This is one of my first fan fics, besides a powerpuff girls story I wrote years ago. So I'd appreciate your feedback. A appreciate constructive criticism, but please don't hate.

Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer owns all the characters and the original Host. I only own the OC's and the plot.

Chapter 1:

I woke up one morning with a sore back, because we had just gotten back from another raid the previous day. It's been at least a few months since I had been implanted in my new host… well at least I think it's been a few months anyway. I still can never tell in these caves, days and nights just seem to fly by. I found that my new body is much for fragile than Melanie's was and it's taking it awhile to adjust to this new physical activity the raids demand of it, still I have grown just as attached to this body because for once I feel like it's mine! The previous host never came back around, which made it easier to accept this new body as opposed to my original instructions that I gave to Doc. I sat up in my bed and rubbed my eyes and cracked, I looked down at the beautiful man sleeping next to me, his arms still molded in the position for when I was lying in them. I couldn't help but giggle to myself, when he started to stir. Ian opened his eyes and blinked, then when he saw me gazing at me, he smiled sat up and started stroking my long golden locks of hair.

"Good morning angel," he said as he pulled me towards him a soft passionate kiss.

I closed my eyes breathing in his intoxicating scent, and whispered, "Good morning my handsome prince." My previous host had always been into fantasy stories, and princes and princesses since she was a young girl. I sighed, "You know I don't think I could ever get used to these mornings, they are always a surprise to me."

"Then don't," he said with a smirk, and he playfully pulled me on top of him.

"Ian!" I exclaimed, "We don't have time for this, we have lots of chores we have to do today! Jeb is expecting us in the game room in half an hour!"

"Great! That gives us more time that I thought,"

I sighed and rolled my eyes. He kissed me again, and then started to pull off my pajama top when we heard someone clear his throat. I looked over and saw Jamie, Melanie and Jared standing in the doorway.

I squealed, pulled my shirt back down and jumped off the bed and could feel my cheeks turn bright red.

"I er… hoped we didn't interrupt anything." Jared said with a smirk. Melanie covered Jamie's innocent eyes, while trying to stifle a giggle. Jamie pulled quickly away from Melanie.

"Hey! Stop treating me like a kid, it's not like I've never seen this kind of thing before!" Melanie gaped at him, where had he seen this type of thing that she did not know about. Ian interrupted her thoughts quickly.

"Hey what's the big idea, didn't your mother teach you to knock Howe?"

"Awe, but there's no need to knock when your screen is wide open Oshea," Jared replied smugly.

"Huh?" Ian responded, "But we always make sure our screen's closed." It was then that I realized that coming back from the raid, I was so exhausted I just threw myself down on the bed and forgot to shut it.

"Oops! That would be my fault, I was just sooo tired last night I guess I just fell asleep and forgot to close the screen. Ian was already asleep when I came in." I said sheepishly.

Melanie busted up laughing, "Well it was good that all you did last night was sleep, otherwise we'd all be in for an entertaining show." At that remark, I did the most violent thing I think I'm ever capable of; I kicked her in the shin. As much as I love her as a new sister and best friend, she had her moments, where the part of her that stuck with me would sometimes be released. "Ouch! Wanda, I never thought you capable! Anyways, believe it or not, there was a purpose for us stopping by; Doc wanted your help with some of the new Souls we captured yesterday. He said it could wait until after breakfast, I was thinking we could just eat in the hospital wing since we're picking him up some food any, but we wanted to know what you wanted to do."

I saw that Ian had already gotten dressed, but I have always been one for privacy. "That's fine, just give me a few minutes to get dressed and I'll go with you all.

*****

Within the last couple months we had successfully extracted 15 more souls growing our number from about 37 to 52 new residents in our cave. Unfortunately, the ratio of success rates, to the number of hosts killed in the process, was about one host for every three survived. Doc, however distraught he was over the deaths, still kept his promise of preserving the souls inside and sent them each to planets that suited their preferences. By now I no longer feel guilty about revealing our secret, because I know now in the end I've done the right thing. Although it is looked down upon in our world for our species to "skip" hosts, at least my family members are still protected. Maybe as a result they can see that humans aren't the violent monsters we had originally perceived them to be by sparing their lives.

It ended up by just being Melanie, Sunny and me heading to the hospital wing since Jeb assigned the men to do other needed chores. When we got outside the entrance, we saw Sharon leaving with an empty tray that clearly had food on it at one point. It was comforting to know that her and Doc had pretty much patched up their relationship regardless of the fact she despises Sunny and me. I still can't help but feel happy for them. It's just in my nature to want the best for others. When Sharon saw us coming, she smiled at Melanie, which Melanie returned with a slight scowl. Melanie still hadn't really forgiven Sharon or Maggie for the months in which they had been so rude to me. Sharon disregarded Melanie's sign of displeasure towards her and offered to take the tray Melanie intended for Doc.

"It's alright, maybe after the person wakes up, they might be hungry," Melanie said coldly.

"Ok then, I never thought about that, sounds like a good idea. I guess it would be better that to let it go to waste." Sharon was awkwardly rocking back on her feet, it was clear she was trying to make good conversation with her cousin. Sharon started to head off, she glanced at Sunny and I and I was half expecting either a scowl or just a realization that we were even present, but instead she gave what could be perceived as a hint of a tiny smile, "By the way can we talk later?" I was expecting her to talk to Melanie, but it was directed to Sunny and me? Sunny and I nodded slowly. "Great! Lets meet in the game room after lunch, before we have to get back to work," and she continued to walk off in her normal haughty fashion. The three of us looked at each other confused. I felt my jaw drop, Sunny just looked casual, she was still very naïve to how some of the others perceived people like us.

It was Melanie, who spoke next, "What was that about?" I shrugged as we entered the hospital wing. Doc was closing up a patient's wound, and decided to give the other body another dose of medicine to keep them from waking up. He smiled when he saw us walk in.

"You're a lot earlier, than I expected! No matter, Wanda, I need your help with this one particular patient," he gestured to a third hospital bed with a girl close to about Jamie's age lying near the far corner. "I've been trying to get her to wake up, but she's been out for 2 days now, and I was hoping that maybe you could help, since you've found a way to revive people who have even been under an entire week. I would have continued trying, but I'm also trying to revive her parents. I just healed her mother, perhaps you can try to get her to wake as well."

"I'll see what I can do, but like every time before, I can't make any guarantees." I first walked over to the girl and peered into her face. She had very fair skin and beautiful long white blond hair, but her eyes were a bright piercing shade of blue. She had an athletic build, yet she was very slender and petite at the same time. We could use more people like her in our soccer games. I whispered so that only she could hear me, "You don't have to be afraid, I am one of the souls but I am also a friend. I only want to help you. I want you to come back to us." The girl remained still. "I'm going to try to guess your name ok? Is it Sarah?" No response, "Jessica? Jennifer? Haley? Nicole?" No response.

"I've already tried to guess her name nothing happened," Doc said from beside his patient.

"Ok, I'll try a different approach. Do you remember your father and mother? Doc is trying to bring them back as well." As soon as I said this, I noticed that the woman that Doc healed was starting to stir. "Doc, I think she's moving." I immediately ran over to the older woman, perhaps if I could awaken her, she'd be able to help her daughter. It was then that I noticed the woman who was sleeping was just as stunning as the girl. She had the same platinum blond hair except it was much shorter, about shoulder length and pulled back slightly, and she had the same piercing blue eyes. She looked to be in later thirties, but the age did nothing but help her appearance giving her a mature sophisticated look about her. I talked to her in the same tone of voice as her daughter, "Are you this girl's mother? We are trying to wake her up, but I need your help." The woman became more responsive. I kept talking to her until she finally opened her eyes. She took one look at me and gasped.

Doc quickly rushed over and calmed her, "It's alright, Wanda's not like the others. She's only trying help bring you back and she wants to bring your family back too." The woman furrowed her eyebrows in confusion and looked at me. I just smiled and nodded my head reassuringly. If I only had a dollar for every time I got that reaction from the hosts.

She started to speak up although her voice was a little horse, "I don't know who I'm supposed to be, or what my name is, what did you do with it?"

"We just put it safely in a cyrotank, and the next chance we get, we'll send that one off to another planet, just like the others," I told her.

"Others? You mean you've done this before? Do you mean it's possible to bring back human kind?" she asked, her voice mixed with skepticism, awe, and a little bit of hope.

"Well, that's what we are trying to do, although it may take years to fully accomplish this," Doc answered, then he gestured over to me, "Although, I owe a lot of gratitude to Wanda, she was the one who taught me how to do it successfully without harming the soul or the person." Again there was a look of shock on the woman's face, "As for your memories of your life prior, most people don't remember much when they first wake up, just give it some time and everything will come back to you."

"All I remember is that I have a husband and a 15 year old daughter." As she said this she sat upright, "Where is she, is she safe, did we leave her behind?"

"It's alright, she's lying over there," I said soothingly and gestured over to the bed that her daughter was laying in. "Right now just lye down, you've been through a lot, as matter of fact, maybe you can help us revive your daughter. Can you remember her name?"

The woman smiled slightly, "Her name is Destiny, the funny thing is, the parasite who inhabited her. No offense," she paused and looked at me. I smiled in understanding, before she continued, "Anyway the creature that lived in her seemed to like that name too, because it never changed."

I walked back over to Destiny and tried whispering her name, but still got no response. "Can you tell me more about your daughter, like what her likes and dislikes are?" The woman looked thoughtful.

"Yes, I remember she was always addicted to Twinkies for some strange reason. I told her they were terribly unhealthy, but she'd continue to snack on them."

As soon as she said this, I immediately looked over at Melanie and Sunny, who I just realized were still in the room watching all of this take place, but they were unsure of what they needed to do, "Hey Mel? You know where Jared hides the Twinkies, do you think that you and Sunny could grab a few?"

"Sure! Jared owes me one anyway," so her and Sunny took off.

I turned back over to the blond woman, "Maybe if you talk to your daughter, she'll wake up. She would most likely recognize her mothers voice as opposed to a stranger." The woman nodded and walked over to the girl. I turned back to doc. "How's the man we brought in?" Doc had just sealed back the wound and walked over to his desk to put the cyrotank down.

"Well, I'd have to say this has been one of the easiest, the soul almost seemed willing to go on to another host. All we have to do now is wait for him to wake up." I looked over at the father, he was just as good looking as the rest of the family, although he looked like had put on a few pounds over the years. His hair was jet black with streaks of gray throughout and pulled back in a short ponytail. He started to stir almost instantly. It was then I realized that Candy, the other doctor was nowhere to be seen. "Doc, I haven't seen Candy at all today, is she alright?"

"Oh, she's fine, since today's been slow I told her that I had things under control in here, so she could ask Jeb if he needed any additional help. I also told her that if it does get busy, I'd just have her on call." I couldn't help but laugh to myself, even though Doc has extra help available, he still insisted on doing as much as could on his own. I did see Sharon in the office earlier, I was wondering if maybe he was just trying to calm her insecurities about Doc working alone with another woman. I decided not to press the issue instead I just nodded.

"Hey where am I?" I turned around and saw the man sitting up with a confused expression on his face. He saw me and gasped. The blond woman turned around.

"Sky…er I mean Brian, you're all right! She ran over to him and put her arms around him," he hesitantly hugged her back, then he saw that her eyes were back to normal and stared in awe. She pulled back still holding his hands "The woman and the doctor over there saved us!" She said pointing to Doc and I.

"But she's one of them! How can this be?" He asked.

"I don't even understand it either to be completely honest with you. All I know is that she helped us and she's trying to bring back our daughter," he looked at Destiny who was still under. "So how can we not trust her?" She looked over at me and smiled. He looked over at me too and smiled slightly, then together they both walked over to Destiny, and tried talking to her.

A few minutes later Melanie walked in with about 7 Twinkies. My jaw dropped.

"Where did you find all those?" Doc asked amazed.

"Lets just say that Jared sucks at hiding stuff from me," Melanie said with a smirk.

"You've been holding out on me!" I exclaimed pretending to be hurt. "What happened to Sunny?" I asked when I noticed that Melanie came back alone.

"She saw Kyle working in the plantation area and wanted to help him," Melanie rolled her eyes.

"Why am I not surprised?" I laughed. Just then I had movement over in the far corner.

"Did someone say Twinkies?" The voice was soft and feminine, and very tired sounding, "I'm super hungry. How long have I been sleeping for?" I turned around, and saw that the beautiful young teenager had finally woken up. Her parents were ecstatic and sandwiched her in a huge hug. "Love you too! Can't breath!" She muffled. Then they pulled away, and looked at us.

"I can't thank you enough!" The woman said with tears in her eyes.

Melanie, Doc and I walked towards them. Doc figured introductions would be good "Melanie, you sort of already met…"

"Geraldine," the father spoke up, "We normally call her Geri for short." The blond woman looked like she was now starting to regain parts of her older memories, "And this is our daughter, Destiny, and I guess my name is Brad, although I'm still a bit hazy."

Melanie, Doc and I shook everyone's hand, "I mainly go by Doc around here, if you knew my real name you'd understand why," he laughed, "And this is Melanie and you've all met Wanda. It's a pretty crazy story how Wanda ended up here with us, but I would trust her with my life. We have only one other soul living with us, and her name is Sunny. The original person that lived in both of their bodies never returned." Brad nodded in understanding. Melanie passed around the Twinkies.

"Melanie, why did you grab seven Twinkies if there are only six of us?" I asked.

"I figured Jamie might want one later," She said, "So I thought I'd give him one for desert after lunch." The remainder of the time was spent getting to know the new family; each was helping to remember certain parts, although none of them could recall all of the events that passed when the souls inhabited their bodies. Doc shared told them more what life was like here in the caves, and Melanie and I took turns telling them our story about how I once inhabited Melanie's body and how she refused to allow herself to be erased and how we are now closer than sisters. It was actually a pretty amazing story thinking back on it. Then Jeb finally entered the room to announce that lunch was ready.

"Wow! I can see you guys have been having somewhat of a powwow in here!" he said, a wide grin on that bearded face of his, "After lunch, I'm going to have to give you three the grand tour of the place, and explain the procedures, and the rules because…"

"It's your place and you make the rules around her." Doc, Melanie and I all said at the same time rolling our eyes. Jeb chuckled, and pointed to the three of us, "See they know how it works!"

We all followed him out of the hospital wing and over to the mess hall. Jeb was pointing things out to the new family as we walked.

So that's the first chapter. It will get more interesting I promise. There is a reason why I put that family in the story, but they won't be too big of characters. Let me know what you think.