Sitting here with my cat, Loki, chirping at me for attention...it is extremely difficult to write with a demanding cat next to you batting at your hands as you type...

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Jaqui and Dr. Edwin Jenner

Jaqui was a kind lady, always smiling and laughing. She loved to watch us kids for our mothers when they were busy and was always there when anyone needed her. She was strong and she was absolutely beautiful.

My mom and Jaqui became close friends in the quarry and they were always doing something together it seemed. She had this ability to make things seem not so bad, always positive, like Amy.

Jaqui made it to the CDC with us, but she didn't leave with us.

The CDC didn't turn out like my dad had hoped, there was no safe zone and there was no cure, there was only a single scientist named Dr. Edwin Jenner who was still running tests in the abandoned facility.

Dr. Jenner didn't have any good news for us. He'd discovered that it was a virus that first killed you by shutting down your vital organs over time and then restarted the brainstem and rebooted the body's very basic functions...like hunger.

We didn't know this at the time, but he had also discovered it is a disease we are all infected with and even if we aren't bit when we die we will still become one of the living dead. But this wasn't the worst thing we discovered...

Jenner had given up after losing his wife and seeing all that happened after the dead took over and he was the last person left in the CDC. He told us that the building contained terrible things like smallpox and ebola and that he couldn't risk it ever getting out...so he was counting down the hours until a specialized explosion would occur and decontaminate the entire building.

Jenner offered us all to stay with him there, to end our fears and pain in a moment but the majority of us didn't want to die, not this way. Jenner finally opened the locked door to the central computer room and let us go...but Jaqui and Andrea wanted to stay and Dale wouldn't leave Andrea.

We ran as fast as we could, blew out a window, and piled into our vehicles. At the last possible moment, I saw Dale and Andrea climb out of the window we'd broken and they ran towards us, taking cover just in time before the entire building behind them exploded.

I watched the cloud of flames and smoke and debris with shock, the fact that Jaqui and Dr. Jenner were dead hit me and I hid my face in my mom's side to hide from the world.

Dr. Jenner had lost everything and had run numerous tests on his wife as she slowly died from the disease, he was more than ready to end this life. He deserved the peace of death.

Jaqui was strong...but she didn't want to live in this world, she wanted to go her own way and die clean and fast. I can't say I blame her and I never thought bad of her for taking the easy way out. I like to imagine she died with that smile that we all loved so much on her face. Somehow, I know she did.

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Bed time for this girl. My entire body is sore from doing CPR on a woman yesterday and I can barely move my shoulders without them locking up in pain. It's not as easy as it looks...

Reviews would be great...I honestly have no idea what people are thinking of this story and I would really like to know!