Daryl grabbed me and pulled me into the shelter. Everyone had their guns up. "Hello?" Rick called. It was dark in here.
"Hello!" he called again. "Close those doors, watch for walkers." Dale informed. "Hello!" Rick called one more time. Just then, we heard a gun load. We all turned to see some weird looking man standing with a gun, pointing at us. My eyes widened and I gasped. I went to step back but lost my balance and fell. Daryl caught me before I hit the ground and he held me.
"ANYBODY INFECTED!?" the man screamed. "One of our group was." Rick answered. "He didn't make it." The man started walking towards us. Daryls grip tightened. "Why are you here, what do you want?" the man asked.
"A chance." Rick begged nervously. "That's askin' an awful lot these days." The man joked. "I know." The man looked at all of our scared faces. Lori held on to Carl, Carol held on to Sophia, Daryl held on to me… "You all submit to a blood test, that's the price of admission." he said sternly. Rick nodded his head. "We can do that." The man put his gun down. "If you got stuff to bring in do it now, once this door closes it stays closed."
Daryl told me to stay put, that he would bring my things. I nodded and watched them. Andrea looked at me in disgust and then to Daryl. "You know, she's not the only one scared here okay? She should be helping instead of being puppy guarded." I raised my eyebrows but couldn't speak. Daryl got in her face. "She's just a girl, like your sister was." Andrea slapped him. "You asshole." "Stupid bitch!" Daryl mumbled.
My eyes widened. Rick and Shane tore Andrea out of Daryls face and shoved her away. The guy looked at Rick. "Your people better not be a problem."
Rick looked at us. "They won't. Rick Grimes." "Doctor Edwin Jenner." Daryl looked at Jenner. "Doctors always go around packin' heat like that?" Regarding his gun.
"There were plenty left lyin' around, I familiarized myself...Do hicks always carry crossbows?" he said back, smiling. Everyone laughed except me and Daryl.
Jenner looked at us. "You all look harmless enough. Except you." he said jokingly to Carl. "I'll have to keep my eye on you." Carl smiled. Jenner took us down an elevator to the basement where there were rooms and hallways like an old hotel. "Are we underground?" Carol asked.
"You claustrophobic?" "A little." she admitted. "Try not to think about it." he suggested.
"Vi! Bring up the lights in the big room!" Jenner hollered to no one. Then the lights turned on. Then we saw a bunch of machines and futuristic things. "Welcome to cell five." "Where is everybody?" Rick asked. "The other doctors, the staff."
"I'm it… It's just me in here." Lori didn't believe him, I don't think none of us did. "What about the person you were speaking with? Vi?"
"Vi! Say hello to our guests!" Jenner hollered, again to no one. "Tell them, welcome." "Hello guests. Welcome." said an automated speaker. "I'm all that's left. I'm sorry." he said. After a few minutes, he started to take blood. He started with Andrea. "What's the point? If we were infected we would all be running a fever."
"I've already broken every rule in the book letting you in here. Let me, at least, be thorough." He took the needle out. "All done." She got up and stumbled. Jaqui stood up to her aide. "Woah woah woah." "You okay?" Jenner asked. "She hasn't eaten in days. None of us have." Jaqui explained.
Jenner looked at us in sorrow then told me I was next. I got up slowly and walked towards him. "I don't bite." he said smiling. I half smiled. "I worked at a hospital before...this. I couldn't ever warm up to needles." I admitted and sat down. Everyone chuckled. "Just a pinch." he added before sticking me. I seen Daryl tense up. "All done." Jenner said. I got up and started walking back towards Daryl but felt dizzy and fainted.
Everything was black, dark, and blurry when I started hearin' things again. "What's her name?" I heard Jenner ask. "Bellefaire." Daryl mumbled. "Bellefaire? Bellefaire can you hear me yet?" Jenner cooed. I snapped out of it and replied, "Hmm?" "There she is." Jenner said smiling. Daryl immedietly came to my side when he heard me up.
"How long was I out?" I croaked. "Approximately seven minutes, to be exact." Jenner joked. "I induced you with your Lexapro while you were out. You should feel better soon." I widened my eyes and jumped up. "Why did you do that!? I'm down to three pills now! I'm trying to save them!" I hollered. Jenner didn't speak. Shane came up to me. "We'll get'chu more, Belle."
"Is anyone hungry?" Jenner asked. We all looked at him with wide eyes and growling stomachs. Jenner prepared a bunch of different foods, and wine. Everyone including me, got shit faced.
We all laughed, and carried on.
"How about some children have a little bit of wine with his dinner?" Dale laughed. "It's okay in France." "Well, when Carl i-is in Italy or France he can have some then." Lori said smiling. "What's it gon' hurt, c'mon!" Rick laughed. "C'mon!"
Lori looked at him like he was nuts and laughed. She shrugged her shoulders and then poured a little in Carls glass. We all laughed. Daryl was drinkin' down a beer. He looked at me with an odd stare. I looked at him. The wine made me feel this...Weird feeling.
"Here you are young lad." Dale said, giving Carl a bit of wine. Carl took a sip and quickly put it down. "Ewwwww!" Carl said. Everyone laughed hysterically. "That's my boy, that's my boy." Lori said, patting his head, grabbing his wine and pouring the rest in her own glass. "Yuck! It tastes nasty." Carl commented.
"Yeah it will. Stick to soda pop there, bud." Shane joked. "Not you Glenn!" Daryl joked. "What?" Glenn laughed. "Your drinkin' little man, I wanna see how red your face can get." he said, smirking. That smirk turned me on. But I laughed.
Rick stood up from the table with his glass. "Seems to me we haven't thanked our host properly." T-dog grabbed his glass. "He is moreeeee than just our host." "Yeah!" Dale commented. Daryl grabbed a bottle of wine and shook it in the air. "Boo-yaw!" I laughed and he smiled at that.
"Thank you." Rick said sincerely to Jenner who was just sitting there, bumming. "So when you gon' tell us what the hell happened here, doc?" Shane commented. "All the uh… Other doctors. I'm just tryin' to figure out what happened. Where are they?"
"Were celebratin', Shane. Don't need to do this now." Rick said, sternly. "Woah, wait a second. That's why were here. Right? This was your move, were supposed ta… find all the answers… instead we uh… We found him. Found one man. Why." Shane said, snickering towards Jenner.
'Well, when things got bad, a lot of people just… Left. Went off to be with their families. And when things got worse, when the military cordon got overrun, the rest bolted." Jenner explained. "Every last one?" Shane asked, not believing.
"No. Many couldn't face walking out the door. They...Opted out. There was a rash of suicides. That was a bad time…" Jenner explained further, looking down. We all tensed up.
Andrea looked to Jenner. "You didn't leave. Why?" "I just kept working. Hoping to do some good." "Dude, you are such a buzz kill man." Glenn said to Shane who rolled his eyes.
After eating, Jenner took us back to the hotel looking part of the center. "Most of the facilities powered down. Including housing, so you'll have to make due here. Couches are comfortable. But there are cots in storage if you'd like. There's a rec' room down the hall that you kids might enjoy. Just… Don't plug in any of the video games okay?" Jenner spoke.
Carl and Sophia nodded. "Everything causes power. Same applies. If you shower, go easy on the hot water." He said, finally, walking away. We all widened our eyes and looked at eachother. "Hot water?" Glenn asked, smiling. "That's what the man said." T-dog said, visicousley smiling.
We all smiled and booked to our own rooms. Lori, Carl and Rick of course took a cot, Sophia and Carol took one, T-Dog and Jaqui took one, Andrea took her own, Glenn and Shane took one, Dale took one. Daryl came over to me. "Share one?" he mumbled in his low husky voice. I nodded. We took one of the bigger rooms. There was a big cot, a shower and bathroom.
As Daryl showered, I took a walk down the hall to go to the rec room. I seen Shane come out of there and walk to his room in a panic. I peaked my head in the rec room and found Lori crying. I went after Shane. Right as I was about to reach him, I hollered. "What did you do, Shane! What did you d-" I tried, but Shane's lips crushed into mine as soon as he turned around. I've been kissed before, only by Alex. And he never was passionate. This wasn't passionate either. This was hatred, this was fire. I tried not kiss back.
He slammed me against the wall and started going up my thighs. I closed my thighs and broke the kiss. "Shane, stop." I said. But he smack my hand out of the way and he pushed me into the room, closing and locking the door. I looked around for Glenn, but he wasn't here. My heart pounded. I knew what was coming.
"Shane your drunk, plea-!" I started to say as Shane started coming towards me, but his lips crashed on mine again and he made me fall to the ground. He ripped my clothes off, even though I tried to struggle. Now I know why Lori was crying. He must have wanted her, but she didn't let him. "Sh sh sh!" Shane hushed me, putting his hand over my mouth. He Took off his shirt, and unbuckled his pants. He did have a rather nice body. "I know this has to happen, you want me, Bellefaire, don'tchu say you don't."
He did what he had to do to me. He wasn't loving, he wasn't gentle. He got up off me and layed on the couch. I went to the batheroom and cleaned myself up. I walked out. He was asleep, or pretending to be. I wrapped a sheet around me, since my clothes were torn and I ran to the rec room. I went in there and Lori was still there. She gasped when she saw me. "Daryl?" she asked, assuming Daryl did this to me. I shook my head. "Sh-Sh-Shane…" I managed to choke out threw tears, I shook. Her eyes widened and she wrapped her arms around me. "Oh, honey, I'm so, so sorry." "Oh, God, Lori…" I cried. "What'm I gon' do!" She looked at me. "Where's your clothes?" "H-He torn them…" She nodded. "I'll grab you a pair of my jeans and a tank top. That's my only other set of clothes." I nodded and cried. "Stay here." She said, walking out to get her clothes. About two minutes later she came back, and helped me change.
"Now that your calmed down, tell me what happened. Was this consented?" she asked. I sniffed. "I just left him...I told him no at first… But…" I tried, but I cried.
She nodded. "That son of-" she started but Shane walked in. "Bellefaire...I was looking for y-" he started but Lori slammed on his chest. 'What the hell were you thinking!" she yelled.
"That is none of your buissness." He said calmly. "She is JUST a girl!" she said back. "Leave it alone, Lori." he warned. She looked at me and grabbed me. "C'mon honey." She walked me back to my room. "Lori? Please don't tell anyone about this…" I sniffed.
She just looked at me. "Rick'll take care of-" "No, no… Please. Shanes stressed and drunk. Those two don't mix well with his kind." She nodded. Daryl opened the door to see who was talking. "Daryl? Will you watch over her? She's not feeling well." Lori asked.
"Wine get to ya?" Daryl asked, smirking. I didn't laugh, and he caught on something was wrong. I got into bed and cried. He got in beside me and put his arm around me. I eventually fell asleep. I never felt so safe.
The next morning, Daryl walked down to the break room with me for breakfast. T-dog made scrambled eggs and bacon. We all sat down. I smiled. "I love breakfast food." I commented. Daryl smirked.
Dary poured me orange juice. I sipped on it. Rick came in. "Morning." he said. Carl looked at him. "Are you hung over? Mom said you'd be." Rick grinned. "Mom, is right." Carl and Lori laughed. "Let's not make that into a habit." Lori said, grinning.
"Eggs? Powdered, but, I do'm gooood." T-dog said, putting some on my plate. "Ugggggggh." Glenn moaned. Everyone laughed at him, espeically Daryl. "Betcha can't tell! Protein. Helps. The hangover." T-dog said to Glenn. Rick picked up a bottle of apirin. "Where'd all this come from?" "Jenner." Lori said. "Could you help me please?" Rick said handing it over. Lori nodded, smiling. "He thought we could use it. Some of us at least." "Thank you." "Don't ever, ever, ever let me drink again." Glenn moaned.
"Hey." Shane greeted, coming in. Me and Lori tensed and looked at eachother. Daryl noticed the tension and gave me a weird look. "Hey." Rick greeted back. "Feel as bad as I do?" "Worse." Shane said, sarcastically.
"The hell happened to you? Your neck." T-dog asked Shane, as he seen a weird scratch on him. "Must'a done it in my sleep." "Never seen you do that before?" Rick questioned.
"Me neither. Not like me at all." He said, looking at Lori.
Just then, Jenner came in. "Mornin' ya'll." "Hey doc." we all greeted. Dale looked at Jenner. "Doc, I don't mean to slam ya with questions first thing…" "But you will anyway." Jenner commented.
"We didn't come here for the eggs." Andrea sassed. "I think this can be discussed after we eat." I spoke up. Andrea glared. We finished eating, and Jenner took us back to the center. "Give me playback of TS-19." Jenner said to Vi. Then the computer screen on the wall lit up and played. "Playback of TS-19." Vi restated.
"Few people ever got a chance to actually see this. Very few." Jenner stated.
"Is that a brain?" Carl asked, as we seen a picture of one. "An extraordinary one. Not that it matters anymore. Take us into the IV." Daryl and I walked closer. "Enhanced internal view." Vi said. "What're those lights?" Shane asked, as the brain lighted up. "It's the persons 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.
Daryl look freaked out. "You don't make sense? Ever?" I half smiled and rubbed his arm. "Those are synapsis, electric impulses in the brain that carry all the messages. They determine everything a person says, does, or thinks, from the moment of birth, to the moment of death." Jenner explained.
"Death…?" Rick commented. "That's what this is? A visual?" he asked.
"Yes." Jenner agreed. "Or ra-rather the playback, of vidual." Andrea stepped forward. "This person died? Who?"
"Test subject nineteen. Someone who was biten, and infected. And volunteer to have us record the process. Vi, scan forward to the first event." Jenner commanded. "Scanning to first event."
The lights in the brain dimmed. "What is that?" Glenn asked. "It invaded the brain like menigitis." Jenner answered. "The adrenal veins hemmorage. The brain goes into shut down, then the major organs. Then death…. Everything you ever were, or ever will be… Gone."
Andrea looked down, and left a tear slip. Sophia looked over to Carol. "Is that what happened to Jim?" "Yes…" Carol nodded. Jenner looked at us as to why Andrea was crying.
"She lost somebody two days ago. Her, sister." Lori explained. "I lost somebody too, I know how devastating it is." Jenner comforted. "Scan to the second event!" "Scanning to second event."
"The resurrection timing is very wild, we… Have report 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 minutes….Seven seconds…."
"It restarts the brain?" Lori asked, as red lights appeared. "No, just the brain stem. Basically, it gets them up, and moving." "But their not alive." Rick asked. "You tell me." Rick shook his head. "It's nothing like before. Most of that brain is dark." "Dark, lifeless, dead. The frontal lobe, this cortex, the human part, that part dosen't come back. The YOU part. Just a shell, driven by a mindless instinct."
"God, what was that!?" Carol asked, as a strike went through the brain. "He shot his patient in the head. Didn't you?" Andrea said softly. "Vi, power down the main screen and the work stations." Jenner commanded.
"Powering down main screen and work stations." I looked to Daryl as a chill ran down my spine. He looked at me the same way. "You have no idea what it is, do you?" Andrea assumed. "It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal…" "Or the wrath of God?" Jacqui asked. "There's that." Jenner commented.
"Somebody. Must know something. Somebody, somewhere." Andrea said.
"There are others right? Other facilities?" Carol asked. "There maybe some….People like me." Jenner said.
"But'chu don't know?" Rick asked. "How can you NOT know?" "Everything went down. Communications, directives, all of it. I've been in the dark for almost a month."
"So, it's not just here. There's nothing left anywhere." Andrea asked. "Nothing. That's what your really saying, right?" He didn't answer. We all looked to eachother. Tears formed in my eyes. Daryl put his hand on my back. "Jesus." Jacqui whispered.
"Man I'm gon' get shitfaced drunk...Again." Daryl commented. "Doctor Jenner, I know this has been taxing for you. And I hate ask one more question," said Dale, "but...That clock. It's counting down. What happens at zero?" "The….Basement generators. They run out of fuel." Jenner commented and walked away.
"And then?" Rick asked. But he didn't answer. "Vi, what happens when the power runs out?" He asked.
"When the power runs out, facility wide decantamination will occur."
We all looked at eachother. "Lets go!" Shane yelled.
"Go back to your room, I'll be back." Daryl told me. I nodded. Us women and children went back to our rooms while the men went downstairs to look at the generators. I paced back and forth. After twenty minutes, Daryl came back. "I'm gettin' drunk." he said, grabbing a bottle of wine. "Did ya find anythin'?" I asked. "Nothing." Another ten minutes goes by and the lights and air condioning went out. I walked out of my room, so did the others. "Whys the lights and air off in our rooms?" Carol asked as we saw Jenner coming down the hall.
"What's goin' on? Why's everything off?" Daryl asked, already drunk. Jenner grabbed the bottle out of Daryls hand. "Energy is being prioritzed." "Air isn't a priority? And lights?" Dale asked. "It's not up to me, it's Vi shuttin' itself down."
I looked to Daryl, panicing.
We started following Jenner. "Aye! Aye! What the hells that mean!?" Daryl shouted. "Hey man, I'm talkin' to you! What do you mean it's shuttin' itself down? How can a bulding do anythin'?" "You'd be surprised." Lori ran out. "Rick?!" Rick went up to Jenner. "Jenner, what's happening?"
"The systems dropping all the non-essential uses of power. It's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second. I suppose we just reached the last half hour mark. Right on schedule." Jenner explained, taking a swig of wine, then giving it to Daryl who grabbed it. "It was the French."
"What?" Andrea asked. "They were the last ones to hold out, as far as I know." He continued. "While our people were bolting out the doors and commiting suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs until the end. They thought they were close to a solution."
"What happend?" Jacqui asked. "Same thing that's happening here. No power grid. Ran out of world runs on fossil fuel, I mean, how stupid is that?"
Shane went to go after Jenner but Rick grabbed him. "To hell with this Shane, I don't even care! Lori, grab our things, everybody, we need to get of here NOW!" Rick screamed.
I jumped and went to run. "Okay!" Jaqui said to herself. Just then, a loud obnoxious alarm went off. "What's that?"! Shane asked. "What's that?" Carl asked too.
"Thirty minutes until decantamination." Vi said. "Everybody heard Rick, get your stuff and move now!" Shane hollered.
As we were all about to run for the door, Jenner closed it, and it locked. "Did you just lock us in?" Glenn asked. "He just locked us in!" "Carl!" Lori hollered. "MOM!" Carl screamed. My head started to spin again, Daryl noticed and that pissed him off. He grabbed his pistol and went to shoot Jenner in the head. "You son of a bitch!"
"Shane!" Rick hollered. "No no no no!" Shane hollered, as him and Glenn pulled him away from Jenner. My heart pounded. "Hey Jenner, open that door now." Rick commanded. "There's no point! Everything top side is locked down, the emergancy exits are sealed."
"Well open the damn thing!" Daryl screamed. "That's not something I control, the computers do. I told you! Once that front door closed, there wouldn't again, you heard me say that! It's better this way." Jenner defended. "What is?" Rick asked. "What happens in twenty eight minutes?" No answer. Rick looked to Shane. Shane beat the computer. "WHAT HAPPENS!" "YOU KNOW WHAT THIS PLACE IS!? We protected the public from VERY NASTY STUFF! Weaponised, SMALL POX! ALL THE THINGS THAT COULD WIPE OUT HALF THE COUNTRY! STUFF YOU DON'T GETTING OUT! EVER!" He screamed.
I jumped and started to whimper. Jenner sat down. "In the event of power failure or terrorist attack, for example, HIT'S are deployed to invent any organisims from getting out."
"HIT'S?" Rick asked. "Vi, define." "HIT'S will produce a wave of explosian to the air greater than any other explosive except nuclear." Carol cried into her daughter. I cried. "It sets the air on fire. No pain. An end to sorrow, greif, regret...Everything." Jenner said.
Daryl threw the bottle of wine at the door. "OPEN THE DAMN DOOR!" "Out of my way!" Shane said, running to the door, and smashing it with an axe. But it did nothing. "You should've left well enough alone it would have been so much easier." Jenner said. "Easier for whom?!" Lori said. "All of you. You know what's out there. A short, brutal life and an agonizing death. Your sister. What was her name?" Jenner asked Andrea.
"Amy." "Amy. You know what this does. You've seen it. Is that really what you want for your wife?" he asked Rick.
"I don't. Want. THIS." Rick stated firmly. Shame came up breathlessly. "I can't make a dent." "Those doors a designed to withstand a rocket launcher." Jenner commented. "WELL YOUR HEAD AIN'T!" Daryl screamed and went to hit Jenner.
"WHOAH WHOAH, DARYL, DARYL!" Rick screamed, holding him back. "Back off!" T-dog pushed him away. "You DO want this. Last night, you said, you knew it was matter of time before everyone you loved was dead." Jenner revealed. We all looked at Rick.
"What, you really said that? After all we've been through?" Shane said, disgusted. "I had to keep hope alive, didn't I!" Rick defended. "There IS no hope. There never was." Jenner said.
"There's always hope. Maybe it won't be you, maybe not here, but SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE!" Rick hollered.
"What part of everything's gone do you not understand?" Andrea said. I continued to cry in my knees, loudly. "Listen to your friend, she gets it." Jenner commented. "This is what takes us down. This is our extintion event."
"This isn't right. You can't just keep us here!" Carol said through her tears. "One tiny moment, a milisecond, no pain." Jenner comforted. "My daughter dosen't deserve to die like this!" she cried. "Wouldn't it be kinder? More compassionate? To just hold your loved ones and wait for the clock to run down?"
Shane loaded his shot gun. "SHANE! NO!" Rick screamed. "Outa my way Rick! Open that door." Shane said, putting the gun in Jenners face. "Or I'll blow your head off do you hear me!?"
Rick walked beside him. "Brother… Brother, this is not the way you do this, we'll never get out of here!" "Shane, you listen to him!" Lori pleaded. "If he dies, we all die!" Rick stated. Shane screamed and shot a computer. "SHANE!" Lori yelled.
Shane continued to shoot computers, screaming. Rick grabbed gun from him and punched him. "Are you done now? Are you done?"
"Yeah man, guess we all are." Shane said sarcastically. I cried even harder.
"I think your lying." Rick said to Jenner. "What?" "Your lying. About no hope. If that were true ya would'a bolted with the rest. Taken the easy way out, you didn't. You chose the hard path. Why?" 'It dosen't matter." "It DOES matter. It always matters. You stayed, when others ran, WHY?"
"Not. Because. I wanted to. I made a promise to her. My wife." "Test subject nineteen was your wife." Lori asked. "She begged me to keep going as long as I could I… How could I say no…" Daryl kept hitting the door with an axe.
"She was dying. It shoulda' been me on that table. I wouldn't have mattered to anybody, SHE, was a loss to the world! She ran this place, hell I just worked here! In our field, she was an Eienstein! Me? I'm just….Edwin could've done something about this. Not me." Jenner explained.
"Your wife. Didn't have a choice. You do. That's all we want. A choice. A chance." Rick begged. "Let us keep trying as long as we can." Lori cried.
Jenner thought and thought. I looked up finally, my face completely soaked with tears. "I told ya, top side is locked, I can't open those." he said, finally giving in.
It opened. "C'MON!" Daryl screamed, throwing the axe and grabbing me. "C'MON! LET'S GO!" Daryl and Glenn shouted to the rest. "HEY! WE GOT FOUR MINUTES LEFT COME ON!" Glenn screamed. "Let's go Jacqui." T-Dog hurried. "No, I'm stayin! I'm stayin' sweetie." Jacqui said, crying. "But that's insane!" T-dog insisted. "No, it's completely sane! For the first time in a long time. I'm not ending up like Jim and Amy. There's no time to argue. And no point. Not if you wanna get out. Just get out, get out!" she cried.
We all looked back at Dale and Andrea. "I'm staying too." She said. "Andrea no!" Dale hollered. Then looked at us. "J-Just go, go!" He yelled. "C'mon Bellefaire!" Daryl said, grabbing my arm and running. We ran up the stairs and towards the doors. "GET THEM DOORS OPEN!" Shane screamed. We all tried to get them to open. T-dog tried breaking the glass with a chair. "Dog, get down get down!" Shane hollered and shooting the glass. But it was no use.
"The glass won't break?" Sophia asked. "Rick! I have somethin' that might help." Carol said, digging in her purse. "Carol, I don't a nail file's gon' do it." Shane said. "The first morning at camp, when I washed your uniform, I found this in your pocket." she said, showing him the grenade. He took it. "Get down Belle!" Daryl said, hovering over me. "OH SHIT!" Rick screamed as he blew up the glass. It broke. "Les' go!" Daryl said, grabbing me. We ran out, as walkers started coming after us. I screamed as one grabbed me by my shirt. Daryl punched it and grabbed me again. We all got in our vehicles when we saw Andrea and Dale come out. Only ten seconds to go… "EVERYBODY GET DOWN!" Lori screamed out the window. Daryl hovered over me in the truck. Then it happened.
Everything blew up. It was the loudest thing I've ever heard. I screamed. Daryl hugged me tightly.