He knows this woman

The elfin woman's bright laugh had filtered into Aiden's mind, the sound oddly familiar. It only took him a second to remember it, quickly followed by another series of connections. This woman's confident and flirty attitude, unflinching even in the face of his overpowering presence, her quick wit and light English accent, and her glittering eyes all reminded him of someone.

"Julie?" he asked cautiously, trying to match the image of the pretty blonde in his memory to the refined, perfect woman in front of him as surprise shot across her face.

"How do you know my name? Did you get into my mind? I thought I shut you out!" she said, backing up a step.

"No, I couldn't read anything from you. No Julie, it's me, Aiden," he said, raising his hands a little to sooth her.

"What?" she asked, not recognizing him in his new form. Well, he couldn't really blame her.

"Aiden, from Chemisty, remember? I used to look like this?" he said, momentarily reforming his body to look like he had before the virus before returning to his enhanced form. Julie's eyes instantly went wide with recognition.

"Oh my gosh, Aiden! You're the other Alpha? I haven't seen you since the end of last year," the blonde said, dropping her guard for the first time. "You've really changed, haven't you?"

"I could say the same for you," Aiden shot back, falling back into their familiar banter from when they had been lab mates for a semester. "Figures that you'd still be one of the finest pieces of ass around."

"'One of'? Are you saying you know someone else with a better butt than me? Here, you tell me," she said, walking over to him with a gait that could make a man cum and turning to rub her bare ass against his leg and rehardening shaft.

"Careful, I'm not the timid boy you knew before," he said with a deep growl. "If I wasn't here to talk, you'd already be impaled on my dick and begging for my cum."

"Care to test that theory?" Julie asked with a matching purr, turning around to press her luscious tits against his chest, the pointed tips of her nipples a delicious contrast to her supple flesh. Aiden could no longer control his erection, his penis rising to full prominence at 11 long inches. Julie felt it as it rose, the tip sliding along the inside of her thigh.

"Shit, you could break a girl with that thing," she said, slightly in awe of it. She had taken plenty of large cocks since she had been infected, but this was a monster even among those.

"I have before. Quite a few in fact," Aiden said, smirking at Julie's equal amounts of desire and flirting. She had always been a tease, a trait that had clearly been given new life with her virus-enhanced body. Still, Aiden was here for a reason, and he needed answers. He reluctantly **** himself to step away from Julie and her overflowing sensuality before he lost control of himself. "I'm not here for that though. I want to know how you became infected and why you are different from me. I've never seen another Infected be able to resist me, but I can't get into your mind at all. What are you?"

Julie explained what had happened to her since the panic at the nightclub days before, all the way up to when she felt his call. "As for what I am, I think I'm like you. You can control the virus, right? That's how you were able to change your body and grow wings and stuff?"

"Yeah, but that's far from the only things I can do. Best I can tell, I don't have limits anymore. I can become anything I can think of, not to mention change anyone I infect," Aiden responded, interested to hear Julie's logic.

"Right, I can do some of the same stuff. I somehow managed to spread the virus to a plant, turned into a nymph, and now I can communicate with this whole forest. Leo, the man that turned into a lion-person, said my strain of the virus had evolved differently and that Hermes was trying to figure out how. So I think I became a Patient Zero, even though your virus got me first. I'm still horny as fuck, but I'm not dying to have sex at every moment. Well, not usually," she said softly, eyeing Aiden's still standing cock.

"And Hermes is the people set up around the forest? Do you know what their end goal is? Did they create the virus?"

"I don't know if they made it, but they're definitely trying to contain it. I can feel them burning the forest at the edges as we speak. They seem to know enough about it to think they can stop it. Leo even said they could differentiate my strain from yours. He said they call mine the Cupid strain. Apparently my plants aren't as forceful as you are."

"That wouldn't take much, though I can definitely tell the difference. This entire field is pumping out enough pheromones to make anyone cum immediately, but it's also laced with enough stimulants to make someone high with just a sniff," Aiden said, looking around at the beautiful field, spotting the flower girls from earlier peeking at him through the blossoms. They squeaked and giggled when he spotted them, ducking down out of sight. "You said they call your strain 'Cupid'? Did they have a name for mine?"

"Not that I heard, they seemed to think yours was closer to the original, whereas mine is more a mutation."

"Damn, I was hoping for a cool name for my virus too," Aiden said under his breath, though not quietly enough to keep Julie from hearing him, judging by her giggling.

"I'm sure they'll come up with something. Or maybe you can name it yourself," Julie said, still giggling.

"I suppose," he said, before the amusement drained from his face. "I have one more question for you, nymph. Now that you have control over the virus, what are you going to do with it? I know what I want and I'd like to get along with you, but I won't hesitate to crush you if your interests don't align with mine."

Aiden's words hung in the air between the two Alphas, the threat in them obvious. They both knew that in a direct confrontation, Aiden would win, even with him being separate from his horde and in the middle of Julie's forest. The nymph knew she would have to play her cards just right in order to not only retain her independence, but also get something out of the negotiations as well.