A/N: I hope you enjoyed the first chapter and I have decided how to ultimately update each chapter from now on. I will update once, maybe twice a week and each chapter will only focus on the actions of one of the characters. So this chapter will focus on Dr. Jenner and the one next week will follow Sergeant James Davidson. As always enjoy, read and especially review its one of my favorite parts of this site. Also the guest that reviewed about Audrey Bitoni you clever soul.

The hot and humid afternoon was almost over, the sun was going down and already the unforgivable winds that stretched through the cold nights were already starting. It was almost dinner time and it was around this time that Zanzu found himself digging through his homemade crops. Consisting of a few Carrot seeds, some grain and lettuce.

Unfortunately his choice to go the all-natural route wasn't turning out as he planned. He came to that conclusion finally as he pulled up another carrot from the ground to see it green and un-edible. He shook his head in utter disgust and felt sweat trickle down his brow. Zanzu threw the carrot to the ground and wiped the sweat off, watching it trickle down his light brown skin.

'Another night of take out' Zanzu thought to himself as he picked up his hoe and rested it over his shoulder. He didn't understand the slightest the seeds looked in the best condition when he picked them up about a week and a half ago. It's like the soil is contaminated or something, 'maybe I should move the garden to a different spot in the backyard' he mused as he gandered around his decent sized yard.

A vivacious laugh caught the older man's attention and brought a smile to his face when he looked at his pride and joy. A young girl sat at a pink circular table, dressed as a princess. She held a small pink cup in her hand, the contents of the cup held the so called 'tea' while 8 other chairs sitting at the table were filled with various stuffed animals.

"Daddy" the young girl called out, "hurry up you're missing all the fun". She placed another sugar cube into the pink elephants cup. Followed by a warning to the elephant that too much sugar was bad for him.

"Alright Lara how about I join you right now, I think we are going to have pizza tonight" he said the last part more to himself as he eyed his garden.

"In those?" Lara started to eye her father up and down. When she was finished Lara shook her head in utter disapproval. "You can't wear that to a tea party".

Zanzu looked confusedly at his 6 year old daughter before looking down at his clothes, he grimaced and silently agreed with his daughter. His white tank top was completely covered in dirt and the life juices of a few carrots that he crushed in frustration. Then he looked at the holes in his jeans and just laughed.

"You're right Lara, daddy is a mess. I'll head inside get dressed and-"Zanzu cut himself off as he heard a slight shriek. He looked around the sky first to see if it was a bird, then shrugged when he found the skies clear. He was about to shrug the noise off but it happened again and this time it was a lot louder. The two covered their ears as the scream they heard was destroying their ear drums, Zanzu wanted to scream out in pain so badly but his lungs couldn't find the air to do so.

Just as he was about to pass out the shrieking stopped, immediately followed by the sound of wood snapping? Zanzu re focused his eyes and quickly looked to Lara to see her panting heavily on the grass, her eyes open wide and a small amount of blood dribbled down the side of her face. "Lara!" he yelled.

He picked her up after forcing his legs to move forwards and placed her back down on the seat she was just sitting in. "Baby can you hear me? Are you alright?"

"Daddy" she answered groggily a few seconds later. With a relieved smile he hugged her little princess and yet again the sound of wood breaking brought him back to reality. Zanzu turned around and looked to the back corner of his fence that connected his backyard to his neighbor's yard. Part of the fence was smashed open and in the middle of the fence parts was a single female. She was only wearing a white baggy t-shirt with matching white panties, the creamy coloring of the shirts matched her white skin.

Her eyes were soulless and she was trying to break through his fence, growling and biting at him and his daughter. Enough was enough.

Zanzu picked his hoe off the floor and knew it was time to confront the mystery lady. "Hey lady!" he called out as he walked protectively in front of Lara. "What the hell do you think you are doing? If you don't stop threatening me and my daughter I won't hold back".

Either the crazy lady didn't hear what he said or she just chose to ignore him because she broke off another piece of the fence, this time with her teeth. Only a single piece of wood was keeping her out of his yard. "I'm calling the police you psycho bitch".

Zanzu picked up his daughter and walked into his house through the sliding glass door. He locked the door behind him and walked into the kitchen. "Stay right there and don't move" he ordered Lara as he placed her in one of the chairs at the dinner table.

Zanzu placed his only means of defense, the hoe. On the counter top and picked up the home telephone. Quickly he pressed the buttons and it took two rings for the person on the other side to answer. "Cape Town police. What is your situation" the man on the receiving call answered rather dully, like Zanzu was interrupting something more important.

"Yes my name is Zanzu Bello of 1201 UNSC boulevard and there is this random women trying to break into my home and possibly attack me and my daughter." He walked over to a window next to his refrigerator and parted the blinds to see the crazy women still trying to break through the last piece of fence.

"Alright sir we will send a unit over to apprehend her and-"

"Daddy!"

With incredible speed Zanzu turned back to the table and saw Lara was missing. "Hold on officer" he said into the phone and grabbed the hoe from the counter. "Lara!" he yelled back and walked into the living room to see his daughter standing idly in front of the sliding door.

Zanzu felt his heart skip a beat at what he saw, it took all of his willpower not to drop the phone. He heard someone talking in the background as he continued to stare, sweat was coming out of every inch of his body. A slight pain in his chest gave him the signal to intake some oxygen. He realized that it was coming from his phone and he put the phone back to his ear.

"Something is wrong with her".

"Sir what is wrong? Tell me now, the unit will be there on the double. Sir?"

Standing proudly on the other side of the glass door was a 6ft woman with dirty blonde hair. That wasn't the weird part, despite only wearing panties. No the part that had him searching for more air was the skin, her pale skin looked to have been mostly peeled off her body and replaced by some sort of green skin. Then the lumps, one covered her right hip and the other was on her left shoulder.

"I think she is sick, I can't explain it there are these things all over her body".

Silence met his ears which was the last thing he wanted to hear. Zanzu absent mindedly grabbed Lara's shoulders and moved her behind him. Curious she moved her face slowly around her father's leg, continuing to stare at the woman.

"Sir you cannot let that woman in your house, she could be one of the infected with the new deadly virus". Zanzu noticed something change in the infected women's eyes and it was almost like he heard the officer say to keep her out. With a sudden charge forward she smashed her shoulder into the glass and created a large crack.

'She's breaking in!" he yelled and jumped when she rammed into the door again making the glass crack more all around. Zanzu knew what one more ram was going to do and yelled into the phone, "She broke through".

He dropped the phone and picked up Lara in one hand and his hoe in the other. Running away from the door he heard a shatter followed by the footsteps. He chanced a look behind him as he ran through his hallway and saw her tailing him, she definitely had speed on her side. Zanzu crossed through a threshold connecting the hallway to the front door and closed the door right in her face.

The sound of a door opening made Zanzu jump and he turned to see his wife standing in the doorway. She was dressed in a black tuxedo due to her being one of the major head bosses at an accounting firm downtown. "What is going on?" she asked and jumped in fright when the door behind her husband and daughter thrashed.

"Get upstairs now and hide in our room, I'll try to hold the thing off. Take Lara." Zanzu handed his wife their daughter and hoped that his wife would just listen, but no.

"Zanzu what is going on?" she asked visibly frightened.

"I don't know" he answered honestly as he brought his weapon up. "This women broke through our back fence and then she rammed her shoulder through the glass sliding door. She didn't even look fazed by the shards of glass in her shoulder and chased us."

The door busted open and the infected woman broke through. "Tiana go!" he yelled with urgency in his voice. Tiana saw the condition the woman in question was in and this time didn't fight him about it as she ran upstairs with Lara.

The infected jumped forward at an incredible speed. Not fast enough. Zanzu held out his hoe, the chest of the infected landing on the metal bar. He was holding her body back as her face tried to lurch forward and bite him!

Zanzu felt his arms to shake at the over powering weight, the infected was slowly gaining ground against his pushing. With unknown strength Zanzu used the right side of his hoe to push her back, which successfully made it stagger backwards at the unexpected shift. Then with a great speed and force Zanzu delivered a powerful kick to its chest. A blow that would have killed most people but this merely made the infected stagger backwards farther giving Zanzu time to get his ass up the stairs.

It didn't take long for the infected to follow him up the stairs. Zanzu yet again felt his heart lurch when he just barely shut the door before the infected ran into his bedroom. He put his back up to the door and knew there was nothing in the room to bar the door with. Looking at the bed he saw Tiana and Lara laying under the bed, hands over their mouths trying to stay calm.

The wood door was starting to give out on him. "Don't come out for anything you two" he said to them. It all happened too fast for Zanzu to think about anything. A part of the wood door burst opened and he felt pressure around his neck as an arm was currently chocking him from the hole in the door. He could feel the hot breath of the infected get closer to his neck as another hit jarred him away from the door.

With exceptional reaction time Zanzu spun around and faced the door. He put his arms out and used the hoe to try and block the door. The infected rammed the door two more times and was completely fed up now. It emitted a blood curdling shriek before ramming the door with enough force to move a freight truck a few feet. Zanzu was thrown off the door followed by the door swinging open. He got in a ready stance as it ran through the open door. He swung the sharp side of the hoe and immediately regretted the action.

The infected ducked under the blow and tackled Zanzu into the wall, almost instantly sinking its teeth into his neck. Zanzu screamed and wailed as the infected woman ate out his throat, trying desperately to throw it off of him.

Tiana and Lara watched in horror and tried their hardest to keep their breathing under control. They were watching the infected eat their dad and husband, helpless. Zanzu no longer thrashed only sat there motionless.

"Contact!"

The infected stopped biting and quickly jumped to its feet turning to the door. Tiana and Lara covered their ears as Weapons opened fire on the infected, dozens of bullets making contact with its body before it dropped to the floor. Lara took that as a sign and crawled out from under the bed. Tiana followed in suite but before she could get a few inches new people ran in.

"Don't move, don't move" two UNSC ODST troopers ordered them as they pointed their rifles in their faces. "Clear!" one of the called out and a second later two white men dressed in doctor scrubs walked in. One looked to be in his mid-Fifties and his blue doctor scrubs were covered in a mixture of blood and other substances. The second was a lot younger more like early-Thirties, his white scrubs were perfectly clean.

Dr. Jenner's kneeled down in front of the infected woman that was neutralized and nodded in approval at the hole in its forehead, this time it really was dead. "Oh Brittney" Dr. Bridges commented as he watched Jenner's continue on to the African American Male.

He checked for a pulse and felt nothing. "Is he alive?" Jenner's looked over to the African American female and young daughter holding their hands up, clearly scared of the ODST's and worried for what Jenner's assumed was the Father.

"I'm sorry" Jenner's commented flatly as he stood from the ground. In one fluid motion he pulled out his M6D and fired off a single round into the man's forehead.

"No!" the wife screamed as she jumped forward but a firm gloved hand stopped her advance rather swiftly. "What is going on? Why did you shoot my husband's corps? Why did that infected woman ea… eat m-my husband?" she could barely get that last part out before the little girl burst out crying into her mother's leg, wanting nothing more than her daddy.

Dr. Bridges looked at Jenner's furiously for shooting the fathers body so coldly in front of his family. Jenner's put a hand on the Captains shoulder and motioned his head backwards. The ODST nodded and backed off slightly. "I am truly sorry" Bridges and the ODST's were shocked to hear that word come out of the cold hearted CDC Doctor. "I wish I could tell you what has happened to that woman and why she murdered your husband so brutally. What we do know I cannot unfortunately tell you, it's classified to the UNSC and the CDC". The woman started to cry into the hands and with another unexpected move Jenner's placed a comforting hand on her shoulder which got her to look up from her palms. "I will not let your husband's death go in vain. I promise to find out what is happening and stop it".

The air in the room seemed too thin as everyone stared at the Doctor. "What am I supposed to tell our friends, neighbors and especially my parents?"

"I'm sorry but I'm going to need your cooperation mam. I can't let the world know of this, I need you to lie to them and make up a cover story". Jenner's felt heat travel up his body as the woman stared intently at him, he couldn't afford the population to know of this yet. There would be mass panic, looting and destruction of cities.

So you could imagine the breath he exhaled to fully calm his nerves down. "Fine, done".

Jenner's looked back at Dr. Bridges and saw the man give him an approving nod followed by a thumbs up. "Would you like help burying your husband mam?" Private Deangelo asked as he stepped forward from behind his Captain.

"Thank you, I would" she replied rather depressed. Those were words she was hoping to never hear or at least not hear for years to come. The two ODST's carried the body of Zanzu out into the backyard while Jenner's and Bridges stayed in the bedroom, looking at the decomposing body of Brittney. "All of the people I buried have been terminated" Bridges leaned down and closed the open eyelids of Brittney, finally putting her to rest. "We still have 20 infected persons back at the apartment, what are we going to do about them."

"The only thing we can do at this point" Jenner's said while fiddling with his M6D. He was still working on trying to reload the weapon, this being the first time he ever used his required fire arm. "We are the only two people allowed in that building from now on. We try to find the cure and if any of them die we have to put a bullet in their foreheads before they turn into those monsters."

"This is intense" Bridges commented before sitting down on the bed. He felt the comfy sheets brush against his sides causing his eyelids to drop slightly. He hadn't slept in about two days, the patients needing his constant attention 24/7.

"Agreed" Jenner's holstered his pistol and headed for the bedrooms exit. "We need to get back to the tent and get started on analyzing the blood samples I took, I believe it is also time for my report to my superiors". He added the report more to himself and knew that his superior was not going to like this at all.

(Scene break)

There was many ways people have been transported to the white house in the past decades. Each of those methods of transportation were only used during social gatherings or if there was a rather large problem. Telling by the logo on the side of the red Falcon when it landed a top the White House signaled that the occupant inside was not coming over for the common two martini lunch convo. A single men that looked to be of Middle Eastern decent jumped out the side of the Falcon. He had a rough looking beard and was dressed in a nice Italian style suit with black pants to match.

His taste of fashion wasn't the important problem though. In his gripped right hand was a data pad, a security lock easily plastered on the screen. Almost immediately a Secret Service agent walked up to him. They exchanged a few words which were rather muffled over the sound of the Falcons rotors. After a minute of exchanges the agent led him inside the White House.

They walked through the halls with haste and silence, there was definitely roaming eyes though. Even though he is on important business he couldn't help but take in his surroundings. Not many people in history could say they had been inside the white house, now he had that unique privilege.

The hallway he walked through intersected and they made a left which led to a pair of double doors. Two Secret Service Agents stood at guard outside and with a look at identification the muscle improved man grunted in confirmation, "Alright, Serkan Erdogan. Congratulations on being the new department leader for the CDC."

"Thank you" Serkan replied while fixing his glasses from sliding downwards.

"You may enter President Roland and Defense Secretary Paul Murphy Russel are waiting for you". Serkan nodded in approval and gripped his data pad tighter, prepared to deliver this news to the two most powerful men in the Unites States.

He pushed the double doors opened and took in his surroundings. The President's office, probably the most seen part of the White house. The wooden desk sat proudly in the back of the office, while two long couches were placed in the middle. The United States Seal separated the blue couches. Sitting in the couch on the right was Defense Secretary Paul Murphy Russel, he was dressed in his favorite blue suit with a black tie and black dress pants. A 5'oclock shadow clearly growing on his face that went along with his short brown hair.

Sitting in the couch on the left was President Roland. A very slim man with freckles that covered his face, his red hair was gelled back as usual. He was wearing his black suit with his red tie and black pants. The man was still in his 1st term, 1 year into it and Serkan was about to drop a bombshell on this man. A bombshell that might sink his presidency, the United States and possibly the whole planet.

"Mr. President" Serkan walked forward solemnly and held out the data pad when he was within arm's length. "We have a big problem".