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"Looks nasty, doesn't he?"

Researcher Graves looked at the open dossier file with a pale expression. It was the black-and-white decrepit-looking grin of a corpse. Dark slime glistened from the light off of the camera from the picture, oozing outwardly from the near-empty sockets of its eyes and trickling down from the cheeks to collect and coalesce at the chin.

On the side of the folder, the numbers “106” was written in black marker.

"Looks covered in shit too." Graves spoke as she looked up at Dr. Cartier. "Why the hell are we doing this, Ted? I hate doing these tests. Why couldn't you have asked for a better project to take on other than this?"

"Selina, we've already discussed this in the briefing: 106's acidic compounds need further analysis. Whether it's for practical applications or further containment of other skips, we have a job to do here." Ted said, eyes still focused on the bottle. "Just be glad I'm doing most of the work here. I understand you still feel uncomfortable being around 106 or anything related to it, but you can't let one incident hold you back. You're like the most competent molecular biologist out of all of us. Plus, you're a woman too. That fills our company's diversity quota." He said as he wrote down on his notepad on the laboratory table.

Ted joked to lighten the mood, besides, she knew it wouldn't be funny if it weren't true.

Researcher Selina Graves collected her thoughts as she studied the contents of SCP-106's folder; experimental research, incident logs, body composition, it was all there.

Except, surprisingly, for the history section.

Usually, most skips with dossiers have a history section in their files that talks about whys, wheres, and hows of the Foundation's discovery of the anomaly. Most of them have their histories, those that don't are usually because there's not enough empirical evidence done about them to make a verified statement on it.

Given that there are thousands of anomalies contained, it would come as no surprise to anyone why some of the skips contained here don't have a history section in their files.

But for 106? It broke this mould. A lot of the older skips usually have their histories intact. After all, they were the firsts of many, many more to come in the Foundation's inception. Why was 106's discovery still a mystery?

"Ted?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you tell me how the Foundation captured 106? There's no data in the folder. Every folder in the first series has one, how come this one doesn't have?"

Ted's focus shifted slightly. Placing the flask down, he pulled up his notes to read through his findings, occasionally looking up to talk to her.

"What, like, the last incident? That was— I believe that was spring of 2003 when the last—"

"I meant the first time. When did— how did we get him?"

Ted looked away from his notes. Sighing heavily, cracking his knuckles as he rested on the chair nearby.

Notes:
- Ted explains how 106 came in Foundation hands.
- Origin ties into the Young Man tale.
- Something weird about why his history is kept off the books in the Foundation.
- figure out the ending
- fix formatting/wording if it looks bad