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She shook her head, "A week? That's it...good lord after that she'll be right back to where she was. But I appreciate the effort."

Indeed it was hopeless to try and get Jelena to follow any kind of system. It just didn't seem to make sense to her to put things in a special file when she could stick them in one big one. Obviously she dind't mind taking three hours to go through a massive amount of papers looking for the one seh wanted.

"Is that all you needed James?"

The hysteria was gone and DJ had finally had his senses back enough to throw on some sweats and tshirt to finally get something to eat. He didn't know what had happened in the last eight hours after the call from Jacklyn. It was all a blur. But as he was about to leave his room he saw the walls scratched up and his knife stuck up in the ceiling. He shrugged the thought from his mind and locked his door, making his way downstairs to the small tiny mailboxes. It had been the night before Lillia came for her final night since he had checked his mail. It was probably cluttered with bills, junk, and some magazines. But now was not the time, "It's time to eat!" his stomach said as it growled angrily at him for not putting anything in his body but liquor in quite a while.

As DJ stepped into the cold morning air, he found out that not everything in his life was completely destroyed. His favorite bagel shop was still there and eagerly he went up to the window and ordered his chedder bagel, cream cheese, and some orange juice. Absentmindely he grabbed the closest newspaper near him as he walked to table and sat down.

Halfway through his bagel, he finally glanced at the newspaper's headline.

"Mysteries at ECHO Revealed!"

The feeling of dread crept into his stomach, making the bagel and cream cheese in his mouth taste sour. Forcing himself to swallow and not throw up, he gulped down the rest of his orange juice and quickly scanned the paper.

"...Lillia Nikko (assistant to Dr. Jelena Trevale)..."

"...myths recreated..."

"...variants become pets..."

The article went on about the purpose of Project Echo and the many things Dr. Trevale was currently working on. It also chronicled the equipment on the ships and how much of the citizen's tax money was being spent to allow "one woman's ability to play with animals that shouldn't exist...." It went on to explain a bit about the process of an Echo's birth and then an overview of the other projects including a hint about Lazarus and promising it was a developing story.

Dj skipped to the end until he saw if they respected his wishes about his pen name.

"Jacob Daniels." Well it wasn't the best one out of his list of names but it wasn't much choice either. He remembered giving each publisher a list of names to choose from, and each article was a bit differnt from the rest, so if two names matched up, then it would be logical that he might've given the story to two papers.

The dread still hung in his stomach, but soon passed as he chewed on the last bits of his bagel. Back at the apartment he opened up his mail box and found that it wasn't cluttered at all, but had four envelopes, each with differnt newspaper insignia. He held each envelope to the light and saw two slips of paper.

"Maybe I can go on a vacation with this... Yeah, a vacation sounds really nice." Shoving the envelopes in his pockets he trudged up the stairs, while thinking about visiting Hawaii for a few months.

"And whom said we had to be government sactioned? Once this gets firmly establish as oto what we can do, I'd offer it to fleet personel first, then have a display on Raidiance for visitors, or people who may wish to stay here in space on Raidiance. IF the government doesn't like it..well they'll just have to try and stop it. And getting past my special defenses is no easy task, let me assure you."