Will stumbled into his family's house, feeling feverish and tired. The 21 year old was visiting home from college for the summer, and had been out hiking when he began to feel unwell. He stumbled up the stairs and made his way to his room, falling onto the bed without closing the door behind him.
About an hour later, his 19 year old sister Hannah came home to her his car in the driveway, and also that the front door hadn't been shut properly. With their parents out of town for the weekend, she figured he was being absentmindedly careless without anyone to remind him about things. Calling out to the house, she said "Will, you where are you? You didn't shut the front door all the way".
Hearing no response, she made her way upstairs. Seeing his bedroom door open, she approached it and called out to him. "Will, are you in there?" She got to the doorway and looked into the room, and saw her him lying face down on the bed. But he didn't look right, not at all. If not for his t-shirt and shorts she wouldn't have been entirely sure if it was him.
There were strange, fleshy growths all over his body, almost tumor like. She stood there shocked for a second before going into the room to check on him. "Will" she whispered, "What's...happened? It was a lame question, she knew, but she was at a complete loss as to what was going on.
Will, either sensing her presence or hearing her whisper, rolled over. His face and torso were almost as bad as his back had been, and he weekly called out her name.
"Hannah..."