Adaptation: book I

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Author: Pepper Pace
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is going to come down and force me away from it!” She placed her hand on her belly and thought about Micah and Jody. They were buried here on earth, and here is where she would stay.
    Micah …
    Her breath hitched in her chest. They’d killed her baby, and the rest of them could believe their lies but she wouldn’t. She knew their purpose had been to take the humans. It had been their plan all along. The Blobs. That name was a kindness they didn’t deserve. They were a scourge that brought the ultimate genocide against the entire human race. And after the mass death and suicides, what was left was carried away to Earth 2.
    But there was no Earth 2. There was only Earth! The other was only an alien world, and she would kill anyone or anything that tried to take her from her world!
    She stayed with Maggie while she healed and was expected to stay on. It was unsaid. Humans who had found each other would naturally gravitate to each other. Maggie, however, could not tolerate having her things touched. She had allowed Carmella to stay but hadn’t given her a space. When she had tried to move some things into the hallway and out of a spare bedroom, Maggie had gone into a tirade.
    “Where is my cat? I can’t find my cat!” Maggie searched hours for Kitty, the cat that Carmella had inadvertently allowed to escape the week before. Carmella carried her gun and went out searching for the cat, not wanting to admit to what she’d done. And despite being deathly afraid of wolves, she searched for hours, never finding Kitty.
    When she had gone back to the farmhouse, all of the items that Carmella had moved out of the spare bedroom had been returned— and more.
    “I can’t find anything when you move shit around!” Maggie screamed. “Just leave it all alone! Don’t touch my things!”
    Carmella had said nothing, and the next day Maggie had calmed although still distraught about the missing cat. She left a can of tuna sitting out on the front porch and wrung her hands.
    “Kitty will be all right, Maggie,” Carmella said. “Animals adapt to the wild, even when they’re domesticated.”
    Maggie picked at the lice in her hair sullenly.
    “Maggie,” Carmella said, broaching a subject she knew had to be discussed. “When was the last time you bathed? Honey, your hair needs a good scrubbing. You have things living in it.”
    “Fuck you,” Maggie said, turning cold eyes on her. “You let my cat out, didn’t you? Admit it! You let her out!”
    “She—I didn’t know you had a cat and—”
    Maggie flew at her with her hands clawed, going for her face. If Carmella hadn’t fallen the woman would have gouged out her eyes.
    “Bitch!” Maggie screamed. “Bitch! You let my baby get away!”
    Maggie was stronger than she looked, and it took all that she had to keep Maggie’s gnarled hands from her face. Carmella had to knee Maggie in the stomach to end the attack.
    “You’re crazy!” Carmella screamed. “I didn’t mean it! It was an accident!”
    She ran into the house and grabbed her satchel. She didn’t want the clothes because they were probably infested with lice, but she needed her satchel and her guns. She hurried down the stairs where Maggie was waiting for her with a knife.
    “You’re insane.” Carmella raised her hands to show that she wasn’t holding a weapon. “I’m leaving, okay? Don’t worry. I’ll be out of your hair.”
    “You’re not leaving me, too! You’re staying!”
    Carmella’s heart began to pound in her chest. “I’m not a pet, Maggie. You can’t keep me locked in the house like I’m some damned animal!”
    Maggie looked confused, dropped the knife, and shook her head. “I’m—no no no. You can stay. I won’t …”
    Carmella relaxed. “I can’t live like this. I’m sorry.” She rushed past the woman, who grabbed for her with strong hands, but Carmella easily shook her loose. She ran for her bike, tossing her satchel over her shoulder. She had to kick-start it with her

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