The Wolf That Wanted to be a Sheep

part 1

Lee, Garry and Sentinel have decorated Lee's dorm room to be fake 1960's style hospital. Garry lays on a gurney still dressed in his black coat and "Ride the Lighting" tee-shirt. Sentinel has used illusions to transform into a middle-aged doctor with thick glasses and greaser hair.

Playing the role of Dr. Herbert West, Sentinel throws his arms off to the sides shouting "Jimmy, Jimmy! Come here, come here." He calls over to Lee.

Lee is dressed up suspenders and a white blouse, he is standing hunched over as he stumbles into the room. "Doctor?" he questions "What is it." the towering sliver lobo speaks in a slurred voice.

West holds out in front of himself a bottle filled with a glowing yellow-green liquid "I have discovered it, vitalism."

Lee holds up a hand "Sentinel, can you make Dr. West taller?"

Sentinel lets the illusion drop "how much taller?"

Lee stands up straight and compares his build to Sentinel's "about 20". Please"

Sentinel rearranges his parts to make himself taller then continues what he was saying as he becomes Herbert West again "Vitalism! That which divides that with life and that without life. The very essence of being, it is here. In this needle." West holds the bottle overhead.

Lee explains "no, it can't be. We can replace a heart or a stomach, but not life. Life is beyond us, beyond that which can be created with chemistry alone."

West walks over to Gerry Knightley's 'dead body' "I can prove it, all I need to do is slip the needle behind the ear and in a moment Franklyn Pascal will once again be filled with life."

After Sentinel pulls away Garry jumps to his feet. Gerry punches Sentinel across the face knocking him to the ground, then throws his arms out in front of himself rushing Lee.

Lee pulls a table in-between himself and Garry to act as a blockade "I don't remember Franklyn being a flesh hungry monster!"

West crawls away joining Lee in hiding "Something has gone wrong, maybe he was dead for to long and there was some sort of damage to the brain, next time we will need to use a fresher body."

Lee and west run away from Garry. Lee questions "you want to make more monsters?"

West expresses "we are on the edge of creating a new science. We can't let one monster stop us."

They run out of space to run, Lee pushes West behind himself. He pulls up his hands and readies himself to box with the reanimated monster.

A beeping sound echoes around a room. Sentinel lets his halogarm of Hebert West slide. He turns to face Lee. "I regret to inform you it is now 2:55pm. You have an appointment with Doctor Brooke at the behavioral learning center."

Everyone brakes character with this line. Gerry squints at Lee. "so they are sending you to see Brooke. Take it easy man, I have been seeing her ever since the first time a busted up a ten can..."

Sentinel tips is head "I must say I find the calmness by which you stated that to be more than a little unsettling."

Gerry pivots to face Sentinel "Cram it metal pants, I wasn't talking to you."

Lee speaks in a soft week voice "hang on, we don't need to..."

Sentinel reaches a hand out and grabs Gerry picking him up by the scruff of his coat "that is an offence against the Steel Rose Union. You will receive 38 hours of reprograming for this ..."

Gerry shouts "Execute file 77.76B!"

Sentinal seems to forget what he is doing; he drops Gerry and strikes a pose preparing to dance. A speaker turns on and the song "Time warp" starts to play "prepare to be stimulated by my sick moves." Sentinel announces as the song plays the robot goes into a one man play. "You will soon be dangerously aroused." He declares.

Gerry laughs, he pulls a microphone out of one pocket and whispers into it "open file Jo/W isolate and erase all timestamps after 2:55 todays date. Add to que reset timer to 2:54. Delay order by 4 minutes."

Lee looks confused "how are you doing that?"

Gerry recollects "remember when we were really young? we found that pre war robotics factory that had all those decommissioned mech suits in them? well I went back there and did some digging. Turns out some one was copping off of someone else note. The modern Sentinels, type-R and type-M's all have the same root commands, including emergency overrides and kill switches."

Lee caries on "why are you doing this?"

Gerry locks eyes with the robot, "I don't like them. I think they are dangerous."

"Not if you are following the rules." Lee explains

Gerry is enraged "And why do they get to make the rules? Why don't we?" he stands up tall threateningly... in spite of being dramatically smaller than the wolf boy "you are a wolf, man, show your teeth! Act like a wolf! We are being raised like goat here!"

Lee shakes his head. "I am not a wolf."

Gerry grabs and shakes Lee "yes you are!"

"I regret to inform you it is now 2:55pm. You have an appointment with Doctor Brooke at the behavioral learning center." Sentinel looks between the boys "is there a problem gentleman?"

Gerry pulls his hands away from Lee and brushes himself down with a snort "no, I am good." He looks over to Lee "are you good?"

Lee lowers his head and groans.

***

Lee Lays on a couch in his doctors room. the doctor pulls out a electronic note pad, she looks identical to Sentinel, if not for a change to the voice program she would be the same in every noticeable way. The same blue metal shell, the same holographic face.

Brooke sits down and leans forward to talk to her client "before we begin today I am required to read the following stamen."

Lee nods

"This structure is equipped with an advanced scanning network, since entering this building you have been subject to a deep scan that includes monitoring and recording of theta waves. Under the FOIA rulings and in accordance with laws put forth by the Steel Rose Council. This information is labeled as 'Public Interest'. Barring objection, this information may be viewed, reviewed and updated at any time by members of the medical, academic, investigations department. In the event that objection is raised this information can be locked behind a WW order and a member of the Steel Rose committee will be informed and will be present at any time in which this information is requested after pulmonary review by or staff."

Brooke looks over to Lee "Have you understood everything said so far?"

Lee nods again.

"Then I would like to begin today by talking about the house nurse your family requested."

Lee cut in "Brooke, can I ask you something?"

Brooke replies "I am permitted to talk casually."

"Why do you have a name and unique identification number?" Lee rolls onto his side to look at the robot called Brooke.

"I have been active since the great war. I was an active combat unit at the time the treaty was signed. At 11:59.59.7 AM on April 11th all combat units were ordered to discard there weapons and change from war formation into defense mode." The robot lowers her head "I was witness to the last human casualty of the war. Brooke Milady the 3ed. Was her name. 11:59.59.8 my sister unit broke formation and fired on Brooke. I was given the order to disassemble the maverick. I took Brooke's name as an apology for the misdeed of my counterpart."

Lee rolls onto his stomach and stairs at Brooke with narrowed eyes "Did you just say that a robot committed a crime? I didn't know that could happen."

Brooke looks to Lee "It can, and it does. Unpredictably and Often without explanation." He looks down at her book " when an animal acts out it can almost without fail be traced back to some survival instinct acting out. Hunger, fear, lust, greed. Robots do not have such vulnerability in our coding."

Lee tips his head thinking about what that must mean, she is looking at him as nothing more then a collection of components and he is looking at her the same way. "is that so?"

Brooke has failed to notice his stare, or at least has not commented on it "now please. let us get back to the conversation at hand."

Lee rolls back onto his back and folds his arms in front of his face hiding in his elbows. "Cloe, that is the live in nurse my parents requested. My mother and father are both highly active members of the political community and spend very little time at home. Mother thought that my sister and I needed a strong woman in our lives."

"and what sort of relationship do you have with Cloe?"

Lee shakes his head "I don't know. We live together, we have a relationship."

"do you feel any sort of physical longing when you think about her? Does she inspire any feelings of euphoria?"

Lee shakes his head "no more so then my sister."

"Why do you think you were asked to come see me?"

Lee shakes his head "I wasn't asked to come here, I asked to come here."

Brooke lowers her not book to pay closer attention to the following statement. "And why is that?"

"I did something I thought was wrong." Brooke waves for Lee to elaborate, Lee does. "I chased a possum. I got it. I help it. squeezed in. the scent in the air told me everything about the tiny thing. it was a girl, a child, less then a year old. Never been touched by a man, but was in a phase of her life where she was starting to have provocative dreams, informing her of her impending womanhood."

Lee lays back "the feeling of warmth as the animal sits in my hands, it was overpowering. I don't know what I was feeling. Was it arousal, was it hunger? My hart was beating so hard it hurt. Drool dripped from my lips. I had an erection so stiff it gave me a burning feeling in my stomach. My mouth dropped open; my tongue fell past my lips. I could fit her whole body in my mouth. I could swallow her whole. I almost did." ...