Janice Reeves
| Name | Janice Reeves |
| Race | Human |
| Type | Normal |
| Faction | Free Willed |
| Premiere | Cult of Corruption: The Summoning |
| Relative(s) | N/A |
Janice Reeves
"Yes, Mr. Wyatt. I am very infected now!"
Biography
Cult of Corruption: The Summoning
As seen in the novel, Cult of Corruption: The Summoning, Doctor Janice Reeves is a world-renowned expert on infectious disease. She was born in Fulton, Georgia, to a single mother who worked as a waitress at a local diner. She grew up in a small apartment with her mother and two younger siblings, facing many hardships and challenges due to their low income and lack of opportunities. Despite these difficulties, Janice was always passionate about learning and science, especially biology and medicine. She excelled at school and won several scholarships and awards for her academic achievements.
She attended Emory University, where she majored in microbiology and immunology, and graduated with honors in 1996. She then pursued her PhD in infectious diseases at Harvard Medical School, where she worked under the supervision of a renowned expert in the field. She focused her research on emerging and re-emerging pathogens, such as Ebola and Zika and developed novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods to combat them. She published several papers in prestigious journals and presented her findings at international conferences.
In 2008, she joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a senior scientist and leader of the Infectious Disease Response Team. She was involved in several outbreak investigations and humanitarian missions around the world, such as a measles outbreak in Samoa, a cholera outbreak in Yemen, and a malaria outbreak in Nigeria. She also collaborated with other global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) to improve the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
She is widely recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on infectious diseases, and has received numerous awards and honors for her contributions to the field, such as the Presidential Medal of Science, the Lasker Award, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She is also a mentor and role model for many young scientists, especially women and minorities, who aspire to follow her footsteps. Eventually, she moved to Dallas, Texas, and worked at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. It was here that her entire life would change.
Her day started much like any other, until a young man named Beauregard Wyatt burst into the hospital. He had reported to the Director of Nursing, Director Amber Hopkins, about an outbreak of a disease, and Amber reported it to Dr. Reeves. Janice decided that she would take a moment to interview him about this supposed outbreak of a disease. At first she noticed his eyes were bloodshot and considered that he might be on medications or illicit substances, but again, being one to play it safe, she humored him.
Bo told her that he was also infected with this strange STD, specifically leaving out anything regarding Nergal, the Codex Gigas, and Karen McAllen, and Janice opted to take a blood sample- again, more for drug screening than anything else. After sealing the vial, she she performed a physical exam. This is where, for the medical specialist, she would cross the line from the natural, scientific world, and enter the paranormal world of magic and monsters.
As Dr. Reeves held her stethoscope to his chest she was utterly shocked to find he had no heartbeat. That was when she became acutely aware of a soul body odor emanating from Bo. She recognized it as the smell of decaying biological tissue- a smell she knew all-to-well. As her mind tried desperately to form even a slightly reasonable hypothesis for this oddity, she held up his blood sample. As she held the container, she could see his blood appeared thick and dark, almost black- and the it began moving. Janice had only a second to register this impossibility, when the blood expanded itself and shattered the vial, propelling itself at Janice's face.
The slime moved as an entity, slithering up her neck and face in an instant, sliding up one of her nostrils. Outside, Janice shook and convulsed, and within her mind the voice of the god, Nergal, filled her mind. In only a few seconds, her brain itself atrophied and decayed into a cesspool of corruption. While most of her body looked normal as she opened her eyes and looked at Bo, concern painted his face. Her eyes had become a sickly green color. She understood everything, now she was part of the Cult of Corruption, and a servant of Nergal. She instantly fetishized the cancerous corruption spreading through her body.
As Janice touched herself, she thanks Bo for coming to the hospital and told him how she would now infect every health care giver and patient in the hospital. Her rotten mind began to use her vast knowledge of infectious diseases to contemplate ways to strengthen or mutate the infection. Sometime later, the prolific spread of corruption had indeed spread throughout the building. In Janice, Nergal had found a truly educated disciple, one that understood his wonderful virus better than any mortal before her. And with his voice bellowing unabated in her mind- she obeyed his desires.
She began numerous experiments on the very willing infected staff and patients, creating new strains of corruption and new mutations, even strengthening Nergalian units like Infesters and Squirms. And, as Bo and the Bureau of Demonic Analysis (B.D.A) agent, Mara Marek, struggled to stop the spread of the corruption and destroy the source, Janice continued with a religious zealotry to create ever more twisted creatures. By this time, High Priest Pestis, had converted the hospital, once a place of health and hope, into the Church of Corruption, replete with unnatural horrors of sickness and decay, with Janice as his prized pupil.
However, in the end, Bo Wyatt managed to stop the corruption by using his inherent Arcane Magic, and as the shockwave tore through the land and people, it burned away the demonic corruption within Janice as well. Like all the others in the Dallas Metroplex that had been infected and performed atrocious and debauched acts, she regained her humanity but remembered every sordid detail of her actions. The Infectulon Invasion occurred only minutes later, leaving a guilt-stricken Janice Reeves little time to comprehend what she had endured. As the hivemind began subsuming the minds of humans, it gained a concept of gods, and referred to itself as the Over-Master becoming a personality and yet remaining the sum of all infectulonian minds.
With this new threat, Janice has worked tirelessly on any possible or even theoretical cure for the virus. She had also considered bioengineering viruses that would kill off the infectulons- but leave humans unscathed. However, the deeds of her time as a vessel of corruption, under the control of the demon lord, Nergal, haunted her. Her actions weighed heavily on her conscience, and though it made her feel ashamed, some of her progress against the infectulons was based on what she understood and learned while creating horrid creatures for the cult.
