Episode two - Taken

Lucas couldn't sleep that night, nor could he sleep at any other night that week.
He did however feel amazingly well. He knew that this could not be normal, nor healthy, so he went to see a doctor.

The doctor couldn't find anything wrong with him, other than the fact that his parameters were very unusual: a very low blood pressure and heart beat rate, very fast reflexes and reaction to the light, a very low muscular tone and yet the strength that the doctor would later comment  with his colleagues as if it was "the strength of four men". What the doctor never heard of was of someone that didn't sleep for such a number of days and remained sane, or, more than that, perfectly functional.

He subscribed a sleeping drug that Lucas took and it worked amazingly. Lucas slept all night, only to wake a few minutes before his alarm clock rang. He felt very awake, and again, without that morning numbness that he had his entire life.

In fact, his latent feeling was a sense of power and strength, and he used this feeling that day to improve his work: he decided he was to review at least three firm cases before going home at night. By six o' clock, he had achieved the detailed review of sixteen cases. It would've been a record, if someone kept track of this sort of productivity scores. A law firm is not a place for speed, it's a place where precision and attention to the details and corners, and what even Lucas couldn't realize at the moment is that he had achieved both without even feeling tired.

During these days, Lucas got used to the attention, as he got well known due to his so called "police episode". Since everybody on the firm knew who he was, he begun to interact socially more often, to the point of having small talks with almost anyone up to the task. The people begun to perceive Lucas as a fine young man, and to slowly forget why he become a sort of celebrity. He wasn't a partner at the firm, and his work was more in the backgrounds; the "hard work", as he called it. However, as the weeks passed, more and more he was knew. Many people came to him, both for work and personal advises.

One day, however, Lucas woke in fever. The hunger was very strong, as he didn't feel since his days on the woods. His mind was sort of dominated by a strange passion, one whose subject he couldn't yet identify. And he also felt weaker, although the feeling was worst than the reality.

His wish was to call sick and go to see a doctor, but he had an important case analysis to do at work, so he went out anyway. The light sort of made his eyes hurt, and almost every single smell on the street made him feel numb and disgusted.

He managed to get at work, only to realize he couldn't concentrate enough to finish, so he asked permission to leave and to see his doctor.

The doctor was very surprised with Lucas's appearance, and ordered a few tests, which would took a few days to get ready. As Lucas seemed stressed to him, he told Lucas's boss to give him a few days off.

All Lucas's activity during those days were to eat a lot and sleep a lot. He felt overthrow by this strange desire, a kind of hunger that made him insane, specially because he couldn't identify what he needed. It was not a normal body request, like for food, water, sleep, sex, etc.

It was something very strong and very new to him, that, he felt, if worst, would make him go insane.

A few days later, his doctor got the results back from the lab, together with a note that said the results were too unusual, but were remade in a different facility and were indeed successfully confirmed as real. It recommended the doctor to contact a researcher in order to try to interpret what could give those strange results.

Lucas was called and went to see the doctor on the very same afternoon. The doctor explained that the results were unusual, suggesting a bone marrow disorder like a cancer in terminal stage,  however, some parameters were "too normal" for that scenario, while other suggested the probability of that plus co-morbidities.

The doctor considered that the symptoms pointed to a form of poisoning or genetic disorder, but if this later  option were to be the case, Lucas would have exhibited at least some unusual parameters since born.

He asked Lucas if he could send a copy of his medical history and recent test results to a researcher which had some papers suggesting explanations for that sort of results. Lucas give him a signed consent and went home to sleep. Since then he was in constant fever and sometimes had nightmares. He was under the impression that he could feel whenever someone on the street nearby was smoking, and that smell in particular made he feel even sicker.

 It was only three days after he have his consent to the researcher, when he woke up with his door being put down, and with armed men forcing their way through his house.

One of the man shot at Lucas with a electrical wire gun, and the shock made Lucas fall on his knees. Another man then moved forward to try and hit Lucas with the back of his gun, but Lucas was faster and punched the man. He didn't aim too well, so his fist touched not the man's chest, but the man's shotgun, which was broken in the half, but the punch was so strong that the man and the one after him were throw away against the wall, which was broken, as well as the spine of the man who was behind the one with the shotgun.

Immediately, one of the other man took a loaded gun and attempted to point at Lucas, but by the time he was ready to press the trigger, Lucas already had jumped over him and destroyed the gun. Moved by an unknown form of instinct, he killed every single man that were in the room, some of then violently, and all in a matter of seconds.

Another squad of armed men begun to open fire against the room. Lucas was hit in the chest and in the arm but managed to jump of the window. He was pretty sure the jump would lead him to crash onto the ground, and so was very surprised when he managed to fell on his two feet, but the third squad, what were on the street awaiting to charge into the building, opened fire against him.

The squad leader ordered a cease fire and made they put Lucas's bloodied body on the back of a truck. Then the remaining of the military - tough unidentified - team left the scene before the police arrived.