Oh yeah. And by her own sister!

"What's that?" Ashley asked.

"Apparently Dani's here," Sarah said. "I was starting to think she'd never get here, with how bad everything is…"

"Yeah."

"Well, I guess I should go meet her. I'll talk to you later?"

"Sure, sure," Ashley waved her off.

Sarah trotted off to meet Dani. She was in one of the conference rooms near the black elevators. When she arrived the doors swished open, and she stood staring at her sister for the first time in years. A flood of conflicting emotions flooded through her: love, shame, relief, and lust; most of all lust.

Dani stood up and awkwardly looked from Joslynn to Sarah, "Hey sis—" Dani started awkwardly.

"You're okay!" Sarah rushed forward and threw her arms around her sister and hugged her tightly, much to Dani's surprise. 'Yes,' Sarah thought to herself, 'we'll need to have a long talk about things, especially that, but not right now.' "I'm so glad that you're okay, I was so worried."

She let go of Dani and backed up so she could get a better look at her sister. Dani was four years younger, but they were unmistakably sisters; they had the same short build, too small nose, and too big eyes. But the biggest difference between them apart from their age and Dani's heavy black makeup, was that Dani had brown eyes and Sarah's were green. And, of course, that Dani dyed her hair black. 'And bigger breasts,' Sarah thought with a tinge of jealousy. As the realization of her abilities sank in it was all she could do not to laugh.

"I… I was a little confused when a bunch of armed OmniCorp goo—uards showed up at my apartment and escorted me out," Dani admitted slowly. "I couldn't figure out why they'd be there for me, until they said that you'd asked them to come get me."

"I couldn't leave you out there with two—contagion-63x running wild."

Dani shivered, "The news says that the situation is under control, but… people are disappearing," she glanced at the two security guards. Sarah also glanced at them. She recognized one of them, the pretty Latina Lieutenant, the other was a balding, but very fit, white man she didn't recognize.

"Can I take her with me, Lieutenant?"

"Not yet. We're just waiting for her access badge, Doctor," the lieutenant said stiffly.

Sarah decided it was time to try out her pheromones, she willed her body to start producing the ones that made people relax and waited. After she was sure the room was filled, she asked, "Do you have any idea how long it'll be?

The Lieutenant smiled sympathetically. "Phil, go see what's keeping them, will you?"

The man frowned, but nodded before heading out the door.

'Seems to be working,' Sarah mused.

"Sorry, I know that it's intimidating to be in a room with a bunch of strangers with guns, I'm Second Lieutenant Lòpez," she smiled. "We really are just trying to make sure everyone is safe. She's already been tested for infection, but we do need to make sure she doesn't wander somewhere she shouldn't."

"Understandable," Sarah smiled politely.

"I know you'd probably prefer to talk in private, Doctor."

"Oh please," Sarah waved her hand, "Sarah is fine. I'm not concerned about titles."

The lieutenant hesitated for just a second. "I'm Leticia then. I remember when you came down the elevators Doc—Sarah. Captain Smith was impressed that you knew his rank."

"A military father will do that to you, huh Dani?"

Startled, Dani mumbled, "Oh, uh, yeah. Semper Fi."

"Your dad was a marine? I was a marine, then I busted up my knee real bad and got a medical discharge. OmniCorp fixed it up for me when they gave me the job. Not as interesting as the marines were, but the government couldn't patch up my knee."

The door opened and Phil returned along with another young man Sarah had never seen before.

"Danielle Berns?" the young man asked.

"Yeah," Dani said, "that's me."

'Either the pheromones are really getting to her, or she's mellowed out in the last few years,' Sarah thought. 'She never would have let someone call her "Danielle" when I saw her last.'

"Here's your badge. You'll need to be accompanied into any labs you go into, but otherwise you can get in most places."

Dani took the badge and clipped it on, "Thanks."

"Shall we go?" Sarah asked.

"Sure," Dani gave her a rare smile and followed her out the door.

Sarah turned down the now familiar halls. Slowly she'd grown to remember the characteristics of each corridor, the minor variations in each section telling her exactly where she was.

"I'm sure you've got a lot of questions."

Dani shrugged. "I guess."

'I guess the open air of the hallways doesn't lend itself to pheromones like a closed room does.' "Would your prefer to go someplace private?"

Dani flushed red.

'What does that mean?' "Did they give you a room assignment yet?"

"Yeah," Dani handed her a small slip of paper.

"Oh, nice, you're in the same room as me. We can talk there." Sarah led Dani down the corridor for a while, before turning down a different corridor and stopping before a familiar door. "Home sweet home," she smiled. Inside she motioned to the empty bed, "That one's yours, this one's mine, this is my assistant Tera's, and that is Ashley's, who was one of my college professors." Sarah sat down in one of the chairs and laid her relaxation pheromones on thick.

Dani glanced at the chair next to Sarah, and then at the one across from her awkwardly. Sarah smiled and patted the one next to her. "Should we talk about that first, or something else?" she asked.

Dani gulped, "I'm so sor—"

"No," Sarah said firmly, "I need to apologize to you."

Lightning flashed, illuminating Dani's face in the heavy rain. Her makeup ran thick from her eyes. Sarah hated the fact that Dani was so beautiful, how effortlessly she held the attention of men, and especially how much her own sister turned her on. Dani's hair hung straight and heavy with water, her lips were so juicy, and her eyes were so big and brown.

Dani reached one hand out tentatively touching Sarah's face. Sarah's heart started pounding. Dani leaned in, her eyes closed and her lips parted. Sarah leaned forward eagerly. Her own lips parted and met her sister's in a soft but passionate kiss.

Her mind screamed at her it was wrong, but she wanted it so much.

"I love you Sarah," Dani's words cut her like a knife.

'No, no, no!' She thought desperately, 'You can't feel this way too!' "This is wrong Dani," she whispered, happy that the heavy rain hid her tears.

"It's not wrong. It's not wrong that I love you!"

"This… No, this is wrong. It's not natural!" She jumped up and ran through the rain, leaving her sister sitting in tears to hide the tears streaming down her own face.

"Sarah, what happened was—"

"Not your fault, and… And I was scared. I was scared because I wanted you so much, and I liked that kiss so much. I was terrified that you wanted exactly what I wanted, and… And no one else would have understood."

Tears welled up in Dani's eyes, "Sarah, I'm so sorry, I'm so—"

"I… When they brought me down here and told me what was happening, you were the first person I thought of. I had to know that you were safe. Not just safe, but here with me. I… I love you. I love you as my sister, and I love you more than society tells me I should. I love the softness of your body, the way you laugh, your corny jokes. If I could, I would go back and stay with you."

Dani burst into tears, "It could never work."

"The world is changing Dani, even if we're safe here, up there it's spreading."

"So we're just doomed," Dani sighed.

"No, Dani, I—" Sarah was interrupted by the door sliding open.

Ashley stood there looking slightly amused, "You're not beating your sister, are you?" After a moment, she added, "sorry that wasn't appropriate."

Sarah sighed. 'First Dani cock blocks me with Ashley, now Ashley cock blocks me with Dani.'

"Or, were you about to tell your sister the same thing you were going to tell me earlier? You two do look so much alike, but Dani knows how to take something great and make it look even better. You really should have her show you how Sarah," she smiled deviously. "On m’a tellement parlé de vous."

Tera burst through the door, "Sorry Sarah, I knew your sister had just got here and I tried to slow Ashley down, but she's slippery when she wants to be."

"Only when wet," Ashley quipped. "Now, I think you should tell both Dani and I why we shouldn't be completely terrified of a virus that turns people into sex zombies."

Sarah gulped. "I had an epiphany in the lab when I couldn't sleep. I realized that we've been wrong about the Infected; there aren't three tiers, there are four. Something above the Alphas. I decided to make that thing, and then I decided to take all the weaknesses out of it; it's immune to the gas we developed to capture them, and it isn't detected by the tests we have."

Ashley frowned, Dani looked slightly frightened, but very intrigued.

"And I infected myself with it."

She waited for the screams, the fear, the anger, for something, but nothing came.

Finally, Ashley broke the silence, "I take it from Tera's reaction that she already knew. And by the fact that you haven't started trying to take everyone here that it didn't work."

Sarah couldn't help herself. She smiled and willed her breasts to grow.

More silence.

Dani spoke first, "What are you then?"

"The Alpha of Alphas? A Queen? I'm not really sure," Sarah admitted. "And I'm plenty horny all the time, but I'm also in control. I want to have sex, but I can choose not to."

"I'm infected too," Tera admitted. "I… Well, I think I'm hornier than Sarah is, but I also can't disobey her orders, like a Beta. She ordered me not to have sex with anyone, so I've been good," she added with a pathetic laugh.

"Who would be able to tell anyway?" Ashley teased before turning serious, "I should report you, but if I do they'll lock you up and dissect you, and probably us too, just to be safe," she sighed. "You've sure put us in a hell of a position on this one Sarah."

Dani's expression was a complex mixture of concern and something else.

'Desire?' Sarah wondered.

"So what happens now?" Dani asked.

"That is the question," Ashley sighed again. "As I see it, we have three choices. One, we let Sarah infect us. Sarah gains power over us, but we remain, it seems, mostly ourselves."

"But hornier and sexier," Tera added brightly.

"As I was saying," Ashley continued, "our second choice is to report Sarah and Tera. That's a pretty shitty thing to do, and due to our close association we might be treated as if we're infected too. Especially if Sarah is right and none of the conventional detection methods work.

"Our third choice is to do nothing, though I doubt we can remain neutral forever. At some point Sarah will either be caught, or take over the lab."

Tera opened her mouth, but a glance from Sarah shut her up.

They all sat in awkward silence for what seemed like an eternity. Sarah fidgeted nervously, glancing at all of them, but mostly at Tera. She could feel the nervous tension palpably from her assistant, almost as if she could feel her emotions. 'Hurry up and say it!'