Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
Chapter 12
Author's Note: I am still blown away, 20 people made this story a favorite? And 41 followers! I love you guys! Really seriously you are giving me a big head! I know I'm going to have to make a few changes to the story line to make Rick and Lori not be together, but hey that's what fan fiction is! Shane is going to be a but head and scare Summer or Jewel. Also, sorry if the lines don't match exactly with this one, the only script I could find is in French and google translate didn't translate real well!
OK, can someone please give me a reason to include Beth in this story? Cause, I'm so not feeling her. Mind you they just got off the farm. But…so not seeing her usefulness as of yet? Anyone? Anybody? Right now she reminds me of Shannon from Lost. At this point, I'm seeing Carol and Daryl, especially since Sophia is not going to go missing. One of our little orphan boys are. Which I guess I need to decide who soon hmm? Please PM me with some good points. I'm begging. I got a moody teenager in Summer, who I like a lot better then Beth right now!
Ciccia 96-I'm not promising all the updates are going to be this fast. I live and work in Florida-this week all our seasonal employees come into the park and we have someone retiring, and yeah life gets non existent from November to March, but I'll try!
Review please!
Jewel walked in with Summer and the boys. The boys both look at Glenn who had his head on the table.
"Is he sick?" Nine year old Luke asked.
"Is he going…to turn?" his seven year old brother Mitch asked.
Jewel bent down. "He's sick but not that kind of sick. Nothing to worry about, I promise," she told them as she walked over to the table. "Not doing that great huh?" she asked as she grabbed the Tylenol and gave it to him.
"Never let me drink again," Glenn moaned as Jacqui rubbed his back.
"It'll be OK," Jewel told him.
"I really don't believe you," Glenn told her as he kept his head on the table.
T Dog comes out of the kitchen. "Eggs by T Dog, powdered but I still make them well. Protein helps with hangovers."
Dale looked up as Rick came in. "Morning."
"Morning," Rick greeted as he grabbed a cup of coffee.
"Are you hung over? Mom said you would be," Carl told his father.
Rick smiled. "Not as bad as I could have been, the nurse in our group made sure to hand out Tylenol," he told his son as he kissed the top of his head glancing at Jewel.
"She must have forgotten about stopping by our room," Shane said.
Jewel gave a small nod toward Shane. "Didn't want to disturb Carl, figured he shouldn't be woke up on his first night of good sleep in a while," she said as she drank a cup of coffee. "
Shane looked at her. "I'm sure some people got the hand held treatment," he told her.
"Shane," Lori warned.
"Hell yeah, I better have gotten the hand held treatment, been takin' care of this one since the day she was born," Daryl said as he walked in with the whiskey bottle and gave a sideways glance at Rick not saying anything.
"Yet I turned out normal," Jewel said as she poured him coffee.
"Uncle Daryl, how can you drink so much and not be passed out?" Summer asked.
"It's a gift," Daryl answered as he kissed the top of her head. "One I don' want you testin' out anytime soon," he warned his niece.
"Do you really need to talk so loud?" Glenn moaned.
"Eat," Jacqui and Jewel both told him as Jewel pushed the plate in front of him.
Jenner walked in and grabbed him self a cup of coffee. "Morning," he greeted.
"Hi doc!" T Dog greeted.
Jenner nodded. "Morning."
Dale looked at him. "I hate to bombard you with questions first thing in the morning'," he started to say.
"But, you're going to," Jenner finished his thought.
"We didn't come for the eggs," Andrea informed him.
Jenner nodded. "You all finish your breakfast and I'll explain, or at least I'll try," he told the group.
After Breakfast:
Jenner led the group into the control room they were in that night. "Vi, bring up the scan on test subject 19," he ordered the computer. The group watched as the scan was brought up. "Very few people had the chance to see what I'm showing you, very few," he told them.
"Is that a brain?" Carl asked.
"A very special brain," Jenner told the group. "Vi, bring up the internal viewing," he told the computer as they watched the screen change to a lot of lights and activity of the brain.
Shane looked at it. "What are those lights?"
"Those are life experiences, synapses of memories of the life he lived. The life of an individual, all of it. The tangle of lights? That's organic cables, it's life, it's what makes you, you, it's human," Jenner told them.
Daryl looked at Jewel. "Do you understan' him brainiac?"
"I think he's speakin' out of my league," Jewel answered.
Jenner sighed. "These are synapses. Electrical impusles in the brain that determine each of our thoughts, our words, our actions from birth to death," he explained.
Rick looked at him. "So you observed this patient?"
"I had this person under observation," Jenner answered.
Andrea looked at the Doctor. "This person is dead? Who was it?"
"Test Subject 19. Someone who was bitten and infected and volunteered for the study of the progression of the disease," the doctor explained to the group as the picture changed.
"What's happening to it?" Glenn asked as he looked at the screen.
"It attacks the brain like meningitis, it causes bleeding adrenal glands. The brain ceases all activity, then it turns off all principal organs," he explained.
Summer took a breath as she turned the boys away from the screen as the recording showed the person dying.
"Then death," Jenner announced.
"Is that what happened to Jim?" Sophia asked.
"Yes…"Andrea answered for the doctor as she looked upset.
"Our friend that didn't make it, Jim, he was attacked a couple days ago," Jewel explained.
"Andrea's sister was lost in the attack," Lori added.
Jenner looked at Andrea. "I've lost someone too, I know how hard it is," he consoled the other woman. "Vi, proceed to second phase," he said as the screen changed again. "The time required for the body to come back varies, with no logic. There are reports ranging from three minutes to eight hours," he told them. "This patient took two hours, one minute and seven seconds," he told them as the screen showed some part of the brain restarting.
"It restarts the whole brain?" Lori asked.
"That's just the brain stem," Jewel answered as she looked at the screen.
"That's right," Jenner agreed. "This allows them to get up, move, attack," he explained.
"But they aren't alive?" Rick questioned.
"You tell me Rick," Jenner said as he turned to him.
"That's different then what we just saw, the brain is almost completely off," Rick responded.
"Off, lifeless, dead," Jenner explained. "You know basic anatomy," he said as he turned to Jewel.
"Nothin' like this though," Jewel responded.
Jenner nodded. "The frontal lobe, the neo cortex, these parts will not awaken. Those are the parts that make you, you. There is only a shell, guided by animal instincts," he told them as the patient grows agitated and then stops.
"What happened there?" Carol asked.
"He put a bullet in there brain," Jewel answered.
Jenner nodded. "Vi, turn off the main screen and the work stations," he ordered as the computer complied.
Andrea looked at him. "You have no idea what this is, do you?" she asked.
Jenner nodded. "It could be microbial, viral disease, parastic, or fungal," he told them.
"Or divine intervention," Jacqui added.
"Or it could be that," Jenner agreed.
"Someone somewhere is working on this right?" Summer asked.
"Other facilities, like this one?" Carol asked.
Jenner shrugged. "Maybe, hold outs like me," he answered.
"But you have no idea? You can't know that for sure," Rick reasoned.
"We're cut off from everything, no communications, no guidance, nothing," Jenner told them. "I've been in the dark for a month."
"So it's just not here? It happened everywhere? There's nothing left anywhere?" Andrea questioned.
Jenner didn't answer as he looked at the group.
Daryl ran his hand through his hair. "I think I'm going to go get drunk. Again," he said.
"I might join you this time," Jewel said as she crossed her arms.
"Lord…." Jacqui mumbled.
Dale walked over. "Doctor Jenner, I know how painful it must be to answer these questions, but I have to ask this one," he said as he nodded to the clock. "It looks like a count down, what happens when it runs down to zero?" he asked.
"The generator will run out of fuel," Jenner answered sadly.
Jewel looked at Rick then at Jenner. "What happens when the generators run out of power?" she asked.
Jenner doesn't respond he just remains quiet.
"Vi, what happens if the power shortages?" Rick questions.
"If the power shortages, decontamination will be performed throughout the building," Vi responded.
"I really don't like the sound of that," Summer responded.
Jewel turned as Rick, Shane, T Dog and Glenn go out the room. "Let's go back to our rooms for a bit," she told the group. "And hide the bottle from me," she whispered to Daryl as she passed him.
TBC