by Douglas Black

Created on: June 09, 2009   Last Updated: June 23, 2009

GENISIS PROJECT

Meredith Colson remained seated at the dinner table, maintaining her sullen pose, hoping to avoid any prolonged eye-contact across the embellished meal she had prepared for her husband David. She knew all it would take was the smallest slip-up, and he would soon be on to her little secret she was trying to hide. Unfortunately her vows didn't include a hidden clause that exempted her from clandestinely withholding information, especially when it was pertaining to protecting national security. Despite the seven and a half years of marital bliss, Meredith was still bound by oath, a pledge of allegiance that even her life meant less if broken. Sure, she loved him, and some day when they were too old and gray to care, she might finally divulge her cavernous closet of skeletons. But for now, she would have to keep up the facade, playing the part of the simple house wife, perpetuating her nominal position as a clerk, at an office that didn't even exist.

Meredith had accepted the role long before she met him, which would explain why he never even knew that she had graduated from MIT with honors in both biology and physics, or that her major in quantum physics landed her a position as the top researcher on the Genesis Project, before she even turned twenty. Now, on the eve of one most important breakthrough's she had ever encountered, she had to try even harder to contain her budding excitement. It had been nearly two years since she had tried to quantify the Butterfly Effect, but finally the formula was complete. Dealing with quantum paradoxes had always been like slamming into an impassable monolith, but even Einstein himself couldn't see past what was already there staring him in the face. Relativity and physical boundaries had no place when dealing with time travel, which might explain how they missed a tiny group of cells buried deep within the cerebral cortex; the key to unlocking Genesis.

Meredith tried her best to bide her time, before announcing that that the office called to see if she could come in for a late-night emergency.

-An excuse that had served her well all those years, relieving her from just about any obligation she may have had lined up-

"So, did you hear the President overturned the block on allowing stem cell research?" David was the first to break the veil of silence that hung heavy in the air.

"Really, that's wonderful news...maybe they can finally cure some of those nasty diseases that everybody keeps

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