“You have poison in your heart, and I'm sure of it. I knew right from the start, from the moment we met.” -Depeche Mode

Doctor Jodha looked at the screen in front of her with a small sense of pride, she had successfully accomplished in just three short hours what an entire team of scientists would have taken three years to discover.

An antidote for a brand new poison.

They had discovered His Royal Highness on the floor along with one of her best nurses.

The nurse was quickly arrested by the Royal Guard, she was no doubt being interrogated and possibly tortured by the secret police at this very moment.

Doctor Jodha, very much doubted she would talk. The women had successfully infiltrated the top scientific institution in the world, that was no small feat. She was obviously very well trained. Her background was impeccable, but now obviously fake.

Miranda, Doctor Jodha doubted that was her real name, had been training as a nurse for over four years. She found it hard to believe that King Johnathon was her mission the entire time. How could she have known the King would survive the crash and be brought here? She was obviously placed here. But who had placed her here and for what other sinister purpose? Why wait to kill him after he had awoken from the coma? The King was practically a vegetable for just under a year, if someone wanted him dead that was time to do it.

She had too many questions and not enough answers.

After this ordeal, she ordered no other doctors or nurses were to enter the Kings room. Doctor Jodha alone was to attend to all his needs from now on. She couldn't know who to trust.

She shook her head and **** herself to refocus, this was an issue for the Royal Guard and Secret Police, not her.

King Jonathon’s recovery was her current focus.

The King was found **** and barely breathing, fortunately, the royal guard had found the vial of lipstick, and from the overwhelming scent of a flowery perfume coming from the case, Doctor Jodha guessed Miranda was keeping it in her bra.

Either way, she was able to take a sample of the poison, both from the lipstick and residue from the King's saliva, and reverse engineer it.

It was a very odd and very interesting poison.

It could be effective only if administered orally, Doctor Jodha discovered, that it wasn't truly effective until activated by a special chemical. That is why Miranda hadn't simply poured the poison into King Johnathon’s food or drink.

The activating chemical is what puzzled Doctor Jodha until that is she looked into the case, and found a small compartment on the bottom, in it she found hundreds of pairs of false rubber lips, all extremely thin on their own, but stacked together in this fashion it looked like a crude flesh colored sausage shoved into the bottom of the lipstick container.

Obviously, Miranda was to peel off a pair of rubber, apply them onto her lips, and then apply the lipstick.

It was an effect method, the lipstick when activated with the fake lips, would enter the mouth of the subject and settle on the tongue, whether it was an intended part of of poison or merely a side effect, it permanently numbed the taste buds.

King Johnathon wouldn't be able to taste anything, at least not for another few weeks until new taste buds formed.

The poison, after affecting the tongue worked its way into the bloodstream, where it settled in the heart, forcing the heart to pump more blood quickly, and in turn, spread the poison faster to each individual organ. The poison would then release a chemical in the organ, that would shut the organ down. Causing a quick and rather painless ****.

She had created an antidote, that behaved in very much a similar fashion to how she and the King had previously developed the AIDS and cancer vaccines.

An injection straight into the heart supercharged the white blood cells into seeking out and killing all foreign agents in the body.

She had personally given the injection to King Johnathon and was monitoring his recovery.

How ironic, she had thought, because Miranda had kissed Johnathon with such disdain, there was only minor lip-to-lip contact and only a very small amount of the poison entered the King's mouth.

Now all that was left was to wait. She had moved her office things into King Jonathon's room, and would now not leave his side.