Lucy lay in her bed once more, trying to ignore the pain. She thought it couldn't get worse, but it did, her whole body was screaming. Her hands were the worst, they felt like they were being broken over and over and over but they weren't, she could move them sure but doing so would cause even more pain. Dried tears covered her face, no amount of Advil helped her. "My hands," she whimpered as she took a peak at them. They were different, they looked, God, what was that word? Her migraine prevented her from thinking much. 'They look, what's that word? Another word for bug. Arach something.' She closed her eyes again as a soft sob escaped, she was too tired to feel shock, everything hurt so much. 'Arachnid, Arachnoiditis, Arachnophobia, Arachnodactyly, yes that's it, Arachnodactyly. She moaned as she herd Shaun out in the main room, why was he so loud?

"What, why can't we? We need your help Lisa, Desmond and Lucy are sick and they might die if they don't get to the hospital." He was on the phone, "Well yes, yes, fever, terrible body aches, bleeding, speech impediment and all that." Lucy blinked a few times, her eyes burned.

'Oh Shit, am I going blind?' She continued blinking as she stared at the small cabinet with a lamp sitting on top of it next to her bed. Instead of getting blurry, everything sharpened, she could see the small scratches on the metal of the cabinet as well as the dust on it. Everything in the room also changed into a sepia tone. She didn't question it much, she'd rather have some weird eye site problem than be completely blind.

"Are we?" There was a short pause, "no we haven't felt ill". Lucy slowly craned her head up, yep, her curtains were still closed so how could she see so well in the dark? "You want us to what? Why?" Shaun sounded surprised and then there was another long pause, "oh that's a relief, fine we'll keep the doors locked. So you can't just send over pain killers or anything?" Lucy was getting angry, did they have to be so loud? Her silent sobs turned into small growls, she wanted to punch Shaun and tell him so shut the fuck up. "Alright, thank you anyways Lisa, bye."

'Finally, he shuts up!'

"So, what'd she say?" Rebecca inquired.

'Goddamnit Rebecca!'

"Well first off, this virus, whatever it is, isn't fatal-"

"Oh, that's a relief!" Lucy sat up and stared at the door, growling, then looked down at herself, surprised.

"She can't help us though, the hospital already has it's hands full with people who think they have this, this Green Flu thing." Since when had her strength returned? Despite how tortured her body felt, Lucy felt a lot stronger than she did the day before.

"That sucks, so what about the pain killers and stuff?" Lucy got off her bed and stood up fully; she couldn't help but release a sob of happiness followed by a nervous chuckle. She wasn't really sure how she should feel right now, she could move but her body still felt like it was on fire.

"Doesn't work, her doctors already tried it on some infected, did absolutely nothing."Another short pause, "she told me to lock their doors."

"What!Why?" Lucy turned to look at her door again, her anger flaring up again.

"Does it really take this long to explain something? And loudly too? Fuck!"

"Apparently, those sick with this Flu get a bit, angry, at times. I can only imagine the amounts of tempers going off at an overcrowded hospital. She said it was only to be safe."

"Wow, alright, I guess."

"Would you guys stop being so goddamn loud?" Lucy yelled from her room, unlike Desmond, her voice wasn't raspy or anything, she could easily speak. There was another pause and then Shaun spoke again, this time in a much lower voice.

"There's something else, Lisa said she received a notice from CEDA, they're taking over her hospital as well as some other buildings next week, including the Abstergo building." Lucy slowly crawled back into her bed, she may have gotten her strength back but she didn't have much stamina to stay standing.

"Holy shit! Um, what does CEDA do again? It's part of the government, isn't it?"

"Oh for the love of- Rebecca are you serious? Yes it is and CEDA stands for the Civil Emergency and Defense Agency. They deal with natural and man-made disasters that occur on U.S. soil" Lucy curled up in a ball once more as her whole body erupted into shivers.

"Jesus Christ, what are they doing?" There was another pause.

"Evacuation. They're setting up evacuation centers in New York, Massachusetts, Maine and the other northern states."

"Is that why we haven't herd from anyone down south? They all got evacuated, why didn't they tell us then?"
Since when did they have to evacuate people due to sickness? Lucy closed her eyes, she didn't really care right now. She hadn't slept since yesterday and all she cared about right now was relief, let them lock her door, at least she won't be disturbed that way. She wasn't going to get relief any time soon though, a loud shriek suddenly erupted from down the hall, from Desmond's room. Lucy screamed, the shriek was loud, it hurt her ears. Her body tensed, she knew something wasn't right, the scream from down the hall didn't sound human.
"Oh bloody hell, what was that? Rebecca, get ours guns"

"But-"

"NOW Rebecca!" Lucy started weeping again, she knew what happened, somehow, she just knew. She wished she had been wrong, she wished he'd died instead, this was worse than death. He was gone, his mind was, then there was a loud crash, Lucy assumed a door had been broken down. There was a flurry of movement and sound outside.

'So loud,' she thought as she got up once more, tears staining her face. There was screaming as guns went off. Lucy didn't want to hear this, she wanted to cry, she just wanted to be alone somewhere. She couldn't open the door, her hands still felt broken, with a loud wail, she started banging on the wooden door and with two hits, it was down. The sick assassin screamed as light flooded her eyes, 'what happened to those glasses Becca promised?' She thought as her mutated hands went up to her face. She cried loudly as she ran out into the hallway where everything was taking place.

"Lucy!?" A panicked Rebecca called out but Lucy didn't stop, she turned and ran into the large room with various storage metal crates, her cries louder than even Desmond's animalistic growls and howls.

That was over nine hours ago and Lucy hadn't stopped crying since, she found a shadowed area and just sat there crying. Eventually, all the noise stopped, five hours from then and Shaun was gone, seven hours and Rebecca left too, all that was left were shells, like Desmond. Unless he growled, you wouldn't know he was up there, she could faintly hear their heartbeats though so it didn't matter if they made noise or not. The other two made small grunts and hissing every once in a while as they shuffled and stumbled their away around the safe house. You could occasionally hear them fighting for no reason at all. They dared not touch the third, he was stronger than either, he'd kill them quickly.

When light came, Lucy would get up, face in hands as she'd slowly stumble around, trying to find a dark area and at night, she'd just sit there, crying. The others sat upstairs, doing, well, something. She didn't know how long it went like this, light turned into darkness and then back into light. She found it harder to remember things, 'how old am I again? 27? No no, I'm 28 years old.' 'what were their names? Tom and Renee, right? Those were their names, weren't they?' She knew she would never forget his name though, she couldn't, she cared too much for him. Edmond, that was his name, she was sure of it.

'Why won't the pain stop?' Her body still felt in pain, she thought it would've lessoned by now, at least gotten tolerable but it never did. At times she thought it had gotten even worse but that might have just been her mind. Lucy looked up from where she had been sitting, another heartbeat. He was in the room, his shrieking confirmed it but she no longer screamed, she'd gotten used to it, it almost felt comforting. She looked at her arms, self conscious despite the fact that Edmond was gone, her arms had lost their tight definition and now were skinny and pale. He was right over her, perched on top of a high crate watching her silently, Lucy stared up at him; his bloodied and dirty white hoodie was now up and covered part of his face.

'He looks likes someone, who was it?' Lucy gave up trying to remember, it was useless. He bared his teeth and hissed at her, as if to challenge her but Lucy knew she was stronger than him, she didn't how. She growled back at him, warning him not to do anything, he disappeared from view after that, however, he stayed with her somewhere in the darkness. She didn't know how long they stayed here, she couldn't tell anymore, it wasn't as dark as usual outside but it there was no light either. Suddenly, he shrieked, his heart rate picked up, he was excited. She may have been stronger but he had the better senses, something had changed and sure enough, she could hear a series if faint heartbeats outside now. The other two must have heard it too since they were running around upstairs. Something was coming.

So here's the third chapter! I had a lot of fun writing it so I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did writing it! :) Hopefully with this chapter, you guys can figure out what the virus does. Also a little note, the last chapter, the next one, will take place from a different POV from Lucy. Just a heads up so no one's like "WTF is going on here!"

Oh and since I keep forgetting to write this into my author's note section, Assassin's Creed and any of the characters within it do not belong to me! They all belong to Ubisoft! The CEDA thing belongs to VALVe and the only thing that does belong to me is Lisa, haha.