I wanted the walk to go on for as long as possible. I hadn't let go of Ian's hand since he walked me out of Doc's office. The others didn't follow us, Jeb thought he was being so official when told Ian to take me back to my room—well I guess it was our room now. There were no barriers now, no walls to keep us from being together because this was my body and he was mine too. My partner, my Ian.
"How are you feeling, Wanda?"
As if he needed to ask. I was the happiest I had ever been in my entire existence. At least, I thought I should be, but there was a still a tiny weight lingering in my chest.
"Do I have to say it? I thought it was pretty obvious. I haven't let go of your hand since we left."
"I know you too well. You may have changed bodies, but you're still my Wanda."
My Wanda. I liked the sound of that, probably because it was true. I was his completely and he was right I was lying. I was beginning to understand why.
"It's noting. It's just…"
I trailed off trying to say what needed to be said before anything else happened.
"…I just feel guilty about taking another life away from someone."
"Wanda, you heard what Doc and Melanie said. This body would have become nothing more than food for the buzzers if we hadn't put you in her—I mean it."
No Ian had it right the first time she was a "her", not an "it". To someone at least and I like any parasite had found a new host to dwell in even if it was with people I would give my life for without hesitation.
"She had a family—a life. I can't ignore that Ian and neither than can you, not after all have we been through. The things that we've said to one another. I love you, Ian. That is a truth. I am not human and I will never be human. That is also a truth, but I swear I will not be a parasite either."
We had walked for so long I thought there was no end and there wasn't. Not for the two of us anyway, this was the beginning for me. The beginning of not my last life, but my only life on Earth.
"We're home."