Jestalnaker94000

Good chapter! :) i hope Eko doesn't die too soon, he was one of my favorite lost characters, Amy and sayid caught me off guard XD, but i can't wait to see how that relationship develops. Looking forward to next chapter. (:

I also love Eko in fact he was my favorite character and if you think about it he probably is one of the best survivors due to his upbringing in Nigeria. As for Amy and Sayid, glad I caught you off guard it shouldn't have been too expected. I can tell you Sayid was surprised too.

thedarkpokemaster

Yep Shane is going to die in season 2 and I have a feeling it won't help with people like Ana and Sawyer around as I know Ana would try to stop Shane and she did in this chapter and Claire helped Charlie which is good and sweet, and if I remember Jenner will soon tell them how this virus works I know he is going to tell Rick and Eko they are all infected maybe Jack as well as he is a doctor well the group's doctor that is. Plus Amy and Sayid didn't see that one coming.

Shane does have more enemies so far in this one. Though Sawyer doesn't exactly hate Shane rather Shane hates Sawyer. And I felt that Claire wouldn't shun Charlie about his drugs if he explained that he wanted to stop. Still happy to have a nice surprise relationship for you guys.

Don 77

Lol oh Sawyer teaching Carl poker yeah that's something I can see him doing later on and damn Shane is losing it more and more all the time it seems this I know will not end well.

Yeah Sawyer has taken a liking to Carl and surprisingly Carl seems to look up to him and honestly can you blame him? He is pretty cool.

Kevinrock8899

Sweet chapter seems things are not as good as they can be at the CDC mainly with Shane and what he tried to do but I know Ana is going to be keeping an eye on Shane for a while, I just can't wait to see how the rest of the CDC is going to play out, and thanks I always like to think ahead on what may happen and could happen.

Yeah writing this down I realized that Shane really ruined that night for absolutely everyone. Ana will indeed be watching him but who knows how Shane will react to her scrutiny. Anyway hope you like the season finale this chapter.

Captaintjf

Oh show Amy and Sayid! Love this

Glad you like the matchup, it was the first relationship I thought of surprisingly. Thanks for the review as well.


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The next morning Rick walked into the cafeteria where everyone was, besides Shane, Amy and Sayid. Rick walked over to Lori and Carl who were eating bacon and eggs. "Morning." Rick said as he sat down,

"Are you hungover? Mom said you'd be." Carl said with a smile,

"Mom is right." Rick replied smirking at Lori,

"Mom's are usually right, there good like that." Lori said as she took a bite of bacon,

"Eggs. Powdered, but I do 'em good." T-Dog said as he walked over with a frying pan full of eggs,

"Excuse me." Rose said as she continued to cook with Bernard,

"Sorry, we do them good." T-Dog said with a smile to her, Rose replied with a smile and a nod.

"You know I bet they can't even tell." Bernard added as he tasted the eggs, "Seem the same as fresh ones."

Glenn sat holding his head groaning as his hangover was overpowering him this morning, "Protein, helps the hangover." T-Dog said as he put some eggs on Glenn's plate,

"Where did this come from?" Rick asked as Lori handed him aspirin,

"Jenner, He thought we could use them." Kate replied,

Jack let out a smile, "Some people need to know their limits." Jack said and looked over at Glenn,

Glenn slowly looked up at Charlie, "Never ever ever ever again. Ever." Charlie let out a smirk and took a bite of eggs.

Finally Shane walked in and a few steps behind him were Sayid and Amy who sat down a distance away from each other. Andrea looked between the two and saw them actively avoiding their gazes. She let her mouth hang open as T-Dog filled their plates with eggs,

"Hey." Rick said to Shane,

"Hey." Shane replied with a nod as he filled a cup with coffee,

"You feel as bad as me?" Rick said with a chuckle,

"Worse." Shane said as he turned around and took a seat,

"What happened Shane?" Locke asked as he saw Lori's scratches on his neck,

"I don't know, must have done it in my sleep." Shane said quickly,

"Never seen you do something like that." Rick said as he looked at the scratches,

"Yeah, not like me at all." Shane said as he glared at Lori,

"Then you should be more careful." Ana said glaring at Shane in turn,

"Morning." Jenner said as he walked towards the coffee machine,

"Morning." Everyone replied,

"Doctor, I don't mean to slam you with questions right away." Dale began to say,

"But you will anyway." Jenner said with a soft laugh,

"We didn't come for the eggs." Jack added.

Jenner turned back to everyone then said, "Alright come on then." He lead everyone back towards the main room. As they all filed into the room Jenner said, "VI, bring up the playback of TS-19." The large screen in the room began to light up until a thermal view of a human brain came onto the screen. "Few people ever got a chance to see this."

"Is that a brain?" Carl asked,

"An extraordinary one." Jenner replied with a smile, "Not that it mattered in the end. VI, got into internal view. Quickly the screen shifted so the brain filled the whole screen, then it zoomed in even further until all anyone could see was the neurons firing.

"What are those lights?" Shane asked,

"That's a person's life. Experiences, memories. It's everything. Somewhere in all that organic wiring, all those ripples of light, Is you. The thing that makes you unique and Human.: Jenner replied as he paced slowly around,

"You don't make sense ever?" Daryl said crossing his arms,

"Those are synapses." Jenner continued,

"Synapses?" Sun asked,

"Electric impulses in the brain." Jack answered,

"Yes." Jenner said nodding, "They determine everything a person says from the moment of birth to the moment of death."

"Death? That's what this is, a vigil?" Rick asked,

"Yes." Jenner nodded as he looked at the screen, "Or rather the playback of the vigil."

"This person died?" Andrea asked, "Who was it?"

"Test Subject 19." Jenner replied, "Someone who was bitten and infected...they volunteered to have us record the process." Jenner said sadly, "Vi, Scan forward to the first event." Jenner said and everyone watched as the video speed forward. Suddenly they saw blackness beginning to spread into the brain, "It invades the brain, makes the adrenal glands hemorrhage then it spreads to the organs until finally death." Jenner explained,

"Is that what happened to Jim?" Sophia asked,

"Yes." Carol admitted sadly,

"VI, scan to second event." Jenner said and once again the video sped forward, "Now this part is different in all cases, we've had reports of it happening in as little in three minutes. In this case it took two hours, one minute...and seven seconds." Jenner said as he stared at the screen closely. Everyone watched in shock and some interest as the lights that once fired in the brain began to fire again this time however only at the core of the brain.

"It restarts the brain?" Kate asked shocked,

"No, just the brain stem. Basically it just gets them up and moving." Jenner corrected,

"But are they alive?" Eko asked,

"You tell me." Jenner said with a shrug,

Rick shook his head and said, "It's nothing like before. Most of that brain is dark."

"Dark, lifeless, dead. The frontal lobe, the neocortex, the human part, that doesn't come back." Jenner said with a nod, "It's just a shell, mindless instinct." Just then everyone saw a bullet drive through the head of TS-19 and finally kill it,

"God what was that?" Carol asked,

"He shot his patient in the head." Jack said,

"VI, power down the main station." Jenner said,

"You have no idea what it is do you?" Locke asked,

"We it could be fungal, viral, parasitic." Jenner replied,

"Or the wrath of god." Rose said,

"Yes there is that." Jenner said nodding,

"Someone somewhere has to know something." Claire said,

"There are others, right? Other facilities?" Amy asked,

"There may be some, maybe some others like me." Jenner answered,

"But you don't know? How do you not know." Sayid asked confused,

"Everything went down. Communications, directives, all of it. I've been in the dark for almost a month." Jenner replied,

"So it's not just America, it's everywhere." Ana said as she rested herself against a computer station,

Jenner watched as everyone slowly came to the realization that the whole word was actually destroyed, "Damn, I'm gonna get shitface drunk again." Daryl said,

"Yeah you can say that again." Sawyer said as he sat the floor defeated,

"Excuse me Doctor but I have one question to ask." Eko said, "That clock has been ticking down since we got here, what happens when it gets to zero?"

Jenner paused for a moment then quickly said, "The facility generators run out of fuel."

"Then what happens?" Dale asked yet Jenner only walked away,

"VI, What happens when the facility runs out of power?" Rick asked. VI explained that a facility wide decontamination would occur.

Minutes later Sayid, Shane, Rick, Locke, T-Dog and Eko were sprinting down the stairs to the sub basement of the building. "Decontamination! What does that mean?" Locke asked as they ran down the stairs,

"I don't like the way Jenner clammed up." Shane added,

"Decontamination can mean many things." Sayid said,

"Well what did it mean in the military?" T-Dog asked,

Sayid paused then said, "We would remove all life from an area."

Rick looked over shocked, "Christ."

"But it doesn't make sense, how could that happen inside a building?" Eko asked,

"I don't know, maybe it only means the labs." Sayid said as they reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Over here." Rick said as he saw a door marked power. As they opened the doors the room was pitch black, everyone pulled out a flashlight and shuffled inside. Locke reached over and found a switch and flipped it causing the lights to flicker on. Inside they saw dozens of oil barrels laying on the ground. Rick saw that the room had two ways to explore, "Shane Eko." Rick said looking left, "Sayid, Locke, T-Dog." Rick said pointing right and the group split up,

As they searched through the room they found more barrels and generators that were no longer running. Eko spotted a green generator that was still chugging, "Shane, Rick." Eko called out to them. They both walked over and watched as Eko pushed the oil barrel that the generator was feeding off of, "It's empty."

Just then the lights in the room shut off and a dim light went on. VI came on and said emergency lighting was on, "What the hell is this?" Shane asked as he looked around,

Locke, Sayid and T-Dog ran back towards the door, "Did you guys hit the lights?" Locke asked,

"Nah, it just went out." Shane replied as Eko and Rick investigated the generator,

"You find anything?" Rick asked,

"Yeah, a lot of dead generators." T-Dog replied,

"And more empty drums then I could count." Sayid added,

"Are you sure it's down to this last one?" Eko asked,

"Haven't found a full one." T-Dog replied,

Back up in the recreation room Jin stood on a chair and held his hand up to the air conditioner, "What's wrong?" Sun asked,

"It stopped." Jin said with a concerned look,

Meanwhile Jenner sat in his office holding a picture of his wife, "I did the best I could in the time that I had. I hope you can be proud of that." Jenner said as sniffed and fought off tears. He carefully put the picture down and picked up his ID card and put his lab coat on. "We always think there's gonna be more time…" Jenner said to himself as the lights shut down and the emergency lights came on. "Then it runs out."

Jenner began to walk down the hallway from the recreation area towards the main room, "Hey Doc why the air and lights off?" Sawyer asked,

"Yeah what's going on?" Daryl asked as he popped out of his room holding a bottle of scotch,

Jenner reached down and grabbed the bottle from Daryl, "Energy is being prioritized." Jenner answered as he took a swig of scotch,

"Air isn't a priority? And lights?" Dale asked,

"It's not up to me. Zone 5 is shutting itself down." Jenner replied as everyone began to follow him,

"Hey! Hey, what the hell does that mean?" Daryl yelled out yet Jenner didn't answer, "Hey I'm talking to you. What do you mean it's shutting itself down? How could a building do anything?"

Just as they reached the main room so did Rick and the others, "You'd be surprised." Jenner said cryptically to Daryl,

"Rick?!" Lori called out,

"Were here!" He replied as the others joined in following Jenner, "Jenner what is happening."

"The system is dropping all the nonessential uses of power. It's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second. That's started as we approached the half-hour mark." Jenner answered and looked over to the large clock, "Right on schedule." Jenner remarked as the clock ticked down to twenty nine minutes.

Jenner handed the bottle back to Daryl, "It was the french." Jenner said to Claire,

"What?" She asked,

"They were the last ones to hold out as far as I know. While our people were bolting out the doors and committing suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs till the end. They thought they were close to a solution."

"What happened?" Kate asked,

"Same thing that's happening here. No power grid. Ran out of juice." Jenner said with a shrug then said, "The world runs off fossil fuel. I mean, how stupid is that?" Jenner said throwing his hands up,

"Let me tell you-" Shane said angrily,

"To hell with it, Shane. I don't even care. Everybody grab your stuff, were leaving." Rick said. Suddenly an alarm went off and the screen light up with a large timer. VI informed everyone that they had thirty minutes to decontamination.

"You heard the man, let's get the fuck out!" Sawyer yelled and lead everyone back towards the exit. Jenner quickly typed a code on the computer causing a blast door to shut locking everyone inside the main room with him,

"Did he just lock us in!?" Glenn exclaimed,

Sawyer and Daryl both sprinted at Jenner, "You sonofabitch!" Sawyer exclaimed,

"You locked us in here!" Daryl shouted as he was about to throw his bottle at him. Jenner didn't react he just continued to talk to the recorder on the computer,

"Shane! Eko!"Rick called out and they quickly stopped Daryl and Sawyer from attacking Jenner by pulling them away,

"Jenner open that door right now." Rick said sternly as he walked over,

"There's no point. Everything topside is locked down." Jenner replied, "Even the emergency exits are sealed."

"Well open the damn things." Dale said hoarsely,

"That's not something I control, the computers do. I told you once that front door closed, it stayed closed, I said that." Jenner said pointing to Rick, "It's better this way."

"What is?" Amy asked, "What happens in twenty eight minutes?"

"What happens in twenty eight minutes!" Rick shouted,

"You know that this place is!?" Jenner shouted and jumped to his feet, "We protected the public from very nasty stuff!" Jenner shouted into Shane's face, "Weaponized smallpox! Ebola strains that could wipe out half the country! Stuff you don't want getting out! Ever!" Jenner wiped his mouth and sat down. He took a breath and said, "In the event of a catastrophic power failure, in a terrorist attack for example. HIT's are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out."

"HIT's?" Sayid said shocked,

"HIT's?" Rick asked Sayid yet Sayid could only cover his mouth in shock, "What are they?" Rick asked Jenner,

"VI, define." Jenner said causing VI to tell the group that they were explosives that were only second to nuclear detonation in power. They specifically light the air on fire killing every living thing in the blast zone. Everyone gasped and some began to cry while others clung to each other. "It sets the air on fire. No pain, an end to regret, grief, sorrow...everything." Jenner said,

Daryl ran forward and winged the bottle at the door shattering it, "Open that damn door!" He screamed out,

"Out of my way!" Shane shouted as he ran forward with a fire axe, Sawyer tossed Daryl a second one and the two began to slam them against the door making only scratches against the door.

"You should have just left well enough alone, it would have been so much easier." Jenner said shaking his head,

"Easier for who?" Jack said angrily,

"All of you. You know what's out there. A short brutal life and an agonizing death. Is that really what you want for your wife and son?" Jenner asked Rick,

"I don't want this." Rick said emphatically,

Shane returned to Rick huffing heavily, "Can't make a dent."

"Those doors are designed to withstand a rocket launcher." Jenner said,

"Well you head ain't!" Daryl said swinging the axe back ready to kill Jenner,

"Daryl! No!" Rick shouted as he T-Dog, and Dale pulled him,

"No Rick just let him." Sawyer said coldly, "Were dead anyway."

"Shut up." Jack said firmly to him,

"You gonna make me Jacko?" Sawyer said menacingly,

"Enough!" Eko shouted causing the two of them to separate,

"You do want this. Last night you said that it was only a matter of time before everyone you loved was dead." Jenner said to Rick, "Eko, you didn't seem to disagree, this is the ending you spoke of." Jenner finished as he looked at Eko,

"What you two really thought that? After all you big talk." Shane said coldly,

"I had to keep hope alive didn't I?" Rick answered defensively,

"You do not know the end." Eko said to Jenner, "You know what you want your ending to be but you do not know the end." Eko took a few steps forward, "What gives you the right to decide ours?" Jenner's face finally dropped and he awkwardly sat down unable to give Eko an answer.

"There is no hope. There never was." Jenner said as he stared at the ground,

"There's always hope! Maybe not with you, or in this place, but somewhere!" Rick replied,

"What part of everything is gone do you not understand?" Rose suddenly said sadly as she sat on the floor,

"Listen to your friend, she understands." Jenner replied, "This is what takes us down, this is our extinction event."

"This isn't right." Claire said crying as she held onto Charlie,

"She's right, you can't just keep us here." Carol said in tears,

"One tiny moment, a millisecond. No pain." Jenner said pleadingly,

"My daughter doesn't deserve to die like this!" Carol said firmly through the tears,

Shane finally twisted in anger and stormed away towards his bag. He reached down and grabbed his shotgun, "Shane no!" Jack exclaimed as he pumped it,

"Out of my way Jack!" Shane shouted as he put the barrel right on Jenner's neck. Jack attempted to stop him but Shane just pushed him away, "Open that door or i'll blow your head off. Do you hear me?!" Shane shouted to Jenner,

"Brother, brother, this is not the way you do this." Rick begged to Shane who didn't turn away, "If you do this we will never get out of here."

"Shane, you listen to him." Lori said,

Shane began to scream at the top of his lungs and fired the shotgun into the nearby computers. Rick grabbed onto the shotgun and wrestled for control of it until Shane kicked out his feet sending him to the ground. Shane hit Rick with the butt of the gun but Eko grabbed onto Shane's neck picking him off the ground. Shane dropped the gun and struggled against Eko who stared at him coldly,

"Eko, Eko put him down." Rick said yet Eko didn't moved he continued to hold him, "Eko!"

Eko pulled Shane close to his face as Shane's face began to turn bright red, "Do not do that again." Eko whispered out then dropped Shane to the ground. Shane coughed and held his neck. Eko turned back and saw everyone staring at him in shock and fear.

"I think you're lying." Jack said,

"What?" Jenner replied,

"About no hope." Jack said and Rick let out a nod,

"He's right, if you had no hope you would have bolted with the rest, why didn't you." Rick asked,

"It doesn't matter." Jenner said,

"It always matters." Jack said walked over to him, "You stayed while others ran why?"

"Not because I wanted to. I made a promise to her. Test subject 19." Jenner replied as he pointed to the large screen,

"Test subject 19 was your wife." Locke said surprised,

Jenner nodded, "She begged me to keep going as long as I could." Jenner explained as Sawyer and Daryl began to smash the axe's against the blast doors again. "How could I say no."

"You wife didn't have a choice, you did. That's all we want, a choice." Eko said,

"Just let us keep trying." Rick pleaded with him.

Jenner paused for a moment then typed into the keyboard causing the blast door to open up, "Come on!" Sawyer shouted causing everyone run out of the room,

"There's your chance take it." Jenner said with a shrug,

"I'm grateful." Rick said with a nod,

"The day will come when you won't be." Jenner said sadly. Then He looked between Jack, Rick and whispered something to the both of them. They both looked at him in shock and slowly backed away,

"I'm staying sweetie." Jacqui said to T-Dog in tears,

"What that's crazy." T-Dog replied,

"No it's not and you don't have time just go." Jacqui replied as she walked away,

"Dog let's go." Shane said pulling him forward,

"I'm staying too." Rose said,

"Rose no." Bernard said shocked. Everyone paused but Bernard turned, "Just go! Go!"

"Rose you can't." Bernard said as he walked over to her,

"I can Bernard, I don't want to be eaten alive. I don't want to starve to death." Rose said in tears,

"Rose you can't just give up." Bernard said as he put his hands on her shoulder's,

"Bernard I have cancer, I didn't want you to know that everything you tried to do didn't work." Rose admitted to him,

"What but you said that you we okay, that it was gone." Bernard replied taken aback,

"I know that's because I didn't want you to spend the rest of the time we had trying to do something." Rose said as some tears fell down her cheeks, "Now honey I don't want you to worry about me anymore. You just go and know I died the way I wanted to." Rose said as she gave him a tearful kiss,

Bernard looked at her and tearfully said, "Okay." Bernard slowly sat down,

"What are you doing?" Rose asked,

"I said okay, I won't leave you Rose. You are the best thing that ever happened to me and I won't leave you." Bernard said as he took her hand,

"Bernard….are you sure?" Rose asked shaking her head in disbelief,

"Oh I'm sure." Bernard said with a small smile and pulled her into a hug,

Back with the others they had just reached the entrance of the building and they were trying to get the exit open but as Jenner said there was no power. T-Dog and Sawyer began to attack the windows with an axe and chair yet nothing seemed to faze it. Shane called them away and began to fire at it with his shotgun but the window only minorly cracked in reaction to his gun fire.

"Rick! The grenade!" Ana exclaimed remembering him picking it up,

"Rick checked his belt, "Where is it?"

"Here." Carol said reaching into her bag as she forgot to return it. Rick ran over and carefully pulled the pin. He set it on the floor next to the window and began to run away.

He dove to the floor as the grenade exploded shattering the window. Everyone jumped back to their feet and jumped through the windows.

Below the clock ticked down to it's finally seconds, 5,

"They got out." Jenner said with a smirk and in slight disbeliref,

4,

Jacqui smiled as she saw her friends leave the camera view and looked back to Jenner,

3,

Jenner and Jacqui held their hands together tightly,

2,

Rose and Bernard shared a tearful kiss as they held hands,

1,

Slowly fire seemed to appear throughout the building. Everyone dove down in their vehicles for cover as the CDC exploded into a fiery explosion. The rubbled flew everywhere as the building collapsed into itself. Slowly everyone sat back up and watched as black smoke bellowed out of the rubble. Dale slowly started the RV and turned it around as the others followed suit leaving the burning CDC rubble in the distance.

Alright there we are the grand finale of season one. We lost three more characters in Jacqui, Rose and Bernard. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter as I did. Next we enter season two which is a lot longer than season one so that means even more chapters! If you want me to continue this story drop a follow and favorite. Oh and most importantly leave me a review, thanks all!