Fic: The Beginning Of The End
Chapter: Three
Author: JR Boone
Rating: M for strong sexual themes and intense violence. Also I have the mouth of a sailor so every other word is a curse usually.
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or anything having to do with it. I wish I did. LOL that would be awesome. It would be like The L Word only musical. The song quoted at the beginning is "Down With The Sickness" by Disturbed.
Chapter Disclaimer: I have absolutely no knowledge of medicine or how the human body works, beyond watching House, CSI, and Scrubs. Seriously. None what so ever. So this is all bullshitted out of my ass. Any similarities in name or description to any real drugs are absolutely coincidental. Seriously out of my ass.
A/N: This has nothing to do with my Leave Me Alone, I'm Lonely verse. It's just something that I had to get out of my system. I'm not sure if I'll continue it. I suppose it depends on the response I get to this chapter.

I can see inside you the sickness is rising.
It seems all that is good has died.
Oh no the world is a scary place.
Now that you've woken up the demon in me.

The Hope Cure was actually a cocktail of highly volatile drugs. Had it been perfected it would have undoubtedly been the single greatest breakthrough of modern medicne. One shot could have saved countless people's lives.

The first drug in the cocktail was Cynthapridaline. Cynthapridaline altered the part of the brain that regulated the human body's hormones. It worked by severely decreasing the amount of melatonin and increasing the amount of adrenaline the body created. This mix of hormone manipulations gave the patient the energy they would need to keep their strength up throughout the recovery process. It also created an increase of heightened senses, due to the hormone manipulation. A common side effect was sensitivity to light. In high doses it created a complete inability to visibly tolerate UV rays.

The next drug was Plaxoclorazon, also know as Plaxo. A common side effect of most cancers was a severe decrease in appetite. Plaxo altered the patient's hypothalamus, the gland responisble for regulating leptin and ghrelin, effectively increasing the patient's appetite. This drug was intended to help the patient build up their energy levels throughout the recovery process. Common side effects were a tightening of the throat muscles surrounding the vocal cords and a perpetual state of hunger.

The third drug was Arbatritaline. Arbatritaline was a creation of the late Dr. Addams. Arbatritaline altered the part of the brain that regulated human being's moods. It was intended in laitance terms to act like the anti-depression medication given to person's suffering from depression, giving the person a more positive content state of mind; subscribing to the belief of mind over matter. The core problem with Arbatritaline was that it was highly unstable. Too little of it caused permanent feelings of depression and lethargy, too much of it caused permanent feelings of rage and mania.

The fourth drug was Retrinotycocol. Unlike the other drugs in the cocktail it was a USDA approved medicine. It was simply a bonding agent that kept the drugs in the cocktail together upon injection. It was a common agent in most drug cocktails and was actually pilfered from the cocktail of drugs given to AIDs patients. The only problem was in the wrong dosage it failed to come apart after injection.

The last drug in the cocktail was Zetaphalinapath, and this was the most important ingredient; incidentally it was also the cocktail's undoing. Zetaphalinapath was another creation of Dr. Addams' and it was what had been holding back all of his work. The intended affect of Zetaphalinapath was to bond to the patient's white blood cells and strengthen them so that they could search out the cancerous cells and eradicate them. In high doses it caused heart attack when the infected white blood cells reached the heart.

Instead of seamlessly bonding though the Zetaphalinapath had completely overpowered the white blood cells.

Contrary to popular belief the Hope Virus, as it came to be known, did not kill its victims only to reanimate them as the walking dead. After the heart attack the heart adjusted to the infected white blood cells due to the high dose of Zetaphalinapath that was strengthening them, this was due to the high dose of Cynthapridaline in the cocktail that was pumping adrenaline into their system, strengthening the heart muscle. The Retrinotycocol failed to come apart due to the high dosage used. This meant that the Cynthapridaline, Plaxoclorazon, and Arbatritaline stayed bonded to the white blood cells infected with the Zetaphalinapath and ran through the body, altering its intended targets.

Eventually the strengthened heart was able to overcome the palpitation, unfortunately deprived of oxygen the brain suffered irrevocable damage. When the infected woke up they reserved only the most primal of human distinctions, the instinct to feed.

Most characteristics of the infected were seen instantly. It was kind of hard to miss someone trying to eat you and screeching like a maniac. Other characteristics developed after time. Due to their inability to tolerate natural light those infected developed a pale washed out look after a prolonged time spent indoors during daytime. Their pupils also after time became permanently contracted and their iris' turned a sickly pale color from being burned by the UV rays that they did come into contact with.

The high dose of Cynthapridaline that had forever altered their hormone levels kept their bodies energetic and alert, but made it intolerable for them to be outside in sunlight.

The high dose of Plaxoclorazon that had forever altered their hypothalmus's normal out put of homrone made them perpetually hungry and also tightened their throat muscles so greatly that they could only produce a high-pitched shrieking sound.

The high dose of Arbatritaline that had forever altered the part of their brains that controlled their moods locked them in a perpetual state of rage filled mania. Intelligent reasoning aside, the infected ripped into their victims with their bare hands, inevitably leaving open wounds on themselves from being stabbed by splinters of bone.

The high dose of Retrinotycocol that insured the cocktail kept together upon injection failed due to the high dosage. This had the side effect that it kept all the drugs packed together with the Zetaphalinapath, which meant that coming into contact from the blood of one of the effected carried the high dosage of all of the drugs from one subject to the other, causing the Hope Virus to spread through blood. Thanks to the Arbatritaline it was assured that blood would be passed from subject to subject during the attack.

And the high dose of Zetaphalinapath that had forever altered their white blood cells strengthened their immune system to an almost super human level. It kept them so strong and healthy that their bodies could withstand almost anything but a fatal wound to the brain or heart.

Five drugs. Five drugs mixed together in a cocktail meant to change the face of modern medicine and save untold lives. One survivor noted in all of the chaos the irony of the situation.

"Congratulations Dr.Addams! You cured cancer you asshole!"
-Graffiti found on the south facing wall of the White House.