Bette laughed, “The vampire stuff?  Or the mind powers stuff?  Or just government stuff, which is usually classified, and I’m not going anywhere.”

            Amy motioned to the kitchen with her head, hoisting the small knapsack that she had slung over her shoulder.  Jo took Bette’s hand, an easy gesture, and not because Amy was there, but because Jo was on edge about what Amy might have found.  Bette squeezed back gently, then kissing Jo’s cheek lightly.

            Amy took a small laptop from the bag, opening it up and pushing a button.  “I’ve been doing translating and digging through all the stuff you collected while you were… eradicating the Kindred factions,” began Amy.  Bette sat down and Jo sat next to her, Bette rubbed Jo’s fingers softly.  “I found some stuff from the Paris house.”

            Jo took a sharp breath then snorted, “All right, keep going.”

            Amy sat down across from Jo and Bette, laying the laptop flat out, the screen wasn’t a screen, but a projector.  Tapping a few keys and a projections of a strand of DNA appeared.  “This is your DNA from when you were sixteen, normal, well, as normal as we are with the powers we have. This is what it looked like after they changed you.”  Amy tapped a few more keys, then clearing her throat, “This is what it looked like four weeks before graduation.  It’s changed, there are subtle differences…”

            “So?” asked Jo knowing things about DNA, but not knowing where Amy was going. 

            “This is what it looks like now,” said Amy.

            “How did you get…?” asked Jo.  “The blade, I gave it back to Natalie, you got a sample,” sighed Jo looking up at the ceiling again. 

            “What does this mean, to Jo?” asked Bette with concern.

            “It means that something is amiss with you, something might be changing, your powers, or hair color, eye color, we don’t know, we’re going to investigate further, with the Genome project they’ve mapped…,” began Amy hopefully, wanting to head off whatever might be about to happen, if anything.

            “No,” said Jo.

            “No?” asked Amy.