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The laptop whirred for a moment and a window opened on the screen, Dave then found himself staring at himself, or himself before whatever experiment had transpired, sitting back he noted that the video had been done right in this seat, there was silence for a moment before the digitalized human version of him began to speak.

"So, lost your memory David? Well sit back and let me briefly explain. You are the leading scientist in genetic splicing, now whether you remember what that is or not, I don't know but basically you work on DNA, you split it in half and stick different parts together to modify a someone or something's appearance. Why? Because there's a lot of money and you're the only person who seems to be able to think outside the box. So if you're watching this I'm also gathering the experiment was a success, but with the memory loss you'll have no knowledge of what that experiment was."

The entire time the video was playing he was trying to remember, the anthro tigers mind was a blank though, he couldn't think straight and no matter how hard he tried nothing would come back to him. The screen faded out and two figures came into view, his human self and his tiger self. And his voice continued.

"Obviously I don't need to point out the differences, but basically the project was turning a regular human into an anthropomorphic being. There are several reasons to do this and while many would claim your playing god, you're not. You are the catalyst to help advance evolution, or that's what you believed while making this video. I say this simply as there is a large debate on whether other things such as thought patterns or moral beliefs will be altered."

The two pictures disappeared and his human self came back into view, as did the room. Pausing for a moment, the lass from before came onto the corner of the screen, not likely on purpose simply due to the positioning.

"Dave, we've prepped the room, ready when you are matey."

"Righto, give me a few more minutes."

She simply nodded and walked out again, his human self sat forwards and started his conclusion "Well this is it, I'm going to walk into the lab and with any luck I'll be fine or at the least watching this video. If you have had to watch this video because you've no recollection of anything then I, or rather you have made a plan it's in the bedside draw, but for now get your fuzzy arse downstairs. Otherwise Terri will think you've gone back to sleep and she will come up here and drag you out by the ear."

With that the screen went blank, so that was it. He was David, a genetic scientist who tested his methods out on himself and it seemed to have worked on the most part. It still wasn't enough though, while the video had explained the main things it hadn't seemed to have triggered anything, perhaps this Terri could help, though he didn't know anything about her she seemed friendly enough.

Sitting back in his chair he could see the reflection of himself on the black screen, had he done right to change himself? Perhaps he'd simply become an abomination through his own pride but perhaps not. So many thoughts and even more questions raced through his mind, but after a few moments he sat forwards and closed the screen on his laptop. Picking himself up from the chair he began shifting his weight from foot paw to foot paw, it felt fine enough, nothing felt particularly wrong so without a second thought he padded towards the door and out his room.

The hallway leading away from his door was full of books, shelves from the floor to ceiling full of books, fantasy or teen fiction for the most part though there was a little of everything all in all and on the floor were even more books, stacked up to Dave's waist in piles. There it was, his first trigger. It was as if every book leapt towards him telling their stories all at once in his own voice, this slightly dis-orientated him but he remembered most of the books in the hallway he'd read over the years, most had been given to him from his father in fact. This inadvertently reminded Dave how it had felt to be human, he could remember standing on a stool in attempts to reach a book and landing flat on his face.

His immediate first thoughts passed over the reminder of the discomfort of carpet burn against his for head, which had Terri in hysterics when she'd found out. His emotions and feelings were the same though he started to notice the differences, he didn't have any bare skin now save his nose and paw pads. Stroking over his neck he first noticed the difference of the feeling, it was like rubbing out an itch you couldn't particularly feel but instead of persisting the feeling just faded, the second thing he noticed was as he got closer to his ears the feeling became more so intense but as before simply died down. A peculiar feeling for sure.

The hallway led out onto a ledge and spiral staircase down to the lower floor, adjacent from the hallway he'd just exited was another hallway with a door in the far wall. Of course none of this was noticed by Dave, because his new and somewhat more primal instincts were taking over, downstairs in the kitchen Terri was doing herself a chicken salad lunch, all Dave could smell was the chicken, in two bounds down the first few steps the hybrid jumped ever the hand rail landing softly on the floor below and bolted for the door the smell was leaking from, as he burst through the door Terri spun around a just washed pan in one hand but before she could fend off her friend and co-worker he'd inhaled half of her chicken, just for this he got a pan landing square on his thick skull, a ringing clang resounding through the room and around the house as Dave slid to the floor dazed.

Terri huffed and pushed Dave over making sure he was still alive before picking up what was left of her lunch and walking over to the couch to eat it allowing Dave to recuperate. The news monotonously went on about more ridiculous politicians fighting to scrape pennies out of everyone for a few more moments before finally changing the subject. Dave's ears flickered as he heard his own name swiveling them towards the TV he listened still on the floor while his eyeballs stopped swirling. The news was telling the world about his work, it went on to rip him to shreds, once again on the side of the religious fanatics, this was triggering a lot of stressful memories, legal battles that he'd scraped through by the skin of his teeth. Standing up slowly and rubbing his head the thwack seemed to have dislodged more memories as parts of his life started flooding back to him.

Parts of his child and teen hood, his interest in Biology and science, he was having to jigsaw the pieces together but he was managing it pretty well up to now, as this went on in his head Terri watched, not necessarily studying him but also thinking of what this meant, she was worried they hadn't quite sorted out a reverse for the transformation, they were working on it and it was going well but if something happened, hell there may even be an uprising if the religious groups took a total dislike to it, of course Dave hadn't been named most unorthodox biologist of the year for nothing, he probably had a plan, he must have she could see the cogs turning in the hybrids mind.

Dave shook his head to clear his mind, it was so much to take in, again. Getting up his mind decided to mention what he'd just done looking over to the couch he padded over and smiled apologetically.

"Heh sorry about that, seems I've inherited a little more than preempted, primal urges are a lot harder to resist than thought, but I barely felt the pan so there's a good point" he chuckled flopping back in his seat.

"So you remember again? Like everything?" She grinned

"Not quite, I remember a lot not quite everything though, I've got to say you really knocked some sense into me even if it didn't hurt" he chuckled.

Terri laughed a little herself and grinning replied "See told you I'd knock some into ya one day, Nerd."