Who: Harlow and Peyton
What: Trial number one: vampire sunscreen
Where: A lab in a science classroom
When: Tuesday afternoon
Rating/Status: PG? Incomplete
Harlow had been thinking most of the night about just what she had agreed to do. She was going to be a test subject for
vampire sunscreen. Somehow in the harsh light of the morning after agreeing to act as a guinea pig, this seemed like a much, much worse idea. Firstly, no one had ever been a test subject for this before. Harlow wasn't at all familiar with the complete repertoire of her new vampiric resistance to danger/illness, but she was pretty sure that any clinical trial had a risk of breaking out in full-body hives that lasted months and caused one's windpipe to swell shut. A longshot, but a possibility she was definitely entertaining. Then, if the lotion or whatever it actually turned out to be didn't cause her to inflate like a balloon, she would be exposed to an artificial equivalent of sunlight. That, she
knew, was something her vampire skin would definitely not be down with.
Still, she didn't back out. If someone was actually trying to come up with a way that she could go out into the light of day, no matter how short of a time, she wanted to do anything she could to facilitate the discovery. She might have a little to lose – flawless skin on the test site, though she did already have scars from her work that had long made being a skin model a non-option – but she had far more to gain. If this crazy idea actually worked out somehow, she could get some of her life back. That was definitely worth a few burns.
So, she made sure she ate a good lunch (rather, drank it) and then headed down to the science labs. Suddenly aware of how white mice must feel when being pulled from their cages and placed in the hands of a scientist, she opened the door to the agreed-upon room and stepped inside. "Hello," she said, looking around the room, brushing her messy red hair out of her eyes for the twentieth time since breakfast. It never stayed back. "I'm Harlow, here to be a lab rat for you."