Short Story #1

How could something so routine, so normal, so average turn into something horribly, horribly wrong? Dr. Beckett was thinking the same thing. He’d been creating what he thought to be the ‘perfect’ person for over a year now. All of his specimens have had a ‘sixth sense.’ Like telekinesis, mind-reading, etc. Because these specimens are fairly new to the scientific world, they stay at Dr. Beckett’s laboratory for a few years until they are ‘accepted’ and deemed safe to go out into the world. However, this creature was different. This person, if you could even call it that, was not what had been expected. ‘Kieran’ (what Dr. Beckett had named this creature) was a monster. Something had gone wrong that had made Kieran have different powers from the others. She had the capability to crush a mini-van with her pinky finger and the ability to hear anything from a mile away. Kieran had glowing green eyes, red hair, and a look of evil on her face. Her green eyes were like an owl in a tree, clearly visible from far away. Her long reddish-brown hair went down to her waste, she had an evil grin and a lazy eye. She quickly became the talk of the town, her picture was plastered to the cover of every major news paper, there were stories being written about her left and right and everywhere you went somebody was always talking about “Kieran, the one that Dr. Beckett messed up.”
However, even though Kieran was a monster, Dr. Beckett saw beauty in her. He saw a helpless creature that didn’t know where she was, or what she was doing in this world in the first place. He knew that despite her strength Kieran would never hurt a fly. Kieran was forever grateful to Dr. Beckett for creating her, bringing her into the world and not destroying her when the rest of the world deemed her as ‘dangerous.’
“She’s not safe, Dr. Beckett! You can’t possibly think that a creature like Kieran could ever be released into the world. She will never be accepted and you need to realize that.” Dr. DeLeon said to Dr. Beckett.
“I know she’s not safe, but what are we going to do? Kill her?” replied Beckett.
“It’s the only way, Dr. Beckett. She can’t possibly be accepted, her only option is to stay in the laboratory, and we can’t risk her staying here and destroying the other creations.”
Dr. Beckett knew that he was right. And as much as he hated to admit it, he knew destroying Kieran would be the right thing to do. After DeLeon left, Beckett went upstairs to get Kieran and explain to her what had to be done, only to find that she wasn’t there. The whole room was smashed, walls broken and tables snapped in half. Beckett followed the indented footprints in the ground to find that they went to the door. The steel door with an excessive ammount of locks, completely torn off the hinges and thrown into the street.

Kieran was never found. The rest of the world thinks that she has killed herself, rather than being killed by the Doctors. Dr. Beckett thinks otherwise. Dr. Beckett knows that she’s truly not evil. It’s assumed that she’s living her life in the city, with all the other people. Leading a normal life. This, of couse, is just a guess.
Kieran was not a monster. Kieran was just different. Because she was strong and thought to be dangerous, the world would not accept her. No one has seen Kieran or seen any signs from her in the past 7 years.