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Paul & Marcy

Paul & Marcy is a Het ship between Paul and Marcy in the Cabin Fever series.

Canon
Paul & Marcy refers to a brief, but passionate physical relationship that occurred in the movie Cabin Fever.

Background
Paul and Marcy were among a group of 5 college students who went on a vacation to an isolated cabin in the woods. Marcy was Jeff's girlfriend at the beginning of the trip, while Paul was secretly in love with his childhood friend Karen and held hopes that he could begin a relationship with her during the vacation.

A series of disturbing events fueled panic and disunity among the group. First, a vagrant with a Flesh-Eating Virus arrived at the cabin, provoking a fight in which the group accidentally set him on fire, killing him. Then they discovered that a large, aggressive dog was roaming the surrounding woods, making it unsafe for anybody to leave the cabin. Finally, the group discovered that Karen was infected by the vagrant's disease when she developed bloody sores and became gravely ill.

Eventually, the group collapsed when they realized that Karen was too sick for them to drive her to a hospital. Jeff ran off in to the woods alone to avoid being infected by anyone else, effectively ending his relationship with Marcy. Bert, the 5th member of the group, drove off to a general store the group visited at the start of their vacation, where he intended to summon help for Karen.

Getting Together
With Karen unconcious, Paul and Marcy were effectively all alone in the cabin by this point. Marcy began to despair about their chances for survival and Paul comforted her. But Marcy remained convinced that they were both doomed to contract the illness and die. Reasoning that they might as well make the best of a bad situation, she assertively seduced Paul and they had passionate sex.

Unknown to either of them, Marcy was actually infected with the disease by this point, but she had not developed symptoms. Paul expressed concern that they were not using a condom while they were having sex, but Marcy (incorrectly) assured him that she was healthy. As a consequence of this mistake, Marcy passed the disease to Paul.

Aftermath
Paul immediately regretted sleeping with Marcy. Not trusting her previous assurance of being healthy, he attempted to disinfect his genitals with mouthwash as soon as they had finished. Shortly afterward, Marcy discovered red marks on her back (which were the earliest symptoms of the disease), but blamed Paul for causing them by being too rough with her as a lover.

Paul was extremely uncomfortable being around Marcy after sleeping with her and soon left the cabin, claiming that he intended to go find Jeff (though this was later proven to be a lie). Marcy pleaded with him to stay with her in the cabin, but he refused.

She later realized beyond doubt that she was infected with the disease, when she discovered huge sores on her legs. In a panic, she ran out of the cabin where she was quickly cornered by the aggressive dog and mauled to death. Paul heard her screams and raced back to the cabin, but was too late to save her. He discovered her remains and was almost killed by the dog himself, but he was able to shoot it dead before it reached him.

After numerous other misadventures, Paul, now completely riddled with the disease, staggered out of the woods and in to the path of a school bus, which subsequently struck and killed him.

Trivia

 * Extra scenes in the director's cut show the gradual development of a relationship between Paul and Marcy in the lead-up to their ultimate physical encounter. One scene in particular shows Jeff sleeping all alone (presumably because he is unwilling to share a bed with Marcy who might be infected), while Marcy shares a bed with Paul. These scenes are missing in other releases of the film, making their decision to sleep together seem even more random.