let's see, I haven't written in a while but after watching containment and seeing Katie die I was just inspired. And inspired in the way that I was unsatisfied and unhappy with her death. Yet, overall I loved the series it was amazing. So here I am putting my own spin to it. The story will start at the begging of the episode of when Katie gets infected and it will file the story until she dies then it will change into my story. Hope you like...
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"How can Satan cast out Satan? If A kingdom is divided amongst itself, that kingdom cannot stand."
- Mark 3:23-24
Chapter 1: A Kingdom Divided Amongst Itself
The days they've been trapped inside the coordinator as some may say have been hell on earth for all the residents. Some more than others.
Without Quentin and Jake, Katie would of been able to say the same. In these dark days Jake had in some ways becomed a beckon of light for Katie, as she had to him. They both were able to find live inside the cordon.
At first Katie had been afraid of her ongrowing feelings for Jake, but as time passed she had began to put it aside. She thought that with her troubled past, Jake would had wanted nothing to do with her. Yet, he had proven her wrong time and time again.
Today being the 13th day being trapped inside the cordon, she found herself opening the door that lead to their cots, a smile illuminating her face. Jake had been insisting a date and she had found it impossible to resist. Her excitement was clear in her voice.
"Hello? Jake?"she called out her eyes searching for him, yet landing on the blanket spread out in the middle of the room, with food rations and water bottles on top. If it had been possible her smile would of grown wider. Walking towards the room she keep her eye out for Jake. It didn't take long to find him.
He was hiding in a corner with a guitar in his hands. When he spotted her, he began strumming random string and singing off-key "Oh Katie, my Kay. Oh this song I must play" he stoppedd to take a quick breath while she giggled away. "To start or lunch date." He finished.
She couldn't help it her giggles turned into a laugh. "It was awful."Jake began with a shy smile, clearly amused at his own attempt to play for her. "No, that was beautiful." Katie in fact had founded it beautiful. Because even though Jake didn't know how to play or to sing, he had attempted to play for her and that was something no body had ever attempted to do.
"What did you get that guitar?" She asked, the curiosity getting the best of her.
"It was in a chapel." He explained. "It was this or the electric organ. Guitar was lighter. So that's why I..." He joked, getting a smile out of her.
"Anyway, picnic?' Jake changed the topic out of embarrassment. "Absolutely" Katie said turning to walk towards the blanket. "You look nice." He complemented her. "You like my picnic shoes?"she joked with him, jumping around in a little dance to show off her shoes.
"Oh, wow. I do" he joked along. "Actually I'm a little- a little jealous."he said looking down at himself. He was wearing the same clothes he had been wearing since the quarantine started.
"I could check in the lost and found. See if they have another pair."Jake chucked at her offer. "Please do that." He responded to her joke as they lowered themselves to sit in the layed out blanket across from each other.
"So what's in the menu?" Katie was impressed that although they were low on rations Jake had still managed to scrap some stuff up. "Oh, well. We have a, uh, a fine assortment of dehydrated meals. I heard the vegetarian taco pasta is-is heavenly." He joked with her.
"Is that right? Okay." She giggled.
"Yes, we also have some dried fruit. And if your lucky... There might be some astronaut Ice cream." He finished explaining with a bit of humor.
She gasped playing along " there might be." He said again.
"You really speard no expens," they both laughed at her comment. After their laughter died down, Katie couldn't help it. Her gaze landed on the guitar. Jake noticed it. Looking back and forth to the guitar and back at her.
"You play?" He asked her. "Hmm? She asked in reply looking at him in surprise. "A little" she admitted, with a smile.
Jake reached over and grabbing the guitar, passing it to her. "Hmm?" He asked silently asking her to play for him.
"I never play for anyone except Quentin." She said trying to deny. "Please?" He asked again. Like before she couldn't deny, she accepted the guitar and placed it in her hand, adjusting it to her body.
"Fine, but you cannot laugh." She told him in mock warning. "Wouldn't dream of it." He assured her. She began playing a few string testing the waters.
"I'm not gonna look at you while you..." He began reassuring her. "Don't. Close your eyes."she said "Nope." He agreed, facing his head down, closing his eyes.
She began playing again, giving a quick glance to Jake to make sure his eyes were close. Yet as she did he opened his eyes giving a quick peak, but laughing as he saw he had gotten caught, closing his eyes again.
She kept on playing, and began singing. "Every Sunday, I got a window of time. Where I can free my mind." Jake gave up closing his eyes at the sound of her voice.
"I climb into the sky,. To places and dreams. Like spain and to greece or to Africa." He looked up, enjoying himself as he saw her looking down to the guitar as she carefully picked each note smiling as she continue the song.
"Oh, cause I'm my world I could fly," Jake couldn't pry his eyes off her. He knew he was in love with her yet he couldn't stop the overwhelming feeling come over him as he looked at her enjoying herself. "I could fly as high as I pleased" she sang looking up to him a shy smile in her face, and looking away. " You see, in that world. I could fly, high above the sea." She looked up again and chucked finishing the song she sang "Cause it was Sunday in the sky." She laughed.
Yet that laugh was short lived as Quentin ran inside in panic, getting both Jakes and Katie's attention. "He took them. Ray took Mary and Britney. He tried taking me, too. But i wouldn't go." Quentin told them panicked.
"What?" Katie asked alerted by the situation. "He said people are breaking out." Quentin explained. Both Jake and Katie turned to face each other panic and shock in both faces. Katie put the guitar aside as both stood up.
"Did you see where they went?" Asked Jake getting his uniform on.
"No." Answers Quentin. "Come on, bud." Said Katie leading Quentin out of the room.
Katie and Jake got ready to leave as she asked nurse Helen to take care of Quentin. At first Quentin refused wanting to go with them but after Jake explaining that he might become a liability amongst the crowd he accepted to stay.
It wasn't long before both of them found the place were people were begging to crowd. People yelling asking to get out. Rioting with the sharpest objects they could find. "We want out."was all that could be heard amongst the crowd, as Jake and Katie ran along the sidewalk watching in horror at the mess of a crowd.
"This isn't good." Jake said. "I don't see them." Said Katie in panic those children were her students and she had vowed to protect them she couldn't let anything happen to them.
As soon as Katie had said that. A motorcycle spotted Infront of them. The driver looking at Jake and then at Katie, before driving of.
Jake looked down at himself heading the situation. "Come on" he said walking backwards asking Katie to follow him. "What's wrong" she asked.
Jake began taking off his helmet. "My uniform" he began explaining. "I'm a moving target in this thing. Here. I'll ditch the gear and circle back. Just tuck in here. I'll be right back." He motioned her to hide. "I'll be right back." He told her as he whent to take off his uniform. She did as she was told. And hid on the side of the building.
Jake foud a near by trash disposer and began to take his uniform off leaving his vest and helmet behind it. Feeling a bit more comfortable he began to move looking for Ray and the children bumping into an old comrade from the force.
"Messe? What the hell are you doing?" He asked suppressed seeing him inside the cordon carrying stolen goods from the store he had just walked out from. "Surviving." He answered.
Jake pushed it aside. He had more important things to do. " I need your help. I'm looking for a guy with two 11-year-old girls." He asked for his help desperate.
"Are you serious? What? Your still playing cop?" Messe asked in disbelief. His rejection in his voice.
"Come on Messe. Let's go!" Said a gang member from behind Messe running towards a truck to leave the riot.
"Yeah, I'm still playing cop. You're running with these guys now" Jakes accusation was noticed by Messe.
"Hey, don't guilty me. At the end of the day, I'm gonna live through this. You know what happens to heroes. They die, Jake!" Said Messe as he left. Jake didn't have time to beg.
Running towards the crowd, he put Messe's comment aside. He wasn't gonna die not Katie or Quentin or him. They would make it through it and live together outside the cordon.
Jake kept his look out walking amongst the crowd. He was able to see them soon enough.
"Ray!" He yelled out running towards them. "Ray!" He said again, anger in his voice.
"Britney's under my care. If I decide to get out of here, were gonna get a..." Jake cut him off. " Listen. No one getting out. No one getting out" he told him, trying to get him to come back. " Where's Mary?" He asked noticing her missing.
Ray looked down to Britney as in to decide wether to tell Jake or not.
"What?" He asked noticing the exchange. " We had to leave her." He told Jake.
"Leave her where? Why?" He asked angered.
"She got sick" explained Britney.
"What, you mean like sick sick?" He asked in disbelief as he saw Ray puck up his face mask nodding as confirmation leaving.
Jake couldn't believe it. Yes there in a virus infested city but the though would have never occurred to him.
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Katie was in hiding waiting for Jake to come back. She had told herself countless of times since he left that she would wait for him and not move she couldn't rush getting infected when she had a life to live for. Yet, when she saw Mary walking in the streets confused , looking around as the people around her when riot crazy all that slipped her mind. She was so considerate that setting her cough as she when inside a vehicle for her hiding slipped hey mind.
She had found her. " Mary she called out in disbelief. Out if nowhere a truck came speeding, what came next was something Katie wanted to avoid.
"Mary!?"she yelled again trying to warn her of the on speeding truck but she was to late. A motorcyclist came out of nowhere with a licor bottle in flames throwing it. Causing an explosion. The driver inside the truck swirled trying to get away of the flames causing it to impact with the truck may was hiding in.
"Mary!" Her name slipped involuntarily out of Katie's mouth in panic she ran towards the truck avoiding all they people.
Opening the door she saw Marys bloodied body laying in the back seats.
"Mary. Mary wake up." Katie tried walking her with her gloved hand. Seeing she wasn't walking her only thought was to get her out of the crossfire. As best as she could she picked up Marys body , taking her out of the truck. Yet as she did she didn't notice the over head in her panicked causing herself to bump into it opening a wound on the side of the face. She put the pain aside and ran with Marys body in her arms. This couldn't be happening. They had made up until now. So why now? She just couldn't understand!.
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"Katie!" Shouted Jake looking around. He had gone back to look for her to tell her there was nothing to be done. Yet, when he had gone back to the place he had left her she wasn't there. Her absents left a waking panic inside him.
So he ran, his eyes dating back and forth in look for her. He didn't expect it, when he had found her. Katie sat by a side walk cradling Mary's bloodied body in her lap. Her face was void of emotions, she looked empty.
"Oh, God." He let out. This couldn't be happening.
"I couldn't save her." Katie said looking at him. Her voice cracking as she felt tears wanting to slip.
"No." He said in denial. It wasn't Marys death that made him deny-
"I tried." Her meak voice interrupted his thought. " I tried to save her."
"Put her down." He told her trying to hide his panicked. It couldn't be!
"Katie put her down." No! This couldn't be happening.
"She's dead." Katie said in denial.
"Put her down. Put her down" he said a bit more forcefully. " Please just put her down." The panic escaped him for a mear second yet Katie got what he meant.
Her face contorted in sick as she began to put Marys body down on the floor. She looked up at him still in shock. Jake couldn't help but sway. He felt like throwing up this couldn't be happening. No! No! No!
"Was she...?" Katie began to ask but stops afraid of the answer she would get. Jake couldn't answer as he looked at her, panic surging through him ever since he founded her with Marys body.
"A-Am I?" She asked again in denial.
"I don't know." He said. It's true right? He asked himself. There's no way of knowing. For all he knows maybe Ray just freaked out for nothing. Ray was a coward so it could be that she isn't... Right?
He was going into denial. She gasped afraid. " I don't know. I don't know" he repeated trying to make her feel a bit better even thought they were both panicking.
She looked at Marys body in disbelief. A few tears escaping her.
" Come on." Said Jake trying to get her to stand up and get her to the hospital. He couldn't touch her he couldn't risk it but that didn't mean he didn't want to with all his being. He wanted to hold her and tell her everything would be all right.
She looked at him again and in a panicked she started to stand up. They both rushed to the hospital
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As soon as they enter the double doors Katie headed to the hospitals showers. She needed to get all this blood of her.
She headed into the nearest shower and turned the water on not caring where it was hot or cold. She had to get the blood off! She put her wbody under the water taking her bloodied jacket off. Then her shirt leaving her in her tank top. With shaky hands she grabbed the anti bacterial soap and began to wash off the blood in a panic.
She couldn't help her body from jumping up and down trying to avoid contact with the bloodied water, yet the blood was already on her. Her hands worked in a rushed manner trying to get everything off.
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Outside the showers, Jake found himself sitting against the wall listening to the water fall as tears ran down his face. It's going to be okay. He told himself over and over again. This was the woman that he loved she would make it through she had to. SHE WOULD BE FINE!.
A yell bubbled up inside his body. yet, he resisted. He layed his head in his hands and let the tears fall his cry dissolving with the sound of water. She would be okay. He told himself again and again trying to get himself together.
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"Some first date, huh?" Jake asked. After their meltdown they had both been able to get themselves together in order to get Katie in a quarantine. They both had to put others safety into priority, especially Quentin's safety.
Katie smiled at him, through the glass, her eyes watery.
"We don't know she was sick." Jake told her, as a mean of comfort.
Katie nodded. It was true, they didn't know all that had was Ray's word and that could mean nothing.
"Ray's as paranoid as they come. I mean ,I don't trust anything that guy says."
Katie nodded. " Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure you're right." She smiled at him reassuringly and he did the same through the glass.
But that smile was full of unshed tears. That looked at each other for a bit longer until Jake spoke.
" You want me to go get Quentin? You ready to see him?"
She nodded, her face red of all the crying. " Yeah" she said in a quiet voice.
The feeling they both felt was overwhelming. He put his gloved hands against the glass as a way of telling her that he was there for her. Through the good and bad.
She layed her hand in the same place his was through the glass. Tears threatened to spill. Her eyes never leaving their "connected" hands.
"Hey. Hey" Jake says getting her attention away from their hands. " You're gonna be fine." He said through a cracked voice. She nodded in agreement " yeah." She smiled.
Right now all they had was hope but it was enough, for now. Reluctantly he pulled away , in search of Quentin. She watched as he left. And when he was out of site all her self control left her.
She gasped in horror. Her mouth unable to close as she tried to breath, tears falling from her eyes.
A scream rippes through her. She screams as loud as she can. Letting her frustrations and fears go with it for the moment.
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Jake walked away from the room that was quarantining Katie. He didn't look back as he wa feeling like he would break he decided he needed time to pull himself together before getting Quentin so he paused when he reached the corner of the hallway. His body leaned to the wall asking for support. Slowly he felt his body hit the floor as it slided along the wall.
For what seemed like a hundredth time he felt tears escape. He sat crying silently and wasnt surprised when he heard her scream flood the hall.
He wanted to do the same. To scream to the world and ask why!?Why her!? Yet, he knew he had to be strong. Not for him but for her and Quentin. He wasn't alone in the world... He has to think about them.
So he picked himself up and wired his tears. Be strong. He told himself for them.
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To Be Continued...