Even though the Host came out years ago, I still love the story, but not the ending. This is my form of Book 2. Please rate, review, comment, suggest, PM, or criticize. Feedback is my favorite thing, good or bad. Enjoy!

Setting: It is a year after Wanda moved into Pet's body, except in this story, they never met Burns Living Flowers or any of his resistance. They still believe that they are the only resistance left. Enjoy.

Wanda's POV

"Ready...set...GO!" Aaron hollered in a loud voice. He quickly backed out of the way of the ball, understandably so. As soon as the soccer games started, it was dangerous to stand in the middle of the game room. No. I corrected myself. It was dangerous to stand in the way of the boys.

Ian, Jared, Kyle, Aaron, Andy, and Brandt were the scariest ones of all.

One time Andy started the game, but didn't get out of the way in enough time. Kyle started running towards the ball. When Kyle gets in the zone, he doesn't notice anything but the ball and the game. Kyle rammed into Andy with full force. Kyle landed hard on his butt while Andy flew straight into the wall. Andy was fine, no internal bleeding, but he was not the one they were worried about. As soon as they made sure that Andy was okay, Paige turned around to Kyle and, instead of punching him in the nose like everyone else would have done, kicked him hard in between his legs. Kyle fell to the ground in pain while Heidi grabbed Paige to prevent her from doing any more harm. I hadn't understood why Kyle was in so much pain at the time, but later Mel explained to me that getting hit there was excruciating for males. I wondered why.

Another time Jeb decided it was a good idea to play boys versus girls. Let's just say, it ended up with Brandt accidentally tackling me to floor. He apologized profusely, but Kyle had to physically restrain Ian from hurting Brandt, just like Heidi did to Paige, even when I insisted I was fine. The girls lost that game 15-2, both goals scored by Melanie.

Luckily this time, they were split down the middle, no team having the obvious advantage. Paige and Lily were the captains this time. Lily had Ian, Aaron, and Brandt. And Paige had Jared, Kyle, and of course, Andy. Jeb and Maggie were the goalies, they were almost permanently in these positions, because they were the best.

I sat off to the edge of the game room, keeping score. I never really liked soccer, even when I was in Melanie's body. But now, my body was to frail and delicate to handle the rough game.

Sunny sat beside me quietly. We had become quite good friends over the this past year. She opened up to me almost as much as she opened up to Kyle. Slowly, she was gaining bits of Jodi back. Sometimes, Sunny would say something and not remember. I knew from experience that when something like that happened, it was Jodi trying to take control.

Kyle had talked to me a few weeks ago and he decided that, if Jodi came back more, they would take Sunny out and send her to the Dolphins. I hated to do it to Sunny, but I understood Kyle's reasoning. It was the same thing that had happened between Mel, Jared, and I. I knew that Jared cared for me, and didn't want me to go, but his love for Melanie was so strong. Kyle felt the same way about Sunny. He liked her a lot, but he loved JodI more.

"Woo-hoo! Yeah!" Jamie hollered over the noise of the game. I made a mental note.

I-0, Paige. I laughed my dainty, little giggle as Jamie hollered again, this time it was a cry of sadness. 1-1. I corrected myself.

The game went on for about an hour, or so I thought. I can never really tell time in the caves, especially not in the game room. There was absolutely no natural light in there. The final score was 7-6, Paige. It didn't really shock me. As much as I loved Ian, Jared was almost unbeatable when it came to soccer.

"I don't know about y'all, but I am beat….and hungry" Jeb announced loudly to the group. Some grumbled in protest, but I could tell that most of them were exhausted. Slowly, the crowd started to trickle out. First Lucina carrying a sleeping Freedom in her arms, and Isaiah who followed close behind with sleepy eyes. Then went Lily and Heidi, then Trudy, Geoffrey, and Heath, then Andy and Paige.

"Quite a game." Sunny said quietly. I nodded in agreement. "Luckily, nobody got hurt this time, unless you count Kyle getting whacked in the nose, but it's been broken so many times, I highly doubt he can feel it anymore." She laughed out loud for the first time in a while. It was a great noise. It was a noise of happiness and peace in the caves.

"You making fun of me again Sun?" Kyle ran up to us, extending a hand to Sunny. She took it gingerly and he pulled her up with ease. He wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her tight.

"Maybe…." She laughed and held her hand as the two left the room. Kyle had changed so much after Jodi got here. He was actually somewhat , nice. I found it mildly unsettling.

Suddenly, I felt a strong hand on my shoulder. I looked up and saw Ian's bright blue eyes staring down at me. I could feel myself getting flushed. Pet seemed to be easily embarrassed, even by the smallest of gestures, such as Ian putting a hand on my shoulder. So, now, every time Ian touched me, I blushed. He thought it was cute. I thought it was annoying.

"Hey there Wanda." He said, pulling me up easily with one arm. He did this all the time. He set me down, but I wasn't' paying enough attention. I only managed to get one foot down before he let go, but I lost my footing and slipped and fell. Oops! I thought to myself"Woah there. You okay?" Ian said, offering me a hand. His voice was joking, but his blue eyes were concerned. Not surprisingly. Ian was extremely overprotective of me. It got a little annoying sometimes.

"No. I can get up by myself." I said confidently, shooing Ian's hand away. Slowly, I got on my knees, and then my feet, and I felt Ian watching my every move. I laughed quietly. "You know, I may be small, but I can do things for myself." He rolled his eyes at my comment.

"Okay." He said sarcastically. I looked over and saw Melanie and Jared looking in our direction. Jared had Melanie's hand in his. Things had smoothed out over the past few months. My feelings for Jared were finally cleared up. I loved Ian, and Ian loved me. That was fact.

Melanie and I made eye contact and she smiled. She dragged Jared across the room with her, towards me."You guys want to go get something to eat?" Mel asked, looking down at me. I was still not used to being shorter than everyone else. Now, even Isaiah was my height, and he was still growing. I felt small, delicate, tiny. It was weird. I had gotten so used to Melanie's strong body that I still wasn't fully used to Pet's limits.

"I'm starving." Ian moaned loudly. Mel shot me a kind look. I shrugged. I wasn't really hungry, but I could eat a little.

"Alright. Let's go." Jared said quickly, at that exact moment, his stomach made a rude growling noise, as if to emphasize his point. I giggled and Mel gave a light chuckle.

"Fine we're going. We have to feed the beast!" Mel laughed as Jared rolled his eyes at his girlfriend. He pulled her close and planted a kiss on her forehead.

Ian wrapped a strong arm around my shoulders and our little group left the game room, right behind Violetta and Ruth Ann. We made our way through the dark, winding tunnels towards the kitchen. I could smell rolls baking from thirty feet away. We were back on cave rations now. We hadn't been able to go on a raid in a while, and it was obvious. We were back to using cactus soap that burned our skin and eating grainy rolls with onion soup.

I wasn't the only one who was thinking this.

"We need to go on a raid dude." Ian said to Jared. Jared turned around and nodded his head in agreement.

"I was just talking to Jeb about it before the game. We should leave tomorrow." Jared was looking at me now. I was now the most important person on every raid. I can't count how many times I saved their butts.

I nodded slowly mentally making a list of what we needed. We would need to bring weapons. For some reason, Seekers were becoming more and more hostile. Not just some. All of them. Many of them carried Glocks and even more of them carried smaller handguns. It was as if in the short month between our raids the souls had become more and more violent, more and more…...human.

We got in line for food. The kitchen was packed with hungry people laughing and talking.

"Here you go Wanda." Trudy said with a big smile as she ladled onion soup into my bowl. I flashed her a big smile back.

"Thanks Trudy!"

"Wanda! Wanda! Come over here!" I heard a familiar voice shout from across the room. Jamie was sitting next to Doc in the far corner. Wow! I thought to myself. He's getting so big. I can't believe he's turning sixteen in a month. I flashed him a smile just like the one I gave to Trudy. I sat down next to the boy that was basically my brother. I was followed by Ian, Jared, and Melanie.

Jamie began to chat on and on about his day in Sharon's class. He was excited because as soon as he turned sixteen, he didn't have to go to class anymore. He would get to work and do chores with us, which, compared to spending all day with Sharon, was fun. I tried to focus on his story, but I was having a hard time focusing on anything. I just sat their pulling apart a grainy roll, watching my soup get cold.

My mind was going in all sorts of different directions. I kept starting thoughts, but they kept fizzling out. My eyes wandered around the large cavern, examining all the cracks and crevices. I didn't even notice that someone was shaking my arm.

"Wanda. Wanda, are you okay?" Doc's gentle voice took. me out of my daze. I jolted a little and noticed that everyone at the table was staring at me. Ian was shaking my arm slowly. His eyes were concerned, but then again,Ian was always worried about me.

"Oh, oh yeah. I'm just tired." I was lying. I felt awful. My head was spinning and my stomach felt all knotted. I sat up and tried to smile, weakly, but the sudden movement made my headache even worse and I winced.

They all saw right through my lie. Just like always.

"Wanda. Are you okay?" Ian's brow was furrowed with worry. His piercing blue eyes were full to the brim with concern now. He picked up my hand and gently squeezed it.

"Oh. Yeah. Like I said. Just tired. I think I'm going to go to bed now. Not really hungry." I shrugged my shoulders and stood up from the table. Ian began to get up behind me but I gently pushed his shoulder down. I knew he wasn't resisting because I pushed him down with ease. Normally, my push would have no effect on his large body. "No. Ian stay hear and finish your dinner. I'll be fine."

Ian looked at me skeptically for a moment, but slowly nodded in agreement. "Okay. But I'll be with you soon."

"Great!" I tried to sound peppy, but it just came out as snappy. I instantly felt bad, but I didn't have the energy to apologize. In fact, I didn't have the energy to do anything. Suddenly, everything started spinning. Everything was a blur.

"Wanda?" "Wanda?" I heard voices around me, swirling into a vortex of meaningless noises. Shapes and colors were swirling around. I could vaguely here Mel's voice.

"What's happening to her?" Her voice was wracked with worry. I had no idea what was happening. Then, all of the sudden, the world stopped spinning, but only for just a moment. Then, it started to say.

"I think she's passing out." I didn't know who said it, but it was true. This was the last thing I heard before my head hit the floor and I blacked out.