. Anna looked inside the box and said, "Aww such a cute teddy bear!"

"It's not the fucking teddy bear!" I said through gritted teeth.

Anna picked up the card sitting next to the teddy bear and shouted, "You've got to be fucking kidding me!"

Toby blinked and gave me a confused look when he looked at the card. "Okay, who's Lizard?"

"Lizard is Emily!" Anna growled, "It's Dominic's little pet name for her!"

"Yeah I'm surprised he didn't write my other name on it!" I snarled.

"What do you mean 3-" Toby started.

I quickly covered his mouth before he could finish saying the name A-Circle gave me. "No! I forbid you to say that name in this apartment! Anywhere else is fine, but in this apartment, hell no!"

I uncovered his mouth and he said, "Okay, okay I get it. That just means it's not safe here for you."

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah I know. That means it's probably not safe to be in the city in general. If Dominic knows I'm here, that means he can come and capture me anytime he wants."

Toby and Ann regained their composure.

"Okay so what do we do? How do we keep you safe?" Anna asked.

I sighed, "At this point I don't know if you can keep me safe."

Toby pulled me into his arms. "I can't speak for Anna but I am sure as hell I'm going to do everything in my power to keep you safe!"

"Yup! That makes two of us!" Anna agreed.

I didn't say anything but I did put my head on Toby's chest trying to calm myself down. Strangely enough, being in Toby's arms helped me calm down.

What I did know at the moment was that I had to figure out how to stay one step ahead of Dominic because he's not catching me that easy if I have something to say about it! I have something to say about it alright!