Chapter 3: Discovery

Sure enough Taylor was fast asleep when Jenna looked in on her at 9 am, that was normal; well at least that was normal, the lab certainly wasn't. Instead of the usual polished, disinfected aroma the room stank of stale urine and body fluids. "Looks as if there was some response then Tay, I hope you enjoyed doing it more than I will enjoy cleaning it up!"

Jenna donned her surgical gloves with a purpose and set about mopping up the residues. Jenna noticed that close to the lab bench, where some of the secretions had just reached, the floor was discolored, with a pale purple tinge,

"That's odd that's just the color the probe stains X-13.1, I wonder..."

Carefully Jenna pippetted some of the ape's body fluid on to a microscope slide and titrated the buffered probe on to the slime, the effect was immediate and shocking, as the pale purple darkened and swirled on the slide. Taylor's come juice contained the compound, in massive quantities!

How could this be? There could be no such synthetic pathway unless there was a direct hormonal influence. Jenna decided to look at the latest rat histology. Just as before tumenesence of the clitoris, and the strange associated brain stem secretion - but this time in the rats killed after seven more days exposure there were plaques densely packed around the pituitary gland. At a higher magnification the structures became clearer, the plaques were dispersed in normal tissue, but there were vessels leading from the plaques directly into the heart of the gland!

"Holy shit! This thing is metabolizing through the body for itself, like a virus or parasite..." Jenna thought with increasing alarm.

It was now clear to Jenna that all the material needed to be destroyed, the lab made sterile and the authorities notified. This was a nightmare; far from producing a drug to enhance female sexuality she had produced a chemical that could interfere with it, in ways that were unknown and unpredictable. Thinking on her feet she realized to guarantee her own safety she would need a Biohazard suit, anything less and the lab clean up would be too risk adverse. In all her meticulous planning she had never even considered a suit to be a requirement for the lab, but it sure was now. Jenna walked to the office and pulled down a few of the many suppliers catalogues, and a phone call later it was organized, a suit would be with her first thing on Friday and the clean up could start in earnest.

Returning to the lab Jenna saw that Taylor had awoken, she walked to the cage and stroked the chimp's neck. "Hey you O.K. girl bit of a heavy night?". Taylor responded in the normal way by reaching through the bar to hold Jenna hand. But the hand wasn't Taylor's target her palm swept over Jenna's bosom and grabbed, Jenna instinctively moved back and just avoided the fingers clamping her breasts powerfully, but her blouse & lab coat were well trapped!