She desperately tries to reconcile with her friends.

"Christine," Megan was not afraid to let tears and sobs break through her furious reverie.

"What have you done to her?!" she shrieked in agony.

"Calm down Megan," Jessica's loving smile was not altered by the host within her. It only seemed amplified, "She's going to join the hive, it's great!"

"What are you talking about?" her hoarse voice croaked.

"The hive. It's what was you put in me-"

"I didn't do it! I'm sorry Jessica! Please come back! Stop doing these things!" she began wailing again.

Jessica continued to console your friend, "It's amazing Megan. You need to feel this too. I feel stronger, like I'm finally alive. The hosts destroy everything unnecessary in us and only enhance what is good. Don't you want to be a better person?"

Megan's responses became just moans of defeat.

"Megan, you don't deserve to suffer like this. I know what you want,"

Megan wiped the tears from her eyes, it had been silly of her to think Jessica had just disappeared because she was bitten... or whatever, "You do?"

"You don't want your friends to leave you. I understand. That's why you're going to join us. We can be friends forever. Don't you want that?"

Megan sat up and brushed her bronze hair from her eyes, allowing her to get a good look at Jessica and the panting Christine in the moon-lit darkness.