actually pressed the stop button. As they snuggle back up in bed they both drift off once more.
John then aris es at 10:30am to this email coming though on the blackberry-
* Where the Hell are you guys? You do realise the next LAB begins in 30 minutes!!!!
Regards ,
Paul Davidson *
“Fuck!”
“What?!” as Alex wakes up, barely conscious
“ … We’re 2 hours late for work!” John says in a confused manner
“Bollocks!” Alex curses
As Alex jumps out of bed and runs into the bathroom, John leans over and admires her model physique once more as she is standing there stretching, completely naked. She then disappears into the shower and Johns smile on his face is Titanic. He then realises he is late and races to get his clothes on.
They race out the door afte r getting dressed in literally 10 minutes in a very comic fashion: John then mounts the motorcycle and tries the ignition.
“Not now”
He tries again “C’mon! C’MON”
He keeps trying whilst Alex bites her bottom lip and smiles as she tr ies to hide her amusement
“For GOD’S SAKE, IT WON’T START” John vents.
“C’mon, jump in, you can come in with me” Alex suggests. “But won’t it look suspicious?” John realises.
“No, we’ll just say that your motorcycle broke down and that I had to pick you up- Hence the extended lateness” she says. “Get in”.
On their journey to work, they are bantering each other and the journey seemed to take half the time as they are enjoying themselves so much just being in each other’s company. They then arrive at work and both burst through the door, both out of breath, to be greeted by judgemental eyes from Cat and Paul- not to mention everyone they ran past in reception, the corridors and the multiple labs to get to theirs.
“Have fun did we?” Cat says with a smile on her face
They both look at each other awkwardly, then Alex responds “Yes, actually, it was a great journey- I had to turn back and pick him up as his bike is broken!”
At this point John is already at his workstation, and he pulls his laptop out and checks the daily schedule in a very quiet and out- of- character fashion.
As the room is quieter than usual, Paul and Cat begin to whisper about their suspicions about Alex and John. “I think they did ‘IT’ you know” Cat suggests under her breath.
“That’s exactly what I was thinking!” Paul replies in a slightly excited whisper.
Alex then notices their un-usual whispering (As they don’t really ever speak, let alone whisper to each other) and gets Johns attention. She looks up, smiles and she nods in their direction. He then turns around to look at them as Paul and Cat simultaneously look back- so at this point they are all looking at each other. A very awkward moment arises when they all quickly look back at what they’re meant to be doing – all with great speed and at the same time.
Minutes later, t he room is quiet once more, as everyone is working very hard analysing the data, when the silence is shattered by Johns’ deep voice “Here’s something”.
The team all rush over to him “there is a difference in the hamsters mass, before the experiment he weighed exactly 130.56 grams, and its weight just after the teleportation was 109.98 grams”.
Cat Analysis and suggests “Water weight maybe?”
“Possibility” says Paul
Alex then replies “It could be but there is no way we can be sure, I mean unless we take a sample from him before and after, but that may still be inconclusive”?
The team then think for a few minutes.
“What about if it is related to the distance? What if we transported him double distance, would he lose double the weight?” John Adds
“Very good point, let’s run it again…” Alex looks at the clock “… Yeah let’s run it now and process the data tonight?” “We’ll do it over 26 meters including the pad” Alex demands.
They then do all of the calculations which each and every one of