**Authors note: This part of the series is going to drag on a little bit. If you're interested and you've been following the story, a lot of information is going to be revealed in this part. If you're just here for the naughty bits, scroll to the end of this part, that's where the fun stuff is. Many thanks to everyone, enjoy :) **
Drew sat on Alex's couch, with nothing but a blank stare on his face. He said nothing. Alex sat across the room from him in the recliner, also not saying anything. Neither of them knew what to think about the news they had received.
"So...... What's next?" Alex asked, breaking the uncomfortable silence.
"I....... I don't know." Drew replied quietly.
Alex casually got up and left the room. Drew leaned back on the couch, the same blank stare still drawn on his face.
"Maybe it's just a weird coincidence?" Drew thought to himself.
Drew picked up his phone and began doing a search of his wife's name. The first results were of her social media pages. But as he scrolled, he came upon an article from the early 70s. In 1971, a woman with the same name had gone missing along with her newlywed husband. He continued to read the article, hoping to find some more information.
According to the article, the woman had lost her father a few years prior to their disappearance. A few months before that, she had gotten married. The strange thing was that nobody really knew who the person she had gotten married to was. The article goes on to mention that in interviews with family members, it came as a surprise that she was getting married, there wasn't even a ceremony. She had apparently been acting very strange in the weeks leading up to their disappearance. Family members insisted that her new husband had something to do with it. The article concluded that the only thing found at the house that was out of the ordinary was a strange thick blue liquid that was never identified. Medical professionals stated that the substance contained no properties that could be identified to the scientific community, and some even suggested that it was not of this world.
Drew chalked this information up as coincidence. He continued searching, but only turned up the same information from a few different articles. The case went cold and neither her or her husband were ever found. Drew locked his phone and dropped it in his lap. Just then, Alex reappeared at the entrance to the living room. She had apparently gone and gotten dressed in proper clothes.
"Are... Are you OK?" She asked quietly.
"No. I have some type of creature, that I can only suspect is a fucking alien living inside me, and the person who gave it to me seems to be a figment of my imagination with the same name as my wife. I think it's safe to say that I'm not OK." He replied.
Drew then began to share the information that he had found online with Alex. After filling her in, they both just kind of sat there in her living room, not saying anything. Drew happened to be staring out the window when he noticed a black SUV drive by very slowly. A few moments later, he saw them drive back by the house. Initially he thought nothing of this, Alex lived on a dead-end road and people mistakingly turning down the road and having to turn around was something that he could see happening often. It wasn't until he saw the same black SUV creep back down the road again that he got suspicious.
"Hey, does anyone with a big black SUV live down at the other end of the road?" Drew asked Alex.
"No, there's just the person beside me, and then one other person beside them. But they don't drive an SUV." Alex responded.
"Well there is a black SUV with blacked out windows that keeps driving by your house." Drew said to her.
They both went over to the window and peeked out, trying to be as discreet as possible so that they aren't seen. Intently they stared out the window hoping to see the strange vehicle drive-by again. They sat there for several minutes, but nothing else happened.
"I bet there at the end of the road." Drew spoke up.
"But why would they be sitting there?" Alex asked.
"I don't know, but I think that I need to get out of here. I don't have a good feeling about this." Drew said.
"Well I'm coming with you." Alex responded
"Oh no you aren't. What if they're after me? It wouldn't be safe for you. Besides. I think you're in the clear. If it is somebody after me, what would they want with you?" Drew asked her.
"Hey, you're not the only victim in the situation! It attacked me too, and what about the woman in the park? Don't you think that if someone was looking for you, they would come here and talk to me as soon as they saw you leave?" She snapped back at him.
Drew was only trying to protect her, but he couldn't deny that she had a point. The two of them would probably be safer together anyways. Drew thought about this for a moment, and then rubbed his hands over his face letting out I frustrated groan.
"Fine! You can come with me. But I am in charge of this situation here." He said.
"Oh I wasn't waiting for permission, I was going with you whether you said yes or not." She said back to him with sass in her voice.
Drew kept his eyes fixed out the window while Alex moved about the living room gathering things. She picked up her decorative katana off the floor and stuffed her phone in her back pocket.
"Ready?" She asked.
Drew turned his head and looked at her, then laughed a little bit to himself.
"And what do you plan on doing with that?" He asked back.
"It's the best protection I've got. Is that a problem with you?" Alex replied condescendingly.
" whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night is fine by me." He retorted.
He reached down and grabbed his keys off of the coffee table, finding and isolating the key to his car.
"Alright, the doors are unlocked, we are going to walk out here and get in the car casually as if nothing is wrong." He said to her in a hushed tone.
"Why are we whispering?" Alex whispered back.
