Trixie woke up to some sounds of the kids playing in the halls and it took her a moment to realize where she was but when she did she went to move and a pari of hands tightened around her waist. She glanced down, noticing Daryl without a shirt on laying under her and to her side as a blanket wrapped up their waists. When she went to move again Daryl groaned and stretched out one arm while the other kept a firm grip on her waist. Trixie glanced down under the blanket for a moment and noticed that the were both naked, and she was also a bit sore down there, and when the night came flooding back to her she blushed before almost gagging. Did he see her as a whore now? Did he think she was easy just because she had a few glasses of wine in her? Did she do something shed regret later that day? She had never been with someone willingly, and if she slept with him it was of her own free will, but how much did she let onto him about her past. Daryl was snoring still when a knock came to their door and Trixie glanced up as Daryl groaned and covered his eyes with his arm.
"To early go away!"
"If you and Trixie weren't up making loud noises all night youd be able to get up and eat now. We got eggs, come on." Trixie eyed Daryl as Rick walked away from their room and left Trixie to blush as Daryl smiled up to her.
"Morning woman." She chuckled as she remembers that part of the night.
"So, im woman now?"
'Better than girl isn't it?"
"Yeah, still not baby or babe but much better than girl."
"I told ya, im not a flowers and kisses king of guy."
"Nope, you're a hard core asshole that loves to punish women." Daryl looked at her in a bit of shook as she chuckled at his expression and kissed his cheek before getting up and walking to get her clothes Carol had left outside their door.
"Is that what you really think?" He was sitting up now as Trixie handed him his boxers and jeans before she smiled to him and nodded. As she put her shirt on and walked over to him she sat in his lap, straddling him, as she grabbed his hand and looked over his face.
"When I was being abused, I didn't like it. But I think somewhere deep inside I would have if they treated me right. I like you for you, the way you are, all hard assness and all. I love the way you take control and last ngiht….even though I feel like I acted like a whore, I wouldn't change a thing. This….this turns me on when done right and you did everything right Daryl." Trixie took Daryls hand and put it to her throat, holding it there with her own hand before she bent in and kissed Daryl as he watched a bit shocked. As she ran her hands into his hair he moved his hand to the back of her neck and pulled her into the kiss deeper before pulling her back and glaring at her.
"Don't make us late for breakfast woman." Trixie smiled as she nodded and felt him gently puling her close to kiss her again before he stood and started to get dressed. Trixie pulled her jeans on and as she put her camo shirt back on Daryl smiled to her.
"You don't regret it do you?" Daryl looked over to her as he laughed and shook his head.
"Naw, do you?"
"Nope." Trixie popped the p in the word as she smiled to him and watched as he finished putting his boots on.
"Good. Cause you can bet we are going to do that again." Trixie sighed as she felt a relief flood through her.
"So you don't think of me differently?"
"No why?"
"Just, after my past, and then last night, I thought you might think of me like a whore or a slut or something that wanted all that shit that happened." Daryl walked over to her and gripped her shoulders as he looked her right in her eyes and shook his head.
"Never woman. You were hurt then, last night, it was your call, and once you gave me the go ahead we had a mutual thing happen. You arent a whore or anything like that. Youre you and that's good enough for me." Trixie laughed as she shoved him off of her and shook her head.
"Hey don't go getting all lovey dovey on me prince." Daryl groaned at the nickname and shook his head.
"Don't call me that again."
"What? Prince? Well sir is out of the window, Shane and them will think your like Ed if they hear that."
"Never." Daryl glared at her as she laughed and patted his arm gently before running her hands around his waist.
"I know babe, im picking." Daryl smiled as he ran his nose through her hair and sighed.
"Now that I liked, but don't make a habit of calling me that in front of the others. They don't need to think ive gone soft on them."
"Only with me, and even then your not soft per say." Trixie winked to Daryl as she opened the door and started to walk down to where everyone was eating but as she got half way there Daryl grabbed her from behind and smacked her on the ass before glaring at her.
"That was for the comment smart ass." Trixie laughed as they turned into the kitchen and found everyone gone. Eyeing each other they wondered where they were before they heard the computer Vi pulling something up in the main room. When they walked over to it they saw what looked like a video playing on the wall and Trixie noticed Jenner was watching it with his arms crossed as he eyed Andrea and Rick who were closest to him.
"What are those lights?" Trixie glanced to Andrea as she pointed to some lights that were making the video of what seemed like a persons brain light up like fireworks.
"It's a persons life, experiences, memories. Its everything. Somewhere in all that organic wiring,all those ripples of light, is you…the thing that makes you unique. And human." Trixie eyed Jenner as Daryl scoffed and walked closer to him, she followed quickly as he got to the Dr and pointed to the image of the brain.
"You don't ever make sense do ya?"
"These are synapses, electric impulses in the brain that carry all messages. They determine everything a person says, does, or thinks from the moment of birth to the moment of death."
"Death? That's what this is, a vigil?" Daryl glanced from Andrea to Rick, trying to find some sense in the group as Trixie gripped his hand and looked over the images.
"It's a playback isn't it? You said no one else was here, this is something that happened earlier. They died didn't they?" Jenner looked to Trixie before frowning and nodding. Rick asked who, a bit low but he heard it and when he glanced back to the screen he frowned.
"Test subject 19."
"Wait so someone was bitten and infected?"
"And volunteered to have us record the process. Vi, scan forward to the first event."
"Scanning to first event." Trixie watched as the video speed up until the lights had started to get less and less before the whole thing was dark now. No lights what so ever were shown, just a dark brain and a lifeless person. Suddenly something sparked, once and bright, but that was it. Then it sparked again before red started to cover the screen.
"What is that!" Andrea was glancing to Rick and then the screen before turning to Jenner.
"It invaded the brain like meningitis. The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs, then death. Everything you ever were or ever will be….gone." Trixie gasped as she looked to Andrea and Dale who was behind her a bit.
"Is that what happened to Jim?" Jenner glanced from Andrea to Trixie and frowned and he glanced back to the screen.
"Yes." Trixie gripped Daryls hand tighter as she glanced to him quickly and frowned. Andrea started to cry a bit as Dale went to grip her shoulders and Lori frowned.
"She lost somebody two days ago. Her sister."
"I lost somebody too." Everyone glanced to Carol as she was remembering Ed but Jenner chuckled dryly as he turned back to the computer and shook his head.
"I know how devastating it is. Scan to the second event."
"Scanning to second event." Vi put the video now where the red had turned to dark black and was invading the whole brain, making everyone cover their mouths as Daryl and Shane glanced to each other before looking over the group.
"The resurrection times vary wildly. 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."
"It restarts the brain?" Jenner looked over to Andrea before shaking his head no and glancing back to the screen.
"No just the brain stem." Jenner was watching the screen when Trixie took a step up to him.
"So basically it gets them up andmoving…but they arent alive?" Jenner grinned to her before waving to the screen.
"You tell me. Its nothing like before. Most of that brain is dark see. Dark, lifeless, dead. The frontal lobe, the neocortex, the human part…that doenst come back. The you part. Just a shell driven by mindless instinct." Trixie watched the screen and suddenly there was a big explosion and the brian went dark for good, then the video started to pause as Jenner was watching it still. Andrea glanced around as she tried to figure out like Trixie what had just happened.
"What the hell was that?" Daryl glanced over to Andrea and scoffed.
"He shot his patient in the head. Didn't you?" Jenner glanced to Daryl and then to Trixie and down to their hands that were joined. Glancing over to Rick as he held Loris hand and then to Dale who held Andreas shoulders he nodded.
"Vi, power down the main screen and the workstations."
"Powering down main screen and workstations."
"You have no idea what it is do you?" Jenner glanced to Rick and shook his head while shrugging.
"It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal."
"Or the wrath of god?" Everyone glanced to Jacqui.
"There is that."
"Somebody must know something." Andrea glanced to Jenner then to Rick and back again nodding as if she had found the answer to it all.
"Somebody somewhere."
"There are others right?"
"Yeah Lori, other facilities right Dr.?" Jenner glanced from Andrea to Lori to Trixie before shaking his head and sighing.
"There may be some, people like me I mean."
"But you don't know? How can you not know?" Rick walked up to Jenner before he could walk off and stopped him. Jenner sighed as he looked over to Rick and shrugged.
"Everything went down. Communications, directives…all of it. Ive been in the dark for almost a month. So its not just here."
"Theres nothing left anywhere? Nothing? That's what you're really saying right?" Jenner glanced to Jacqui again before nodding and making half of the group gasp and start mumbling to themselves.
"Jesus, Im gonna get shit faced drunk again." T-Dog turned to leave but Rick stopped him and turned back to the doctor, trying to figure out something to say, something to do to bring hope to the group when Trixie looked around from Daryl to the others and noticed something above them.
"Dr." Jenner turned to Trixie, along with most of the group as he saw her looking up.
'Yes."
"I know weve asked a lot and I hate to bug you, but I have a question of my own now."
"What is it?"
"What it that clock counting down to?" Everyone glanced to the clock above them and then to Jenner who sighed before running his hands though his hair and eyeing Trixie then Rick.
"You had to ask. Its counting down to the time the basement generators run out of fuel."
"And then?" Daryl glanced down to Trixie as she gripped his hand tighter and took a step back to him, making him glance to Rick to see if he was a worried as she was and he was right. Rick was holding Lori and Carl's hands as Jenner ran a hand over his face and frowned.
"Vi, what happens when the power runs out?"
"When power runs out, facility-wide decontamination will occur."
"Decontamination? Whats that mean?" Trixie shook as she turned to Glenn and had a look of straight fear on her face.
"I don't like the way Jenner cleared that up." Shane watched as Jenner walked away from them, leaving them with the question hanging in the air before Trixie had a tear roll over her cheek as she gripped Daryls hand tighter..
"Trix?" Daryl pulled her close, Andrea walking over to her as she gripped her head and shook it.
"Decontamination. It means…..its…oh god we got to get out." Everyone looked to Trixie as she tried to walk away but Andrea held her back and shook her a bit.
"Trixie, what are you talking about?"
"Decontamination! I heard about it when I was in school. We had to do it to the school when we had an outbreak of that stupid swine flu. It wasn't bad but I remembered asking a science teacher what would have happened if it was worse. This virus or whatever is worse. And this facility and everyone working in it has come into contact with said virus. If the power shuts down, the virus can get out, so decontamination happen so it wont live."
"How do you keep a virus from living, isnt that like the killing the flu of something?" Trixie glanced to Glenn before nodding and shivering again.
"The only way to decontaminate a place with a powerful virus like this….it total…untter….destruction."
"Like tearing the building down?"
"Blowing it up is more like it." Trixie eyed Rick as her words sunk into his mind and he glanced over to T-Dog, Glenn, Shane and Daryl.
"You guys, come with me. We are going to check the generators, see exactly how long we have until this thing happens. You girls go back to the rooms, collect our things. We might be leaving soon." everyone nodded as they started to split and Daryl glanced to Andrea.
"Watch her." Andrea nodded before Daryl kissed the top of Trixies head and went after Rick and the others.
"Trixie, lets go get out things. Your going to be ok alright?"
"No I wont. We wont. If this place is as secure as he says, when that decontamination starts we will be trapped like mice in here Andrea." Andrea frowned as she led Trixie back to her room she had with Daryl and they started to pack her things together.