Infected

Chapter 20

"Now, do you remember?" Eveline asks Mia after she'd watched the video, all her memories coming back to her in full force, and she turns to glare at the little girl.

"Yeah, Eveline. I remember." Mia snaps as she remembers watching her coworker die, Eveline killing everyone because she'd overheard Mia's coworker saying were taking her to a different facility, and how the girl had ripped the ship apart in the middle of the ocean.

"Can we be a family like before?" Eveline asks, acting as if she hadn't done anything wrong, and it makes Mia sick to her stomach along with Ivy, who had woken up a few minutes ago but wanted to hear what was said.

"No, Evie." Mia states firmly, leaving no room for argument. "You killed my friends, tried to kill my husband and sister-in-law, and you murdered so many others. We can't be a family. We never were a family, and we never will be a family."

"Then I don't need any of you anymore." Evie snaps before letting out a laugh, and Mia gasps as she disappears in the blink of an eye before rushing over to Ivy.

"You know," Ivy starts as she opens her eyes, shocking Mia that she'd already been awake, "I have decided that I don't want to be her aunt anymore, and I'm going to kill her when I get my hands on her."

"I thought you loved kids." Mia says in confusion as she helps Ivy up, though she's relieved that she won't have Ivy trying to stop anyone from hurting Eveline.

"I do, but that bitch punched me. No one punches me and gets away with it." Ivy states before she walks out of the room, looking for the kid that punched her for no reason, and Mia chuckles as she shakes her head, following behind her.

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"This is some bullshit. Serious bullshit." Ivy mutters to herself as she walks around the ship towards the sick bay to collect the cable that's needed for the elevator, which is the only way to get down to Ethan.

Her and Mia discovered that he's on the lowest level of the ship, encased in a prison made of mold, and after another surprise visit from Eveline, the two had decided to split up. Mia had collected the knife next to the elevator before telling Ivy to go get the cable while she went to collect the fuse that's needed to get the elevator working again.

"Can you, I don't know, fuck off!" Ivy snaps in annoyance to the mold monster that attacks her, only to get its head knocked clean off when she roundhouse kicks it. "This is already hard enough without you shits making it harder. I'm lost as hell and have no idea where I am and-oh, a map!"

Ivy quickly snatches the map off the table in the room she entered, easily figuring out where she is and where she has to go. She also finds a few other things in the room along with a green chest, but her annoyance skyrockets when she doesn't find her weapons inside. In fact, the only thing inside it was a few herbs, and she doesn't even need those.

"Uh, I'm sorry, is that a bomb?" Ivy asks in mild concern as she picks up a remote bomb off a shelf in the hallway as she heads for the dining room. "Why in the hell would I need-you know what? I don't wanna know and I don't need to."

Carrying the bomb in her hands, Ivy enters the dining room to find a mold monster already waiting for her, but after everything she's been through, she doesn't even have the energy to kill it. She simply runs and slides through the vent in the wall, heading into the kitchen to find mold all over it. Upon finding nothing of value, she exits the kitchen to find the monster gone and heads into the next room to search for a weapon of some kind.

Ivy would even take a paperclip by this point.

The room has nothing of the sort, making her go to the next one, and after figuring out she has to solve a puzzle with the paintings, she manages to open the safe in the room. Inside is tiny bottles of corrosive liquid of all things, further confusing Ivy even more, but she doesn't question it as she shoves them into her pocket and leaves the room, exiting back into the hallway.