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Levi has a keloid scar

Crane plans to leave baby w Tammy and Levi

Levi won’t let Jess in until she threatens to tell the Hive what he did to Hannah (UGH)

Crane admits mental illness stopped his dreams, thinks how nothing happened to him but Jess was found in a boarded up room, her mental state has more “reason"

Though her at-home attempt failed Jess took pills and Crane couldn’t, the Hive got to him first

Levi and him have sex (it’s so much more than that but in efforts of being crass, I’m calling it sex) and then he breaks 2 of Crane’s fingers

Crane sticks his face in boiling water

Levi builds crib, Crane thinks how this baby means that Levi is always in him somehow

He’s disgusted w the kicks in Crane’s belly, finally realizing the consequences of his own actions, if anything goes wrong Hive will blame Levi

Levi found out Birdie and Aspen weren’t Hive people, their deaths would cause too much work to clean up (loved in their community, have a kid) so Crane has to cut them out or Levi will kill them

He has to make them hate him, you can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved, punches Aspen. Oh, this is so sad, Crane is so pitiful, so submissive and these 2 were friends, fellow queers, ready to up and leave for him

Jess, drunkenly calls out Crane that if he wanted to abort he would’ve done it, but she doesn’t know about the Hive, Levi, Stagger

Jess is pregnant w Levi’s baby! She wanted it gone, so now she’s bleeding out and Crane is struggling to get her to the hospital, risking breaking the rules, can’t tell Tammy she’s too loyal

Levi is at the foot of the stairs, he used up his one chance to break a rule...leaving the house

Stagger and Crane have a beautiful? Idk what to call it honestly, maybe just a moment of recognition, where S signs “Y” to motion between them both, and the sign for “sorry”, Crane feels S’s stomach, the worms wriggling under a parallel to the baby in him

Hive gets Levi to enforce stricter rules, if Crane breaks one he gets a broken bone

Tammy says she's been tasked for 20yrs to make sure no babies were born (can kill the moms, it's too big a risk), then she was told to just stay w Crane and now 2 pregnancies have popped up

Crane holds the plastic bag THE plastic bag, he goes to the woods, inside is no larvae, it’s human

He tries to attack the Hive but Stagger stops him, the Hive reprimands him, Crane gets to be outside, doesn’t appreciate it

Rules are set as he heads in to the 2nd trimester: no driving, always accompanied by Levi or Stagger, all blades, bullets and sharp objects are hidden or replaced, no more hunts, weekly check-ins w Tammy

Tammy calls saying a pregnant girl from another hive is here, he runs to go over, Hannah, 18 yo who’s only 20 wks, Crane is so jealous the birth will most likely be stillborn

He doesn’t want this baby and is convinced the Hive, who loves him, won’t make him have it, he would be the first one to have a baby in a Hive (I wonder why no one ever has)

Crane is so bitter about this, thinks it should have been Jess who messes up hunts and her own life

He was already struggling with feeling like a man but now, now it is so so much worse

MC thinks what must ppl go thru to choose the hive. Thinks about what Jess’s bf did. For him, it was to be comfortable in his gender

Hive is comprised of worms & flies, demands dead bodies, it’s utterly thankful, speaking of gratitude and love

Oh no, he’s pregnant. Abortys are illegal and he’s suicidal. He stays w friends Birdie and Aspen. He hears the door open and there’s a man in a hoodie and hive bite

Killer opening line. Male pregnancy.

Crane, trans man w autism, is hooking up w bf Levi, very rough while watching monitors. Girl walks up, disheveled and thirsty, called to the Hive. A worm bites you to bring you in, leaves a scar

Woman named Jess calls him to say she thinks she killed her bf, the flies told her to do it. Chose her. This is usually Levi’s job, and her bf is still alive. He takes hammer to finish