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Eilidh's eyes shot open with a gasp and she sat bolt upright on the sofa she had been sleeping on, she was drenched in a cold sweat and her breathing was erratic.
She placed a hand over her rapid beating heart briefly before she moved it to her forehead which had pieces of her hair stuck to it, her eyes started to dart around the dark room as she checked to make sure that she was still safe in the room of the CDC, she was relieved to find that she was when her eyes landed on the doorway that had the light from the hallway shining through the bottom a little, her eyes then fluttered closed as she began to get her breathing back under control.
After a moment of just sitting still she moved so her legs were hanging over the edge of the sofa, she then leaned forward, put her head in her hands and rubbed her face whilst shaking her head.
Every single night her slumber was disturbed by the same nightmare, she wished she could dream of something else, ANYTHING, but it was always the same one she had.
Eventually she sat back up and inhaled slowly, as she was exhaling she felt her body relax some which was a relief and her breathing was almost back to normal at last.
She reached for the small table to the side of the sofa and felt around for the little battery powered lamp, when she found it she pressed it on and the dark room was no longer.
She made a move to stand up and grimaced at the cold wet patches she felt against her skin as she did, she then touched her cheek with the back of her palm and felt that her face was very hot.
She moved towards her room door and opened it as quietly as she could, it made a very small creek as she did but that was all, she headed down the silent hall towards the bathroom and when she reached it she pressed the light on and opened the door.
She gasped with fright as she stepped inside when she saw Shane was sat on the floor beside the toilet, he squinted his eyes at her and brought a hand up to shield them from the light.
"Shane, sorry, I didn't realise you were in here." she said and made a move to walk back out of the room but stopped when he said 'It's fine' and she turned slowly back to look at him, she hesitated before she spoke to him again, "Are you okay?"
"Never better." he replied and brought the bottle she hadn't noticed that he had by his side up to his lips, he took a long drink before setting it back down, she stared at the bottle for a moment then looked at him.
He looked from her to his bottle then back at her before he asked in a slightly slurred voice, "Care to join me?"
"No...thanks, I just wanted to wash my face...if you don't mind?" she replied and he gestured to the sink with his free hand, "I'll be gone in a minute." she added and moved towards it.
She turned the cold tap on and began splashing the water over her face, she smiled when the water touched her skin.
"Your back is soaked." she heard Shane say as she continued to wash her face.
She paused briefly from what she was doing before she shook her head, she then turned the tap off and reached for a towel that was hanging up, she dabbed at her face gently before she turned around to look at him sat on the ground, he was looking her over curiously.
"I forgot to turn my air conditioning on in my room...bad mistake, it gets very hot without it." she explained and he gave her a skeptical look, one that told her exactly what she herself was thinking, he was a cop and she was a terrible liar.
"Really." he replied, it wasn't a question, he then brought the bottle back up to his lips and took another swig, she began to head for the door swiftly but was stopped in her tracks again when he said, "Sure you don't want a drink? You look as if you could use one."
She turned and looked at him and found him holding the bottle towards her, she shook her head and said, "I'm sure...are you sure you need anymore?"
"And then some." he answered with a smile.
"You look as if you've had enough." she replied and he shook his head.
"Not nearly enough." he answered and she stared at him for a short moment.
"Why are you drinking? Couldn't you sleep?" she asked and he shook his head.
"I've not been to sleep yet." he smirked and her eyes widened at that statement but more at what she spotted when he moved his head.
"What's that on your neck?" she asked with furrowed brows after noticing the red marks on his skin, "Is that...scratches?"
His smirk instantly disappeared and he turned his head so she could no longer see the marks, "It's nothing."
"That's not nothing." she said and moved to kneel down infront of him, she gripped his chin in her hand and turned his head away again, "Shane. What happened?"
"I told you. Nothing." he told her firmly and her eyes widened at the disturbing thought that entered her mind.
"Were you scratched by a walker back at camp?!" she whispered after letting out a gasp.
"No! Christ." he said as he tried to swat her hand away.
"Thank god, that scared me...oh they look painful." she said as she moved his head aside once more.
He suddenly took a tight hold of her wrist and moved her hand away from his neck, "I said it's nothing alright."
"Not alright, you need to put some cream on, it'll help." she replied and moved away to look in the mirror cabinet, "There's bound to be something we could put on it."
"Will you stop? It's just a damn scratch." Shane practically snapped at her, she turned around to face him again and a silence filled the air for a moment.
"How did it happen?" she asked after a beat.
"I don't know, I must have done it when I was asleep." he muttered.
"You told me that you haven't been to sleep yet." she replied and crossed her arms over her chest, he sighed in annoyance.
"Well I must have dozed off when I was here...what exactly are you getting at Eilidh?" he said and she shrugged.
"I'm not trying to get at anything...it just looks weird that's all." she replied.
"Well it's not. Now, are you done in here? Can I go back to drinking in peace?" he said and frowned at her.
She waited a beat before answering, "There's a tube of cream on the shelf there that will probably help, you should use it...and as for the drinking, you should sleep that off now...you'll have a horrible hangover in the morning."
Shane smiled at her but it wasn't a sincere one, "Did you always act like this...before? You're a young woman yet you're here playing the mom role."
"I don't need to be a genius to know that something is bothering you and trust me...drinking isn't the way to deal with it." she replied instantly.
"Really? With the world the way it is right now you're telling me that it's not the time to have a drink?" he asked and then laughed humourlessly.
"We're in the CDC...hopefully we'll get some answers...THEN you can drink." she replied and headed for the door.
"Hold up." Shane said as she had her hand on the door handle, she looked over her shoulder at him, "What's the story?"
"Story?" she asked and he nodded.
"Your story...and I'm not talking about the bullshit one you told us back at camp...I'm talking about the real one." he replied and her mouth popped open.
"That bullshit." she said with emphasis on the last word, "Happened to be the truth."
"Oh really?" Shane asked with a raised brow.
"Yes. Really." she said with a frown.
"There's more then, you just haven't told any of us." he said and pointed the bottle at her in an accusing sort of way.
"What...you think I'm hiding something?" she asked him and he nodded.
"Why haven't you told us anything about yourself?" he asked and she smiled but it didn't reach her eyes.
"I haven't told you anything more that what I did Shane because we were a little busy, you know with the whole going back to the city to get Merle, coming back to walkers attacking the camp, Jim getting bit, coming here...there just hasn't been that much time to sit down and have a proper heart to heart, know what I mean?" she replied and rolled her eyes.
"Then lets have one now." Shane said and patted the ground next to him.
"No thanks, I'd rather not." she said in a firm voice and pulled the door open, "Get some sleep."
She closed the door behind her and switched the light off, she stood against the door for a moment and let out a sigh before she headed back to her room.
Once she was back in her room she climbed back onto the sofa and lay down, she then switched the light off and stared ahead at the wall across from her, blocking the conversation she'd had with Shane from her mind she closed her eyes and attempted to get some more sleep.
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The next morning after Eilidh had woken up she dressed in clean clothes and then headed to the cafeteria after hearing chatter coming from that direction, when she entered she saw that most of the group were in there, some were sat at the table and there was a lot of groaning...mostly from Glenn.
"Eggs guys, they're powdered but hey, I do them good." T-Dog said as he walked towards the table with a frying pan.
Eilidh sat across in the seat across from Glenn who had been hit with an extremely bad hangover, he was sat with his head hung over his plate with a hand supporting it.
"Protein helps the hangover." T-Dog said to him as he placed an egg infront of him, "Do you want some Eilidh?"
"Yes please." she replied and he headed back towards the kitchen, Carol came towards her and handed her a cup of coffee, "Thank you."
"Don't ever, ever let me drink again." Glenn groaned and Eilidh smiled at him as he looked at her, "Don't you feel bad at all?"
"Only a little but that because where I come from, we've been drinking since birth." she replied as she took a sip of her coffee and some people around the table laughed.
"Here Glenn." Lori said and handed him some pills, "Jenner thought we could use some."
"Hey." Shane said to the group as he appeared in the room.
"Hey, do you feel as bad as I do?" Rick said to him.
"Worse man." Shane replied as he helped himself to some coffee.
"What happened to your neck man?" T-Dog asked Shane before he wandered towards the table with his frying pan and Glenn groaned loudly as he leaned over him to put eggs on Eilidh's plate.
The scratches on Shane's neck were redder and angrier looking than what they had been when Eilidh saw them earlier that morning, he shrugged and then said to T-Dog, "Must have done it in my sleep."
Eilidh looked at her plate with raised eyebrows, so he was going with that story was he.
"I've never seen you do that before." Rick stated.
"Me neither, it ain't like me at all." he replied and Eilidh saw him look over at Lori who had quickly busied herself with her own cup of coffee and was looking anywhere but at Shane and at that moment understanding hit Eilidh, could it have been Lori that scratched him?
"Must have been some nightmare." she said to him unable to stop herself and he turned his attention towards her and stared as if he'd just noticed she was there, she saw him bite his lip for a second and then he released it from his teeth with a nod.
"Yeah." he agreed with her before taking a drink of his coffee, she continued to stare at him until Dr Jenner appeared in the room.
"Good morning all." the Dr said to them as he headed over to the coffee machine.
"Morning Doc, listen, I don't mean to slam you with questions." Dale said after everyone greeted him.
"But you will anyway." the Dr finished for him with a smile.
"We didn't come here for the eggs." Andrea said hushing everyone around the table just as Daryl then walked slowly into the room, he headed straight for the coffee machine and began filling a mug.
Eilidh looked down at her plate and took a bite before she looked up and when she did her eyes met his, he looked even grumpier than usual and making eye contact with her only seamed to make him worse as a scowl appeared on his face.
"Enjoy your breakfast first then I'll take you to zone five." Dr Jenner replied simply.
Eilidh tore her gaze from Daryl's to look at the doctor who had a distant look on his face as he sipped his coffee.
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Once everyone had their breakfast they all followed Jenner to the zone five he had mentioned, it was a large room filled with computers and there was a giant screen on the furthest away wall.
"Give me playback of TS-19." he said aloud as he was typing on one of the computer keyboards and Vi, the femal computer voice from the day before repeated his command and seconds later what looked like an MRI scan only much more advanced with a virtual brain in the centre appeared on the screen.
"Few people got the chance to see this...very few." Jenner told the group as they gathered around him, Eilidh stood to his left and stared up at the screen.
"Is that a brain?" Carl asked him.
"Yes. An extraordinary one." the Dr answered him seriosuly, "Not that it matters in the end…take us in for EIV Vi."
"Enhanced Internal View." Vi said a second later.
The image of the brain flashed with different lights and the camera zoomed right into it, everyone wathced the screen curiously.
"What are those lights?" Shane asked the Dr.
"It's a person's life, their experiences, their memories. It's everything. Somewhere in that organic wiring, in all those ripples of light...is you. It's the thing that makes you unique and human." Jenner replied to them with a smile.
Daryl was the first of the group to say anything, he walked towards the Dr and stopped beside Eilidh, "You don't make sense ever, do you?"
"Those are synapses. Electric impulses in the brain that carry all the messages...they are everything that a person says, does or thinks...from the beginning until the end." Eilidh said in response to Daryl and she felt everyone's eyes on her.
"Yes, that's right." Jenner replied and smiled at her in an approving way.
"Death? What, this is a vigil?" Rick asked and walked towards Jenner.
"Yes. Well it's the playback of the vigil." Jenner said.
"This person died?" Andrea asked, "Who were they?"
"Test subject nineteen...someone who was bitten, infected. They volunteered to have us record the process…Vi, scan forward to the first event please." The doctor said as he gazed up at the screen.
"Scanning to first event." Vi said and the image on the screen changed, the brain stem began to darken considerably.
"What is that?" Glenn asked and Jenner turned to him.
"It invades the brain like meningitis...the adrenal glands haemorrhage and the brain goes into shutdown followed by all the major organs." the Dr replied.
The brain faded black and the person stopped moving as the Dr finished speaking.
"Then death." Eilidh finished for Jenner and he nodded.
"Everything that you ever were, or will be…it's just gone." he said with a sigh.
"Is that…what happened to Jim?" Sophia whispered to her mother across the room, everyone heard her, her mother nodded slowly.
Jenner went to speak to Andrea after she turned away sniffling and Eilidh leaned against one of the desks, whatever Jenner was showing them, she had a bad feeling that it wasn't going to have a good result.
"Vi scan to the second event." Jenner said as he walked back to where he had been previously.
The screen loaded up once more, "The resurrection time varies; we had it happening in as little as three minutes, the longest we heard was eight hours but in the case of this patient, it was two hours…one minute...and seven seconds." Jenner said whilst watching the screen.
The playback showed red lights suddenly sparking from the stem and Eilidh pushed away from the desk and walked towards Jenner slowly as if in attempt to somehow to get closer to the screen.
"Is it...restarting the brain?" Lori asked.
"The brain stem, just enough to get them…up and moving." Eilidh answered as she watched the patient's body begin to twitch.
"Exactly." Jenner said beside her and she looked at him to find him staring at her.
"But…they aren't alive?" Rick asked.
"You tell me." Jenner said and turned to look at Rick before he pointed at the screen.
"That's nothing like before. Most of that brain is...dark." Rick replied.
"It's lifeless…dead, there is no thinking, no judgment, no desire and there is definitely no distinction between what is right and wrong...with these brains the only function is-" the Dr said.
"To get up and go. The animalistic instinct to move….to survive." Eilidh finished for him and he looked over at her once more then nodded.
"Yes." he replied with a sigh.
Eilidh turned her head when she felt eyes on her and found that Daryl was watching her with his brows pulled together.
"The frontal lobe, the human part? That does not come back, the YOU part is gone, all that is there is just a shell driven by a mindless instinct." Jenner said loudly to them and brought Eilidh's attention back to the screen and as her eyes fell upon it there was a sudden flash going through the brain and that was it, it was once again dark and unmoving.
"God! What was that?" Carol asked with a gasp.
"The patient was shot in the head. You shot them...didn't you?" Andrea answered.
Everyone looked over at Dr Jenner expectantly and he looked down without answering, not that they needed an answer, "Vi, power down the main screen and all of the workstations."
Vi repeated what he'd commanded and did just that, the screen and the computers all turned to black, there was a brief silence in the room until Andrea broke it.
"You have no idea what it is, do you?" she asked and walked towards the doctor.
"It...could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal-" Jenner began but was cut off.
"Or the wrath of God?!" Jacqui snapped and stared at Jenner wide eyed.
He nodded, "There is that too."
"Somebody has got to know something...somebody somewhere HAS to know." Andrea said to the Dr.
"There are others right? Other Facilities with people like you?" Carol asked and Jenner looked over at her.
"There may well be…may be that there is some people like me." Jenner said, he seamed to struggle with what to say to them.
"You don't know? How can you NOT know that?!" Rick asked as he walked towards Jenner.
"It all went down, everything, the communications and directives…it went down. I've been in the dark for almost a month now." Jenner replied.
"So it's not just here? There is nothing left anywhere. Nothing." Andrea said, "That is what you're really saying right?"
Jenner was silent along with the rest of the group as they waited on an answer from him that never came.
"Man. I'm gonna get shit-faced drunk...again." Daryl said and walked over to lean his elbows on a computer and rub his head.
Eilidh, feeling suddenly distressed, walked towards Jenner, "Dr Jenner." she said to him and he looked at her, she swallowed before she continued, "What about…overseas, the…the UK?"
Everyone in the group upon hearing her question turned their heads to look at her and the Dr.
"Do you…do you know if." She struggled to speak and looked down at her feet briefly as she tried to form the words before she finally whispered, "Do you know if...is this thing really global?"
The Dr didn't have to say anything; the look he gave her was all the answer she needed, tears formed in her eyes instantly and she put a shaky hand up to her mouth, "I'm sorry…they were one of the first that we lost contact with." he confirmed her fear.
She closed her eyes briefly and then stepped back feeling like she'd been slapped in the face, hearing the truth was harder to take than she had thought it would be, she stood where she was for a long moment with her heart pounding just staring ahead until she felt a hand take hers, she looked down and found Sophia gazing up at her.
"I'm sorry." the child whispered to her and she felt the tears that had been threatening begin to roll down her cheek, she bit her lip and then blew out a breath.
"I am too." Carol whispered as she wrapped an arm around her shoulders, Eilidh was scared to open her mouth to reply incase her cries escaped so she simply nodded.
"Dr Jenner." Dale's voice spoke to the Dr from across the room after a moment of silence had passed, "I have one more question for you...that clock over there has been counting down ever since we came in here...what happens when it reaches zero?"
Eilidh and the others looked up at the clock and then at Jenner who hesitated before he answered, "The basement generators...they run out of fuel."
"And then?" Eilidh demanded from him as he began to walk away, he was hiding something, they all knew it.
The Dr ignored her question and continued to walk off, she looked over at Rick, his facial expression told her that he wanted to know aswell.
"Dr Jenner." he said firmly but the Dr didn't stop, he continued to walk until he was out of the room and they were left there, "Vi what happens when the power runs out?"
"When the power runs out, facility-wide decontamination will occur." Vi said, her voice echoed thoughout the room, the group looked around one another feeling uneasy.
"Facility-wide decontamination?" Carol whispered by Eilidh's side, "What does that mean?"
Eilidh had an idea what it could mean but she didn't want to say as Sophia was still holding her hand.
"It's not good." she whispered back to Carol who looked at her questioningly.
"Shane what do you say we check out this basement?" Rick said to his partner.
"I say that's a good idea." Shane replied and began to walk away out of the room with Rick.
"We'll come with you." Glenn said indicating himself and T-Dog.
"I'm uh, going to my room." Eilidh said removing her hand from Sophia's and stepping away, "I'm okay." she added when she noticed that Carol was about to ask, "I just need to be alone for a bit."
Carol nodded and Eilidh then walked quickly away.
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Eilidh slammed her room door closed and got on her knees, she began furiously throwing the clothes she had lying around into her duffel bag whilst wiping her tears away with her arm.
Her door then swung open, she jumped with a gasp and looked over her shoulder, she groaned and turned back to her bag.
"What do you want?" she demanded annoyed.
"Ouch." He said feigning hurt and she scoffed, "That's not very nice."
"Ha. Coming from you?" she said over her shoulder.
"Why are you packing?" he asked after rolling his eyes.
"I asked you first!" She snapped with a sniff as she turned her back to him and continued to pack.
He sighed, "You rushed off, came to see if you'd be…opting out? That's what the Doc called it right."
She turned to face him with her mouth open, why would someone, even Daryl say such a thing, "What? Are you serious?" she asked slightly offended and he shrugged.
"Are you?" He asked.
"No! I didn't rush back here to try and kill myself." she snapped.
"Well why are you packing?" he asked.
"Why not? You heard Jenner…this place is a bust, might as well get out while we can...plus." She replied as she turned back to her bag once more, she zipped it up and stood to place it on her sofa.
"Facility-wide decontamination will occur." she said quoting Vi, "I don't want to be around when that happens."
"When what happens?" he asked.
"I'm not 100% sure exactly but I know it's not good...the definition of decontamination is...to cleanse." she replied.
"So...bad?" he asked and she nodded.
"Bad." She repeated.
"I'm going for a drink." he said after a beat and turned to leave her room, her mouth opened to speak but no words came out.
"Now is not the time to drink Daryl." she eventually managed to say to his retreating form, "You need to get ready to leave this place!"
Daryl's reply to her was to keep walking and wave a hand dismissevely, without looking at her, she shook her head and watched him go, just then the hum from the air-conditioning stopped.
She turned around and looked up at it on the wall with furrowed brows then moved towards the switch on the wall, it was definitely switched on, she turned it off and waited a few sconds before switching it back on but there was no change, the room was still silent.
She walked towards the wall the air conditioner was on and reached up to put a hand against it but the cool air still wasn't coming from it.
"Eilidh?" Lori's voice called out from the hallway.
"In here." she said back as she stepped away from the machine, Lori stepped into her room a second later just as the lights went out.
Both woman gasped in surprise at the sudden darkness, Eilidh walked towards Lori and spoke.
"What's happening?" she asked just as everyone appeared from their rooms, Jenner was walking down the hallway at that moment also.
"Why are the lights in our room off? And why has the air-conditioning stopped?" Carol asked and he walked by as if she hadn't even spoken.
Daryl hung out of his room with a fresh bottle of whiskey in his hand, "Why's everything turning off?"
Jenner walked past and took the bottle from his hand after he spoke, "The energy needs to be prioritized." he said and then he took a drink.
Eilidh joined the group that was now rushing after Jenner down the hallway.
"Uh, air isn't a priority? And Light?" Dale asked.
"It's not upto me, zone five is shutting itself down." Jenner replied.
"Hey, what the hell does that mean?" Daryl said, "Hey man, I'm talking to you, how's it shutting itself down? How can a building do that?"
"You'd be surprised." Jenner said simply.
Rick, Shane, Glenn and T-Dog appeared at the bottom of the stairs as the group walked down them.
"Jenner, what's happening!" Rick demanded from him.
"The system is dropping all the nonessential uses of power, it's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second, that started as we approached the half hour mark. Right on schedule." Jenner replied and continued walking.
The group followed him back to the room where he had shown them the scan of TS-19.
Everyone was confused and scared, Jenner stopped walking and took a large drink from the bottle before he handed it back to Daryl who snatched it from him making some of it splash onto the floor.
Jenner turned to Andrea, "It was the French."
"What?" she asked.
"They were the last ones to hold out as far as I know, they thought they were close to a solution." He told them.
"What happened?" Eilidh asked and Jenner turned to her.
"Same thing that's happening here…same thing what happened in-" he said and cut himself off before he finished the sentence and Eilidh swallowed as an unwanted picture started to form in her head, "There's no power grid, it ran out of juice. You know…the world runs on fossil fuels, I mean, how stupid is that?" the Dr continued.
Shane started to walk towards Jenner, he was angry, "Let me tell you-" he began but Rick pulled him back.
"To hell with this Shane I don't even care, Lori grab our things, everybody come on, we're leaving. We're getting out of here right now!" he shouted and everyone started to move.
An alarm started blaring with red lights flashing in the room and the group stopped.
"What's that?" Shane shouted over the noise.
"Thirty minutes to decontamination." Vi said over the alarm and the clock appeared on screen.
"What the hell is going on here doc?!" Shane growled, "Y'all heard Rick, get your stuff and let's go now!"
Just then there was a loud metallic noise and Eilidh seen a door rise up sealing their exit.
Rick stopped infront of it and then turned to Jenner.
Glenn stared wide eyed, horror-struck, "Did you just lock us in? He just locked us in!" He shouted to everyone in a panic.
They ran back into the room, Lori grabbed Carl and pulled him close to her.
Eilidh was stood unmoving on the spot in disbelief, "What?" she said in a quiet voice to herself and looked around the group, her eyes found Daryl on her left, his teeth were clenched and he was staring at Jenner in a way that told her he was extremely furious.
"Daryl! No-" The words were out of her mouth before she realised it and she was grabbing at his arm but she wasn't quick enough, he slipped from her grasp and was running towards Jenner, she quickly followed him whilst shouting, "Daryl! Someone grab him!"
"You son of a bitch!" he shouted as he ran around the computers like an animal ready to kill it's prey.
"Shane!" Rick shouted to Shane after he heard Eilidh and saw Daryl charging at Jenner, "Shane!"
"You locked us in here!" Daryl shouted at Jenner as he approached him.
"Stop!" Eilidh shouted at Daryl as some of the group just managed to move out of his way before he smashed into them.
Shane managed to grab onto him just in time before he could do anything to Jenner.
Daryl grabbed at Jenner still by the shirt and pulled; he had tried to take him down but only managed to pull him away from the desk a little in his swivel chair.
T-Dog, Eilidh and Glenn all ran over to help Shane hold Daryl back.
"You locked us in here!" He shouted loudly again.
T-Dog and Glenn grabbed his arms and his shirt in an attempt to hold him back.
"Don't do it!" T-Dog said loudly over his shouting at the Dr.
Eilidh held a hand against his stomach and chest, "Stop it Daryl!" she had shouted at him and then she looked over at Jenner to see him straightening out his lab coat.
"Jenner, you open that door now." Rick said to the doctor.
"There's no point! Everything topside is locked down, the emergency exits are sealed." Jenner said to him.
"Well open the damn things!" Dale said.
Jenner shook his head and spoke to Rick, "That's not something I control, the computers do. I told you, once that front door closed, it stays closed. You all heard me say that...it's better this way."
"What is?" Rick asked him and glanced up at the clock, "What happens in twenty eight minutes?"
Jenner turned to his computer and ignored him, Rick then looked at Shane who had left T-Dog, Glenn and Eilidh to hold Daryl, he had moved forward and hit that back of Jenner's chair hard whilst demanding, "What happens in twenty eight minutes!"
Jenner shot up from his chair, "Do you know what this place is? We protected the public from very nasty stuff!" he shouted at everyone, "Weaponised smallpox! Ebola strains that could wipe out half the country! Stuff that you don't want getting out EVER!" he continued to scream at them.
Everyone was stunned into silence at his outburst, Daryl had managed to shrug out of the hold Glenn, T-Dog and Eilidh had on him and was walking around the area with his eyes never leaving the doctor.
Jenner sat down on his chair and fixed his coat and tie casually.
"In the event of a catastrophic power failure..in a terrorist attack for example...HIT's are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out."
Eilidh's breath caught in her throat, she sat down and put her head in her hands for a second before she spoke to the Dr, "HIT's?"
"...yes." he replied with a firm nod.
The group glanced back and forth between her and Jenner questioningly.
"Eilidh what is it…what are HIT's?" Rick asked her and she looked up at him but she couldn't answer; she shook her head and rested it back in her hands.
"Vi, Define." Jenner said.
"HIT's: high impulsive 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 vacuum pressure effect ignites the oxygen at between 5,000 and 6,000 degrees and is useful when the greatest loss of life and damage to structure is desired." Vi said and as she spoke everyone began to panic, Carol cradled Sophia close to her and cried out.
"It sets the air on fire… no pain. An end to sorrow, grief, regret. Everything." Jenner said slowly and almost everyone stared at him in disbelief.