A/N: Here we go! Missing Piece Of Me is my depiction of what happens after the epilogue of The Host. I got the title from HeyoMyFellowReaders101, which to me was absolutely PERFECT! Anyway, below is the story. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Freedom (1,063 words)

It took about three month, but we finally did it. Jeb had ordered half of us, not including me, to make the caves bigger for the new residents we're housing. The rooms were smaller now, even existing ones had been made to half the size to fit all the editions. We found Russell's group while they were on a raid, Gail's we went to their hide out, and half of Max's were on a raid so we just followed them and got everyone to come with us.

I loved going on raids with Burns because we get more this way. Sunny is still scared to go on raids, but she works twice as hard when we're gone to make up for the lost hands, though there are one-hundred twenty of us now, five more souls who were only allowed to stay because their host body wouldn't wake up and they would die without. The souls were were able to stay were not allowed to leave the cave, though the told me they had no desire to. We had to steal three more moving trucks to bring back food, clothes, and mattresses from raids. The coolest part of my last raid was coming back and seeing that there was now room for four moving trucks, five soul cars, the jeep, and the two cars brought from Nate.

"Wanda," Mel called running to me. "Burns and Embers are going on a host raid and want you and Ian to go."

"When are we leaving," I smiled. Since Burn's been here, we've gone host raiding at least once a week and collected two each time, though we've lost a few from souls being scared and killing their host's brain. "I am ready whenever they are."

She smiled and lead me down to where the vehicles are held. Ian was already waiting for me, smiling when I came into the light. He walked over and grabbed my hand, ready to get going.

"You should try to get as you can so we can save them and not have to give them back to the souls," Burns said. "I know we only have five cots, but I am going to search the stores and see if I can find any, or something very similar to it."

Burns had a point. We wanted as many of the humans to have their bodies back as possible and the lost we waited the less we might be able to save. Yes, the souls living with us have all gone native, but that didn't mean that all souls would be the same.

I jumped into the passenger seat of the moving truck and we headed out. Ian and I decided that the best place to get new hosts were in Tucson because of how little time we spent there. First, we would have to stop by the back doors of a healing center to pick up supplies for Doc. Since we had been releasing souls from their host bodies, Doc's supplies has been shrinking at a pretty quick pace.

"We need lots of No Pain and Heal," Ian smiled at me when we were pulling behind the first healing center we came upon.

"Right on time," I said smiling as we watched the delivery truck drive off. "Just put as much as you can in. Candy and Doc will be able to use all of it in some way."

We packed about half the supplies when a female came out to bring everything inside. She was about to yell for someone to call a seeker, when I distracted her.

"Please," I said looking at her. "My friends and I were in the desert when one fell. We're not strong enough to move him and he can't move himself. He was barely breathing and I know what some of these do so we were just grabbing all we could and would sort it out when we got to him. We were going to bring it back as soon as we healed him."

I looked down and hoped she would believe me. My lying had been getting better, but it was still obvious when I was to anyone in the caves.

"I will come with you," she said looking at Ian. "Healing is my calling."

Before she could take a step towards him, I sprayed a puff of sleep in front of her and she dropped. As soon as he finished loading the supplies, he tied up and loaded the healer. When he loaded the healer, we grabbed and loaded all the empty cyrotanks.

Smiling at Ian, we got back in the truck and continued to Tucson. I tried to forget about the last time we went to Tucson, but it was etched into my memory.

We were walking back to the moving truck with a little girl who looked no older than nine when two souls drove up. I tried as hard as I could, but I couldn't stop the man from jumping on Ian. I quickly sprayed the female with sleep, but still didn't know how to get the man off Ian without him finding out he was human.

"Ah," I yelled falling on the ground and holding my ankle. "Stupid host body!"

"Are you alright," The man said getting off of Ian and helping me, like I knew he would.

"This host body is very fragile and has something wrong with it's ankle," I said looking at my ankle. "I don't want to leave it for a better one, but I can't stand my ankle hurting every other day."

Being the smart guy he is, Ian sprayed Sleep in front of the man. I held my breath and the man breathed in. Ian grabbed him, tied him up, and threw him in the moving truck with the little girl. Before I had a chance to remind him that there was another witness, he tied the woman up and threw her in too.

"Thanks," He said hugging me. "He would have turned me in if it weren't for you."

"Over my dead body," I said wrapping my arms around his neck protectively.

I shook my head and looked at Ian. He was holding my hand and looking at the road, sunglasses on. I tried to stay calm because this was just another raid, collecting souls and trying to free their hosts.

A/N: I hope you all liked it. Please review and tell me what you think because I'm not sure about it...