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"HISSSSSSSS" Lauren woke up in a cold sweat next to Nita. She felt a great jolt of pain, as if she was getting worse again. Terror flew through her mind as she sat up suddenly groaning in pain. She reached up to her hair to feel what was going on, hopeing not to fall into a relapse.

"I... don't want... NO NO MORE!" She shouted out. "NITA wake up, I'm.... I'm scared." Lauren actually admitted to the sleeping girl next to her. She couldn't believe it, she was scared. She needed Nita right now. And Lauren definately didn't want to go back to sleep.

Lauren reached out to Nita, "I... I don't know" She was panting heavily and felt very weak all of a sudden. "I... was feeling good then..." All of a sudden Lauren's skin felt like it was on fire. She held onto Nita tightly, possibly too tight, as the pain shot through all of her skin. Lauren's fur was growing in suddnely where it had shed. Her hair was also filling in fast. "OAAUUGHHHissssSSHH!" Lauren exclaimed loudly in a shrill animalistic voice. She sounded as if a human was fighting with a rabid animal, but the animal was wining.

"Changing?" The thought hadn't even been able to come to Lauren's mind through the pain. "I... would KNOW about thahat." She said stumbling over her words. She looked down at her skin, it wasn't visible under the fur. Even more fur then before. "Why DIDN'T I KNOW!" She yelled furiously.

She held Nita's hand harder, "It IS good though." Lauren started laughing hysterically, emitting little yelps in between her normal laugh. "I'm CHANGING!" The realisation finally came to her. YES, this WAS what she wanted? Right?

Lauren hadn't had much time to think about it before. "It... hurts..." She wimpered out. "It's cold Nita... how did it get so cold in here?" Her head was POUNDING at this point as cold shivers of pain and adreniline shot through her body. Fur continued to grow in as her muscles pulsed grotesquely. Lauren fell into a little ball on Nita's lap where Nita could feel the immense heat Lauren was putting out feverishly.

Lauren wasn't aware of much going on right now. "Nita don't leave me" She whimpered towards Nita as she went to get a washcloth. Be strong, be strong, you're tough. You can take anything she thought to herself. You've been through this before.

Easier thought then done, tears were streaming down her face as she curled up in a little ball. Finally all the hair was done growing in as Nita returned with the washcloth. It was another lull in the pain, a quiet before the storm. There had to be more then this and Lauren knew the worse pain had yet to come.

"Nita, don't leave again." She mumbled incoherently. "Don... I don't want the dark. I don't want to leave again." She hardly made sense but her mind really wasn't in working order at all right now for that was also changing. More instinct, more sense of smell, less focus. Her attention started darting everywhere, but always came back to the pain.

She could smell Nita, she could smell the worry emitted from her as she took care of Lauren. But the worse smell was her own fear.

Lauren lay there for a while, just enduring the pain as Nita tried to help out. It was hard though and even harder after the months in the coma held deep in Lauren's unconscious mind. She whimpered a bit as the next changes came to be.

Lauren's head was pounding horribly at this point. She let out a tramatised yelp as her hands clung tightly to her skull. Her horns were growing longer and nearly jabbed her hand before she pulled it away. Just then Lauren noticed her hands and legs ached like someone was pulling them on both ends.

She fought hard to stay conscious during all of this. No matter how painful it was, no matter how hard it was, she did NOT want to fall unconscious.

Lauren reached out her quivering hand for the pills. It seemed to lengthen as she grabbed for them. She clenched her teeth at the pain.

"Thanks." It was getting to a consitant point enough where Lauren almost didn't seem as aware to it. Her body was just reacting to the extremes she was feeling but the adreniline pumped into her brain masked blanketed the severity of it all. Shaking, Lauren took the pills and popped them into the mouth. She noticed her teeth had grown a little more pointed then even before as she felt the inside of her mouth.

She went to grab the glass of water but her hand flew out in agony flinging it out of Nita's hands. "AHHH!!!!" She screamed loudly as her hand finally ripped into a stable form. Her legs had also shaped themselves so now Lauren was digitigrade. She screamed loudly as that happend nearly choking on the pills as they went down her now slightly elongating throat.

"It's... GRAAUUG... So.. hahu... much" She managed to sputter out as her form kept changing. She had no idea how much would happen. It was as if all this time her body had put things off only for the changes to rip through Lauren like a broken damn.

Lauren writhed quite a while, still not quite finished with her change. This time though, the pain went to her face. Lauren's whole head seemed to feel like a pumpkin smashed by a jackhammer.

Her newly formed hand went to her mouth as she yelped a weird sound. Lauren's lower face was jutting out as her skull reformed under her skin. Her nose blackened even darker then before as her face took shape looking more animal now then human.

Eventually every part had completed where the dna had told it to be... for now. Lauren lay there as close to Nita as possible utterly spent. Now Lauren was no longer just as human as she was mongoose.

The macabre dna coctail had taken over Lauren's body and was making her even more of Moreau's 'little pet'.

Lauren had stayed awake through all the change, all that pain and torment. Now she layed there her eyes way more heavier then the were before.

"It's done... I think" She whispered. It hurt to speak, it hurt to move. It even hurt to breathe.

Lauren layed down where she was. She may have been in a ton of pain but she no longer felt weak. Now she had muscle mass, a shiny new coat, and more animal traits. All of that combined with the security of her girlfriend being there during the change made her feel comfortable to fall into dreamland.

"Thank you Nita... sorry." She said as she drifted off.