Chapter 3: How Long?

"HEY!" Ah, the dulcet tones of the Cheese in full song.

"You rang?" Lurch echos across the hills.

"Shit! He/she/it/whatever is watching the Addams Family on TV," said Jo.

"Fucked," said Vickie.

The Cheese questions, "you gonna help us out, here?"

"Why?" asked Gomez.

"I can come up with a bunch of reasons." said Jo.

"Me, too." said Kurt.

Vick mumbled, "fucked."

"Ok, name some," cackled uncle Fester

"How long do you expect this experiment to take?" questioned Jo.

Wednesday, full of woe, said. "As long as it takes."

"That's not going to be very long," responded Jo.

"Why?" asked He/She/It/Whatever.

Jo, yet again. "Because the gene pool is too limited."

"Why?" (whatever is beginning to sound like a four year old.)

"There's only four of us ... and two of us are related."

"It took two the first time," laughed the Whatever. "They made it."

"Where on earth did you come up with that?"

"Read it in a book."

"Shit, we're fucked." said Vickie, "I wanna go home."

Kurt said, "Oh my God ... Whatever has been reading mythology."

"Yup," said Vick." Fucked."

Jo held up her hand. "Answer me this ... do you have government funding?"

"Ooooo, Jo. Hauling out the big guns already." said Vickie. "I'm impressed!"

"He got awfully quiet," Kurt offered.

"Way to go, Jo," applauded The Cheese. "I didn't think of that."

Jo gives him the 'You idiot' look.

The Cheese gets defensive. "That's not to say I wouldn't think of it."

"Yeah, right," sarcasm ripples across the land.

"HEY." The Cheese said. "You keep out of this."

"Why?" asked She/He/It/Whatever. "You're the one who interrupted my entertainment."

"Hey, For someone who thinks he/she/it, whatever you are, has all the answers, you're damn all unhelpful," complained Vickie.

"I'm supposed to be, as you put it, damn all unhelpful."

"Why?" asked Vickie.

"Say, that's my line."

"Huh?" said everybody.

"The answers are part of the question. The question is part of the experiment"

"What's the question?" asked everybody, almost in unison.

"Which one?" asked It/She/He/Whatever. "oh, this one." Sounding suspiciously like the Cheese, whatever said, "are you going to help us out?"

"Well?"

"Yes," said whatever "If you can tell me what you need and why, I'll get it for you ... as long as it's part of the experiment."