We walk in, Guns up and pointed in all directions. Daryl, Glenn, and I are covering the back while the rest are covering the front, except for the mothers and their kids. I'm more of one of the guys because I'm ready to protect myself and the others unlike Andrea, Jacqui, Carol, and Lori. I guess I was just raised different or something- I don't know.
It's an empty building and all we can really do is look around, calling out for whoever opened the doors. We all feel pretty dumb I bet, for thinking Rick was crazy. I know I do. Thank God he saw that camera.
I hear a gun cocking and almost in unison, everyone with guns points towards the noise. It's one man holding a gun that I don't even know about. Well I don't know about any guns- I delivered pizzas for a living.
"Any infected!?" He shouts. He's a blonde guy, not built like Shane or the skinny muscular type like Rick but he has some muscle on him from what I can see. He looks smart, if that's possible, and he's wearing a white labcoat
"Why are you here? What do you want?" The man says, coming closer now. I put down my gun and go to my boyfriend, giving him this small smile full of hope because I believe this might be it for us.
"A chance."
"That's asking for a awful lot these days."
"I know."
It's quiet as the guy looks around at us all. He locks eyes with me, and I try to give myself this pleading look that I can see on everyone else's face.
"You all submit to a blood test, that the price of admission," as he says that I begin to turn around but Glenn grabs my arm before I can walk out the doors.
I don't like needles. I have this fear of needles and it's so bad when I was thirteen the guy nurse literally held me down gave me this mean look and was like 'you're gonna take this, ok?' And I felt really weird so I started singing Ice Ice Baby, I think that helps.
Rick is nodding along even though I didn't agree and then the guy is telling us to grab our stuff and we better hurry. Like damn.
Glenn grabs our stuff and everyone else has whoever grab theirs like Lori staying inside so Rick can grab hers. Once all the guys get back, Glenn is dragging me into an elevator because I hate these to. When I was like ten I was in the mall and my mom decided she was going to get in the packed elevator and left without me because all these people were pushing in front of me. Then later on it got stuck when it was going down again and I was alone but thank god my brother remembered he has a sister and told my mom I never got off the elevator. Yeah, my family loves me.
"Vi, seal the main entrance and kill the power down here." Vi must be another doctor or somebody because he's talking to this thing in the wall.
Glenn is still holding onto me in the elevator and I can't stop shaking my leg. A lot of people die on elevators, I'm pretty sure. Eliminating elevators is one of the good things about an apocalypse.
"Doctors always go around packing heat like that?" Daryl asks. I don't look at him because I'm still mad at him for not allowing me to at least sit on the motorcycle and it's too late now.
"Well there were plenty lying around and I familiarized myself. But you look harmless enough. Except you, I'll have to keep my eye on you," he says to Carl. I laugh quietly. I wonder how does the combination of Daryl and Shane look harmless.
Edwin, that's his name- the doctor- and this is my first time meeting someone named Edwin- leads us out of the elevator and down this hallway in silence until Carol speaks up, "are we underground?"
"You claustrophobic?" Dr. Jenner asks and Carol answers, "a little."
"Try not to think about it."
Yeah, because that's easy.
"Vi, bring up the lights in the big room."
I'm starting to realize there is no other doctors here and when the lights go on we see an empty room. Are they in hiding or...?
"Welcome to zone 5," Edwin says. I just have to keep looking around like I'm waiting for somebody to turn around and jump at us.
"Where is everybody?" Rick asks. "The other doctors, the staff?" He continues.
"I'm it. It's just me here."
"What about 'vi'?" I ask. Now that my suspicions are confirmed and I know no one else is here.
"Vi, say hello to our guests. Tell them...welcome." He says, speaking to no one I can see.
"Hello guests, welcome," I hear a robotic voice coming from some sort of intercom and my mind wanders. If he's ever craving like, sex, does he ask her to make noises or what? It's just him.
"I'm sorry. But I'm all that's left. Alright, let's start with these blood tests."
"No, no, no, no." I whisper to myself. I feel someone squeezing my arm and I know it's Glenn. Technically if he isn't going to let me back out then I don't really have to do this, right?
Yes, and a couple minutes later both Glenn and Shane are holding me down and I probably look like a freak show.
I really thought I could do it; he cleaned the spot and tied the band over my arm and I was all ready until I looked and I lost it. I got up and tried to run through the closed doors but Glenn grabbed me- I don't know why someone would force their girlfriend through this- and started bringing me back.
There was an argument about whether I should get the needle but they said 'a deal is a deal' and 'if you don't get one then everyone else won't want one' and so here I am with a huge man with a bunch of muscle holding down the arm I'm getting the needle in and Glenn on my other arm, rapping Ice, Ice Baby in my ear but I'm not paying attention, I'm looking in the small space Shane has between his arm so I could see the needle.
I make this weird loud noise sort of like a gasp but also like a scream as he pricks me and I think my face goes into this weird thing that I can't explain. "I feel my blood leaving my body! It's like-" I make a slurping noise- "is this what it feels like to die?"
I bite my lip and then I hear "all done" Lori is laughing at me and so is basically everyone else but all I'm doing is groaning because I'm about to fall because I feel so lightheaded.
"Are you ok?" Edwin asks with this giggle and Jacqui answers from her spot, "we haven't eaten in days."
After a second he goes, "Well, let's eat!"
Edwin cooked us spaghetti and garlic bread. It tastes just like heaven so right now I'm not even mad that I just got a needle anymore. Glenn and I are not at the table but we're by it. I'm sitting criss cross applesauce eating and Glenn is next to me drinking. Everyone is laughing at Dale who is telling stories and seems to be on this mission to get everybody drunk. Even Carl.
Lori let's Carl taste some wine and he thinks it's disgusting, which it is but I can't stop drinking it, maybe because I haven't had some in so long.
"Stick to soda pop, bud," Shane says, which makes me laugh even more because I'm drunk. I'm that crazy drunk as much as I hate to admit it.
"Not you, Glenn," Daryl and says and Glenn gives him this confused look, "keep drinking little man, I wanna see how red your face can get." I start laughing harder and make this weird snort sound. Everyone starts laughing at me until Rick taps his glass with the spoon like the fancy men. Ha! Fancy men that's funny.
I start laughing again, I can't even help it.
"It seems to me we haven't properly thanked our host," Rick announced.
T-dog interrupts him by saying, "he is more than just our host!"
We all thank him and Daryl even yells Booyah.
"Wait guys, I know how to thank him," I say, making everyone look over at me. "Zombie strippers," I continue being completely serious. "I saw it in a movie once, she shot pool balls out of her vagina!" I try to explain but nobody is taking me serious because they all start laughing.
"Ok, time to stop listening to majesty," Glenn suggests. I gasp because that's rude. I grab the bottle out of his hand and take big gulps until Glenn takes it back.
"So when are you gonna tell us what the hell happened here, doc?" Shane said seriously, "all the, the other doctors, they were supposed to be figuring out what happened. Where are they?"
"Shane, we're celebrating. Don't need to do this now," Rick tried to stop him from ruining the mood but fails because Shane goes on, "woah wait a second, this is why we're here, right? This was your move. Came here to find all the answers but instead we find him. Found one man. Why?"
"Well, when things got bad, a lot of people just left. Went off to be with their families."
"And when things got worse, when the military cordon got overrun, the rest bolted."
"Every last one?"
"No, many couldn't face walking out the door." Jenner pauses. "They opted out."
I don't know what that means. Haha. Maybe I'm the blonde. No, not all blondes are dumb. Amy is so smart.
"There was a rash of suicides. That was a bad time," the doctor continues and then Andrea- oh, a blonde!-asks, "you didn't leave, why?"
"I just kept working. Hoping to do some good."
Glenn gets up and walks away from me so I jump up and walk over to him. "Don't be sad, baby." I kiss him and bite his lip when I pull away. I turn around, smiling, "nobody be sad! We have wine! And food!"
The group nods their heads, agreeing with little old me and then going back to our joyful conversations.
I'm watching Glenn undress. But he doesn't know it because I'm gonna scare him. The doctor told us we can shower in hot water and so that's what we're all doing now. I want to shower with Glenn so this is where my brilliant plan came from.
When he turns on the water, I go inside the stall he's in and get under the water with him. He jumps before realizing it's me and then rolls his eyes.
"What are you doing?" He asks and I roll my eyes.
"Showering." I take off my shirt, and then my bra. "With you."
Right now I'm thinking of having sex with Glenn all night after what we did in the shower. Glenn keeps telling me I'm drunk and now- because I just fell flat on my face- I believe him. Still want to go crazy. Just a bit.
But who cares because Glenn is drunk too. Glenn is so drunk and I don't want to take advantage of a drunk guy, you know? But I really don't want to go to sleep.
So we don't.
"Wake up, wake up." I hear my boyfriend's voice in my ear but I can't open my eyes. My head feels like someone is taking a sledgehammer and beating my skull in. "T-dog has eggs and there's aspirin."
"Glenn, how could you keep me awake all night and then try to wake me up now?"
"You kept me awake!"
"I'm not gonna argue, Glenn, my head hurts."
I don't know if he leaves but I kind of want him to keep arguing with me. I groan a loud, loud groan and grab my temples, rubbing them in circular motion. All I really remember was Glenn rolled off of me in whatever round it was and then passing out. I tried to see if it was morning until I realized there was no windows, and then passing out too. I woke up naked in the middle of the night or day, put on a shirt and underwear and then went back to sleep.
I have to get up, and so I let myself roll off the bed and onto the floor. I check the wine bottle to see if there is anything left and there isn't any. I'm crawling until I get to the door and then I stand.
The hallway is empty and I hear no chatter when I get near the dining area. When I look Inside it's empty. There's a bottle of aspirin on the table and I take some and dry swallow. There's Eggs in the pan and so I take them and eat them with my hands. I don't know who made them, but they're good as hell so I take my time and eat them all, waiting to see if anyone is going to come back in.
When no one does I start walking again until I get to the lab and hear people talking. I see a brain is on the screen. It's all black.
"-everything you ever were or ever will be...gone." I'm so confused in to what's going but everyone seems sad. Andrea looks at me and motions for me to come over. We've been getting along much better lately and I'm thankful for it. I stand next to Andrea, and Amy smiles at me.
I look around and see everyone else does look sorrow. "We lost some just a day ago," I explain our moods to Jenner.
"I lost someone, too." Edwin says, lacking grief He turns around quickly, "scan to the second event."
I'm not listening to Jenner, I'm watching the brain come back to life but it's not alive at all, according to Jenner, the frontal lobe isn't lit up-I don't know- and the part of the brain making it unique is gone.
"Just a shell driven by mindless instinct."
Something rips through the brain and I recognize it as a bullet obviously. I turn around and walk to Glenn now because I don't feel good. That wasn't really something I wanted to see. I probably should've stayed asleep.
"Do you even know what it is?" I turn around, asking Dr. Jenner.
The very angry Andrea speaks before he can answer, "you don't know what is it, do you?"
"It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal-"
"Or the wrath of God," Jacqui suggests. I raise my eyebrows and shake my head with a scoff. My mother always told me how great God was but how he would come for all the sinners one day. If this the case, why are all these innocent children dead? And some of the worst people alive?
Andrea continues with her rant. "Somebody must know something. Somebody, somewhere!"
"There are other facilities, right?" Carol asks this question and then I actually start to listen because I need to know if I'll ever be able to go back to my apartment with my boyfriend, watching movies and eating pizza.
"There may be some. People like me."
"How do you not know, can't all of you Communicate somehow?" I ask.
"I've been in the dark for almost a month, the communications, directives- everything- it all went down."
"What about everywhere else? You're telling me that there's nothing, anywhere?"
Jenner says nothing, which means I'm right and the whole world has gone to shit. "Oh my god." I stretch out the God as I put my face in my hands. My whole family could be dead for all I know and I'll probably never know. The whole world could be gone, we could be the only survivors here.
"I'm gonna get shitfaced drunk. Again," Daryl exclaims. His gruff voice makes me laugh sarcastically for whatever reason. I go to see if he has any alcohol because I just might want some and then I see something I never noticed before.
There's a clock on the wall with big red numbers and it's counting...down. "Hey doc, one more question. What is that clock that seems to be counting down? What happens at zero?" I point at the wall, and then smile at Jenner. It's an agitated smile, of course; my specialty.
"Oh, the basement generators shut down," he says it so nonchalantly but there's this hint of something else in his eye.
Rick notices too and he asks Jenner what else but ignores us. "Vi, what happens when the power runs out?"
"When the power runs out, facility decontamination will occur."
I find myself running to the basement with the guys. Last time I stayed with the woman I almost died and got punched in the face. It's unlikely this time for any of that to happen, but I still go downstairs.
"What's decontamination?" Glenn asks like any of us are supposed to know.
"Doesn't matter, Jenner clammed up about it like he was hiding something. It doesn't sound good," I say to him. I'm in front of him, running down. "I know a lot about the trades since I went to a technical high school, I can probably help with whatever you guys are gonna look at most likely."
"Something ain't right, the way he just wandered off like that," Shane adds to what I just said and I nod along. T-dog starts talking some mess but it's not anything important so I don't pay attention. Rick stops at the map in the wall and then leads us to the left.
Rick tells Glenn and I to go one way and him and Shane go the other. I'm looking around but don't see anything important. "What do you think about all of this?"
Glenn hasn't spoken to me about anything that's been going on and usually we talk everything over. Maybe we just don't have time to right now but I like talking to my boyfriend.
"I don't know what to think."
"I'm always going to support you, I want you to know that. I support you with that baseball hat so you know I'll support you through anything else. You can talk to me, glenn."
"Majesty, I know."
The lights go off before I can respond to him and we run along with T-dog to meet Rick and Shane.
"Did you guys kill the light?" Glenn asks in a panic.
"Nah they just went out, did yall find anything?"
"Dead generators," I answer, rubbing my fingers on my temples. "There's no more fuel. Everything is empty."
I look at the last running generator with the flashlight. "This is basically gone, too. What happens when a CDC shut itself off?" I turn around and ask the guys who don't know the answer to my question.
I hear more whirring, "we gotta get back upstairs!" I turn around and leave whether the guys follow me or not- and they do.
We all hightail it upstairs as fast as we can, realizing the stairway lights are now off. When we reach the floor the rest of the group is waiting expectantly. I see Jenner with a big bottle of liquor in his hand, ignoring everyone.
"What's happening, Jenner?"
"The building is designed to shut off all nonessential power and keep the computers running to the very last second. That starts at about the half hour mark. As we get near the computer area and see the clock Jenner says, "right on time."
Daryl snatches the bottle out of the doctor's hand and that's when he starts speaking again. "It was the French."
That really clears things up.
"They were the last ones to hold out as far as I know. While we were blowing our brains out and bolting the doors, they worked to the very last second."
"What happened?"
"Same things happening right now. They ran out of juice. Lost all power."
Where did this thing start and how did it spread all over so fast? It seems like I just woke up one morning to chaos and cannibalism until I realized these cannibals were not even cannibals at all, they're dead people. And they came out of nowhere.
Shane goes to attack Jenner and to be honest I would like to join him but thank God we have the level headed Rick. "Everybody get your stuff, we're getting out of here now!" He screams. It wasn't too calm but still more level headed than kicking the doctor's ass.
Glenn and I start running along with everyone else. We don't have a lot of stuff thankfully and can grab it all and go. We also didn't unpack anything.
I cover my ears as an alarm starts blaring and I press my hand to my chest to feel the rapid beating of my heart. Everybody is yelling about the alarm and all I'm worried about it is getting out.
"Decontamination process to start in thirty minutes." Vi says. We really start to get out of there but a huge metal door comes up out of the floor and locks us in the room. I stop in my tracks and turn around as Glenn yells that it was Edwin who just locked us in.
Daryl-do I even have to say it- goes to beat the shit out of Jenner- once again, good plan -but Shane grabs him. I cover my ears and sit in the floor, rocking myself back and forth. There really is nothing I can do, nobody can do anything. Whatever happens at decontamination is not good, I know it and I have a feeling it's going to kill us all. All I hear is Jenner yelling for a second before it's talking that I can't make out because my ears are covered.
"Majesty! You went to a technical school? What's a H.I.T?!" When I hear my name, I uncover my ears and it's Rick yelling at me. I know what a H.I.T is, not really sure how or when that ever came up but I know.
"It's like a gas, it has the highest blast power ever except for like a nuclear explosion. It's an explosive. It ignites all of the oxygen to maybe 5000 degrees or higher." I sniffle and wipe a tear, "it's going to set all of our air in fire."
"Exactly, no pain. No suffering," Jenner says and I pretty much lose it.
"You do not get to decide that for us! It's our lives." I try to charge at him and somebody catches me, Rick I believe, and I turn away, crying. "Open those fucking doors!" Daryl yells and Shane is actually with him this time. They go at the door, using axes against it. All the guys are trying their best, really while all the women are sitting doing nothing, including me. Every so often I wipe my tears so they don't roll down my face. I don't want to join the idiots trying to break down the door and I don't want to listen to Jenner at all so I'm alone in the corner. I'm about to die and I'm not panicking which is a surprise to me and most likely everyone else here.
Amy comes and sits next to me, wrapping an arm around my shoulder and pulling me me into her. We cry together for a while. I end up laughing as I try to think about something else. I think to myself about who I am. I enjoyed horror movies and pizza so I was the average American. I also liked taking off my bra and shoes like the average women. What do they call the female version of the average Joe? Ugh! I'm stalling in my head and it's bothering me so much.
I don't want to join the chaos that is the group but I stand up and walk over there slowly and weakly.
"This is our extinction event," is what I hear Jenner say before the crying of lori, Carol, and the children. All I do is grab Glenn's hand and look down at the extremely clean floor. Reminds me of my mother and her obsession with cleaning.
"This isn't right," I look up at Carol as she begins talking, "you can't keep us here like this."
"A moment. One millisecond no pain," Jenner tries to explain and since I'm not stalling in my own brain, the anger I feel quickly starts settling in.
"Stop trying to justify this. We are trying to survive, we didn't come here to get blown up. We came here to try and live. Don't try to play God and decide how we die. If we all die painfully then that's on us, but you can't lock us in here and choose our fate!" I yell, and then start banging stuff with my free hand because I never let go of Glenn's.
"Wouldn't it be kinder? More compassionate to just hold your loved ones and wait for the clock to simply run down. The second you leave here, all of you might get attacked and torn up to bits-"
"Like I said, you don't decide that for us!"
Next thing I know Shane is holding that shotgun of his and pointing it at Jenner with Rick trying to stop him. I'm yelling at Shane too, he isn't thinking straight and I understand that. He's got the gun barrel on Jenners face but the doctor isn't budging.
Shane let's out this scream the like the hulk and starts shooting computers. Glenn grabs me and guards my body from the Sparks with his own. Then Rick and Shane start fighting but it's really only one sided because Shane gets knocked on his ass by none other than officer friendly.
Everybody is panting with crazy eyes and I'm just sitting here in awe because I never thought Rick would beat up Shane of all people. We learn something new everyday.
"I think you're lying," Rick says, "I think you're lying when you say there's no hope. If that was the case you wouldn't be here, you would've bolted with the rest of them. You chose the hard path. Why?"
"It doesn't matter," Jenner answers.
"It always matters. You stayed when other ran. Why?" Rick leans forward and looks Jenner in his eyes.
"Not because I wanted too," he stand up, showing the emotion he had been lacking for the past twenty minutes. "I made a promise, to her...my wife."
He points up. I knew he did freaky stuff with vi. Poor Vi, she's a robot but you've got to be real sick to do that.
"Test subject 19 was your wife?" I hear Amy say. Oh. That makes more sense. Don't mind me. My brain is killing itself with stupidity.
"She begged me as long as I could to keep it going, how could I say no?"
Daryl isn't in the mood for sob stories, I guess, and so he starts banging on the door with the axe again. Did he not hear that it can withstand a missile or some shit like that?
I turn my attention back to Jenner as he tells us about his wife, "she ran this place, I just worked here. She was a loss to the world. She was an Einstein in our field. She could've done something about this."
How is this relating at all to how he is locking us in here? Oh right, it doesn't. My bad
"All we want is a chance. Your wife had no choice, but you- you do. Let us keep trying, please."
"I told you top sides locked, I can't open those."
The doors opens and we all start running and yelling. Glenn is basically dragging me and I'm trying not to fall because I'm a clumsy person. We only have four minutes left and Rick and Jacqui are still not out yet.
I go to grab her because I love Jacqui all the same. "Baby girl, I'm staying."
"What!? That's completely insane!" T-dog yells at her. "No, it's completely sane. I'm not ending up like Jim or Ed. You all need to go, don't try to argue."
She hugs the shocked T and the turns to me, wiping my tears. Jacqui is the sweetest woman ever, funny and caring. "You have to go too, stay with Glenn. You both really love each other, I can tell as long as you're together nothing bad will never happen. You're so beautiful, please, stay safe," she kisses my cheek and I give her a tight hug before hands are pulling me away and I turn around and run.
Then there's Andrea sitting there with Amy arguing with her. "Andrea!" I yell at her, not getting the slightest reaction. Glenn grabs me and starts pulling me out of the room. I'm sobbing harder than ever because all of the good people are dying. The group races up the stairs and up to the entrance where we first arrived. Soon enough we realize the glass is unbreakable as the guys try to break it with every effort. Guns, chairs, axes- nothing is getting through that glass.
I fall to the floor and allow myself to cry because even if we're up here, we're still dead. Jacqui is dead, Andrea is dead, Dale is dead, Glenn is dead. We are all dead.
"Rick, I have something that might help," I look up at Carol's voice and see her reaching into her backpack, pulling out a grenade.
"Everybody, get back!" Rick yells and Glenn is covering my body it's his own, again. I hear the boom a second later and all the glass shattering before we have to get up and run. I stay behind this time because I don't have a gun on me and I'm counting on the men to shoot all of the geeks. Most of us get into the Rv and we are about to drive away but we see Andrea, and Dale climbing out of the window we just broke.
Rick looks at his watch and they start yelling for us to get back and for Dale, Amy, and Andrea to get down. Glenn pulls me back and I see the fire through the windows before I get down and hear the loud explosion and feel the heat radiating from the building which just collapsed. I look up and see the rubble and it makes me cry. Maybe Jacqui was right. I can't predict the future and I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know if Glenn and I will make it.
Once Glenn comes back from opening the door for Andrea and Dale I bury my face into his chest and cry silently as the Rv roars to life and we drive off.
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So I was thinking, and I looked at all of your suggestions and then I was on Instagram and I like the girl from empire but then I don't know because lately I've been feeling Selena Gomez, you know? She is so pretty and if having a big butt is an issue she doesn't really have one. I don't know.
So when do you think Majesty is going to get separated? It's sooner than everyone thinks. And I just need one more review to update.