Kai couldn't believe his ears. "Surgery? The hell you mean surgery?" He gets up and stands in front of her.
Regan leans forward. "We found it. The reason she is immune. The cordecepts are mutated. It's why she's immune." She gives him a happy yet sad smile.
"But it grows all over the brain." He gets quiet when he realizes what she meant by surgery.
"Yah… it does."
He shakes his head. "Find someone else."
"Don't you get it?! There is no one else!" She shoots up and starts pushing him back. She takes a deep breath and pinches the bridge of her nose. "I get it. But whatever it is you think you're going through, is nothing compared to what I have been through." He shakes his head in disbelief. "I knew her before I even knew about the bite. When I found out, I was so happy. But I also knew the risks."
"Why are you doing this?" He gets real still contemplating his next moves.
"Because this isn't about me! Or even her! There is no other choice here, Kai."
"Yah, you keep telling yourself that bullshit." He gives her a dark glare.
She shakes her head then looks to Ray. "Get him out of here. If he tries anything, shoot him?" Ray is taken aback by her demand, but nods in understanding as she leaves to go mourn the death of her friend.
Ray sighs and runs his hand through his hair. "You know this is what she wanted."
Kai scoff. "What she wanted or what Regan wanted? You said yourself that Aubrey was Regan's saving grace for her cause. So don't feed me that bullshit. Aubrey wanted to thrive and SURVIVE! Not end up like some science experiment."
Ray started raising his voice. "Point blank Kai, your job is over. Congratulations on another smuggling job." He jabs his gun into Kai's back to get him moving. "Don't make this harder than it needs to be."
Kai shakes his head and starts walking till be sees his pack and then stops.
"Kai, what the fuck are you doing? Keep walking." He jabs his gun into his back again, and he does, Kai elbows the gun out of the way and elbows Ray smack in the face, giving him a broken nose. Kai pins him to the wall, grabbing his gun and holds it against his stomach.
"Now, tell me where she is?! Where is the operating room?" Ray stays silent. "Ray, I swear to god…"
"Fuck you Kai." Kai shoots him in the stomach and Ray starts coughing up blood.
"I said where!?" Kai shakes his head. "I don't have time for this. I'll make sure to say goodbye to Regan for you." He backs off of Ray, and shoots him in the head.
The gun shots alerted the other guards and Kai could hear their shouting. Kai grabbed his pack and ducked out of sight of the guards. He began sneaking around and killing off the guards one by one till be finally made it to the upper level of the hospital lab. Luckily for him, only one room was lit up.
He bursts into the room and sees Aubrey in a hospital gown, knocked out from and connected to tubes.
"Hey! What are you doing here? This area is restricted." Kai pulls out his gun and aims it at the doctors and nurses. "Look son put your gun down. You don't understand what you're doing." Kai scoffs and narrows his eyes at the doctor.
"Shut the hell up." He shoots him and then goes over to the pleading nurses and puts them out of their misery.
Kai goes over to Aubrey and starts taking out her IVs and tubes. "I made it. Just in time. You're gonna be fine Aubrey. I'm gonna get you out of here." He could hear voices coming towards him, yelling orders to search for him. "It's gonna be alright. I've got you." He picks her up and starts running for the elevator, dodging the bullets shot at him. He impatiently waits for the elevator to make its way to the car garage.
As he steps out of the elevator, Regan is waiting for him with a gun pointed at him. "I can't let you do this, Kai. Just put her down and leave her with us."
"No, I won't let you do this to her."
"Would you rather her live in this world? Would you rather her get raped by bandits? Or torn apart by a pack of clickers?" She's crying and is desperate for him to just give up. "At least this way, she ell die peacefully,she eons feel any pain. This is what she wanted. And you have no right to take this away from her."
"No! This is what you wanted!" He shakes his head. "I wont let that happen. I'll protect her." He shoots her in the gut from the gun he was hiding underneath Aubrey's legs. He opens the car door and gently sets her down in the back seat. He then turns back to Regan, who is crawling, trying to get away.
She puts up a hand in front of her when he points his gun at her. "No wait! Please let me go! We won't come after you. You won."
He stands there and thinks of what would happen if he left her alive. "You know I can't do that. You would just come after her." He shoots her in the head.
Kai hears Aubrey stirring in the back seat. He looks through the rear view mirror and sees her lean up and hold her head.
"Where are we?"
"Were heading to Wyoming. Back to Bryan's."
She looks around and sees that they are on the road. "What happened?"
Kai is silent for a moment, trying to choose his next words carefully. "Well… Regan didn't need you anymore. Turns out that there are a whole lot of other people just like you, immune. A lot of damn good it did though… I'm sorry Aubrey but they've stopped looking for a cure. I'm taking us home."
Aubrey's mind was still a bit hazy from the drugs but she still heard every word that he said. She laid back down, too depressed to even think about all of the trials and turbulence that they had been through, all for nothing.
The END!