A/N: Figured I would get this part out of the way because something happens to Alex later that saves our dearest Brittany.

Disclaimer: I own Alex and Andrea and any mistakes. Nothing else.

Brittany was jolted awake as she sat up in a bed she didn't recognize. It was small and just slightly torn. It looked like a cot, something she's seen in those movie's with the soldiers. But she forgot all about it once she felt her heart thudding against her chest, her breathing fast and short like she just ran for her life.

Resting a hand on her forehead, she felt it being wet with sweat. Come to think of it, her entire body was drenched with sweat as drops rolled down her neck and the side of her face. What happened?

"Brittany?"

Said blonde turned to the voice and spotted Rachel in the door way of the room she was in, holding a bowl and cup.

"How are you feeling?"

Breathing in deeper and slightly slower, the dutch girl looked down and found that she was in a white t-shirt and sweat pants.

"I...don't..." she looked up, a confused look on her face, "Where am I?"

"At the hide out Alex took us to, you fell asleep on the way here and Quinn carried you in to let you sleep," explained the diva, sitting on the edge of the cot.

"How long have I been asleep?"

Rachel looked at the wall behind the blonde and thought for a second, "About twelve hours," she reached over to place a hand on her best friends forehead and hissed.

"You're hot Brittany,"

The blonde girl just smiled.

"Britt, I mean your temp is hot," the diva giggled, removing her hand and handing the girl across from her the bowl she brought.

"It's beef stew, Alex made it when we got back,"

Brittany started to dig into it before Rachel finished her sentence.

Meanwhile...

Alex had that feeling again, she was making sure everyone was settling in fine when that over bearing feeling of thirst, hunger and pain fill her body, making her stop in an old worn out hall way of the old building they took and made their hide out. She ran a hand through her hair and gritted her teeth as the crawling pain filled her body.

"Fuck, not here, not now," she hissed, moving her hand around her stomach. It was like something was eating at her insides and crawling under her skin, like it was trying to take over her body and control it. It made her feel weird and weak because she could never fight it, whatever "IT" was would always take control of her and turn her into some horrible monster. She never knew what she does because once it takes over, she blacks out.

The pain grew as she slumped down onto the ground and gripped onto her shirt. She either needed to satisfy the hunger and thirst she felt or let the thing take over her body. But she never knew what "IT" wanted. The only one who knew what she wanted or needed was Andrea. And she was gone on a mission.

"Screw it," she growled, struggling to get to her feet and placing a free hand on the wall to make her way into the kitchen to grab something to eat. Maybe that's why she felt this way, she hadn't eaten anything since she left to get the others from the school. Turning the corner, Alex let her hand slide from the wall, not noticing the five claw marks she made in the concrete.

Rachel just left Brittany's room, confirming that she was in fact sick with a cold. Once Quinn came back she told the diva that she would watch over her and make sure she was taken care of.

On her way back to the room she shared with Mack, the little singer walked right into someone. She wasn't looking so they both fell to the ground, the other groaned in pain.

"I'm so- Alex?" she asked, once she got a good look at them and saw it was her cousin and she looked paler then she should be. Her body glistened with sweat and her face was flushed, she looked sick and in pain.

"Are you okay?" the diva asked, standing and moving to help her family member up.

"No, it hurts Rae," her normally strong voice trembled and broke as she spoke.

"What does Alex?"

She looked up at the tiny girl, her normally blue eyes the color of the sky now a few shades darker and oh so close to the color of purple, "My body," she gasped out, clinging to the younger girl.

"Where at?'

"Everywhere, like...ripping and tearing, and...hunger," she growled, it scared Rachel when she heard it.

"Let me see her," a smooth husky voice said. Rachel looked up and saw a beautiful blonde headed woman in front of her.

"Help her Andrea,"

Said girl picked Alex up in her arms and nodded down at the shorter girl, "I will, trust me,"

Rachel just stood there and watched her cousin's girlfriend walk away with her, fear in her heart for her cousin.