MAIN Sara (tries to) interview Jo

DAY 96

Over the last week, Sara had gotten back to interviewing with a fury. She had now interviewed just over half of the names on her list. She felt that she had enough interviews to draw some conclusions. First, about 80% of **** hosts were drones. Even Hannah who acted as one of Jennifer's bodyguards was fairly simple-minded and almost devoid of humanity when she believed she was with another Master. Also, there seemed to be no pattern in how long it took to take control of someone. Some simple-minded drones had fallen in just three or four orgasms. Others had fought for a full day and had dozens, indeed they lost count. It did seem like some of the more interesting Masters, like Jennifer and Ashley took to their new situations quickly but they were exceptions even among the 20%. Olivia had fallen quickly but from all accounts, Lana had taken hours. Sara had been about to interview her but was told that she would not be available for some time. So Sara reluctantly skipped over her.

Sara's conclusion was that some **** hosts were just different due to the personality of the original. If the Master saw some flaw or strength it could accentuate it completely out of proportion making a Super Happy Ashley into a SUPER Super Happy Ashley or a meek and timid Olivia into an adventurous and impulsive Olivia. Although Sara had to admit Olivia did seem to be leveling out a bit lately.

Jo was next on Sara's list and was at the mansion that day. She normally spent one day at the hospital and the next at the mansion, constantly keeping Jennifer and Barbara informed. But Sara was beginning to suspect that Barbara was the much better informed of the two.

Sara began the interview by asking, "Who gave you your gift?"

Jo blinked and said, "GreaterBarbara I suppose, we directly implant them into hosts. We don't stick them in on the ends of our Masters like you do."

Sara had only seen one person get a Master and that was her. She had learned of the concept from M but shuddered to think of doing it that way. It had become the way of doing things especially after Ashley developed the Master cock idea.

"Do you remember how many times you orgasmed before your Master took full control of you?" Sara asked.

"Seven times," Jo said without hesitation, although she blushed a bit.

"Is that about average among new hosts at the hospital?" Sara asked, it was about average in Crissy's brood.

"I guess, no one really keeps track. It just takes as long as it takes." Jo said without emotion.

"So you say that they are implanted, your nest devised a way to detach and store Masters. Is that what you do normally? Sara went on.

Jo stopped and tilted her head, she was silent for several seconds before saying, "Well... we can, but... generally, we implant them as soon as possible into a new host."

Sara tapped her pencil on the top of her lip while she thought about that odd answer. Were they storing Masters? Or very efficiently taking new hosts and wasting no time in spreading the Hive? Crissy's greatest weakness was her caution. She could have had several times as many hosts by now if she didn't waste time and just stuck one in the first person that came along. No Sara thought more than several times more, dozens of times more probably.

"How many Masters are in Barbara's Hive now?"

Jo's face twisted for just a moment before she said, "I can't tell you that."

Sara looked at her and began to worry, Jo HAD to answer her questions.

"How many males have you converted?"

"I can't tell you that."

"How many Masters do you have stored?"

"I can't tell you that."

"Have you spread outside of the hospital?"

"I can't tell you that."

Have you spread to the town that the hospital is just outside of?"

"I can't tell you that."

With each question, Jo's response had come more and more quickly.

"Is the sky blue?"

"I can't tell you that." Jo blinked rapidly after that and said, "I have a headache. Can we continue this later? Another day perhaps?"

Sara said, "Ok" as she watched Jo get up and leave the room even as she responded.

"So how did the interview go?" asked Olivia as she worked on polishing out a rust spot from a scabbard."Oh, it was interesting at least. I learned a few things. Then she basically stopped answering my questions." Sara said.

Olivia's concentration on restoring the scabbard was broken by this, "But she can't just not answer you. She must answer all your questions, and answer honestly." Said Olivia perplexed.

"Well, she did. One minute she was answering my questions, then no matter what I asked it was, I can't tell you that." Sara said as she dabbed a little copper-colored paint onto her canvas.

Olivia still didn't understand and just said, "But she is Hive."

Sara took a step back and looked at her painting, "Yeah but which Hive? That's the question."

Olivia, confused, just scratched her head and went back to work on the nasty rust spot.

Over the last few days, Lana had put three teams together for Jennifer. She was now personally leading the smallest of the three teams, just her and two other Masters. They drove into the little town near the hospital and looked for a place to stay. The hospital had been built at a time when the town was much more populated. There was an army base next door and during the Cold War, it had been a very busy base. It had declined rapidly since then and was now little more than a place for the national guard to train. There were still a few thousand regular army soldiers stationed there but not nearly enough to support the town. The town was now half the size of Lana's hometown.The media had believed that the closeness of the base to Springfield had been why the city was cordoned off so easily during the terrorist scare. Lana had a few memories from FBI agent Fielding that told a different story. The government had begun moving assets into place much earlier than anyone in the media or the rest of the country knew. Now as Lana pulled into the parking lot of a motel some of the instincts she had gained from Agent Fielding also told her that something wasn't right in this town.

Jake was worn out. He got eight hours of sleep every night. But now he was working on his feet five days a week and wasn't used to that. But still Jake felt like he had just run a marathon even though he had just woken up from a nap. Julie would be home in a little bit and he decided to surprise her by making dinner. The problem was, that he was terrible at cooking, and although Mel and Alice were teaching him things he still had a ways to go. Jake decided to instead try something a little safer and broke out his cell phone."Hi, Alice. Can you make two of tonight's special for me? I'll pick it up in like 20 minutes." Jake said after Alice picked up.

"Don't worry dear, I'll bring it over personally. Dad won't mind me taking ten minutes off so you can get your dinner hot and fresh." Alice replied.

Just a few minutes later Julie got back from her run. She was looking more toned and sexy than Jake could ever remember seeing her. She didn't just run she also exercised. She studied maps of the area and possible new places to live if they had to leave here. She had almost perfected the handcuff trick and was pushing Jake to buy a handgun, or at least a stun gun. Jake was really impressed with how much Julie had done in just three weeks.

Jake went to hug Julie but she pushed him off. "I'm sweaty, let me take a shower dear," she said.

"Ok, I ordered us some dinner. It will be here soon." Was his reply.

Fifteen minutes later Alice was at the door. She was looking around for Julie

Julie walked out of the bathroom wrapped in only a towel. The Master inside Alice looked hungrily at Julie, she examined Julie's bare flesh and tried to picture what she would look like if the towel were to slip off. She knew that Jake and Julie weren't having sex and for a moment she wondered how Jake could keep his hands off of Julie. Alice could tell that Julie would be a great lover and couldn't wait til Candy was allowed to make her one of them.

Julie watched as the far too pretty Alice gave her an off-putting smile and left. If she didn't trust Jake as much as she did she would tell him to find another job. One without a boss's daughter closer to his age than she was and that didn't have sexy waitresses like Marsha. But he had gotten more disciplined as of late and never had a wandering eye so she let things be. Besides the food was discounted, close by, and awesome.

Jennifer was very pleased with herself. She had gotten most of the senior class on her side. Many had been programmed to just direct communicate with each other and didn't even exchange information with Crissy and her cheer squad anymore. The vast majority of those that couldn't live at the mansion still visited often. Once every five days to deposit their spawn for some, more often for others. The three main threats Crissy, Barbara, and the elusive Candy had been identified. Lana was working on ways to contain and control them, but that was a work in progress. Once they were taken care of or better yet swore fealty to her that would just leave a handful of stragglers. Jennifer was personally keeping track of them, they weren't enough of a threat to send Lana after them.

Samantha's head was buried between Jennifer's thighs as she thought about all this. She was not nearly as exciting as Lana and was terrible at role-play. But Samantha knew how to get a woman off, and that would have to do till Lana returned.

Jennifer also had Cory in the wings. She had learned of the secret passage in the house from old lady Winchester and how to open the doors in the armoires. She had had Cory moved to a bedroom that had the closest secret door to her room. Jennifer had snuck him in once and Lana had thrown a fit when she caught them together. Since then she had decided not to use him again. But if all Samantha wanted to do was eat her out and grind pussies he might need to be invited over sometime soon.

Day 97

Sara had grown tired of interviewing drones. Many of them had the same answers to most of her questions and since she had no desire to help the Hive it was starting to seem pointless now.

Sara was making progress on her painting. It was of the house, she had had Olivia go out a distance from the house and take pictures to work from. The house was in the background and in the foreground was a myriad of small scenes playing out using some of the costumes and items that she had found on the third floor that she had found interesting.

Sara thought that she needed to add in the swords somehow as Olivia obsessively polished her third sword and scabbard. Olivia had now retrieved all of them and had grown seemingly single-mindedly driven to restore and then re-store all of them now. It seemed like once she got an idea in her head Olivia wanted nothing more than to see it through no matter how long it took.

After about an hour Olivia was happy with the gleaming scabbard. She finished oiling up the sword and returned them both to their leather pouch. As she put it away in the armoire Sara heard a sharp squeal come from inside followed by Olivia saying, "Sara come here, I found something."

Sara carefully set down her easel and brush and went to see what Olivia wanted.

"Look, look it opens. It's one of the secret doors." Olivia said from behind Sara's hanging clothes.

Sara pushed the clothes back as far as she could to see Olivia and the back of the armoire and said, "What is this The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.?"

"What's that?" asked Olivia.

"The Chronicles of Narnia," replied Sara.

"I never saw that, I heard it was boring," said Olivia.

Sara just sighed.

"That explains why so many of these rooms have these big old things, er... wardrobes, in them," said Olivia as she slid past Sara to retrieve a flashlight.

Sara could now see that the back of the armoire was opened in towards the clothes. No doubt on the other side was one of the secret doors the two had found the week before. Sara held the clothes back and Olivia opened the door more and used it to help hold back the clothes. Olivia shone her flashlight at the wall behind the door and reached in and pushed on it. It opened easily and led to the secret passage.

"That's one down," said Sara.

"Pretty convenient for us," replied Olivia.

"It sure is," said Sara as she thought about how easy it would be to just walk out of the house this way. They hadn't gone through the window they had found in the basement but now could without having to go through the third floor, which drew attention to them.

Olivia looked at Sara with a grin, "We could go right now, go buck wild on this town. I've got car keys in my bag." Many of the Masters that left the Mansion often had taken to carrying bags of some sort. Sometimes handbags, but often backpacks like Olivia's. It needed to be large enough to hold some clothes for when she left the house.

Sara looked outside, it was almost dark, "No Karen will be here soon, maybe tomorrow."

It was approaching 11 pm Sara should have let herself fall asleep an hour ago but she was so excited that she could leave the house. Even if just for a few hours. She had chatted with Karen for almost two hours now and felt that her Master must be asleep by now."If there was some way to get rid of your Master would you do it?" Sara asked Karen innocently.

Karen's eyes darted about. They didn't seem to be looking at anything in the room, rather they were trying to look inside Karen's head. After a moment Karen whispered so softly that even though she was just inches away Sar almost couldn't hear her say, "Yes."

Since Officer Jack Donnelly had been turned by the Hive he had found out that Lana wasn't the only waitress at Vic's with a Master. He had stayed til closing that night so she could come over to his place and fool around. He had decided that since he was trapped in this hell he might as well enjoy it while it lasted. Now he was driving up to the mansion. Jennifer had summoned him while he was eating and had made seeing her his third highest priority of the evening.

He walked into the throne room and was greeted by Hannah, she was the only one in the room. Jack told her that he had been summoned by Jennifer and she went back into the room past the throne room, somewhere Jack had never been. A minute later Hannah returned with Jennifer. Jennifer was completely naked except for her cloak. Jack admired Jennifer's body, it was a tanner version of Lana's body and Jack had to admit that for a teenager she was a knockout. Hannah on the other hand looked eighteen and really didn't do anything for Jack, still if he hadn't just gotten off with that waitress he might see if Hannah was amenable, and she probably was, all Masters seemed ready to have sex 24/7.

Jennifer stood by her throne and looked at Jack with narrowed eyes. He got down on one knee, it hadn't bothered him all week which was a small miracle. And said, "You summoned me, queen," as best as he could.

Jennifer made a satisfied, "humph," and sat down. "Yes, I take it you have secured another three weeks off?"

Jack said, "Yes my queen."

Jennifer then said, "Excellent I have a task for you then. I have two people that I need you to watch, fortunately, they live near each other."

"Watch?" said Jack.

"Spy on if you prefer," said Jennifer. "Just see where they go and who they meet. If you suspect any of the people they meet have Masters get their names and follow them also. I want you to report back to me every night at nine sharp."

Jack did the math in his head. Vic's closed at ten most nights. There was no way he could get there before nine thirty if he came here at nine. And showing up at a restaurant less than thirty minutes before they closed was bad manners in his book.

"Can you make it eight?" he asked.

After about fifteen seconds of silence she said, "Very well eight it is, you are dismissed." And with that, Jennifer got up and left.

Hannah stood staring at Jack as he stood up and watched Jennifer walk out. Once she left he looked over at Hannah and said, "Can I get your cell number? Maybe we could hang out sometime?"

Hannah looked at Jack sternly, "Hang out or fuck?"

Jack shrugged and said, "Fuck?"

Hannah nodded and said, "I have duties and can't just go out to fuck some male."

Jack figured as much and turned to leave. Then Hannah added, "But you know where to find me if you are ever needing to copulate and are here in the mansion."

Jack chuckled as he opened the door to the hallway, "I'll keep that in mind."