Better the Devil You Know
It was a gray, dull morning as Dr. Franks left his car in the public car park to walk a third of a mile to his secret laboratory within the clinic's grounds. For the past twenty years, Minerva had been interested in gene therapy. She wanted to live forever and believed, as did Dr. Franks, that this was achievable using a combination of modern science and vampire genes. As the project was of utmost secrecy, Franks always worked alone, and he preferred it like that. He had never gotten along with others very well. His wife was the same, and if not for their families forcing them together, they would both still be single today. However, they managed to have a normal family and led an outwardly normal life. Dr. Franks' wife, Liz, had no idea what her husband got up to at work. She assumed he
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