Serene woke up to a pounding in her head and her vision was spinning, she slowly sat upright and felt the sudden urge to vomit. She ran straight into the bathroom and emptied her stomach acid and drool into the toilet. She wiped her mouth and grabbed onto the sink to steady herself; black shadows still in her line of vision like before, she lifted herself up and looked into the mirror. The black veins were now up to her jaw line and very pronounced, she touched the veins gently but, she was shcoked to find that her nails were longer than the prevoius night.

"My queen." Serene turned to find Varishen standing behind her.

"Are you really here Varishen?" She was afraid, she was seeing things and she was beginning to wonder what was real and what was an illusion from her mind.

Yes, the mate. We want him, we need him. Serene noticed that he had gotten larger and that his head had fanned out slightly so that horns could start to grow from the sides,

"Why would it not be me?" He lifted his upper lip and she watched as he became aroused, was she giving off that she wanted him again?

"I will give you the release you need Serene. Come, let me take you again." She was wet, dripping wet from in between her legs.

Would she always be this ready for him to take her like an animal? We like it when he takes us like an animal. Serene's body moved on her own but her mind was already going into over drive. Varishen moved so she could get into the living room, she was mad with want by the time she turned to look at Varishen. Something inside of her made her grab him and shove him to the floor, he let her do it so that he did not make a loud banging noise, she felt the need to dominate him. To show him that without her that he wouldn't be as strong as he was. Yes, show him who we are!

Serene climbed on top of him with urgency, she had a burning left over from last night that needed to be put out. He was inside of her in seconds and she rode him like it was the last thing she was going to do,

"Yes my Queen. Pleasure yourself." She did just that, she rode him until she couldn't move from pain.

"Take me like an animal Varishen. Give me what I need!" He pounded into her with no mercy.

It was painful but it felt too good for her to want him to stop, she screeched when she came and Varishen did the same when he came not moments after her. Serene wanted more, she needed more but her body couldn't take anymore.

"Are you well my Queen?" She laid on the floor and nodded.

"I am tired." She sighed as he lay down next to her and rubbed his head against hers.

"You are becoming more beautiful than I had imagined." She smiled at his compliment and she rubbed her head against his.

"You have become larger; it makes me feel so protected. So safe."

"It is my duty and honor to protect you and our young."

Serene rolled onto her back and stared at the ceiling, black figures that reminded her of xenomorphs, danced on the ceiling. It made her dizzy but she wasn't going to go and say anything to Varishen, she had enough trouble keeping Squeak off of her back. She was worried about the changes she was going through and it seemed that Varishen was going through changes as well but it must not have been affecting him the same as it was affecting her.

"You must go, to back to the others. This charade will end soon enough and then we can be together in peace." She whispered then kissed his lips.

"I wait patiently for the next step." He motioned towards her swollen belly.

"It might be soon. Too soon for me." She rubbed her belly gently.

Squeak had noticed her slightly swollen stomach but did not ask her about it, she was grateful for that. As much as she detested humans, she could not bring herself to wish death on Squeak because in some way….she still loved him.

"I have started slow, picking off filth that live on the streets to feed on. The others become restless already but they try to listen to you when you tell them be patient." That's when confusion set in, she hadn't talked to the Hive since they landed.

"You are confused. Why?" She smiled,

"I just couldn't remember talking to them for a second, I must have been thinking of other times." Covering it up was easy, she conveyed comfort and waned to soothe him and it worked.

"I will be back soon enough." Varishen left her apartment through the window.

"You talked to them, didn't you? It was you." Serene was talking to thin air but she knew the voice in her head was listening but she didn't want to talk now.

She was sated; she was the one who came out and made her stronger, she was the one who made her a Queen. Serene stood up and went into her bedroom, she had to get dressed because she knew that Squeak would knock on her door to try and get her to go out to eat or for a leisure walk. As soon as she had her pants over her hips she heard a knock on her apartment door, she threw a shirt over her head and went to the door. She wasn't surprised when she opened it to find Squeak standing there with a small smile on his face.

"Hi Squeak. What are we doing today?" He signed that he received a call from the resident doctor; the doctor said he had wanted to see her.

"I don't know. Maybe tomorrow? Or the day after? I'm afraid of going there and he tells me I have cancer or something." He signed that he understood the feeling.

"I'm glad you understand. I will go see him, just not today." He nodded and held out his arm to her and she hesitantly took it.

"Maybe we can go to a nice coffee shop or something?" He smiled and nodded to her.

It was a false sense of hope for him and she knew it but he didn't know that.

D-D

He had suspected that something was going on with her; the doctor didn't tell him much but something was wrong with the doctor because he sounded afraid. He wanted to know more so he took a trip to see the doctor.

"Ah, Brandon…I was rather hoping you had the young lady with you." Squeak narrowed his eyes at the older gentleman.

"There is good news for you. We created a robotic tongue that could help you talk again. That would be nice wouldn't it?" He was anxious and was sweating slightly.

Squeak signed, asking what was wrong with Serene but the old man seemed to ignore him.

"I just wanted to discuss with her about her pregnancy is all." He knew that must have been part of the reason but there was more to it than what the old man was giving away.

Squeak gripped the old man up by his collar and shoved him against the wall,

"ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT! I sampled her fingernails because they looked infected and it turns out that they are. She's infected with xenomorph dna." Squeak's eyes went wide and he left the clinic as fast as he could. When he finally reached the apartment building, he stood in front of her door and breathed deep as he prayed the doctor was lying…until he heard the screaming of a xenomorph coming from inside her apartment. Squeak squeezed his eyes shut and put his hand on the knob of the door, he didn't know what he was going to see on the other side but he hoped he didn't have to kill anything.

D-D

She was screaming and she knew it, how could see not with the pain? She could hear a xenomorph screeching but, she had the impression it was coming from her mouth and not one of the others.. Her insides were in a pain she could not describe and it felt like she was being split open by the pressure that was being forced behind her vagina. It was her babies, they wanted to come out now but she wasn't ready for them to be born and she wasn't ready to take on the responsibility of being a Queen. A greenish-reddish blood was all over the floor from when she had first doubled over in pain, but now she was worried that someone would hear her screaming as she tried to give birth to her babies. Shadows were in her vision were terrifying, she had to close her eyes to keep the fear at bay even though the pain she was feeling terrifying enough but, she didn't need the shadows making the situation worse. The first sharp pain made her push; if she learned anything from classes about sexual intercourse it was that pushing makes the baby coming out faster. So, she did what she knew was best and heard someone come through the window and when she looked she saw Varishen and a few other of the xenomorphs. Serene pushed as hard as she could and within a minute she felt relief,

"It looks just as a chest burster should. No human qualities!" She didn't have any time to coddle her young before she felt another contraction.

Her screeches were louder and she pushed as hard as she could before she felt more relief, the tiny screeching was music to her ears as she lay physically exhausted upon the floor. Warning hisses began to envelope the room,

"the human is staring my queen."

She looked up to see Squeak in the doorway, looking at the scene in disbelief, he could not have seen her give birth. His eyes told her that he had seen her give birth, she felt no shame in what had happened but she could hear the military men coming up the stairs as they yelled.

"Mother!" Her instincts kicked in and she was on her feet in a moment, hissing at Squeak because she had to protect her children.

"DOWN THE HALL MEN!"

"TAKE THEM AND GO!" She yelled at Varishen and he took his children into his arms.

All of the xenomorphs evacuated the room through the windows and Serene watched as miltary men swarmed her room. Her long black nails were poised and ready for attack but she was hit with a tranquilizing dart and fell to the floor screeching in pain as Squeak slowly moved inside of the room. Everything was coming a part for him, he thought he had a relationship with her but now he realized she might have been in love with him at one point but, she definitely wasn't his now.

Finished with this chapter. I don't know if I rushed it or not but I was definitely not feeling this chapter at all. It was shorter than the last and I am sorry for that. As always, you know the drill, give me a shout out and tell me what yinz are thinking.