I wake up to the sound of a knock on the door. I'm a bit surprised to hear someone groaning behind me until the events from last night come back to me. I take a breath to calm myself. Slowly the arms around me start to pull away. I let out a groan myself as Daryl's warmth is replaced by the colder temperature of the room. I hear him get up from the couch and walk to the door.
"What?" Daryl asks a bit harshly after opening the door to see who was there.
"Just wanted to see if Vi was up." I hear my twin say. I chuckle as I sit up in bed.
"Shouldn't you be able to sense it or something?" I ask loud enough for the guys to hear me. "You are my twin after all."
"Well, you weren't before I knocked were you?" He asks knowingly. I stand from the couch and head towards the door.
"I guess." I smile as I walk around Daryl so I can see my brother. "I'll head down to the cafeteria in a minute." Rick nods in reply before walking off down the hallway. I step away from the door and go to my bag to get a change of clothes. Daryl shuts the door and does the same. I face one corner of the room and start changing. I didn't even think about the fact that Daryl is also changing in the same room. Once done, I put my PJs back in my bag and look over to Daryl to see if he's ready to go.
"Go ahead." He tells me, and I leave to get some food. I have a slight headache that will get much worse if I don't eat something soon. I run to the cafeteria and see that Shane hasn't arrived yet.
"Hey Aunt Vi!" My nephew say way too loud for my liking.
"Hey kid." I answer him. "We got some food? My headache is gonna get worse without at least some eggs."
"Lucky for you, pretty lady, I just finished cookin' 'em." T-dog says. "They're powdered, but - but I do 'em good." He finishes, stretching out the last word. I hear a groan across the table as eggs are placed on a plate and set in front of me. "I bet cha can't tell." T-dog says as I look across the table to see Glenn in serious pain. His hangover must be insane right now. I laugh to myself.
"Protein helps the hangover." I tell him as T-dog puts some more eggs on the poor man's plate. I hear a rattling to my right and see that Rick has a bottle of pills in his hand.
"Where'd all this come from?" He asks.
"Jenner." Lori answers him.
"Could you help me, please?" My brother asks her as he holds the bottle of pills out to her. Lori nods as she takes it from his hand and starts opening it.
"He thought we could use it." She says.
"Thank you." Rick says.
"Some of us, at least." She says as she looks over to Glenn.
"Send a couple my way too please." I chuckle.
"Don't ever, ever, ever, let me drink again." Glenn groans as Lori passes out the pills. I down mine with the orange juice in front of me.
"Hey." I hear the voice greet the room. I tense up and look to Lori.
"Hey." Rick answers back. Shane walks by the table to get his own food. "Feel as bad as I do?"
"Worse." Came the man's answer. Lori is just looking down at her plate, so I do the same.
"The hell happened to you?" I hear T-dog ask him. "Your neck and eye?"
"Must've done it in my sleep." Shane makes up an excuse as he sits across the table from us.
"Never seen you do that before." Rick says.
"Me neither." Shane agrees. "Not like me at all." I look up a little bit and send a glare his way. I look back to Lori to see that she is looking at me. I nod slightly to answer the question she clearly wanted to ask.
"Mornin'." I hear Jenner say as he heads straight over to get coffee.
"Hey, doc." Shane greets him.
"Doctor, I don't mean to slam you with questions first thing-" Dale starts to say, but Jenner interrupts him.
"But you will anyway." That's when I feel someone come up behind me and look over my shoulder. I look at the person and see Daryl. I shoot him a weak smile before he walks around the table to get some food for himself.
"We didn't come here for the eggs." Andrea speaks the obvious. A slightly awkward silence falls over the room. We finish our food pretty quickly, and then Jenner leads us back to that big room with all the computers. He goes to one of the computers and presses a few buttons as he speaks to the AI.
"Give me playback of TS-19." He says. As the group walks farther into the room, I stay back by the door. Something doesn't feel right.
"Playback of TS-19." The A.I. repeats. The large screen in front of us boots up.
"Few people ever got a chance to see this." Jenner starts. "Very few." The visuals were an X-ray of a person, brain and all.
"Is that a brain?" My nephew asks.
"An extraordinary one." Jenner says, turning to the boy to answer him. "Not that it matters in the end." He continues as he turns back to the screen. Everyone is walking farther into the room as Jenner continues to speak. I can sense the mood in Jenner's voice. Something is really not right, so I stay where I am by the door. No one notices. "Take us in for E.I.V.."
"Enhanced internal view." The A.I. says as the picture changes from a direct view of the subject's face to a side view. It looks like whoever it is, is laying down on a table. It zooms in to the brain. Lights can be seen flashing through the person's brain. It is amazing. I see many members of our group sit down in my peripheral vision. I am sucked into the image on the screen.
"What are those lights?" I hear Shane ask.
"It's a person's life," Jenner begins to explain. "Experiences, memories. It's everything." He points to the screen. "Somewhere in all that organic wiring, all those ripples of light, is you. The thing that makes you unique, and human." It's beautiful. Every single one of us is so different, even Rick and I. Each of us has that image going on in our brains right now. But like a snowflake, each one is just a little different. No two the same.
"You don't make sense ever?" I hear Daryl ask. I smile at his words.
"Those are synapses," Jenner explains further. "Electric impulses in the brain that carry all the messages. They determine everything a person says, does or thinks from the moment of birth to the moment of death."
"Death?" Rick pipes up. "That's what this is, a vigil?" He walks closer to Jenner.
"Yes." The doctor answers simply. "Or rather the playback of the vigil."
"This person died?" Andrea asks. "Who?"
"Test subject 19." Jenner says. "Someone who was bitten and infected," He pauses. I can hear the sadness in his voice as he speaks. It must have been someone he was close to. "And volunteered to have us record the process." He directs his attention to the scree as he directs the A.I.. "VI, scan forward to the first event."
"Scanning to first event." The visuals pull out of the brain so we can see the person laying down again. This time, a darkness is present and working its way through the brain.
"What is that?" Glenn asks. I continue to stay silent as I watch from the door.
"It invades the brain like Meningitis." Jenner explains. "The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown," The darkness overtakes more and more of the brain as he speaks. "Then the major organs." The brain goes completely dark, and no sparks of life are left. Breath escapes me as my own brain processes what just happened. This person died before our eyes. "Then death. Everything you ever were or ever will be...gone."
"Is that what happened to Jim?" Sophia's small voice pierces through the silence of the room as she asks her mother the question.
"Yes." Carol answers her. There is no reason for her to lie. This is the world we are in now. As I think of the ones we've lost, I feel myself start to tear up. Jenner looks to Andrea, whom is the closest. She's crying, remembering her sister's death.
"She lost somebody two days ago." Lori tells him. "Her sister." The doctor walks up to Andrea.
"I lost somebody too." He tells her. "I know how devastating it is." At that moment, my thoughts were confirmed. TS-19 is that somebody he was speaking of. "Scan to the second event." He tells the computer.
"Scanning to second event."
"The resurrection times vary wildly." He says as the screen speeds up the time. "We had reports of it happening in as little as three minutes. The longest we heard of was eight hours. In the case of this patient, it was two hours, one minute...seven seconds." Suddenly, a pinkish reddish light flash through the bottom portion of the brain, by the neck.
"It restarts the brain?" I finally speak. Few turn to look towards me.
"No, jut the brain stem." Jenner says as he turns to look at me over his shoulder then back to the screen. "Basically, it gets them up and moving."
"But they're not alive?" Rick asks. Jenner looks at him and gestures to the screen.
"You tell me." The doctor says. Rick looks to the screen.
"It's nothin' like before." My twin points out. "Most of that brain is dark."
"Dark, lifeless, dead." Jenner says. "The frontal lobe, the Neocortex, the human part, that doesn't come back. The you part. Just a shell driven by mindless instinct." Something pops onto the screen, and suddenly there is a hole through the brain. They shot the test subject. They had to put them down.
"God. What was that?" Carol reacts.
"He shot his patient in the head." Andrea answers. "Didn't you?"
"VI, power down the main screen and the workstations." Jenner says.
"Powering down main screen and work stations."
"You have no idea what it is, do you?" Andrea asks Jenner.
"It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal." He's listing off all of these things, but he's not being specific.
"Or the wrath of God?" Jacqui adds.
"There is that." The doctor says.
"Somebody must know something." Andrea speaks again. "Somebody somewhere." I continue to watch the good doctor's expressions.
"There are others, right?" Carol asks. "Other facilities?"
"There may be some." Jenner answers. "People like me."
"But you don't know?" I ask as I start to slowly walk down the stairs.
"How can you not know?" Rick adds.
"Everything went down." Jenner answers yet another question. "Communications, directives...all of it. I've been in the dark for almost a month."
"So it's not just here." I say as I stop half way down the stairs.
"There's nothing left anywhere? Nothing?" Andrea asks. "That's what you're really saying, right?" There is a long pause as that information sinks in. I sink down to sit on the stair below me. I take some deep breaths as I bury my face in my hands with my elbows resting on my knees. Is there really nothing? "Jesus."
"Man, I'm gonna get shitfaced drunk again." I hear Daryl say.
"Dr. Jenner, I know this has been taxing for you and I hate to ask one more question, but..." Dale says. I uncover my face and follow the older man's movement to the other side of the room. "That clock..." He points. "It's counting down." I look to the digital clock on the wall and see what he's talking about. Why would there be a clock counting down? "What happens at zero?"
"The basement generators, they run out of fuel." Jenner answers.
"Then what?" I ask as I stand up.
"VI, what happens when the power runs out?" Rick asks the virtual intelligence when Jenner just walked away from the question.
"When the power runs out, facility-wide decontamination will occur."
"That doesn't sound like a good thing." I say. My twin got Shane, Glenn, and T-dog to help look at the generators. A few minutes after they leave, the rest of us go back to the rooms. I go back to the room I slept in with Daryl following behind me, to pack all my things up. I have a feeling we'll all need to leave quickly soon. Daryl has the same idea. Suddenly, the lights go out.
"Emergency lighting on." Says VI. Not good. I bring my things into the next room where Lori and Carl are spending their time.
"Vi, what's wrong?" Lori asks me.
"I have a bad feeling about that countdown. Everyone needs to pack up their things." As I finish my sentence the air goes off. Lori and I look up at the vent. She holds her hand up to see if anything is coming through.
"Mom?" Carl asks. "Something wrong?" She looks to me before she answers the boy.
"Uh, nothin'. It's just...the air conditioning stopped." My sister-in-law starts rushing around the room collecting everything. "Carl, baby, can you start packin' up your things?"
"Sure." The kid stands from the cot and makes sure all his things are in his bag. I walk back to the room Daryl's in as the lights turn completely off in the rooms. Suddenly Jenner comes around the corner. He's dressed nice and has a lab coat on.
"Why's the air off?" Lori asks him.
"And the lights in our room?" Carol asks the man.
"What's goin' on?" Daryl asks as he pops out of the door of the room with a bottle of alcohol in his hand. "Why is everythin' turnin' off?" As Jenner walks by Daryl he takes the bottle from his hand. All of us are now following the doctor through the halls.
"Energy use is being prioritized." He answered.
"Air isn't a priority?" Dale asks. "And lights?" Jenner takes a swig of the alcohol before answering.
"It's not up to me. Zone five is shutting itself down." What does that mean?
"Hey!" Daryl yells. "Hey, what the hell does that mean?" Jenner doesn't answer. He just continues walking. "Hey, man, I'm talkin' to you. What do you mean it's shuttin' itself down? How can a building do anything?"
"You'd be surprised." Jenner answers. We hear the group that went down to check the generators run into the main area of the building, but we're on the floor above them.
"Rick?" Lori calls to my brother. We go down the stairs to meet up with them.
"Jenner, what's happening?" Rick asks the doctor.
"The system is dropping all the nonessential uses of power." Jenner answers. "It's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second. That started as we approached the half-hour mark." We walk into the room with all the computers and the clock is at thirty one minutes and twenty eight seconds. "Right on schedule." He takes another gulp from the bottle in his hand. We all gather around the man. What is happening? You could cut the tension in this room with a knife. The doctor holds the bottle out to Daryl, and he snags it from the doctor's hand. "It was the French."
"What?" Andrea asks.
"They were the last ones to hold out as far as I know." Jenner explains. "While our people were bolting out the doors and committing suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs til' the end. They thought they were close to a solution."
"What happened?" Jacqui asks what we're all thinking
"Same thing that's happening here." Jenner says. "No power grid. Ran outta juice. The world runs on fossil fuel. I mean, how stupid is that?"
"Let me tell you somethin'-"Shane seethes as he rushes up to Jenner. Rick tries to hold Sane back a bit.
"To hell with it, Shane. I don't even care." Rick says before turning to the rest of us. "Lori, grab our things. Everybody, get your stuff. We're gettin' outta here now!" He yells to us. With that, we all head back towards the door. An alarm starts going off before we are even to the doorway. "What's that?" The main screen in the room lights up with a thirty minute count down clock.
"thirty minutes to decontamination." The computer says.
"Doc, what's goin' on here?" Daryl yells from right next to me.
"Everybody," Shane yells over the alarm. "Y'all heard Rick. Get your stuff and let's go! Go now! Go!" As we head towards the doors metal barriers lock us away from exiting.
"Did you just lock us in?" Glenn asks. "He just locked us in!" Everyone is panicking now. I feel wind rush me on one side only to notice that it was because Daryl had charged the doctor at the computers.
"You son of a bitch!" Daryl yells.
"Daryl! Stop!" I yell as my brother yells for Shane to stop him.
"You locked us in here!" Daryl screams. It takes Shane and T-dog to keep the redneck from bashing in the doctor's head with the bottle in his hand. I walk over to the three men to see if I can calm down Daryl a little. I know how he feels, but I tend to not show it on the outside. Maybe that's why I get panic attacks sometimes. Holding everything in isn't good, and having it build up until I break isn't good either. As I try to talk Daryl from his fury I hear Rick talk to Jenner.
"Hey, Jenner, open that door now." My brother says.
"There's no point. Everything topside is locked down. the emergency exits are sealed.
"Well, open the damn things." Dale says.
"That's not something I control." Jenner says. "The computers do. I told you once that front door closed, it wouldn't open again. You heard me say that." By this time I was able to calm down Daryl enough that he didn't need to be restrained. I turn to face the doctor. "It's better this way."
"What is?" Rick asks. "What happens in twenty eight minutes?" The doctor goes back to typing on one of the computers. Rick turned mad real quick. "What happens in twenty eight minutes!" He yells at the doctor. Jenner stands and yell back.
"You know what this place is?! We protected the public from very nasty stuff! Weaponized smallpox! Ebola strains that could wipe out half the country! Stuff you don't want getting out! Ever!" I stare at the doctor not really knowing if I'm feeling nothing or everything at once. Jenner sits back down. "In the event of a catastrophic power failure. In a terrorist attack, for example. H.I.T.s are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out."
"H.I.T.s?" Rick asks.
"VI, define." Jenner says.
"H.I.T.s, high-impulse thermobaric fuel-air explosives consist of a two-stage aerosol ignition that produces a blast wave of significantly greater power and duration than any other known explosive except nuclear." The place is gonna blow up. "The vacuum-pressure effect ignites the oxygen at between five thousand and six thousand degrees and is useful when the greatest loss of life and damage to structures is desired." I feel a hand grab mine. I look to see Daryl trying to stay as calm as he can without charging Doctor Jenner.
"It sets the air on fire." Jenner says. "No pain. An end to sorrow, grief...regret. Everything." How can this be happening? He's just gonna kill us along with himself? Daryl's hand leaves my own as he heads past Jenner and to the door at the back of the room. Others join him in trying to physically open the doors, including Rick.
"Open the damn door!" Daryl yells when nothing works. I see Shane grab a hatchet and charge the door.
"Outta my way!" Shane shouts as he starts chopping at the door. Another hatchet is found and tossed to Daryl. I hurry over to Carl and Lori. Carol and Sophia are nearby. Both mothers and children are crying. This is no way to die. These kids are too young. they haven't lived a full life yet.
"You should've left well enough alone. It would've been so much easier." Jenner says.
"Easier for who?" Lori asks him.
"All of you. You know what's out there." Jenner answers. "A short, brutal life and an agonizing death." I try to be strong by holding back my tears, but they push through anyway. As Jenner speaks again rage builds instead. "Your. Your sister." He says to Andrea. "What was her name?" I stand up and stand between them.
"No!" I yell at him. The room goes silent at my echoing voice. "No, you don't get to try and convince us to do it your way!" I point a finger in his face then towards the door we want to leave out of. "Yeah, it's a terrifying world out there, but we're not gonna give up because you say there's no hope." My voice quiets down, but everyone can hear me still. "There is always hope. Can't you see it in this room?" I look around at our group then back at Jenner. "We never would have crossed paths if not for this shit going down. We come from completely different backgrounds. We're different ages. But we're working together towards the same thing. Survival. We all want to live. We want to prove to the ones who gave up that there was hope. There is hope. At least I do." I look around at the room again. Some are nodding their heads in agreement, and others are staring at Jenner hoping he gets what I'm trying to tell him. Waiting for his response.
"But you do want this." Jenner says looking to Rick now. "Last night, you said you knew it was just a matter of time before everybody you loved was dead." At those words my face falls as I look to my brother.
"Are you serious?" I ask him in disbelief. He just stays quiet.
"What?" Shane asks. "You really said that? After all your big talk?"
"I had to keep hope alive, didn't I?" Rick finally speaks. I just shake my head, still not believing what's coming out of his mouth.
"There is no hope. There never was." Jenner says.
"Yes there is!" I yell again. "There's always been hope."
"Maybe it won't be you, maybe not here, but somebody somewhere-" Rick says before being cut off by Andrea.
"What part of 'everything's gone' do you not understand?" She says. I understand she's had a dark cloud over her head recently, but that doesn't mean we should join her under it.
"Listen to your friend." Jenner says. "She gets it. This is what takes us down. This is our extinction event."
"I refuse to believe that." I say. "If this were meant to wipe us all out, we'd all be dead by now. We'd all be like those things outside already. This is meant to be a test. Maybe a cruel joke by some higher power, but I believe it's meant to weed out those who aren't strong enough to go on. Survival of the fittest. You are a true coward. And I will not be sucked into your weakness. Maybe some of us will die out there, but at least we'd know it was our choice. That we got farther than someone like you." I hear the cocking of a gun from behind me.
"Shane! No!" My twin yells trying to stop Shane from doing something foolish.
"Out of the way, Rick!" Shane yells back and pushes my twin away from himself. I turn around and stare at the crazed man before me. "Move!" He yells at me.
"Vi." Rick says quietly as he holds out his hand. He wants me to come over to him and move away from the gun pointed at my chest right now. I do as he wants and Shane points the gun at the doctor.
"Open that door." Shane orders the man. "Or I'm gonna blow your head off. Do you hear me?!" Rick walks closer to Shane and talks in his ear.
"Brother, brother, this is not the way you do this." My twins efforts to talk down his friend aren't quite working yet. "We will never get outta here."
"Shane, you listen to him." I hear Lori say. Out of the corner of my eye I see Daryl walk closer to me as he watches Rick and Shane.
"It's too late." Shane says.
"He dies, we all die." Rick says. Shane then screams out his frustrations and I brace for him to pull the trigger of his gun and truly trap us in here. He does pull the trigger, but he moves to shoot at the computers instead. "Shane!" Rick shouts as he wrestles the gun from his friends hands. Then he knocks Shane to the ground. I move to try and help in some way only to have Daryl's arms holding me back.
"Are you crazy?" He whispers in my ear. "You'll only get yourself hurt."
"I'm not that defenseless." I whisper back.
"Maybe not, but let's not risk it." Why would he care? I look over at my brother standing over Shane and calm down a little. Daryl's arms don't leave their position around me, though.
"Are you done now?" Rick asks the man on the ground. "Are you done?"
"Yeah, I guess we all are." Shane replies. Rick turns around and hands the gun to T-dog before looking around the group. When he looks towards Daryl and I the corner of his mouth curves up slightly. I shake my head as if to say 'not now', but I know he's gonna talk to me about it later if we get out of this. No! When. I still have hope. He continues to look around the room before turning back to Jenner.
"I think you're lying." He tells the doctor.
"What?" Came the doctor's reply.
"You're lying." Rick repeats. "About no hope. Violet's right. There is hope. And you want to know how I know?" Silence was the reply so Rick continued. "If that were true, you'd have bolted with the rest, or taken the easy way out. You didn't. You chose the hard path. Why?"
"It doesn't matter." Jenner answers. I feel Daryl's arms leave mea nd I miss the warmth and safety of them already. I look over at him as he heads back to the door.
"It does matter. It always matters." Rick tells him. "You stayed when others ran. Why?"
"Not because I wanted to." Came the reply. "I made a promise..." He points to the screen we had been watching minutes ago. "To her. My wife."
"Test subject 19 was your wife?" Lori asks.
"She begged me to keep going as long as I could." He said. "How could I say no?" I hear Daryl continue trying to knock down the metal door. "She was dying. It should've been me on that table. It wouldn't have mattered to anybody. She was a loss to the world. Hell, she ran this place. I just worked here. In our field, she was an Einstein. Me? I'm just...Edwin Jenner. She could've done something about this. Not me."
"Your wife didn't have a choice." I speak up once again. The doctor looks at me. "You do...now. Right now. That's exactly what we want. A choice, a chance, to live, to survive this Hell on earth."
"Let us keep trying as long as we can." Lori adds with a slight shake in her voice. The doctor thinks through what to do before finally deciding.
"I told you topside's locked down. I can't open those." He moves around Rick and down to a computer on a lower level. He enters something into a small keypad. Once he finishes entering in the code, the door Daryl was hacking at unlocks and opens.
"Come on!" He calls to all of us. I rush out with the rest of them and run to the room Where Lori and Carl had been before we came down here. I notice a few don't follow us out, but there's no time. If they want to do this, then so be it. It is their choice. That's the whole point. We're choosing to go on and they are choosing to end it here. Once I know Lori and Carl are all packed up I check on the room Daryl and I were in. His bag was still here, but he wasn't. I peak my head out into the Hall.
"Hey! Anyone seen Daryl?" I ask.
"He went to start trying to get out the front with T-dog." I hear my brother say as he rushes by me. I pick up Daryl's bag and mine and run down to the front foyer area. When we all get down there, T-dog, Daryl, Shane, and Rick are trying to break the windows open so we can get out. When hitting it does nothing but scratch it a little Shane picks up a gun once again. He shoots at the window, but it barely makes a dent.
"The glass won't break?" I hear Sophia ask. I look over to the little girl and her mother. She gets an idea and rifles through her own bag.
"Rick." Carol says as she walks over to my brother. "I have something that might help."
"Carol, I don't think a nail file's gonna do it." Shane says.
"Shut up, Shane." I snap at him. "Your attitude definitely doesn't help."
"Your first morning at camp, when I washed your uniform I found this in your pocket." She pulls the object from her bag and I see that she's holding a grenade. I stand there in shock for a second before Rick grabs the explosive and heads towards the window. Daryl rushes over to me, grabs his bag from my shoulder then grabs my hand to get me farther away from the explosion that would hopefully set us free. We get down on the ground next to each other I cover my head with my free hand as I keep a tight grip of Daryl's with my other.
I hear the click of the pin being pulled out, Rick dropping it on the ground, and him cursing as he runs away from the explosion. The tinkling sound of glass falling to the floor makes me smile. Daryl and I get up and run to the now shattered window. Daryl lets go of my hand to jump down. I hand him my bag then his. Then he helps me down safely. We then pick up our bags and run to the vehicles still parked outside. There were a few walkers in our way, but they were easily taken care of. Daryl and I run to the truck with Merle's bike in the back. I briefly look back to the building we just escaped and see Andrea and Dale jump out the window. As we wait for them to get to us, I know time is ticking by. I hear someone honk the horn of the RV.
"Shit." Daryl and I say at the same time. I brace for the explosion and Daryl covers me. The explosion was something like I've never felt before. The force and heat were felt from where we were. It seemed like it lasted forever. When everything settled Daryl and I looked out at the now demolished CDC building. All we can hear is our deep breathing.
"Holy shit." I say in shock as the flames continue to burn the fallen walkers and shrubs that were too close to escape. I see Glenn open the door of the RV to let Dale and Andrea in. "We could've died in there."
"Yeah, but we didn-" I interrupt him by placing a hand on each side of his face and bringing his lips to meet mine. I was a bit surprised when he returned my actions. I feel like I'm on top of the world. It never felt like this when I used to kiss Shane. It's hard to explain. It just feels right to me. When I pull away I look into his gorgeous green eyes.
"I've wanted to do that for the longest time." I tell him as I try to catch my breath.
"Wow." Is the only thing he's able to say before both of us see that our convoy is heading off without us. I see a smirk grow on his face as he starts up the car. "Don't wanna be left behind." I giggle and lean back in the passenger seat with my feet on the dashboard as he accelerates to catch up with the rest.
Maybe this world is a crap shoot now, but it could end up being a good thing after all. Maybe it was fate. Could I have found my soulmate in all this mess? Maybe not. But I think this is as close as I'll ever get. And it feels so good. I can't stop smiling.
A/N: Well, that finishes season 1. What do you guys think? Sorry it took so long. I had a lot of things going on in my life and I was trying to decide of them kissing at the end here was too soon. Is it too soon? Or do you think it was the right time? I look forward to reading your comments and reviews.
