You Can't Cuddle With The Immune

Chapter 32: 4 Dead, 3 Gained, 2 Escaped and 1 Rules

In one quick move, Will had Skyular by the neck, his claws digging into her skin. 

Jake pulled out his gun, surprising everyone. Alyssa and Dominic moved away from Will in shock . Alyssa cursed herself from not letting anyone bring a weapon but as Dominic moved closer to her, and she felt him slip a knife in her hands. Leave it to Dominic to bring weapons to his birthday surprise. She wrapped her fingers around it and kept it hidden in her back.  

Will's eyes suddenly yellow, resembling a snake, and his claws grew twice as long. 

"Anyone move and I slit her perfect little neck in half," Will's voice changed, to a deep raspy voice. Bonnie, Christian and Shawn froze on the stop. 

"What the fuck are you doing?" Dominic yelled, confused. Why would Will do this? Alyssa thought. 

Will's lips curled into a wicked smirk. "You want to tell them or should I?" Zombie Will looked over at Jake. 

"The floors all yours, Billy" Jake replied, unlocking his gun. Will laughed. Alyssa could tell Jake didn't have a clear shot, or he would have taken it by now. Maybe he really only wanted to kill Will.  

"Jared didn't know what the fuck he was injecting into his son that day," The creature started, the amusement clear in his voice. "He thought it was the cure, but wasn't. It was me." 

"What the hell are you talking about?" Alyssa asked, the grip on the knife tighten. "Why are you talking like that?" 

"See, Jared's son's real name is Ace, not Will," the zombie explained. "I'm Will- the parasite slowly eating his brain.

"We usually don't take this long to get control of our host, but since I'm technically the first injected parasite, I get my own rules. Instead of just taking fully control, I had to eat away at Ace's brain until he believed he was Will. I was impressed with myself. Ace only believed the injection had mutated him, and believed the little voice in his head was actually his. He did fight me though, subconsciously. No matter how many times I told him to attack that stupid tree house, he refused. And I was getting impatient. I didn't know it was going to take this long to get control, but Dominic sped up the process." 

"Me?" Dominic asked, with a disgusted and confused look in his face. 

"That car crash? It's killing Ace slowly, making him weaker and weaker by day. He can't fight me anymore."  

The thing laughed at them. 

"He's dead?" Skyular asked, her voice cracked. It was the first she spoke since the thing had grabbed her.

"Dying," Will corrected, suddenly remembering the girl he had hostage. 

"No," Skyular whispered, as she began struggle under Will's grip. He tighten it but she continued to fight and his anger was evident in his eyes. "He can't be dying, he can't!"