After Ethan and Karl finished making love with each other, they heard a knocking on the door, then it open. Chris stood in the doorway of the room they were both sleeping in.

"Chris!?" Ethan sat up, flustered and surprised.

"Shit!" Karl got up and instantly recognized Chris.

"O- oh my god... I'm so sorry I'll be waiting in the living room." He closed the door and Ethan and Karl stared at the closed door. They both quickly got dressed and walked out.

"So uh, Chris what is going on?" Ethan said awkwardly.

"Oh, well- just checking up. Remember I said I would check on you every 3 months?"

"Oh yeah, well, how's it going?"

"Good, looks like you are doing... well too." Chris stared at Heisenberg, obviously dumbstruck over the twos relationship.

"Yeah..."

There was a painfully awkward silence. Then it was broken with Roses crying. "Oh uh, let me go see whats wrong." Karl then rushed to Roses room.

"Ethan... what on earth?" Chris sounded disappointed.

"I know, I know, I'm... sleeping with a guy-"

"No I don't care about you being gay or bi or whatever you are, it's the fact that he's HEISENBERG." Chris scolded Ethan like he was a kid.

"He's not bad anymore, after Miranda died, all the lords have been nice! He's a different guy now Chris..." He sighed, knowing Chris wouldn't understand.

"Fine, I'll let you do what you like; on a different subject, how is it going here? Are there anymore of the infected?" He crossed his arms.

"No, they've been- well I guess they've been terminated." Chris nodded, "I feel bad, they were once people too... there's no cure?" Ethan sat down and looked at Chris, who shook his head.

"No cure, we don't want there to be a cure. We just want those disease to stop. Of course, you're an exception." He sat down on the other side of the table.

"I shouldn't be though, it's not fair. I might go batshit, hell- I'm probably already crazy. Yesterday I shattered a plate and a cup, then I... I don't remember after that. Except Karl waking me up in the middle of the woods... god I'm a terrible- am I even his boyfriend?" He looked at Chris, who shrugged.

"Ethan, I'm not here to coach you on your relationships, I'm here to make sure you don't die. Quite frankly, I'm very against you and Heisenberg. That's not my department though, so I'll respect your decision." He raised his hands up.

"Thank you Chris." Ethan smiled softly and Chris nodded. Then they both were startled when they heard Rose laugh loudly from the doorway of her room.

"Ah! There she is!" Chris smiled.

"She's doing good, thanks Karl for checking on her." Ethan smiled lovingly at Heisenberg, who returned the look.

"Ok!" Chris clapped loudly and stood up, both Ethan and Karl snapped out of their gaze. "Let's see how she's doin!" Chris walked over to Rose and picked her up.

"Where are you taking her?" Ethan stood up, getting a rush of memories from when Chris had taken- no- stolen her a couple months ago. His tone was defensive and worrisome.

"Ethan, calm down. She gets check ups every time I check on you, remember?" Chris said calmly, keeping in mind that Ethan was now a different type of being. No one knew if he could switch to being a diabolical thing like Miranda.

"Right, right.... I'm sorry, just please keep her safe." He walked over to Rose, and kissed her on the top of her head, "goodbye sweetheart." He smiled when she said "dada!".

Ethan and Karl watched as Chris left with Rose, he quickly gave a look that said "I'm watching you" to Karl before he closed the front door.

"Well, that was something." Karl rubbed the others back, which startled him. "You're so jumpy!" He teased. Ethan rubbed his arm, "habit I guess..." he chuckled.

"It rained so much last night; I bet the swamp isn't really, well I guess it's a swamp now actually." Karl laughed lightly.

"I'm feeling kind of groggy, I actually wanted to go-"

"Well then lets go!" Heisenberg grinned. Ethan was shocked, he thought he would draw the line when the swamp was back to being well, a swamp.

"Okay, thanks." He smiled then awkwardly kissed Karl on the cheek.

"Awww shucks..." Karl joked, Ethan lightly punched his shoulder, "oh be quiet." They both laughed.

-

When they made it to the swamp, it was just as they thought, what was once the old bottom of the lake was now the bottom of the new lake.

"Shit." Karl sighed. Ethan stared at the water, which wasn't murky but wasn't clear, it actually looked like a normal lake and not like was Moreau was swimming in.

It looks so refreshing...

Before Ethan knew it he was at the edge of the lake, stripping down to his underwear.

"Ethan...?" Karl followed, but it was clear he wasn't listening.

Then he was in the water. He fully went under, then came back up. Karl's mouth was open.

Wait... am I in the water?!

Suddenly Ethan felt like he just woke back up. "How did I get in here?!" He panicked.

"You just walked right in bud!" Karl shrugged. "I thought you wanted to go swimming?"

"No! I don't even remember taking off my clothes! Or even getting in here! What the fuck?!" Ethan started to panic.

"Calm down Ethan, you're okay! Just take my hand..." he reached out to Ethan but he just swam back further.

"No." Ethan stared into his eyes. Karl felt a shiver down his spine.

"O- okay... you do you." He just say and watched him.

Before Karl could say anything, Ethan had swam out of sight. He sat there, for what felt like hours. Then he got up and started walking around the perimeter of the lake. "Ethan?!" He called out.

"Ethan come one Chris is probably back by now!" Just as he said that Chris grabbed him from behind, "WHERE THE FUCK IS ETHAN?!" He yelled.

"I don't know! We were just looking out on the lake then he just, took off everything but his underwear and just, jumped in! He freaked out, I gave him my hand and he just said "no." And swam off!" He pushed him away.

"Shit... shit! Did he look different?!" Chris pulled out his phone.

"No! He just, felt different. And I wasn't even touching him..." Karl sighed.

"Dammit. C'mon let's search, if we don't find him soon I'm going to have to call in my team."

"Wheres Rose?" Karl looked around.

"When I came back to your house you weren't there, so I looked around town, when I couldn't find you I dropped her back off at my camp, and started looking again." Chris started walking.

"Okay, I'm so sorry about this Chris, I didn't know he could-"

"Neither did I, and I don't trust you at all, so I suggest you keep quiet and just look." Chris said coldly, and Karl nodded.

They looked for an hour, and then they found Ethan laying down at the shore of the lake, near the dock with no boat.

"Shit did he drown?!" Chris ran to him, Karl followed.

"Ethan? Ethan wake up!" Chris turned him over, and then leaned in to hear if he had a pulse. Then sighed in relief. "He's just sleeping I think..."

"He passed out like before!" Karl kneeled down and felt his head, it was hot.

"Like before...? Wait are you talking about when he broke those dishes?" Chris snapped his fingers.

"Yes, he told you about that?" Karl sighed. He nodded.

"Well if he wakes up, he might vomit, he did that last time. So, just a heads up."

"Was it black? Like the mold?" Chris pulled his jacket off and signaled Karl to lift Ethan up.

"No, just normal; he was very drunk." He lifted him up, and Ethan groaned before he pulled away and fell.

"Ethan, please just cooperate..." Chris sighed. Karl pulled him up again, and Chris started putting the jacket on him.

"Shut up you stupid fucking bitch..." Ethan groaned, both Karl and Chris's jaw dropped.

"What? What did you just say?" Karl laughed lightly. Chris sighed. "He's delirious."

"Fucking Mia talked to me and she ssssaid, sh-she said, said..." Ethan interrupted himself with a cough. Then he spit out some black saliva but with no force so it ran down his chin. "Oh no... I'm gonna ruin my nice sh- shirt... I'm so sorry Mia..." he groaned.

"What shirt..." Chris raised an eyebrow, while slipping some gym shorts on him, which was originally for Chris to sleep in.

"No I'm in Louisiana... Th- the family j- just like... they cut this cops head in half... like a cantaloupe..." he giggled then started crying.

"Um... Chris what is going on?" Karl looked at him.

"I'm guessing he's kind of messed up from the fever, or he somehow got drunk." He took a small thermometer out of his backpack and shoved it in Ethan's mouth under his tongue. Ethan whimpered.

"103.5" He put the thermometer back.

"No I'm in l- Louisiana..." Ethan mumbled, then rested his head on Karl's chest.

"No you're not Ethan, you're in Romania." Chris pulled Ethans face to flash a light into his eyes.

"N- no... I'm in L- Louisiana a- and Mia is waiting f- for me to pick her up... th- there's so reason for me t- to be in Romania... cause M- Mia..."

"Ethan, Mia is gone, she passed away."

"Why would you say that Chris?!" Karl yelled.

"No she didn't! Fuck you!" Ethan wrestled trying to get out of Karl's grasp, but when he couldn't he kicked Chris in the chest, he was thrown back on his chest hard enough to knock the wind out of him.

"Shit! Ethan!" Karl struggled to keep him down, Ethan flailed around and made noises that almost sounded inhuman.

"Get down here now!" Chris yelled into his walkie-talkie. It took a couple minutes for the team to get down. But by then Ethan had managed to slip out of Karl's hold. 

Karl ran towards him to try and knock him down, but Ethan threw a punch with an insane amount of strength. Luckily Karl caught it, but felt something in his hand crack. He yelled in pain.

"ETHAN! GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!" He pushed back, ignoring the sharp pain in his hand.

"SHES NOT FUCKING DEAD! SHES HERE!" Ethan yelled back, a lower, hoarse voice managed to come through with his normal voice.

Suddenly Karl saw a man run up behind Ethan with a syringe, and he clenched his teeth when he saw the grotesquely long needle plunge into Ethans neck.

The force pushing against Karl's hand stopped, the fist had loosened and his arm dropped. Ethan's eyes rolled back and he fell forward, where Karl caught him. He was struggling to breathe, gripped Karl's shirt.

"Ethan..?" Karl whispered. He felt his heart break with every whimper of pain Ethan let out.

"The hell did you give him?!" He yelled.

"It's a toxin, it's killing all the metamycyte that was contaminating his brain." The man who gave Ethan the shot said as he helped Chris get up.

"WHAT?! YOU SENT A TOXIN INTO HIS FUCKING BRAIN?!" He held Ethan tighter.

"It's only targeting the mold, that fucking mold controlled Ethan to get into the contaminated water so it could spread to his brain." He continued. "Don't ever take him here again." He took off his helmet.

"Who the fuck are you!?" Karl caught Ethan again when he started slipping down.

"Noah Lory." He looked at Karl. He looked... well he looked cute.

"Well- well fuck you Noah!" He somewhat yelled. Noah smirked.

"Noah, quit being a bitch. We need to get Ethan to the camp." Chris lightly hit him.

"I- it hurts s-so" Ethan tried to talk but his body felt like it was paralyzed and his head felt like it was on fire and also freezing, being compressed but also on the verge of exploding. He was salivating but his mouth felt so dry.

"It's okay Ethan, just hang on. How are we going to get him there?!" Karl moved Ethan so he could pick him up bridal style, but Ethan yelled in pain when he lifted him up. "I'm so sorry..."

"There's no way in hell we can get a big enough vehicle to pick us up, we're going to have to walk." Chris sighed. Then looked at the other soldiers, "the hell were you thinking bringing that?!" He pointed to a small jeep. They looked down.

"Let's start walking then, Noah, you come with us cause you're armed the best, the rest of you- beat it." Chris rubbed his temples. The soldiers nodded and hopped in the car and drove off.

AN: this chapter is so long and for what, also y'all met Noah who I made up on the spot; definitely not horny and sucking every soldiers dick 👍🏻 also he a whore for Chris praise the lord for this bitch! 🙏🏻🙌🏻