Isn't it Lovely
All alone
Heart made of glass
My mind of stone
Tear me to pieces
Skin to bone
Hello... welcome home
{Used to be What they Don't Understand}
{Artwork credit to Lafiska}
Completed: 10/22/19
Mark Keyes was a businessman. A rich business mind you, but a business man nonetheless. He literally started his business from the ground up. There were several people jealous of him and his fast growing wealth, making them wonder why they couldn't have thought of this idea. During this growth he met his beautiful a beautiful woman named Angela. To him it was love at first sight and he knew she felt the same way. She had helped him grow and become just as successful as him owning her own beauty brand
It wasn't until years after they had become the richest couple in the world when they decided to have a child. It was mutually agreed that a boy would have the best outcome of merging both of their companies and taking over. So talking with the best doctors they managed to pick the best genes out of their pull and made their bundle of joy. Angela had denied carrying the fetus as it would ruin the imagine she was trying to uphold so they decided that a special incubator would be the best option.
They watched their son grow and soon they had a baby in their hands. They named him John; a perfect name for the perfect baby. His hair was a platinum blonde, his skin pale as the moon, and his eyes were an unnatural pale blue. Mark watched his wife coo over the newborn and he couldn't help but smile. This was something truly magical and he couldn't help but feel joy at his new family. John never really cried when he was born, even when he was growing up he was a quiet baby.
It was one of the genes they had picked out for him, quiet and yet assertive when needed to be. John was everything Mark looked for in a son. He was quiet, patient, and never talked back. Watching John grow over the years Mark knew he made the best decision. John was perfect and there was nothing you could say otherwise. It was going so well until John had gotten sick at the age of 3. It was a rare diseases that neither Mark or Angela had heard of but it had apparently ran in their genes. How Mark hadn't noticed was beyond him and soon he lost his only son.
Mark and Angela had entered a brief grieving period. They spent thousands of dollars on their son only to have him taken away from them. Life was cruel but he knew he would have to move on. Mark had decided to invest thousands of dollars on a secret cloning facility. Mark didn't want to take any chances with their DNA and hoped that he could create his son again using his dead son's DNA. It took almost a year but soon he had created John 2.0.
John 2.0 was almost an exact copy of his original son John. John 2.0 was supposed to be at his normal age of 4; they had managed to implant memories of John's past in 2.0 and made up their own memories along with it. They had 2.0 for almost a year before he had gotten too sick to function. Mark growled, he moved on with a 3.0 but that only last for a week before he had malfunctioned.
"Maybe we should just accept that we aren't going to be parents," Angela told him.
"No I'll make the perfect son and we'll have the perfect life," Mark said.
4.0 was the longest John Mark had created. 4.0 had lasted a remarkably 5 years. During the time he had made several friends in the kids of his colleagues. Mark knew 5.0 had to be the ultimate test to see if anybody would recognize the difference. And to Mark's delight no one truly did. John 5.0 had been another success, but he only lasted 3 years since he was hit by a car. Mark had long lost the love towards every new John he made, as long with his wife. To them it was just a game on finding the perfect clone to take over their company.
John 6.0 had his ups and downs. This was the first John Mark had let go to public school. He wanted to see how it would shape John and to his dismay it shaped him in the opposite direction. He had once caught John 6.0 using an electronic cigarette and he knew that soon he would have to pull him out of school and do a wipe. He was starting to look like a... hooligan... instead of the perfect son he and his wife were looking for. It only got worse was when he had caught his son dancing with another male.
A couple of days after that Mark and Angela had decided to see their son before they went to bed and to their surprise he wasn't in his room. All that was there was a letter for Sara along with a necklace. He opened the letter and read the context. Mark growled and passed the letter to his wife. John 6.0 had went rouge and ran away from home. This was unacceptable to Mark as 6.0 was probably one of his more successful clones.
"What are we going to do," Angela said as he clutched the letter in her hand.
"What we always do," Mark said leaving the room.
"Is it wise to do that...," Angela said as she followed him.
Mark didn't say anything as they made their way to the basement. There were several scientists there working on several test tubes that had figures inside. Mark went to a computer and started to input commands. He was looking through the memories 6.0 was carrying and frowned at them. Turns out 6.0 wasn't as perfect as he thought as he watched them through. Angela made some gasps as her eyes widened at what she saw.
Mark stopped the memories and went to change them. He decided up to the point where 6.0 had asked to go to public school would be erased from the new one. He then entered in new memories using the old memories as a bit of a reference. He also changed the way 6.0 had view of them to make them seem more loving and caring. Once he approved of the changes he pressed saved and uploaded them to one of the tubes.
"Release 7.0," Mark said to one of the scientists.
"Has 6.0 already perished," the head replied.
"No but it doesn't matter... I don't think we've made a successful clone live past 5 years," Mark said.
"Preparing for the future," the head said as he pushed a button.
"You could say that," Mark said as the tube opened up.
"Richard please take 7.0 to his room he has a big day tomorrow," Mark said.
'Another clone lost a shame," Mark said as he walked past 5 more tubes with clones in them.
The door closed behind him and his wife as they made their way to the bedroom. It was just another day for them.
Soooo surprise? John is a clone yes didn't see that coming did ya. Also I needed a base plot for the sequel that'll be out after a certain point in Side Stories
I can't wait!
Honestly thank you everyone this story was based on the song Lovely by Billie Eilish and Khalid. I listen to the song and it just reminds me of this. I really am appreciative for you joining with me
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