I discovered a magic show in the apartmentdirectly across the street from me, in the nextbuilding one floor below mine was a guy in his earlytwenties.... I looked out my large window one day anddiscovered to my delight the curtains of his bedroomwere wide open and there on the bed he lay asleep. Now I have always been a little shy when it cameto being a sexual woman, dressing in a conservativefashion to hide my very well toned body from theworld, but underneath those clothes was. I was definitely no saint!“I know; I see it in most of the things you do. You’ve got a strong sense of justice, and you care about people,” she added as she squeezed my forearm again as if she could sense my discomfort.I sighed, shook my head to clear it, and forced myself to focus solely on Violet. “I guess the biggest reason why I’m glad that you’re immune is because then it means that our relationship is real. I dunno if you can understand that?” I shrugged, feeling uncomfortable with. The Rubacher team figures out that the virus is very susceptible to death and as such, tries frantically to preserve itself in any host it can find. In humans, it literally presses its own DNA into the human cells causing a collapse of cellular function. Rubacher’s serum, as it will become known, does not kill the virus, but merely neutralizes its genetic imprint which stops the human cells from realizing it’s foreign. Basically, the human cells accept the extra DNA and live to tell about. He wanders to the kitchen and prepares her a sandwich, carefully laid out on a plate with some vegetables and a glass of water. He informs her the vegetables are grown here, freshly harvested. The sandwich is delicious as she slowly bites into it. He sits across from her, legs curled up under him on the small couch. The fire crackles lightly and spreads a warm glow in the room. The only other light comes from the sun, now setting, through a small window. The room is warm, the day has been long.