Fired

The revelation of the note!

*In S.T.A.R Labs*

Sam told them about the note,that he believed that his own future-self had given to himself, which Oliver and Diana didnot found absurd at all, but Sam was getting the kind of reaction he had expected.

"You are telling this to us, NOW?!", shrieked Oliver.

"Yeah......I truly forgot about it. It was not in my particular intention to not tell you. It kind of slipped out of my mind. And, we didn't have a conversation regarding this...so-"

"It's alright, it's alright Sam!",said Oliver and Diana in unison.

Sam smiled and said,"So should we get to work, then?"

Diana smirked and mimed in a thick British accent ,"let's getta work boys"

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*In Ronald's Labs*

Ronald was sitting in his office looking out of the window. The birds were chirping , sitting on a nearby tree. Normally, any person would have felt good. But? Ronald preferred impenetrable silence, for his brain was working very fast. 

He was thinking, about, the two great things happening to him in his life. Firstly, the Nocuous Men, and ,secondly, Sam. 

Ofcourse, a normal person wouldn't think such a thing, but, ofcourse, Ronald,wasn't normal, he wasn't paranoid , either. 

Those men, who were being experimented on, were something for the greater good, ofcourse, that was his way of thinking, knowing, that it was dangerous, didn't promote his humanity very much. He wanted to know all about those men. He wanted to use them. He had no intention to cure them, he had finally gotten what he wanted. A weapon. To destroy the world, which probably meant, to save the world, for him. 

And Sam, ofcourse. The son of Leo. He knew that, from the very day he came here. Ronald had given him the job, intentionally. He knew all about him. And he was the reason, Sam was in New York in the first place. All along ,he let them think that they were one step ahead of him. But the truth was that, Ronald was ten steps ahead of them, all along. Ronald just didn't want them to know it yet, he had everything planned for just the right moment. 

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*In S.T.A.R Labs*

Diana kept looking at the piece of paper, and she finally said," I have seen this paper before"

"What?! Where?!", said Oliver.

"It's a page from my diary!",said Diana.

"Are you sure?!",asked Sam.

Diana's cheek reddened as she said," Well, I write in it , everyday, so I am certain that this piece of paper is from my diary.My aunt had given it to me..... It has concealed writings, by which I mean.....that....you may write on this paper all you like, but you can conceal the main message! That's it! Light a fire!"

"Have you tried keeping it infront of fire?",asked Oliver.

"No...I haven't ....well I pretty much thought about it, but wouldn't it be too dramatic? I have never seen things like that before",said Sam.

"I have",said Diana.

Before Sam had the chance to say something, Diana went to fetch a candle, and Oliver, a matchbox. They lit a candle. Sam held the paper near the fire. Some of the previous words faded and new words formed, like magic.

The previous words:

DONT GO

DONT TRUST

DONT BE FOOLED 

DONT LET CONFIDENCE BLIND YOU

Formed:

DONT GO back to Ronald's Labs

DONT ever TRUST Hugh

DONT BE FOOLED into believing that Ronald doesn't know anything.

DONT LET trust BLIND YOU , Ronald knows everything, he killed mom.

Diana, Oliver and Sam looked at each other , gaunt in the face. These words.....they were a lot to take in. Without thinking, Sam , along with the paper, ran out of the lab, with tears in his eyes and frustration.

Diana and Oliver shouted his name from behind, but he just ran up to his room and locked himself. He didn't want the note to make sense, but it kind of, did. His mother's death,them coming to New York, he going for the job as his assistant, him getting the job very easily! None of the points hurt him as much as the one about his mother. The doctors had told him that it was heart attack, he was just a kid. He was blind to all the bad things in the world. He had just lost a loving mother. And it hurt him everytime he remembered the night . That intensity of the pain when the doctors announced her death, it felt as if nothing meant anything , anymore. But.....it was a heart attack, and she already had a problem before they came to New York, she was already suffering from a heart problem. Ronald couldn't have possibly killed her, he didn't even know her then, and about Hugh....that was interesting, they knew ,not to trust Mark, but Hugh?! He wasn't suspicious, and what did Ronald know? What did 'everything' limit to? And, lastly why shouldn't he go back to Ronald's Labs, ofcourse he had to go back to Ronald's Labs , his father and Marie were there. It was certainly something he could never think about, doing. He knew that he had to go downstairs and discuss this matter with Diana and Oliver, but he wanted to stay put. He kept reliving his last moments with her. Sam never visited his mother's grave. He didn't know if she would like him, because he was not the old Sam anymore, he had changed, he was not that innocent Sam that his mother loved, anymore. He just had one thing with him, that belonged to her. The locket with the picture of all the three of them. He didn't wear it. He just kept it. As a souvenir, or as a reminder, that everything ends one day, that even the people you love the most leave you one day and there is no denying the feeling of nothingness at that point of time. There was no delaying the sadness. 

Sam knew that it wasn't right, he never talked about his mother, but he didn't know that, he was always going be a prisoner of his past if he didn't get it out of him, if he didn't talk to someone about it. Thinking about all of this, Sam fell asleep, for his eyes were heavy with tears and his bed , warm with his heat.

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*In Ronald's Labs*

There was a knock on the door.

"Enter",said Ronald

Dr. Kush entered, and sat down opposite to Mr. Ronald, without invitation. 

"What's the matter Dr. Kush?", asked Ronald

"I - I have some bad news for you Dr. Ronald.",said Kush

Ronald's eyes darkened…,"What is it?",he asked.

"Umm....you asked us to do the reasearch on those creatures....We-we did.", said Kush

"And?"

"And..... Dr. Kevin....Dr. Kevin, thought it would be an idea worth a try to- to ..."

"To? To do what?!", exclaimed Ronald.

"Dr. Kevin thought it would be a great idea if he went inside to experiment on them and he went inside there with one of Mr. Smith's guards, we tried to talk him out of it, but he didn't want to listen and ... And they attacked them...They both turned into the Nocuous Men... We tried to reverse engineer their cells back to its original state, but, it doesn't seem to be working...I think we lost them both",said Kush, with tears in his eyes.

Ronald , at first, fixed his stare at Kush and then he smiled and said,"That's an excellent news Kush! ".

Saying this, Ronald got right up from his seat and bolted out of the room. Leaving behind Kush, who was terribly horrified at what Ronald was making them do. At what he was, which was no less than a monster.