Bred by the Hive Chapter 51
By Gary LM Martin
Major Samantha Arden of the United Survey Service is a senior official in HomePlanet Security and is a very skilled ESPer, which makes her a prime target for the Hive. She has a strained marriage with her husband Gavin and is secretly in love with her superior officer, Colonel Jack Sullivan. Sam gets taken by the Hive. The Hive instructs Sam to seduce and betray her alien friend Dunlop 4 who was helping them to fight the Hive.
When Sam returned home the next day, Gavin embraced her. "I hear everything went well with your family."
"Yes," said Sam, as neutrally as she could.
Gavin gave her an appraising stare. "Things are going well on all fronts. We are getting closer to producing a manageable gateway to Dimension 43. Soon thousands of our brethren will be able to join us." He stared at her again. "Does that please you?"
"Yes, very much," said Sam, turning away.
Gavin turned her head to face him. "You have gone through some amazing trials. Now I think you need a break. Just stay here with me, and rest for a few days."
"I think I'd like that," said Sam, but she was thinking of Jack when she said it.
And then the programming began again.
Every morning, and every evening, Gavin asked her to submit to spider programming. Sam naturally agreed, but she wondered what it was all about. She had been reprogrammed in the past, on specific occasions, but now she was being programmed twice a day, every day.
She didn't feel any different after the sessions, but she could tell something was being done to her. She tried to ask Gavin about it, but he wouldn't tell her.
"I am eager to cooperate," said Sam. "But how am I supposed to know what to do if you won't tell me what's expected of me?"
"When the time comes, you will know," Gavin assured her.
During her reprogramming, Gavin had sex and communed with her every day. It was nice, even if it wasn't as good as it was with Jack. The rash on her back was growing larger and bothering her more now, but Gavin assured her it was nothing to worry about.
Every day Sam submitted to the programming obediently. But her heart raced before and after she submitted herself to the black spider. What were they doing to her? She didn't feel any different. She thought about her love for Jack. It was still strong and true. So what were they preparing her for?
She got her answer on the fifth day. She woke up one morning and yawned. According to their routine, Gavin would commune with her after they woke up.
Something felt different. She felt... lighter. Sam went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.
Her rider was gone.
Instead, there was an angry red circle around the perimeter where it had been. Underneath it, where the rider had been, the skin was a sickly yellow color, and peeling.
Sam went back in the bedroom. She looked around and saw an open black box. Inside was her rider, pulsating.
She saw Gavin, who was still in bed, looking at her.
For the first time in a long time, Sam realized she had complete freedom of choice.
Should she put the rider back on her?
Before she was Infected, the answer would have been no. In the first week, even the first two weeks, the answer also clearly would have been no.
But now...
She wavered, undecided. Something in her brain told her strongly that she wanted it, that she wanted the rider more than anything. But something else held her back.
Gavin, seeing her indecision, spoke for the first time. "After I put the first worm on you, did you come home every day to accept another one?"
"Yes," said Sam. She remembered coming home, and stripping down, sobbing with tears, and taking her second worm. She remembered voluntarily having sex with Gavin, even though she knew it would mean taking another worm. And she remembered even voluntarily putting one of the worms on herself. She had wanted it all.
"When you got your rider, did you participate in communing and sex to help it mature more rapidly?"
"Yes," said Sam again. She remembered her first communing, how good it felt. And then she remembered the sex, riding up and down on Gavin's penis, to exert herself to the fullest, to help her rider grow as rapidly as possible. to make her rider stronger, to give it a better grip over her mind.
"Did you willingly help us Infect the Survey Service and HomePlanet security?"
"Yes." Sam remembered going to Colorado Springs, and Infecting senior officers one by one.
"Did you willingly Infect your best friend and former lover Janice?"
"Yes," Sam said again, remembering how she had seduced and betrayed Janice.
"Did you enjoy Infecting Jack Sullivan, the man you love more than anything in the whole wide world?"
"Yes," said Sam, remembering how she had seduced him, given him his first worm, and then pressured him into agreeing to take a rider.
"Did you enjoy being impregnated and giving birth to a Greater Intelligence?"
"Yes," Sam said, remembering how she obediently let the large black spider impregnate her, her legs spread, as she eagerly tried to get pregnant. She remembered the times Jack had tried to impregnate her. It had been some of the most exciting sex of her life.
"And did you willingly infect your entire family?"
"Yes," Sam said again, remembering how she had released the flies which Infected each of them with worms.
"And did you laugh and masturbate as you watched them die in the Cave?"
"Yes," said Sam, a tear coming to her eye. It was her cruelest deed. But she had done it.
"So, what are you then?" said Gavin.
There was only one conclusion she could come to. "I am part of the Hive."
And with that, she looked down, and put her trembling hand into the big black box. Her rider reached out, and grabbed on to her hand. Sam looked away, and felt rather than saw her rider slowly crawl up her arm. When it settled down between her shoulder blades again, she resisted the urge to cry.
Gavin came out of bed and kissed her gently. "I'm so proud of you. Come, let's commune."
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The next morning found Sam repeating the same scene. And the morning after that. Each morning, Sam was presented with a choice. Her rider slipped off of her in the night, and she had to consciously choose to let it inhabit her again. She had to want it, without any coercion.
And each day she thought about it again, and came to the same conclusion, and reached out and let her rider take her.
This routine continued every day, until the seventh day, when finally Sam got up, and, without any hesitation, reached into the box, took out her rider, and placed it on her back.
Gavin stood up, looking pleased. He gave her an incredible kiss. "Finally, you're ready."
He took her to bed, and made love to her one last time. This time he was almost tender. He looked into her eyes as he thrust into her. When he climaxed, he said her name. Sam felt a special bond to him. For a few moments, it seemed like her husband had returned to her.