You Continue Keeping It A Secret

You badly want to tell Steve about your leg, but the harder you think about it the more reasons you come up with to keep quiet. You saw what the oil did to that wolf. What if he decides to try that on your ankle, and it just dissolves right through the whole thing? You shudder at the thought. No, it's definitely best that you don't tell him about this one.

"So, any ideas?"

Steve's sudden interjection makes you start with a jump, and you find yourself becoming increasingly nervous about the secret you're hiding from him.

"Y-yeah. I mean no. No ideas. Guess we should just walk around for a bit or... unless you don't want to or something."

"Um, you sure you're alright?" You nod. "Okay, let's start moving then. They probably won't be able to find us as easily if we don't stick to one place."

You can tell by his tone of voice that he doesn't suspect anything yet, but that only makes you feel worse. What if the latex does make you turn on him? He would never be able to see it coming, and he wouldn't stand a chance! And then, if it got to both of you, who would be able to stop it? Who's to say it wouldn't just spread to the rest of the world?! With your growing concern comes a renewed recognition of the strange feeling in your ankle, and you know that you need to look at it.

"Hey Steve, I've just got to... um... relieve myself. Be back in a sec, I'll call you if I need you."

You rush into the nearby bushes and then pull up your pantleg once again. The few small blotches have not only spread but have spread quickly, already extending down into your shoe and up to your knee. You pull your foot out of the shoe and remove your sock, finding that a thick webbing has begun to develop between the toes, and a milky white coloring has begun to show on the latex coating the inside of your leg, starting as a small point at your ankle and expanding as it reaches up to your knee, by which point it covers the entire inner side of your leg, the rest of which is the same glossy black as before.

Replacing your sock and your shoe and lowering your pantleg, you rush back to Steve so that the two of you can continue and hope beyond hope that your changes will stop here.