They walked into the lab, John frowned as he felt his nose twitch at the pollen in the air. "Red if I was you I would put your respirator mask." John said as he then sneezed into his hands just as the large red demon walked in behind him.

"Sound like you need it more than I do." He chuckles as he slams the respirator mask into the human's stomach, making him let out a huff of air and almost double over. He then looked up at the back of Hell Boy with a glare and threw the object back at him as he stood up, already feeling his noise twitching again.

"So what am I looking for?" He asked as he stopped at a work bench where he could see reminds of a follower laying on a chopping board. He looked back at John who was looking down at his phone.

"Abe say they must be growing the flowers here, it the only place that the demons started to flock to in the last 4 months." He tells him as he brings an image up on the phone to show Hell Boy what it really looks like.

"Urrrha that's a flower?" He asked looking up at the bright blue eyes of the human as his tail picked up a book that was left open on the page of the flower "It's really ugly." He tells him.

"Yeah it is, it's normally found in hot damp places. In the dark they flash a soft pink glow and to us humans it really stinks but if a demon smells it, it's meant to smell like…"

"Cinnamon." Hell Boy rasp out, John hummed and was about to say something when he saw a blur of white in the corner of his eyes.

He turned to see the white lab coat of the chemist dash out the room "STOP!" John yelled as he pulled his gun free and ran after the white coat man. The man grabbed a box off the counter and then was out the door and started to fiddle on the side. "STOP BPRD!" He yelled again just as the door slams shut. He pulled on the handle as it click and beep shut, the green safely light changed to red "Shit." John whispered, as he turned to look at the large red demon who hadn't move from from that spot.

"Red now is a good time to use you hand to get us out of here!" John called out to him. But Hell Boy didn't move his shoulder's slumps and he dropped his gun. "Hell Boy?" He called out to him as he walked up to him taking a look at had the demon so captivated and he froze two "Oh god." He muttered, he started to back away from the large green house that had 12 rows of the pig flower or better known among demons as red mist flower. "Ummm I need back up, Red has been exposed to the flower." He said as calmly as he could as he back away from the demon.

Hell Boy's eyes has had a reddish shin to them and John knew he was infected by the pollen "Why didn't you put that fucking respirator on!" He hissed as he turned and slipped, he reached out his with hand only to smash a test tube with blue liquid. "FUCK!" He cried out as he pulled his hand back feeling the sting of the cut cross the palm of his hand he didn't really notices the blue liquid soak into his skin without him noticing.

"We will be there soon as we again the whole building seem to be on lock down." Came the voice …oh come on…John thought.

There was a growl behind him and it made him turn to see that Hell Boy looking at him his noise twitching and John looked down at his hand seeing the blood dripping from his fingers "Oh shit." He said as he moved slowly to the door and turned on it "Abe is there anything I can do, to make sure he doesn't kill me?" He asked, he realised that the air circulation has been turned off so the pollen of the plan wasn't going anywhere.

"Redirect the rage." Came the voice down the comes, John frowned as he watched Hell Boy watching him

"Private coms Abe." He said as he heard the beep, so far Hell Boy stayed where he was and just looked at him "Aright how am I meant to do that?" He asked with gritted teeth, he had an idea where he was going.

"I don't know… in all the other cases the victims fought back and were killed. You could submitted bare your neck to him. If this all about instinct then…"

"You mean alpha complex?" He asked, as he pressed himself against the door and looked down at the floor as he heard Hell Boy snarl.

"Yes." Abe answered quickly "We will try and get to you soon, we made it pass the first door."

Hell Boy was now stood in front him his chest rumbling with growls as he bared his teeth, John has a quick look and looked down again and let out a shiver of pain…since when does he have fangs!…he mind screamed at him. "I don't think you will get here in time." He said, as he felt his body tremble as he shrugged off his coat feeling the heat from the room as no air is being circulated "You want to get the air conditioner working or a dart gun." He said, and then took his coms off and threw them to the floor.

The red demon snarled as he banged his hands against the wall either side of John's head, the large stone hand made very little dent in the wall, just some small cracks. He tilted is head to the demon if John thought of him as just a demon then maybe it won't affect their friendship later on if he survived this. He bared his head and closed his eyes as he felt his own heart beating in his ears as he waited for something. Then he could feel the hot breath on his neck and his body trembled even more and he couldn't stop the tears escaping from his eyes as they roll down his cheeks. He felt the demon sniff along his neck and then his tongue, John jumped …oh god…he thought as he kept licking the same spot over and over again until he then felt the fangs sink lower into his skin. He let out a scream as he felt the fangs bite into his skin as large arms pulled at his clothes, until his shirt ripped off his chest that he understood what was going to happen.

Next day…

He woke to voices they were loud his body ached he felt like all his limbs were torn off and filled with rocks and then sown back on backwards. Opening his eyes he winced at the bright medical room of the BPRD base "John." Came the soft voice, he turned to see the worried face of Liz as she sat by his bed.

"So not a nightmare?" He asked, his voice husky and raw, he could see her eyes were red and puffy from crying and he felt bad for her this emotional stress on her she loves them both and he could see the conflicted pain in her eyes,

"It's depends how you look at it." She whispered sadly, as he held his hand he notices that his hand was bandage up.

"What do you remember?" The doctor asked, John turned his head and winced at the pain and groaned as he tried to push himself up.

"I remember going to the lab, I told Hell Boy to put his mask encase and I sneezed and he threw the mask into my stomach. Nothing new and then we were taking and then I saw chemists running." He stopped and rubbed is eyes with his other hand, seeing his bruised wrists. "The point is I remember." He grumbled, as Liz held up a glass of water to him.

The doctor nodded and made some notes and then looked at him "With your injuries Agent Myers we want you to say here for a couple of days before you return to your quarters." He told him "There are no internal injury we need to worry about most of your wounds are skin and muscle deep." The doctor told him, John nodded and sighed he was glad that he will heal. He took a sip of his water and leaned back against the pillow. "We did however found some oddity in your blood, we think that maybe you were exposed to something else it entered thought the cut in your hand." He tells him. John looked up at him …wonderful what now?…he thought

"What is that?" He asked

"At the moment we don't know, which is why want to test you blood every day this week and then once a week for a month to make sure you are not going to become sick or it hadn't altered you."

"I see. Can I ask where is Hell Boy?" He asked

"Quarantine." Liz whispered "He will have to stay there for a week."