Plagues

I take back what I said about being in heat. It suddenly became an excellent mistake to have. You see, I have a peculiar wife with an equally curious talent - her ability to enter another's mind. It seems this can work in reverse was well when she absorbs the emotions others emit.

Place her next to an overly horny hybrid and watch the fireworks.

....do shut up. With Adagio just as agitated as I am, it's helped me calm down. I noticed that a lot lately. If there is someone has bothered or more bothered over a situation than I am, I suddenly feel very level.

The condition has become an illness.

Speaking of illness, a fuck up of a developmental virus has caused a bit of a mess for the past week or so. Maybe it's a punishment from God but the virus has since survived in ways we did not anticipate. It's smart. It's fast moving, spreading from soul to soul. And now...it's jumped species.

Adagio was the trigger.

I'd noticed a string of odd cases at the MCMC. Hybrids with unusual symptoms like hair loss, loss of his senses, and flu-like symptoms. The frequency of them is what made me concerned. It was around this time that I actually wanted to get through the implantation of our son. As a safety precaution, I had taken a blood sample from on of the patients and had it tested through Ryaa. She identified it as a developmental virus Ashagi had been working on. It was believed the virus was lost after the vessel was attacked, but it survived.

Adagio naturally worried that  I or Arwen had become infected with it. To my fear, Adagio's sample turned up positive. I attributed it to her genetic enhancements mistaking her for a hybrid to the virus, but I'm not sure that's the case. When Lithia learned of this, she ordered Adagio to be placed in quarantine downstairs while Kia and I started work on  finding the survivor of the wreck and working on a means of treating the virus. My job also included keeping a lid on the public finding out about this.

You have no idea how troubling it was to leave my wife in a cell. Just seeing her in a cell was disturbing. I think it was a bigger shock for Adagio. She did not take being infected by an experimental virus of her own company all that lightly.

Of course Arwen became my next worry. She'd been dealing with a runny nose for a few days. While initially brushed off as a summer cold, after seeing the symptoms of the medical center patients, I had Arwen tested. She was also positive...and I knew I could not let her roam the streets or go to school like this. 

Now I could care less for people I use as subjects, but there's nothing to prepare you from the difficult task of capturing your own child. Literally chasing her down in the apartment before she tried to escape out a window while calling me a crazy lady. All the girl wanted to do was go outside to play for a while before bed, now I had to confine her.

My family was now on the line. This easily infected some of the Pack, Catwalkers, hybrids from all walks of life - all doomed to be taken by this virus that was never meant to come out.

We got sick too...

It's been agonizing.

My heart rate is pulsing several times faster than it normally would. The white blood cells and blue cells have tripled in count. I now have a constant fever of 102 degrees...all from the repeated contact with the virus strand. As soon as I contract it, my body tries to remove it. The process just seems to cycle until I'm physically near a patient without protection. Then my body goes into overkill. Organs actually slow down to bare minimum function...

I'm not kidding. I could not breathe properly for several minutes because my windpipe was literally constricted that way. I've felt my legs literally give out for long sessions at a time with no cause or reason.

It's stopping the virus, but is this worth it?

It's almost like a hibernation.

I am not hibernating!

How well do you know that?

We are an experiment ourselves.

Who knows what we are capable of?

That's the scariest shit of all. I know virtually nothing about my own body.

One person knows it better than anyone...

Don't you dare.

He's found us.

Quiet!

Mitka told him...he knows we are here.

What shall we do now? Tell Adagi-

Never!

There is no way I'm having them meet.

That monster will harm her, if only to get to me more!

Not my wife, my child, not even my family can know he is here.

...if he harms them.