FINALE Fall of the Hive

(Upon rereading this I am not sure if I full explained the effect of lavender smoke in the MAIN sequence of the story. So if you are confused give the SIDE chapter Nancy Lavender Surprise a quick read.)

Olivia and Julie stood shoulder to shoulder at the back of the old mansion. Julie looked at her phone, "Ok, she should have started."

Julie and Olivia sprang into action, one by one, closing and securing the old storm shutters on the house. Julie moved along in one direction and Olivia in the other. As the two women moved further apart, every window between them was sealed shut and locked from the outside.

Julie gave a furtive glance over at Olivia as she locked the last shudders on her side of the house, and Olivia disappeared around the corner to lock up her side. Julie still had three windows to go on her side of the back of the house. Still, she paused. Could she really trust Sara and Olivia? The dream still lingered.

BREAK

It took almost fourty five minutes for Julie to finish her side of the mansion. As she turned the corner to the front of the building, she didn't see Olivia. Had she gone inside to meet her fate with the others? Exactly where and when her Master would be exposed to the lavender smoke had always been a little dicey. There would be plenty of smoke in the house and the HVAC shack where Nancy and Fawn were waiting. But different versions of their plan had had Olivia doing different things, and they hadn't wanted to make it too rigid because problems would inevitably arise.

Olivia had had no problem convincing Jennifer to gather every drone in the mansion for an important announcement from Sara. She never suspected that it was actually Lana she was speaking to. The idea of gathering everyone appealed to Lana. She wanted to see her drones all together. And after Sara finished her speech, Lana could give one of her own, one that would prepare the swarm to finally conquer this simple little town.

Now Sara was standing in the ballroom with over one hundred Masters staring at her, waiting to hear what she had to say. She had thought of several possible things to say, but in the end had decided that the speech itself was unimportant. All that mattered was that it was long enough for Julie and Nancy to do their work.

It was almost twenty minutes before Sara noticed the first wisps of smoke coming from the vents. In her head, her Master screamed '****', but she held her focus as she continued to tell the women gathered what her interviews had taught her.

Julie reached the door and saw a note stuck to it.

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE. O

Julie ran down to the bush where Olivia had hidden a nail gun and a large piece of thick plywood. It wasn't the greatest plan, but it was a good distance from the ballroom to the front door. Hopefully, anyone who made it that far would be slowed down enough by the plywood covered door, secured with 160 nails. She smiled grimly as the gun was emptied. She then dropped it and ran to the side of the house where Nancy should already be working.

Earlier, when Olivia reached the HVAC shack, she paused from securing the shutters to open the door and call out to Nancy, who was hiding inside with Fawn.

"Ok, time to start your part."

"On it!" shouted Nancy from the darkness.

"Oh, and when this is all done, tell Julie that there might be more unimplanted Masters where we first kissed, and to take care of them."

"Uh, ok." The reply was a bit uneasy, but Olivia didn't care. She was already running to the next window to secure the shudder on it.

Nancy looked at Fawn, who was handcuffed to a seemingly useless pipe stuck to the ancient contraption that was a heating unit for the mansion. Nancy had intended to do this even before meeting up with Sara and Julie, and was now doubly eager to get started with the infected woman watching her.

They had stashed some of the lavender plants in the shack already. The rest were in the van parked a few feet from the shack. The plants were dried and burned easily enough. She had a charcoal grill ready by the intake for the A/C. The round bottom was filled with lavender and ready to go. She lit a match, and the plants in it began burning intensely.

She put on one of the respirators they had gotten and went to work. Soon, the smoke filled the air of the shack even as it was being sucked into the large A/C unit. Fawn began coughing and, for the first time since they had met, said something without prompting.

"What is this? This smoke is too thick, are you trying to kill me?" she said as she coughed.

"Damn right!" Nancy thought to herself. From her own experience, she knew that Fawn should pass out for ten or fifteen minutes once her Master died. As she fed the fire and kept the smoke going, she watched Fawn to see when she passed out. It didn't take long, and after about five minutes, she grabbed the second respirator and put it on the woman, who was now sitting, still cuffed to the pipe. When Julie arrived, Fawn was just starting to stir, confused and free of her Master.

Julie put on a third respirator, she looked down to see the fourth and final one on the table. Had they gotten that for Olivia? She couldn't remember exactly, but surely one version of their plan had Olivia being freed in here, as Fawn had been. She let the thought go as she helped Nancy get more of the lavender from the van.

After about an hour, they had run out of lavender, and Julie ran to her mom's car parked on the side of the house near the shack. She had a stun gun and a crowbar ready there. She tried texting Sara. They hadn't been sure if she would be able to get her phone into the ballroom without being conspicuous, seeing as it was normal for everyone in the Hive to be naked at all times in the mansion, and cell phones were unnecessary to a Master.

After a few minutes, she got no answer and so decided to open a few shutters. The windows in the ballroom were too high to look into. Julie had had to use a pole specially made to close and lock the shutters on many of the windows on this side of the house. That was part of why Olivia had beaten her to the front. She opened one shutter next to the door and saw no one. But there was still quite a bit of smoke, which was reassuring.

She began prying each nail out of the plywood on the front door. Why had she used so many? After a few minutes, she just began prying the plywood away from the frame. In moments, the large barrier came off with the groan of nails pulling free from wood. Nancy and Fawn came running around the corner at the noise. They also had stunguns in their hands. It had taken a few minutes to check that Fawn's Master was indeed dead and rouse her. But once she pulled herself together, she was more than ready to help kill every Master she came across.

"What was that!" Nancy said as she ran up onto the porch.

"Sorry," was all Julie said as she cautiously stepped over the nail studded piece of wood and opened the front door.

Inside, they once again put on their masks. In the very next room, they found two naked women lying on the floor, coughing and moaning. A bit of blood and black ooze clearly seeping out from between their legs.

Fawn began dragging one toward the door, but Julie stopped her.

"Go outside and unshutter the windows. I left the pole you will need against the side of the house. We'll open the windows from inside. There are too many to drag outside. We need to get the smoke out of here instead."

Fawn nodded her head and dashed back out. Nancy and Julie advanced further into the house. Nancy led since she was the only one who had ever been inside. They came across several more women as they went, all of whom were now free of their Masters. The scene in the ballroom was chaos. Some of the windows were broken, and there were bodies everywhere. Many were by the windows. There had been less smoke there since some escaped, but none of the Masters had gotten out alive. There was a heap of bodies at one end around a raised platform. The Queen and her guard had fallen together, looks of pain and horror on their faces, not believing that they had failed to take over the world.

Sara was there too, her face was calm and serene with a slight smile. As Julie found her, she coughed and opened her eyes slightly. Julie put the fourth mask on Sara and continued going from body to body, making sure that no Master lived. She was also checking every face, looking for Olivia.

As she turned the last body over, she looked over to Nancy, who was finishing opening the windows.

"Have you seen Olivia anywhere?"

"Olivia?" Nancy said a strange look came over her face. "Oh yeah, I completely forgot. She said to tell you something." Nancy frowned as she tried to remember exactly what the girl had told her. "She said something about there being more unimplanted Masters back where you and she... first kissed?" Nancy looked at Julie and was about to ask more about this kiss when Julie bolted from the room.

Fawn tried to ask Julie what had happened as she ran past her on the porch, but Julie was gone in a flash. Not even a minute later, her car went careening out from the side yard of the house and down the long dusty driveway to the main road.

Julie knew exactly where Olivia was talking about. And as she drove, it made some sense. The nurse had been putting those black things into people in her office, so they must have stored them there. If Olivia was still under their control, she could spread the things much more quickly with a supply of them than the normal five day pattern Julie knew of.

There was a loud squeal as she slammed on the brakes on the circular road where school buses normally waited for students to load and unload. She ran to the main doors. One was propped open, and another note was stuck to the closed one.

SORRY I LIKE HOW I AM NOW

DESTINY AWAITS

XOXOXO O

As she entered the building, Olivia's voice could be heard over the PA system.

"What took you so long? I've been waiting sooo long. I'm so so wet, I'm not sure if I will fuck you or drown you!" she said with a giggle.

Julie tried to think of where Olivia could be. Where was the PA system at? She ran towards the office.

"Before my Master completed me, I really didn't like myself. But with it, we are the person I always wanted to be. So yeah, sorry but we weren't feeling suicidal today, no nasty smoke for us."

Julie tightened her grip on the handle of the stun gun til it felt like the plastic would snap as she went through door after door in the office area.

"Did you know that this place has a security room? Well, obviously not if you are looking for me there." The giggle Olivia let out echoed throughout the school. "I'll help you out. Let's finish what we started. I should have had you in the nurses' office. Maybe one of those narrow old beds or the comfy exam table in the back room. Or just right there on the floor, whatever works for you. I'll be waiting, sexy." No giggle followed, just a slight click as the PA went silent.

Julie ran down the main hall, fear and loathing swelling in her. She rounded the corner leading to the nurse's office and was tripped by a chair lying in the hallway. She went flying and felt the wind go out of her as she hit the floor hard. The stun gun went flying from her hand and bounced off a locker before coming to a rest thirty feet down the hallway.

Olivia was there. She bounced over to the gun and picked it up. Julie was staggering to her feet as she saw Olivia pull apart the gun, removing the battery pack, and tossing the now useless gun on the ground.

"These are no fair, now it's time to make love, not war." Battery in hand, she ran into the nurse's office.

It took Julie a few moments to get back on her feet. For a moment she looked around for some other weapon. Then, knowing that Olivia must be stopped, she strode forward to the nurse's office.

She felt a strange twinge in her belly as she crossed the threshold. A bead of sweat formed on her forehead. Was she feeling flushed? It must have been some of that pheromone or whatever it was the creatures used to make victims horny, or was it?

Whatever it was, a need to finish this, chemical warfare, or a real sexual desire. Julie entered the office ready to end this one way or another. She knew it was a trap, but also knew it was as Olivia had said, her destiny. Olivia wasn't big or strong, even without the stun gun, Julie felt she could take her down if she really had to.

The office was empty, for a moment, a flash of the memory of Olivia pushing her hand down Julie's pants flashed in her head. She quickly scanned the room, her eyes resting on the narrow beds at the end of the room. There she imagined one of her classmates lying back, skirt hiked up as Ashley or one of the cheerleaders was on top of her. A black string connecting their private places. Then, the image changed. She was on one of the little beds, lying back naked, her body quivering in ecstasy. Olivia was over her, black string connecting them as they moaned, "I Obey" in unison.

Then she had one final vision, this time she was standing over a naked Alice, leering down as a long black thing slid out from between her pussy lips. She smiled sinisterly as she leaned down over Alice and got on top of her, sliding her Master into the frightened waitress as she struggled under her. Soon Alice stopped fighting and said, "I OBEY". Julie felt sick as she saw herself, hips bucking forcefully in ecstasy, throw back her head and let out a loud series of grunts in triumph and orgasm at the sound of those words.

Julie shook her head and fixed her gaze on the open door to the exam room. She could see part of the comfy looking exam table inside. She steeled herself and strode into the room, eyes scanning for Olivia.

Julie then heard the door she had just gone through creak shut and the sharp click as the lock was turned. She spun to see Olivia standing with her back to the door, hand still on the lock.

"I've been waiting for you, Julie. This was always our destiny," she said, licking her lips.