Somewhere is West Virginia

Rachel, Tex and the others sat in an empty warehouse they had driven all night to get as much space between them and lab.

Rachel was sitting on the ground, with the car against her back. Tex sat beside her, and she rested her head on his shoulder.

Sam was the first to speck.

"Are you ok?" She handed Rachel a bottle of water and a MRE. "You should eat, the baby needs you to be well." Rachel took it and began to eat.

Ethan moved to her side. "I have some med training, let me take a look." He grabbed her face and checked out the cut she had on it.

As Ethan was fussing over her Tex turned his head. "Baby?" Tex asked.

Rachel put down her food. "Yeah, apparently I'm pregnant, they out found I was about two months along."

Tex looked down at the ground somewhat sad. "Is it Tom's?" Everyone on the ship knew that something was going on between the two. He hoped it wasn't true, that he had a chance with her.

She picked up her food and nodded.

Ethan had fixed her up and moved away.

Kim handed out food to everyone. "So what do we do now?"

"Make our way across the country to a port in California." Rachel told them.

"Why?" Ethan asked.

"It's our rendezvous for the Nathan James." Tex told them

"Let's rest for a bit." Sam told them

"What are we going to do with all the vaccine we have?" Kim asked before everyone got up. The two cars they had were full of MRE's water and the vaccine.

"On our way there we need to stop and vaccinate as many people as possible." Rachel told them. "There has to be camps of people waiting for the government to do something. We can help them and give them the power to help other."

Tex touched her shoulder. "What if they do the same thing as the lab?"

Rachel turned and looked him in the eye. "Not all people are bad, I want to help as many people as possible."

"Doing this will lengthen our journey, it only takes three days to get to California four at the most by car." Ethan told her.

"The Nathan James has to produce and hand out the vacancies themselves" Rachel said. "I don't care how much longer it takes, we are going to vaccinate everyone we can."

They all nodded.

"We came to help people." Tex said smiling.

Rachel smiled back, she wanted to be with Tom again but she could not leave all these people to die. She touched her tummy and thought of Tom.

Tex was watching her. "So what do think of the name Tex for you baby?"

Rachel looked up. "I'll think it over." They both laughed

Everyone picked a spot and fell asleep, they all gathered around Rachel, she and her child were there hope.

When they woke they found they had slept for far too long. They ate and made a plan.

Rachel wanted to hit every state they could. This meant a lot of back and forth and a much longer journey, she had offered to make it alone but they all disliked that idea.

They would drive around looking for any sign of life, they would knock on doors of houses and if anyone was there they would vaccinate them, and they would look for camps.

"Let's not wonder too far." Sam warned. "The ship won't wait forever."

Rachel nodded "The moment we can get ahold we will let them in on our plan, but at the moment we have no way to get ahold of them."

Tex jumped into the divers seat. "Let's get going!"

U.S.S Nathan James

Cam, Sally and Quinn worked hard over a three day span to make as much of the vaccine as they could. Tom figured Cam worked so fast because he wanted him out of there. When Cam had found out about Tom and Rachel being together and that she was having his child, Cam looked at him with hate in his eyes, and he spent as little time with him as possible. So they had to only spend three days on land and then they were back on the ship. They left a vile of the vaccine for Cam and Sally and some of Rachel's blood in hopes they could find a cure.

When Tom got on the ship Mike passed him a message from Rachel. She was going to go all over the U.S in hopes of vaccinating as many people as possible and wanted them to do the same.

Tom sighed. "Did she say anything else?"

"No." Mike told him. "She said it may take longer, but that we were meant to help people and that what she was going to do."

Tom looked at the note, he knew that leaving a message about being pregnant wasn't something she would do, and that she most likely didn't want to tell him over the phone either.

Mike cleared his throat. "Sir some of the people want to go looking for their families."

Tom nodded. "Yeah, I figured." He looked out on the water. "Let me come up with a plan, I will have an answer tomorrow."

Mike nodded and Tom went to his room. He understood that people wanted to see their families but he worried if they would ever come back.

The next day Tom had a plan that he thought would make most of the crew happy. He went to the dining hall to find Mike.

"Good morning" Tom greeted Mike.

"Good morning sir." Mike greeted back.

He sat next to Mike. "I got a plan for the crew." Mike turned to look at him. "Gather those who wish to go looking for their families."

"Will do sir."

After gathering about twenty people Tom greeted them.

"Hello, I hear that you all wish to go out and find your family's." he watched as they shifted around somewhat uncountable. "I will grant you this leave, you may go and look for your families, however, you will take some of the vaccine with you and give it to people along the way."

He looked from person to person, searching their faces.

"Find your family's, and help people along the way. Once you are done with your search, meets at our rendezvous spot."

They all nodded yes.

"Go and pack your bags." Tom ordered and they all left.

Later that day he watched as a fifty-three of his soldiers leave, and hoped to see them all return.