I know it hasn't been a full week, but classes have started up again, and I simply won't have as much time over this weekend or next week to answer questions. That's why it's getting posted early.

All in all, I wish I took more time in thinking about the plot as a whole. I wrote myself into a corner far too many times, especially with the early visitation of Francis. Don't change the plot too much people. It doesn't always work well.

Sorry if some of this doesn't make sense. I am terrible at explaining what goes on in my mind in a way that other people can understand. Also, if there are questions you want answered that aren't here, please tell me, that way I can tell you.

Plot after chapter 14

Lovino returns to Antonio's home, however, he finds that someone is snooping around the place. This man, named Bobby, was the man that Alfred asked to get Antonio out of harms way. He also asked Bobby to capture Lovino as well, but not to hurt him. Lovino is pretty much freaking out at this point; One, Antonio isn't there; Two, this man is invading his nest; Three, the fertilized eggs inside of Lovino are beginning to eat him alive, and he needs them OUT. As such, Lovino stupidly decides to attack Bobby, resulting in getting his butt kicked. Unluckily for the human, Antonio witnessed the fight and proceeds to ripping the man a new one. Lovino manages stops him before he kills Bobby, though still fearful that Antonio would turn on him as well. He realizes this isn't going to happen, and they drag Bobby into the bathroom. The same way Lovino originally infected Antonio, he lays his eggs into Bobby, where they will eat the man alive from the inside out. The toxins the eggs secrete keep Bobby paralyzed, though very aware of what's going on.

(Lovino technically has an ovipositor in his mouth. It is tucked away under his tongue, and he can split apart his lower jaw, much like a snake, although his skin will split along with it. He deposits a neurotoxin with his mandibles, like he did with Antonio, into the host, then literally clamps down on the host's mouth like a facehugger. Then, with the ovipositor that is normally curled up, he will implant the eggs into his host. The ovipositor looks like a tongue (and that is actually what Lisa's "tongue" is.))

Meanwhile, Feliciano finally gets around to watching the video that Alfred (Feli doesn't know) sent him. This video is a compilation of different videos. All showing Lovino doing random things. He looks healthy, at least from the outside, however, the final chunk is a letter from Lovino. He states that he never got any letters from Feliciano, and is honestly questioning if he truly cared. These videos are only from the first and second weeks that Lovino was in Eugenics' care. It ends with Lovino sighing and stating that he loved Feliciano more than anything.

A few days pass. The eggs inside of Bobby finally hatched, effectively killing him and leaving his body in the same shape as heart-worms to a dog's heart. These worms are super tiny and thin, meaning all of them (about 100 in total), can fit between the exoskeleton and skin of Lovino's back, where they remain until they are able to find a host for further growth. A day or so later, Eugenics sends operatives to search for and capture Antonio. They arrive that very day, finding the remains of Bobby, and later, both Lovino and Antonio. They take the two to their labs, and separate them. Antonio becomes extremely vocally aggressive towards anyone approaching his cell, even more so when they introduce him to Lisa (this giant centipede-lady thing, who was the main component of project Lisa and the "mother" to the new Lovino.) She tries to mate with Antonio, who isn't having any of that shit. He kills her, and assaults anyone who enters his cage afterwards.

Lovino is relatively calm during the whole thing, since they force Alfred to be the one to administer all of the tests. They preform tests measuring his intellect, empathy, endurance, memory and whatnot. Here, they find that he remembers Francis, despite never coming into contact with him while he was in his larva stage of life. They also take DNA samples, but whenever they switched Alfred out for anyone else, Lovino would behave aggressively towards the stranger, so they decide to do another test. They bring in Arthur, who is currently in a wheelchair due to Lisa attacking him, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He's badly hurt and mangled, but still recognizable, at least to Lovino, who reacts to him the same as he did with Alfred.

As such, Eugenics' decides on another test.

They bring in Feliciano, who they captured not long after acquiring Lovino and Antonio. Lovino's reaction is different, to say the least. He's not aggressive with Feliciano, though he's not overly friendly with him either. If anything, he's confused as to why the man is in hysterics and crying. This doesn't last long. Lovino soon pins Feli on the ground, forcing the man's mouth open to the point of nearly unhinging it, and then those worms, his children, start emerging from the safety of his back. They slither down his arm and into Felicinano's mouth, nearly suffocating him as they travel down to his stomach. From this point, Lovino because highly protective of Feliciano, who is now paralyzed on the floor.

Antonio is still going batshit in his own little cage.

The next day, Feli is able to move once more, but he's docile towards the creature that resembles his brother. Lovi is still protective. Eugenics still doesn't know what the hell happened, so they try to get Lovino to do the worm thing again, but Lovino merely kills the people they send in, saving for Alfred and Arthur of course. They try letting Antonio into the same cage as Lovi, but instead of attacking Feli, like they expected, he ignores the Italian in favor of Lovi. Eugenic's personnel try to extract Feli from the cage, but now Toni and Lovi are protecting the man. They realize what's going on, and now won't even let Alfred near them.

Meanwhile, Eugenics sets out to find Francis and Gilbert. The two don't manage to hide for long and are captured. While they are imprisoned, Feliciano becomes more active and has similar mutations to Antonio in the beginning of the story. He begins communicating with Toni and Lovi via guttural clicking as well. It isn't long after that Alfred manages to sneak into Gil and Francis' cell with Arthur's help. They hatch a plan to escape, and kill the "mutants" in the process.

By the time the three plan on escaping, Eugenics believe that Feli's mutations were caused by the worm things that came from Lovino's back, and that they are similar to the ones that they found in previous test subjects. They believe that they finally created a functional "Queen", meaning Lovino can reproduce and act as a Leader to everything he "infects". They forcefully remove Lovino from the cage, injuring Antonio and the mutated Feliciano, and begin to experiment on the creature, starting with removing the exoskeleton around his stomach. Lovi is awake during this procedure, but put asleep when they actually open him up. They find organs fully capable of producing eggs, along with a sack that holds them and the ovipositor that's right under his tongue. The sack is literally bulging with eggs, fertilized eggs at that, and at that point, they realize that Lovino managed to create a creature that can and will mate with him. They assume it's Antonio, and they are correct. They sew Lovino back up and put him in isolation. Not long after, Alfred, along with many defectors of Eugenics, destroy the base, killing as many personnel as they could, along with the abominations trapped within its walls.

Time skip to the last chapter. Several months pass. Eugenics is outed as a terrible group creating bioweapons based on parasites and "hive-minds", however, their main prodigy wasn't found in the wreckage of the main unit. Instead of killing Toni, Lovi and Feli, like they originally planned, they relocated the three to a remote, underground location in the southern Appalachians. This was originally a testing ground for Eugenics, but had long been abandoned. Alfred kept the others from killing the three infected, however, this may have not been the best idea.

Alfred led Feli, Toni and Lovi to the mountains, and once they got there, Lovi and Toni killed everyone except Al, Arthur, Gil and Fran. Some of the unnamed personnel were used as "hatching stations" for Lovino's subsequent clutches, and these children of the monster were used to infect the four survivors.

In recent years, people have gone missing in the mountains. Some assume they were killed by bears and eaten alive, however, most found their minds entrapped in the clutches of the only Eugenics Queen that survived.

10-15-14-05-19:

J-O-N-E-S

Pretty sure I explained this in an earlier chapter, but whatever.

What does Feli have?

When I originally wrote this, I intended Feliciano to have Wilson's disease. I don't remember a lot about the disease anymore, but I believe that it is a genetic disease where you have way too much copper in your system. This wreaks havoc on your liver and whatnot. Feliciano's original liver failed 15 years before infection began, when he was 13. He was able to get a transplant to save his life, but only by money they got from the mafia. This lead the family into a horrible debt situation, and eventually, their ties with the mafia backfired. Feli wasn't able to get the medicine he needed. During these years, his liver and kidneys got wrecked, and this is when Lovino decided to do something about it, despite not knowing that Feli's transplant was beginning to fail. Once Feli was receiving money from Alfred, he was able to get treatment. However, the medicine that removed the copper from his system actually damaged his liver and kidneys. At first, they believed that it was simply a side effect of the medicine, but it turned out that they were both failing. Despite pleas for Feliciano to remain in the hospital, the man became stubborn and refused. He was expected to die in November.

Cure?

Yes, Lovino infecting Feliciano did indeed cure him of his disease. The parasites pretty much reworked his DNA into the most favorable combination, eliminating the disease from his body. I know this probably doesn't work in real life, but fuck it. Magic.

The parasites didn't cure Arthur of his paralysis though. He's just kind of there, sitting around. Watching. Waiting.

Simplify Project LISA

US government wanted a perfect army. Eugenics offered to make one based on a hive mind. They based this on ant colonies and parasitic wasps.

Queen? Parasites? Worms? Wat?

Lisa was the original Queen. Long before the events of Infection, Eugenics created a potential mate for her, however, he was rejected. Despite this, Lisa managed to produce a single clutch of eggs, totaling thirty in all. These eggs were injected with highly manipulated human DNA (meaning Lovino's after all of his tests), and not long later, they hatched into what Eugenics hoped would be a potential mate for Lisa. Instead, they created a batch of highly unstable queens, save for one: Lovino. He was incredibly stable, mostly because his growth was considerably slower than his brethren.

Originally, Lovino was planning on making Alfred his mate (RoMerica all the way), but he simply liked the way Antonio smelled better, so chose him. That saying, Lovino is technically a female of his species, but could've become male if he had chosen a female mate instead. With the parasite in the very first chapter, Lovino rewired Antonio's reproductive system so it could match with his, meaning the sperm that fertilized Lovino's eggs was, in all purposes, Antonio's original, albeit slightly modified sperm. If Lovino chose a female, she would be providing the eggs, and he the sperm. That's only Lovino's first offspring. It is the only one that can create a mate, and Lovino has only one his entire lifespan. So if Antonio ever dies, then Lovino will die not long afterwards. Reasons ahead.

The second and later sets of offspring are different. These eggs start forming a little after maturation, and if they're not fertilized soon enough, they will begin to rot and kill the Queen. (This is why Lovi was in such a rush when he first mated with Antonio). Once they are fertilized, the Queen only has a few days before they begin to produce a chemical that is toxic to the Queen, but paralytic to humans. The Queen must find a suitable host to lay her eggs. They hatch and will eat the host alive before returning to, and living under the Queen's exoskeleton. Then, the Queen will find a live host for her children to move into, thus infecting the host and turning them into a "pawn" of the Queen.

For easier reference, think of an ant colony. The Queen is the only female to mate (in this case, Lovino and Antonio are the only members of the colony that can breed), and all of her children become a part of her hive.

Also, the Queen and her mate will mate for life. They will never choose anyone else. This is the reason Antonio killed Lisa, and why Lisa wanted to get to him first.

Lisa is the only exception to this. After they removed her first clutch, she never had another one.

How did Lovino know what was supposed to happen to Antonio?

In truth, he really didn't. He only knew what was supposed to happen by watching what his brethren did, and by watching how slow their "mates" progressed. He didn't know that they all died. Antonio's transformation was at the correct speed. Lovino didn't know this. Also, he knew a little about human interactions by watching Alfred and Arthur when he was in the office, and yes, Lovino cares deeply about Antonio. This has nothing to do with the love the original Lovino had for the man.

Why was Lovino all weak in the beginning?

Because his insides weren't fully formed when he first immerged from his pupa state. His transformation happens so quickly that it doesn't give his muscles, reproduction organs and other such things time to become fully functional. That is one of the reasons why it is important for him to inject Antonio with those "mind-control" toxins before his transformation began, mainly to insure that he would have something taking care of him until he could get around on his own.

Something I found in my notes?

Alfred was distraught when Lovino died. He managed to get promoted to the head of the weapons department literally hours before the Italian kicked the can. Once Lovi hatched, the two were literally inseparable, leaving some of the scientists worried about the sanity of their boss. Alfred would let Lovi curl up in his pocket and stick his little head out of the opening as he walked around the base or worked in his office. This is how Lovino saw what happened to the D class personnel that was infected with the parasite, and how he knew about his "sisters". That also explains why he didn't want to be in the jar at the beginning. He knew that he was only placed in it whenever he was going to be left alone, and he didn't want to be. It was dark, and scary when he was in that jar, and the creature (The Queen) banging on the walls the next room over scared him to death.

And to be honest, due to this closeness, Alfred was originally going to be the one he chose as a consort, but after he found his way to Antonio, he choose him instead.

This is also why he is extremely friendly with Alfred when they capture him again. He knows the blond wont hurt him.

When they capture Lovi and Toni, Alfred immediately says that they're going to find a way to turn Antonio human again, but his bosses override his rule, saying that they're going to try to mate him to the queen instead.

Layman's plot before initial infection

Feli gets transplant at 13 yrs.

The Vargas Family goes into horrible debt

Family moves and works in a government job.

Feli begins to go downhill again. Lovi begins search.

Toni meets Vargas family. Lovi falls for Toni.

Toni joins government job. Toni and Lovi dance.

Lovi first interview with Eugenics

Toni mistakes Feli for Lovi. Lovi sees. Gets upset. Joins Eugenics' program.

Lovi officially goes missing. Feli gets first check from Al.

Francis joins government job.

Lots and lots of tests on Lovino, getting worse and worse as the years go by.

3 months before actual story, original Lovino dies.

2 weeks later, new Lovino hatches.

Few hours before Antonio asking Feli out, Ludwig and Francis smuggle Lovi out.

During meeting, Lovi finds Antonio and wraps around his leg.

Meeting over, Toni goes home. First bite by Lovino during car ride.

2nd bite once they're in the house.

Next morning, Toni is officially infected.

Thank you to everyone who stuck around for this. I know this isn't the best way to end it, but I wanted to at least put a little closure in it.

See you when I see you

-Self-Titled Demo