It was so nice of Shelia to allow me to stay with her until I got my own place. After that fiasco at the hospital I thought that my whole fight to live and get off that rock had been wasted. I still couldn't believe that she had taken my identity. I couldn't think of when, or where, but she had it and she could track me down with it.

"I'm in trouble." I thought staring up at the ceiling, "We're in trouble."

I turned and looked next to me, but Shelia wasn't by my side.

"Shelia?" I whispered. Maybe she was in the bathroom so, I looked over but there was no light on.

"Where in the hell did she go?"

Then I heard a loud crash in the kitchen.

"Shelia!" I called, but no one answered.

I hopped out of bed and slowly made my way down the dark foyer towards the kitchen.

"Shelia?" I asked again, hoping she could hear me now that I was out of the bedroom, but I still didn't get an answer and I was beginning to panic.

"Why isn't she answering me?"

I heard another loud crash and then something hit the floor with a loud thud making me speed up my walk. I looked around the corner to the living room hoping that I would see her, but it was just as dark and empty as the rest of the apartment.

"Shelia please!" I whispered a little louder.

Suddenly, I heard something familiar. It was a low gurgling growl, similar to the sound that only one of those monsters could make.

"Not again." I said running through the huge living room and stopping at the door of the kitchen.

"Shelia!" I screamed staring ahead at the horror I saw. Her body was hanging from the ceiling, skinless and headless.

"Where are you?" I yelled, looking around the kitchen.

Then I heard laughing and I watched Mia uncloak herself.

She was fully dressed in their armor and had her own set of weapons including a pair of shoulder cannons and a mask.

Warm tears began to roll down my face as I looked at Shelia's limp body swinging from the ceiling.

"Why Mia?" I asked, but she didn't say anything.

I watched her reach up and slowly take off her mask, staring in disbelief at what I saw. She had been marked like them, and even her eyes had become more like theirs.

"You found me." I said walking further in the kitchen, "Kill me. That's what you came for. Isn't it?"

She still didn't speak; she just stared at me, just like they did.

"You don't talk anymore Mia?"

I was trying to bring the human back out of her, but she had managed to tuck it away completely.

"Please Mia. Say something."

She smiled at me then nodded to something beside her. Another one uncloaked himself and I could tell by the scars on his chest that it was her mate. Then he grunted making several others appear, and before I knew it, the kitchen was full of them.

I bolted from the kitchen back to the living room to call for help, but the line was dead.

All of a sudden, I heard a huge explosion outside and rushed to the window to see what was going on. I wasn't prepared for what I saw. The streets were littered with bodies, just like the lab was. There was blood everywhere and cars were exploding with their owners still inside.

"There's no one left Lance." I heard a raspy voice say behind me. Mia had walked into the living room with her clan mates in tow.

"You did all this?" I asked pointing at the window.

"Of course not. We had help." She said.

"Why did you bring the war here?" I asked, falling in the chair next to the window.

"Well at first, I told my mate and my brothers that I only wanted you, but they insisted on paying the human race back for your bold and incredibly stupid mistake. Who was I to go against them?"

Several thoughts flooded my mind at once, making me squeeze my hands and rock back and fourth in the chair.

"Like being in the lab all over again huh Lance?" She laughed.

I nodded and closed my eyes waiting for her to kill me.

But she didn't and instead leaned over me rubbing the scar on my forehead gently.

"I remember when I gave you that." She said softly.

"You're going to kill me?" I asked, but she shook her head "no".

I looked into her eyes with a puzzled look on my face.

"Why not?"

"Because you're a survivor. The only survivor. It wouldn't be right to kill you like the others. You've worked so hard live. You deserve to."

"So then you're punishing me?" I asked.

"No. I'm rewarding you for your bravery. You see now Lance, even though you do have knowledge of the inner workings of our civilization, there's no one for you to share your knowledge with now."

"Why did you do this Mia?" I said looking first at her then at her brothers.

"We're taking this planet." She said signaling for the others to leave.

"WHY?" I demanded.

"See, now you'll know what it feels like to be the only one of your kind. You'll know what it feels like to be a monster… what it felt like to be me. Maybe we'll even lock you in a little glass box and look at you. You can be our experiment."

Then she turned around and walked out slowly.

"Mia?" I called.

She stopped again but didn't turn around.

"We shouldn't have…I'm sorry…we're sorry…"

She looked over her shoulder at me.

"We're not."