(Daryl p.o.v.)
"Your killing us! Your killing us!"
Rick. Rick keeps banging on the doors to the CDC repeatedly.
"Stop it Rick! Stop!"
Lori. She keeps grabbing at his shoulders trying to pull him away.
"Where do we go now?! What about the children?!" Carol only thinks about the kids again. Sophia at her hip, hugging here, kept looking everywhere, back and forth, scared that walkers would suddenly come out of nowhere like in the camp. I kinda felt sorry for the poor girl, even for an adult, this is straining.
"Dad!"
Carl.
"Please! We have women and children!"
Rick again.
I can't stand it. That idiot cop doesn't know shit and now we're fucked. I wanna hit somebody, shoot a walker, and maybe even hit that cop, Rick, until I can't anymore. Even though we were in a shit filled area, just when we got hopeful, we got shittier. This might be the zombie apocalypse but you'd think things would work out at least a little bit.
"Well, "Boss", any other bright ideas ta fuck us over?!" Couldn` help it. I yelled at the prick. First he leaves Merle on the roof, and now he led us ta a lost hope. I'm going to kill this bastard. None of this just seemed fair. All of a sudden he comes into the picture and we're supposed to fallow blindly? Look where that's gotten us. Screwed over. Big time.
I grabbed him by his little cop costume and turned him around to face me.
"Let's go!" Just when I was going to knock his ass out, the metal door to the CDC opened in front of us. The group just stood there like a bunch a little kids amazed by a party trick. Didn't take me long to snap my ass back into gear. This is a matter of life and death after all. Just because others can't keep up, doesn't mean I have to die with them. I'm not going to end up like my old folks from home. Too stupid to fight for your life and move fast enough to survive what gets thrown at you.
"Well? Need any more of an invitation." Pushing Rick out of my way and towards the door, I slowly made my way inside with the others, crossbow at the ready.
To say the place was creepy was an understatement. The walls were mostly made of a grayish metal. It all just seemed cold to me. It looked deserted too.
"Were any of you bit?" I pointed my crossbow at the source of the voice just to find that it came from some guy. Not too much older than us, but old enough to say he could throw his back out without too much effort.
"Nah, one was before, but he didn' make it." I told him. I won't lie, I did feel bad for the poor guy, he was a nice man and didn't deserve to die the way he did. Before we came here, we were attached by a group of walkers the other night in the woods at our camp. We lost two people that night. Andrea's sister, Amy, and Dale's friend, Jim. I'm sure Dale will miss him and Andrea, Amy. It was a real shame. They were both good people with good intentions. He nodded to me. And looked to the others with cautious eyes. I can tell that he doesn't trust us but we're already here now.
"Please come with me." He led us up the stairs that I didn't notice before and we head through the place like it was a maze. Now that I get a really good look at the place, it looks from what I was expecting. It was cold and a little strange, but it has a technical feel to it. sophisticated. Smart. The floor's carpeted and there's glass windows on the inside. On the outside it just looks like marble and metal, kind of like an interrogation room in a police station.
-Time Skip-
"Is this really necessary?" Andrea asked.
"You say you weren't bit, but every creature does rash things when faced with death. Lying being one of them." I listened quietly by the wall while Dr. Jenner took our blood samples. Says he just wants to be sure and blah, blah, blah. If anyone of us was bitten then Shane or I would have taken care of them a long while ago. But he has a point. When my dad was bit he tried to kill Merle and me saying that he was 'special'. Yeah, special my ass. He just didn't want to be proven a bigger dumbass than he already was. In the end, Merle and I killed him and buried him in the back yard.
"Alright, you're the last one." He said and looked to me. I sighed and got up, walking over, sitting in the chair in front of the doc. There's a table in between us with some needles and viles. Some filled with blood and others spotless clean
"Now, just extend your-"
"I know how this shit works." I snapped at him. He simply nodded and did what he had to do. While he was taken my blood, I noticed in my peripheral vision that the door to the room moved a little, too much for it to be nothing. I turned my head over and looked at it for a minute. Again it moved.
"Ey! Who the hell is back there?!"
"*Sigh* Come on out Glenn, it's alright." Now, what I expected was a puppy or a little kid to come running out to his master or daddy. Not an Asian boy in about his early 20"s in a white baggy shirt that almost went down to his knees and flip-flops. Nope. I didn't see it coming at all. He's tall but shorter than me by maybe an inch or two. Thin too, and not too puny. Looks an average guy. He's a bit tan though and looks a little feminine with a quick glance.
"All right, everyone, meet the other inhabitant of the C.D.C, my son, Glenn." Jenner introduced. I never would have guessed they were related. Doesn't look like his dad at all.
"You have a son?" Shane asked.
"Yes, he's all I have left in the world." Andrea patted him on the shoulder in understanding while Glenn just stood there awkwardly. Now that I think about it…
"Ey Glenn, Why'r you dressed like that?" He looked at me strangely for a sec before looking down at himself. He blushed and started babbling on.
"Sorry! I had taken a shower, dried off, and started getting dressed when the intercom said that we had people entering the facility." I couldn't help it, I laughed at the poor kid. He couldn't be older than 19 or 20.
"So you rushed kid?"
"I'm not a kid! I'm 22!" He huffed. He's not that much older than I thought he was. But I laughed more at the reply. Talk about young forever.
"Alright, china-man."
"I'm Korean!"
"Got it, panda express." Just when he was ganna respond, Jenner intervened.
"Knock it off you two. Now, how about I show you all to your rooms." He smiled. I could tell it was fake though. He just didn't seem right. Off to be more accurate. His smile seemed more forced and his eyes just looked too far away in another time.
"Thank you kindly." Rick replied. We all got our stuff together and fallowed the doctor to where we were supposed to stay. Glenn stayed close behind the group but kept looking back and forth between everyone, like he expected one of us to jump him and his dad at any moment.
"You okay back there kid." He looked up at me and looked away nervously.
"Yeah, fine." I nodded and kept on moving down the halls. The halls are marbled brick painted white. When we came to my room I couldn't say I wasn't impressed.
It was pretty big. There was a twin size bed in the left corner, a nightstand right next to it, a TV in the other corner across from it. Next to the door was a large dresser. Nice one too. Next to the TV was a mirror that went from the ceiling to the floor. I liked it over all. Simple but big.
"I like it, so I'm jus' ganna get some shut eye." I went in and basically plopped on the bed. I heard my door shut and just relaxed and eased into the peace and quiet. Even in the woods it wasn't this quiet. Always had to be a bird flapping it's wings or the last embers of the fire dying out and crackling. But this? Was perfect to say the least.
"Uh…" I sat right up and my eyes met with Glenn's nervous ones. I hadn't even heard the kid walk in. Was he the one that closed my door? Sneaky little chink.
"The hell? What're you doin' in here, kid?" To say I was little bothered by this kid just sneaking on in here is an understatement.
"Um, well, what's your name?" He rushed out. I sat there for a second before asking-
"Is that what you came in here for?" He nodded slowly.
"*sigh* Names Daryl."
"Daryl….I see… Well, I best get going." He smiled awkwardly at me. Like he didn't know what else to do.
"Yes, you do." His smile fell a bit but it didn't look bad at all. Nice actually. Wait. What? Actually, I just don't care right now. I'm tired and will get back to it in the morning. Glenn opened the door.
"Well, night. I'll see you in the morning." Then he just left. I laid back down and let my eyes drift shut. Today might have been good after all, even if Rick was only thinking a glass half full about the outcome of this place. That Glenn kid even seems a bit interesting. Or weird. Ah what the hell, a little a both never hurt anyone that much. Though Jenner? He may be being nice to us but I don't fully trust him right now. But. That's all enough for the morning to unfold to me.