Jestalnaker94000

Awesome chapter! :) also are any lost antagonist gonna show up later on? Or is it just going to remain WD antagonist?

Thanks for the review. And for the lost antagonist I will be adding them, in fact I have a plan for one already but you'll find out about them eventually.

thedarkpokemaster

Poor Jim but what he said about Sawyer is very true he acts tough but he does care deep down and seems that they have all made it to the CDC makes me wonder what will happen there as if I remember it was very safe for them all there.

Sawyer is a good person and I thought that Jim, as he saw a lot in Rick would also see that in him. And you will see what happens soon…

Don 77

whoa good work man was sad how Jim died but this is something they will all need to learn after all, anyway seems that the crazy Shane is coming and Ana sees this all too well.

Thanks man, And you are right that Ana knows that Shane and Lori had something going and that Shane blames Rick for it ending.

Kevinrock8899

Sweet chapter and now we reach the end of season one next chapter which shall be good on what you will do and how they will handle what Jenner tells them all.

As for Sawyer saving Sophia well he could go with Rick when she is chased away by them, as knowing Shane he would be happy Sawyer is gone and shows his growing dark side.

Glad you liked the chapter. As for Sawyer, who knows what will happen when it comes to that scene so we will see. I'm glad that you all are thinking of the future with these characters.


Enjoy

The group quickly moved into the CDC with their weapons drawn, "Quick get the doors closed." Dale said to Daryl and Eko who were watching the walkers. They closed the doors and turned around as Rick began to call out for anyone. Everyone began to start breathing heavily as they scanned the room for anyone, or anything at all yet nothing seemed to be there.

Suddenly they all heard the click of an assault rifle. Everyone turned aiming their guns at the single man who seemingly appeared out of nowhere. He held a M16 assault rifle and didn't even flinch as the group turned to him, "Anybody Infected?" He called out to them,

"One of our group was, he didn't make it." Rick replied shakily,

"Why are you here? What do you want?" Jenner asked as he slowly walked forward,

"A chance." Rick replied,

"That's asking an awful lot these days." Jenner said as he stopped,

"I know." Rick said with a hopeful tone in his voice,

Jenner looked around at all the scared faces of the group and finally said, "You all submit to a blood test, that's the price of admission."

"We can do that." Jack said with a nod,

Jenner lowered his gun and began to walk towards the doors, "You got stuff to bring in you do it now, once that door closes it stays closed." Eko and Daryl protected the group as they ran out to the cars and brought back in their bags. As they all returned the two of them closed the doors and Jenner ran his id card through a reader and said, " VI, close the shutters and kill the power up here." Everyone watched as the outer shutter lowered sealing the building,

Rick stopped next to Jenner and held out his hand, "Rick Grimes."

Jenner awkwardly darted his eyes away from Rick and said, " Jenner."

Soon the whole group was crammed into a large elevator. Even though they were all uncomfortable they still felt relief, "Do doctors always go around packing heat like that?" Daryl asked,

"There were plenty left around so I familiarized myself." Jenner said while turning back to Daryl, "But you all seem harmless enough." Jenner then looked at Carl, "Except you. I'm going to have to keep an eye on you." Jenner joked causing Carl to stifle back a grin and him to let out a soft chuckle.

The elevator opened and Jenner lead them down a corridor to the main room, a large room that held many computers and on one wall a clock that ticked down. "VI, bring up the lights in the big room." Jenner called out and the all the lights lit up, "Welcome to zone five." Jenner said and walked towards the center of the room as everyone looked around a bit confused.

"Where is everybody?" Sayid asked,

"I'm it." Jenner said with a shrug, "It's just me here."

"The hell you talking about? You were talking to someone else a second ago." Sawyer said hoarsely,

"VI, say hello to our guests. Tell them welcome." Jenner called out. Suddenly a robotic voice said hello and welcome. "Like I said it's just me here." Jenner could see everyone shift sadly, "I'm sorry." Jenner added as he lead them forward.

Minutes later Jenner was almost finished taking the blood from all the members and he was on Claire, "So, how many months?" Jenner asked,

"Oh, it's been about eight, at least I think." Claire replied,

"You know if it's a boy or a girl?" Jenner continued as he began to draw her blood,

"No, not for sure but I think it will be a boy." Claire said with a smile and rubbed her stomach,

"Excuse me doctor, why exactly are you drawing the blood?" Locke asked,

"What do you mean?" Jenner replied,

"Well, if any of us were infected we'd be running a serious fever." Locke explained,

"John, he's just being thorough." Jack said,

"Your friends right, I already broke every rule letting you in here. Just let me do this." Jenner said as he removed the needle from Claire's arm, "There all done."

Claire gave him a smile and stood up but she suddenly stopped, wobbling slightly. "Claire?" Charlie said and ran over to her helping support her,

"What's wrong?" Jenner asked as Jack ran over as well,

"She's lightheaded from lack of food. None of us have eaten in days." Jack replied and helped Claire into a chair. Jenner looked at the group for a moment then stood up leading them on.

Thirty minutes later the whole group were sitting eating spaghetti and drinking wine. Everyone was laughing and actually having a good time, well everyone except Shane who continued to stew in anger. "You know children have a little bit of wine with dinner in Italy. And in France." Dale said as he poured Lori some more wine,

"And when Carl in in France or Italy he can try some there." Lori said covering Carl's glass with her hand,

"Oh come on, give shorty a bit." Sawyer said with a smile,

"Really what will it hurt." Rick said with a smirk. Lori looked over at him shocked, "Come on." Rick said chuckling slightly.

Lori gave a small shrug and moved her hand away. Everyone cheered as Dale picked up Carl's glass and poured about a two fingers of wine into his glass. "Yeah come on little man, get it!" Sawyer said happily as Carl picked up the glass and took a small sip,

Carl's face twisted in disgust as the wine hit his mouth. However instead of spitting it out he looked over to Sawyer and quickly finished the wine. Everyone once again cheered as Carl put down the glass and shook his head in disgust, "Atta boy!" Sawyer said and held his hand up for Carl to high five him,

"Alright that's it, no more." Lori said smiling as Carl smacked Sawyer's hand with a large smile,

"Not you mate! Me and you are going to have a contest!" Charlie said to Glenn happily,

"What?" Glenn said laughing,

"Come on, think you can out drink a brit?" Charlie said with a smile,

"Yeah Glenn, I want to see how red your face can get!" Daryl said as he filled two shot glasses,

Eko peered over to Jenner who sat quietly away from the group sipping wine. "Rick." Eko said quietly. Rick looked over and Eko motioned to Jenner. Rick let out a nod.

Rick tapped his fork on his glass to quiet everyone down, "Seems we haven't thanked our host properly." Rick said standing up,

"He is more than just our host." T-Dog said raising his glass,

"You can say that again." Ana said raising her glass as well,

"Yeah here's to you, Doc. Booyah!" Daryl called out holding a who bottle of scotch up,

"Booyah!" Nearly everyone called out happily. Jenner awkwardly raised his glass and nodded,

"So when are you gonna tell us what the hell happened here, doc?" Shane grumbled out, "All the other doctors, they are supposed to be figuring out what happened. Where are they?" Shane said glaring at Jenner coldly,

"We're celebrating, Shane. We don't need to do this now." Rick said slowly sitting back down,

"Whoa, wait a second. This is why we're here, right? It was your move right? To find all the answers right?" Shane said turning to Rick and Glaring, "Instead we find, we find him." Shane said with a chuckle, "Why?"

"Give it a break Rocky." Sawyer said shaking his head and taking a sip of wine,

"No I want to know why we found one man." Shane turned back to Jenner, "Why?"

"Well when things got bad, a lot of people just left. Went off to be with their families." Jenner said, "Then when things got worse, when the military got overrun. The rest bolted."

"Every last one?" Sayid asked surprised,

"No, many couldn't face walking out the door. They opted out. There was a rash of suicides." Jenner replied while still staring at Shane coldly, "That was a bad time." Jenner finished as he hung his head,

"But you didn't leave, why?" Kate asked,

"I just kept working, hoping to do some good." Jenner replied,

"You are such a buzzkill man." Glenn said to Shane as he stood up and walked away,

As the group finished dinner Jenner lead the group down into the common wing. "The facility is saving power so it powers down non essential power, including housing. So you all will have to make due down here. The couches are comfortable." Jenner said as he pointed into the rooms, "But we have cots in storage if you'd like." Jenner stopped and crouched down in front of Sophia and Carl, "There's a rec room you kids may like down the hall but make sure you don't plug in any of the arcade machines, or anything that draws power." Both Carl and Sophia nodded to him, "Same goes for you all, and if you shower go easy on the hot water." Jenner finished and walked away.

"Hot water?" Glenn asked happily,

"That's what the man said." Sawyer replied smiling. Quickly the group separated into the different rooms and began to jump into the showers. Everyone continued to grow in happiness as they felt all the stress of the world flow off their bodies. Shane however became even more angry as he showered and continued to drink heavily.

As everyone finally finished showering Amy made her way down the halls towards Sayid's room. She knocked on the door and he opened it slightly, "Amy? Are you alright?"

"Yeah, can I talk to you." Amy asked sweetly,

"Amy I'm not in the best state here, I've drank a lot." Sayid said rubbing his eyes,

"Maybe I can help." Amy said as she pushed into his room and locked the door.

Nearby Charlie stood in the bathroom holding his small heroin stash over the toilet. He was struggling to let go of it when Claire walked in unannounced, "Charlie I-what is that?"

Charlie jumped and quickly stuffed the bag into his pocket, "It's nothing Claire, don't worry about it."

"Charlie, it's alright. Just tell me what it is." Claire said calmingly to him,

"It's, it's, it's bloody drugs." Charlie finally said pulling the bag back out, "I want to flush them but I can't. I need them, I don't know what will happen without them."

"Charlie, how long?" Claire asked surprised,

"Years now. My brother, he got me into them. He got clean but I never got around to it." Charlie said hanging his head,

"Here give them to me, I'll hang onto them for you, if you really want to quit then you can do it." Claire said as she put her hand on his shoulder,

Charlie slowly put the bag into her hand. Claire took them and began to walk away, "Where are you putting them?"

"I'm not going to tell you that. Just know you won't have them anymore." Claire replied as she walked out. Charlie let out a sigh and sat down on the toilet and began to worry how hard this would actually be.

As this happened Rick stumbled his way down to the main room where Jenner was last seen. He held a half bottle of wine and sipped on it thoughtfully as he walked, halfway there he spotted Eko making his way down towards Jenner as well, "Eko." Rick called out causing him to stop,

"Yes Rick?" He asked as Rick shuffled up to him,

"Where you goin?" Rick asked,

"To see Jenner." Eko replied,

"Good, me too. Come on let's go." Rick drunkenly said leading him along,

The pair entered the room and Rick knocked on one of the computers to alert Jenner, he turned around and Rick asked, "How's the blood."

"No surprises." Jenner replied,

"I came down to thank you." Rick said as he moved forward,

"As did I." Eko said,

"You already did." Jenner replied. Rick then felly to the ground accidently. "You alright?" Jenner asked as Rick said leaning against a computer station,

"You don't know what it's like." Rick said laughing, "You don't know what it's like out there. You may think you do, but you don't." Rick said as Jenner shifted in his chair, "We'd have died out there." Rick said sadly,

"Rick…" Eko began to say,

"It's true Eko." Rick quickly said, "It was only a matter of time. There's too many of those things." Rick paused for a moment, "My boy, my wife, I never-I never told them what I really thought. Never even hinted. I just kept it in, I just kept it moving. I just kept it in." Rick said nearly in tears,

"It'll, it'll all be okay." Jenner said trying to reassure him yet only sounding hollow,

"This isn't the end Rick. It only ends once." Eko said causing Rick to let out a nod.

Back In the Rec room Lori walked in as Carol watched over Carl and Sophia who were reading books. "Mom, Sawyer told me he'd teach me how to play poker!" Carl exclaimed.

"Mmm, really." Lori said widening her eyes as she looked through the books,

"Come on Sophia, let's get ready for bed." Carol said standing up,

"Carol could you take him too, I'm gonna browse for a while." Lori said. Carol nodded and lead the two kids out of the room leaving Lori alone. As Lori looked through the books Lori walked into the room and slammed the door. "Jesus." Lori grumbled out,

Shane rubbed his chin and said, "I'm gonna tell you a few things and you're gonna listen to me."

"Now is not the time." Lori said clearly uninterested,

"Come on when will ever be the time." Shane said as he walked towards her, "How can you treat me like this?"

"You are joking right?" Lori said looking at him furiously,

"No. huh-uh." Shane replied just as angrily,

"Because you told me my husband was dead." Lori replied as she walked past him,

"Jesus Lori." Shane said following her, "I didn't lie to you, all right? I didn't." Shane said as he blocked the door, "Do you know what it was like there?"

"Stop." Lori replied but Shane didn't even seem to hear,

"Things were falling apart. They were slaughtering people in the hallways. I was a massacre. There were walkers everywhere." Shane explained,

"So you left him?" Lori said matter of factly,

"Everybody else ran! There were no doctors there. It was just me. He was hooked up to machines and I did not know what to do. I even took my ear and I put it on his chest and I listened for a heartbeat and I did not hear one." Shane said hoarsely, "And I don't know why, maybe it was gunfire. I don't know what it was, but there was no way he could've survived that. No way." Shane said slamming his fist on the door,

"He did." Lori said firmly to him,

"Yeah, but then I had y'all to think about, didn't I?" Shane said walking forward. Lori backed up until she was forced into a chair, "I had you and Carl, and I needed to think about. I had to get you guys safe to Atlanta. That's what I had to do." Shane said as Lori tried to get up, "Just stop." Shane begged as he forced Lori to sit back down, "If you thought for one second that he was still alive, would you have come?" Shane asked making Lori stop for a moment and think, "So I saved your life, you and your son's that's what I did. Right?" Shane asked leaving Lori torn, "And if I could've traded places with him, I would have. I would trade places with him right now because I love you." Shane said putting his hands on Lori's face,

"No, No, you're drunk." Lori said pushing his hands away,

"I love you and I know you loved me too. After everything we went through and did." Shane said trying to pull her into a kiss,

"Shane! Stop!" Lori yelled out as Shane put his hand onto her crotch, Lori screamed out and dug her fingers into his neck. Just then Ana who heard the commotion ran in and quickly grabbed Shane pulling him away.

"Shane get the fuck out of here!" Ana yelled as she stood between him and Lori. As Lori began to cry Shane punched the wall and stormed out of the room, "Are you alright?" Ana asked sincerely,

"You can't tell Rick, Ana please." Lori said fearfully,

"Lori I-" Ana said,

"Please!" Lori begged cutting her off,

"Alright." Ana said hardly,

"Thank you." Lori said pulling her into a hug. Minutes later a drunk rick stumbled into there room and took of his pants. He literally fell into bed next to Lori who was slightly weeping. She turned to Rick who said, "It's alright, you don't have to be afraid anymore. We're safe." Lori smiled and gave him a kiss. They both fell asleep yet Lori was unsure what the future held with Shane.

Alright to the next chapter is the season finale of the first season. I hope you all have enjoyed the ride so far and I see no reason to stop now! I also hope you liked the small little scenes the characters had in this chapter as it was suppose to be a more upbeat chapter to be sure. Anyway leave a review and let me know what you think!