Ana stared at her reflection in the small bathroom mirror. There were dark circles under each blood shot eye, her hair seemed three shades darker as she tied it up into a ponytail, her face didn't have the soft glow it used to have...in fact it looked rough, and cold looking.

Today she had woken up early after a night full of bad dreams, dreams about going back to the island and finding her son's body rotting in the hot summer sun.

Sara had laid out fresh clothes for her, and Ana took them into the ladies and washed up.

The place seemed cold...almost as if living underground was like living in another world.

It sent chills through her body.

How did she get here...how was she ever going to find her son again?

She then rubbed her face, sighed and walked out trying to find someone else.

She walked up and down the plain white hallways, the clicking of her own shoes filling the air, then she found what looked like the door they had entered the night before.

She slowly reached out and opened the door a crack and listened it.

Just about everyone was in the huge mess hall again, talking as they all sat around at different tables.

"I think the men she was with kidnapped her...I think she's been raped."

She heard Sara say.

"What makes you say that?" Of one the men answered.

"When I checked her over she had bruises on the inner thighs, any person could see it, she's in shock, I think the people she was with were murdered."

"You think she's gonna be okay?"

"Hell, who knows, is anyone really okay after this going on for so long."

Ana then bit her lip and opened the door, everyone turned around and watched her as she walked across the long room...feeling all eyes on her as she found the table where Sara and Fisher were, she tried to smiled and pulled up a chair.

Everyone acted funny, but Fisher got Ana a nice steaming cup of coffee, and sat beside her.

Ana took a sip and then looked up at everyone Cooper was sitting with his men and smiled back.

"How you feeling hon?"

"Much better thank you."

"You hungry?"

"Not Yet."

"You sleep okay."

Ana nodded.

"I would like to thank your team for helping me...the men I was with..."

Cooper cut her off.

"It's okay honey, we understand the sick fucks who are still alive...just as long as your okay."

"I'm pretty far away from where I last saw my group."

"Yes, we understand that...how many do you say are alive?"

"Three...I think."

"We would take you back there, but our fuel couldn't take it."

"How far do you think you could take me?"

Cooper and the men looked surprised.

"Hell, not as far as you want...what your saying you would walk the rest of the way?"

"If it calls for it...I'm sure I could find a car..."

"But those things..."

"Further up their pretty spread out...I've been around worst."

"I don't think you shouldn't make any plans until your all rested and healed up."

Ana then looked down at her hands.

"I wanna thank you all for what you did...but I need to see if their okay."

Copper looked around.

"Okay, I understand, but can you do one thing for me?"

Ana looked up.

"Yeah?"

"Rest here for at least a few weeks...okay?"

Ana then nodded.

The rest of the so called "meeting." Everyone talked together, the soldiers seemed rude and out of place most of the time...so Ana talked with Sara and Fisher.

When the meeting was broken up and everyone went there own ways, some of the men said they were going up top for some sun.

"Care to join us?" One of the men said, his voice made Ana turn around.

It was the one called Rhodes, he still had that cold set look in his face as he threw his rifle over one shoulder.

Ana brushed some hair out of her eyes and looked at him.

"Okay."

"All right then..."

He then started to walk with a few of the other men towards the elevator. Ana caught up with them and they all stood together as it rose up into the blazing sun.

Up top it was nice and warm, at first Ana was uneasy about seeing the thousands of zombies behind the fence, but she walked around to a place where she didn't see them, a small little field and sat herself down.

She laid back a little and tried to relax...she knew the second she got strong enough she would leave and go looking for Hunter...she needed to.

She took a deep breath in of the warm weather and settled down into the soft grass, she closed her eyes and then she heard a voice above her.

"Feeling better?"

Ana cracked open one eye and saw it was Rhodes. When she left the men they were smoking weed and playing cards in the shade.

"Yeah...I think so."

She hiked herself up on her elbows a little.

Rhodes laid down his gun and then sat down beside her...both looked out towards the other fields and fence that surrounded it all.

"Jim Rhodes." He held out his hand.

Ana looked at him and then shook it.

"Nice to meet you Jim."

"Everyone calls me Rhodes, it's a military thing."

"Oh." Ana nodded.

"You been here for a while?"

"It's coming up on four years now, the government assigned us here."

"For what?"

"For people like you to be taken in...for those whack jobs in the lab coats down there to try and think of a reason why this all started."

Ana smiled.

"Must be pretty bad."

"Yeah...it can be."

Both didn't say anything for a while, they just squinted their eyes and looked around.

Ana was now close enough to look at Rhodes, he seemed like a hard ass...but the truth was once she got close enough he was a pretty good looking guy, and nice enough to sit down with her.

She knew in front of the others he had to put on an act.

After a while he spoke again.

"So...what's your story?"

Ana looked at him.

"Well, it's a pretty mixed up story."

"It's okay...I have plenty of time."

Ana smiled.

"When it started I was working as a nurse...I joined some people at a local shopping mall for about two months, we planned an escape which didn't go so well...most of us died and then five of us found an island off the coast where I had been living for the past four years...that's where I had my son Hunter."

"You have a son?"

"Yeah, the father died while we were escaping the mall."

"Were you married?"

Ana shook her head.

"No...just friends."

"Did he ever know about the baby?"

Ana shook her head again.

"No...I didn't even know until we got there...I was pretty unstable for a while, didn't think I could go on...I lost two of the babies while giving birth...Hunter my son was the only one that lived."

"Must of been hard."

"Well I had my friends, we were like family after that and raised him...but then those men came and killed my friend Nicole right in front of us...so one of my friends took Hunter away in a boat...I don't know what happened to them."

"I'm sure they made it."

Ana sighed.

"I hope so."

"Were those the men that...raped you?"

Rhodes said it slowly, and looked into her eyes again.

Ana shook her head.

'I'm sorry..."

"Hey, it's over and done with...I'm just lucky I'm still alive."

Rhodes nodded and looked around.

"Life is pretty shitty huh?"

Ana gave a soft laugh.

"You can say that again."

Rhodes then reached over and touched her hand.

Ana looked down at it and then up at him.

For all she knew he just wannted to get laid, or was once again putting on an act...but both leaned forward without even thinking and kissed.