Finding Their Missing Piece(on Hiatus)

by Marta1854

Troy Stratiotes, lifelong friend & adopted sister of Glenn Rhee, Vs Daryl Dixon, crossbow wielding redneck. They just care about their brother & each know they hate the other so why do they always end up stuck together? Fate seems to be playing a sick joke on them. Will these two guarded hearts eventually open to the other or will they ice each other over more?

5. Chapter 4-Trojan Horse

Chapter 4 – Trojan Horse

****Daryl's POV****

We get to the CDC but there's dead bodies everywhere. We slowly start moving past them with Troy and I covering the back. "All right, everybody. Keep moving. Go on. Stay quiet. Let's go." Shane whispers as we approach the building so Rick says "Keep moving. Stay together. Keep moving. Come on." leading us. "Shh." Shane says. We get to the building and Rick rattles the door as Troy looks around. "Nothing?" Shane asks as Rick and him try to get the door open. Troy then looks at a camera while standing under it as Shane pounds on the door. "There's nobody here." T-Dog says causing me to think 'No shit.' as Rick asks "Then why are these shutters down?" "Walkers!" I yell seeing some of the bodies start to get up and everyone turns around. I shoot a soldier walker and yell "You led us into a graveyard!" walking towards Rick causing Troy to defend "He made a call." "It was the wrong damn call!" I yell at her causing Shane tell us "Just shut up. You hear me? Shut up. Shut up!" Before adding "Rick, this is a dead end." "Where are we gonna go?" Carol asks as Shane walks towards Rick saying "Do you hear me? No blame." Pointing at him. "She's right. We can't be here, this close to the city after dark." Lori says as Troy re-kills a walker that was getting too close. Rick looks back at the doors as Shane says "Fort Benning, Rick, still an option." "On what? No food, no fuel. That's 100 miles." Andrea says so Glenn says "125. I checked the map." "Forget Fort Benning. We need answers tonight, now." Lori says angry. "We'll, think of something." Rick says trying to calm her down as Shane orders "All right, everybody back to the cars. Let's go. Move." But Rick stays where he was and say "The camera, it moved." Causing Dale to tell him "You imagined it." "It moved." He says walking towards it and Troy follows him as I inform "The walkers are gettin' closer!" Rick bangs on the door as Lori yells "Rick, there's nobody here!" "I know you're in there. I know you can hear me." Rick says at the camera as Shane yells "Get back to the cars now!" "Please, we're desperate. Please help us. We have women, children, no food, hardly any gas left." Rick pleads to the camera as Lori runs over to him and tries to get him to give up and I move over to grab Troy since the last thing I need is her death being on my hands. "If you don't let us in, you're killing us! Please!" Rick yells as Shane grabs him and starts dragging him away saying "Come on, buddy, let's go." That's when Troy points and yells at the camera "Come on!" as Rick keeps yelling "Please help us. You're killing us! You're killing us!" Shane pushes Rick forward and I grab Troy and start pulling her away just as the door opens.

We stand there for a few seconds just staring at it till Troy gets out of my hold and Shane tells us "Daryl, Troy, you cover the back." as we start to move into the building. "Hello?" Rick calls as Shane says "Close those doors. Watch for walkers." "Hello?" Rick calls again when a gun cocks in front of us we aim our weapons in that direction and there is a guy there who asks "Anybody infected?" "One of our group was. He didn't make it." Rick says so the guy comes down the stairs asking "Why are you here? What do you want?" "A chance." Rick says so as he walks forward the guy states "That's asking an awful lot these days." "I know." Rick says and the guy looks at all of us and says "You all submit to a blood test. That's the price of admission." "We can do that." Rick says so the guy lowers his gun and says "You got stuff to bring in, you do it now. Once this door closes, it stays closed." Rick, Glenn, Shane, and I then run and get the bags as Troy covers us. T-Dog and Dale close the doors behind us and the guy slides a card in a key pad as the light turned green he says "Vi, seal the main entrance. Kill the power up here." The door closes and Rick introduces himself and the guy looks at him and says "Dr. Edward Jenner." We all pile in an elevator so I ask "Doctors always go around packing heat like that?" "There were plenty left lying around. I familiarized myself." Jenner says looking around at the others before adding "But you look harmless enough. Except you. I'll have to keep my eye on you." Looking at Carl who smiles. The elevator stops and we follow Jenner down a hallway, Troy and I in the back, we always seemed to end up together even though we basically only had arguments if we talked to each other. Carol then asks "Are we underground?" "Are you claustrophobic?" Jenner asks so she answers "A little." "Try not to think about it." He says picking up his pace.

As we walk into a big room Jenner says "Vi, bring up the lights in the big room." The lights come on so he adds "Welcome to zone 5." "Where is everybody? The other doctors, the staff?" Rick asks so Jenner stops and turns to us and says "I'm it. It's just me here." "What about that person you were speaking with? Vi?" Lori asks and at this Troy sighs as Jenner says "Vi, say hello to our guests. Tell them…welcome." A computer voice then says "Hello, guests. Welcome." "I'm all that's left." Jenner says looking at Rick before adding "I'm sorry."

****Troy's POV****

"What's the point? If we were infected, we'd all be running a fever." Andrea asks when she gets her blood drawn so Jenner says "I've already broken every rule in the book by letting you all in here." Before looking away adding "All done." Andrea gets up then but she pauses so Jenner asks "Are you okay?" She nods as Jacqui informs him "She hasn't eaten in days. None of us have." Jenner looks shocked and says "Follow me." He then leads us all into a kitchen area.

****Time skip****

Everyone was laughing as we ate dinner and drank some wine. Daryl is drinking straight from a bottle himself at least Glenn and I were sharing, 'He's gonna get a major hangover.' I think watching Daryl take another big drink. "You know in Italy, children have a little bit of wine with dinner." Dale says handing Lori her now filled glass and adds "And in France." "Well, when Carl is in Italy or France, he can have some them." She says but Rick says "What's it gonna hurt? Come on. Come on." Lori gives in and Dale gives Carl some saying "There you are, young lad." Carl takes a sip and says "Eww." And the others laugh as Lori says "That's my boy." And pours the wine in her glass as Shane says "Well, just stick to soda pop there, bud." "Not you, Glenn. Or you Troy." Daryl say looking at Glenn and I who are sitting on the counter. "What?" Glenn asks so Daryl says "Keep drinking, little guy and gal. I want to see how red your face's can get." "How 'bout I shove my fist in yer face? Then we'll see who has a red face." I say sending him a glare causing Glenn to say "Ohhh, burn." Which in turn caused the group to start laughing and Rick looks at Jenner who's just watching us silently. Rick clinks his glass standing up and says "It seems to me we haven't thanked our host properly." "He is more than just our host." T-Dog says raising his glass so Dale raises his glass and says "Hear! Hear!" and Daryl says "Here's to you, doc. Booyah!" The guys say "Booyah!" as well, as Rick says to Jenner "Thank you. Thank you, doctor." "So when are you gonna tell us what the hell happened here, doc?" Shane asks looking at Jenner and adds "All the-the other doctors that were supposed to be figuring out what happened, where are they?" I shake my head as Rick says "We're celebrating, Shane. Don't need to do this now." Sitting back down. "Whoa, wait a second. This is why we're here, right? This was your move, supposed to find all the answers. Instead we….we found him. Found one man. Why?" Shane says pointing at Jenner who says "Well, when things got bad, a lot of people just left, went off to be with their families. And then things got worse, when the military cordon got overrun, the rest bolted." "Every last one?" Shane asks not reading the underline point Jenner made of 'they quit'. "No, many couldn't face walking out the door. They…opted out. There was a rash of suicides. That was a bad time." Jenner says. "You didn't leave. Why?" Andrea asked. "I just kept working, hoping to do some good..." Jenner says tailing off. "Well fuck." I mutter snatching the bottle from Glenn and taking a big drink so Glenn looks at Shane and says "Dude, you are such a buzzkill, man." We finished eating and Jenner lead us to the rooms saying "Most of the facility is powered down, including housing, so you'll have to make do here. The couches are comfortable, but there are cots in storage if you like. There's a rec room down the hall that you kids might enjoy. Just don't plug in the video games, okay? Or anything that draws power. The same applies, if you shower go easy on the hot water." Before walking away. Glenn turns and asks "Hot water?" "That's what the man said." T-Dog replies and they both laugh before we all basically run to a room.

"Sweet Jesus." I breathe out when the hot water touches my scared skin. I can faintly hear the others laughing through the vent in the ceiling causing me to chuckle as well. I scrub off what seems like a layer of grime from my skin before tackling the tangled mass that is my hair. I really didn't take the time to take care of it while we were at the quarry and just let it be. I didn't care what I looked like, still don't. Even before the world went to shit I didn't, much to Glenn's Mother and Sisters' dismay. After I finish I quickly get dressed in some fresh clothes and run my hands through my wet hair to finish untangling it. "I should probably cut this." I mutter looking at a strand of my long hair that was now back to its original color, a dirty blonde instead of the dark brown it was.

I'm digging through my bag for a pair of scissors when there's a knock at my door. "Come in." I say so I hear the door open but I don't bother looking up. Suddenly I'm pushed to the ground with an obviously drunk Shane on top of me, his legs pinning my arms down at my sides. "What-" I start to yell but he cuts me off by placing a hand over my mouth saying "Now that Merle's gone and Rick's back you'll have to do." I knee him where it hurts but it just pisses him off causing him to move his hand to cover my nose as well as other hand travels down to the hem of my pants. Involuntary fear floods me as my lungs burn for air and I struggle against him since he's a lot stronger than the asshat back in the city. I notice he already has three scratches on his neck, probably from Lori, so I know he won't stop until he gets what he wants or I get way. I have to resort to biting his hand so I could try and escape. "You bitch." He growls ripping his now bleeding hand away as I scramble out from under him. I kick him over before I run out of the room and into the first room I come to.

****Daryl's POV****

"What're you-" I start to yell when Troy runs into my room and slams the door behind her but she cuts me off as she whips around, rushes over, puts a hand over my mouth, and harshly whispers "I'm not here." Before running into the bathroom. She had just shut the door when Shane barges in, quickly covers his rage, hides one of his hands, and feigns innocence as he asks "Have you seen Troy?" "Why would've I seen her? Ya should ask Glenn." I spit out causing him to say "Right…" trailing off as he leaves. After a few minutes of him not coming back I say "He's gone." She slowly opens the door then and glances around so I ask "What'd ya do?" even though I have a pretty good idea of what happened. "Defended myself." She growls glaring at me so I raise my hands in surrender and ask "Ya do that to his neck?" "Na that was probably Lori. I bit his hand." She sighs out leaning against the door so I stand and say "Ya can take the couch." "No. I'll just go to Glenn's room." She says and I couldn't stop myself from blurting out "He'll look for ya there. Yer staying." I didn't like the girl but that didn't mean I'd let her get raped and probably beat half to death by Shane. "Then I'll take the floor." She states going over to the opposite side of the room and sits down. "Fine." "Fine."

****Troy's POV****

I wake up on the floor and mentally swear at myself for being prideful. My joints pop as I stretch and look over at a still sleeping Daryl. I get up and quietly make my way over to him. "Thanks." I whisper before stopping myself from reaching out to touch him causing me to mutter "What am I doing?" shaking my head of the thought. I then head out and I'm careful not to be too loud when I shut the door behind me. As luck would have it I come face to face with Glenn who's eyes are wide. "I'll explain later." I tell him when he opens his mouth to say something before I go back to my room. I scoff seeing the small blood stain on the carpet as I change back into jeans. I then head to the kitchen area and sit next to Glenn who's head is on the table. He groans when T-Dog starts putting breakfast things on the table causing him to laugh. "What's so funny?" Carl asks as he, Lori, Dale, and Andrea come in. "Glenn has a hangover. Like your dad is sure to have when he wakes up." Lori says as they sit down at the table. Jenner comes in and puts a bottle of aspirin on the table and says "Though you guys would need this. Take them, I'll know if you didn't." before walking back out of the room. Rick then comes in saying "Morning." I sigh as I take a bite out of the bacon. "Are you hungover? Mom said you'd be." Carl asks as Jacqui, Carol, and Sophia come in. "Mom is right." Rick says sitting down so Lori says "Mom has that annoying habit." Jacqui is rubbing Glenn's shoulders then as T-Dog says "Eggs. Powdered, but-but I do 'em good." Loudly causing Glenn to groan so T-Dog continues "I bet you can't tell. Protein helps the hangover." Putting the eggs on everyone's plates. "Where'd all this come from?" Rick asks so Lori says "Jenner." "Could you help me, please?" Rick asks handing her the bottle so she says "He thought we could use it. Some of us at least." Looking at Glenn so I chuckle as Glenn says "Don't ever ever ever let me drink again." Just as Shane comes in saying "Hey." "Hey." Rick says looking at him before adding "Feel as bad as I do?" "Worse." Shane says as T-Dog asks him "The hell happened to you? Your neck and hand?" causing me to look at Shane as he sat down. "I must have done it in my sleep." He says causing me to chuckle as Rick says "Never seen you do that before." "Me neither. Not like me at all." Shane says looking at Lori who looks away so he looks at me and I glare at and mentally tell him 'I will kill you. If you try again.' As Jenner comes in again saying "Morning." "Hey, doc." Everyone greets before Dale starts to say "Doctor, I don't mean to slam you with questions first thing-""But you will anyway." Jenner says cutting him off as Daryl walks in. "We didn't come here for the eggs." Andrea says causing Jenner to look at everyone before settling on me. 'What the fuck?' I think as he says "Come with me."

We follow him into the big room and he hits a button on the computer and says "Give me playback of TS-19." "Playback of TS-19" Vi says starting to load the playback as Jenner says "Few people ever got a chance to see this. Very few." My eyes go wide seeing it's a similar video to the one I saw at the start of this. "Is that a brain?" Carl asks so I nod as Jenner says "An extraordinary one. Not that it matters in the end. Take us in for EIV." Sadness laced his words so I look at him and determine he must have known the person personally. "Enhanced internal view." Vi says as everyone is staring at the video in interest not knowing what's happening. "What are those lights?" Shane asks so Jenner explains "It'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" looking at them. "You don't make sense ever?" Daryl asks. "Those are synapses, 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." I explain looking back at the playback. "Death? That's what this is, a vigil?" Rick asks so I nod as Jenner says, being technical, "Yes. Or rather the playback of the vigil." "This person died? Who?" Andrea asks so Jenner says "Test Subject 19. Someone who was bitten and infected…and volunteered to have us record the process. Vi, scan forward to the first event." "Scanning to first event." Vi says. Seeing the virus Glenn asks "What is that?" "It invades the brain like meningitis. The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs, and then death. Everything you ever were or ever will be is gone." I explain so Jenner says "That's right." causing Sophia to ask "Is that what happened to Jim?" "Yes." Carol tells her. Andrea starts crying and Lori tells Jenner "She lost somebody two days ago. Her sister." I watch him then as he walks closer to Andrea and says "I lost somebody too. I know how devastating it is." Looking back at the screen he adds "Scan to the second event." "Scanning to second event." Vi says. "The resurrection times vary wildly. We had reports 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 minute…seven seconds." Seeing the red lights Lori asks "It restarts the brain?" I shake my head and say "No, just the brain stem. Basically, it gets them up and moving." "But they're not alive?" Rick asks. "You tell me." Jenner tells Rick pointing to the screen, Rick shakes his head and says "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. The you part. Just a shell driven by mindless instinct." I say before a bullet goes through the brain and Carol asks "God. What was that?" "He shot his patient in the head. Didn't you?" Andrea says. "Vi, power down the main screen and the workstations." Jenner says ignoring her question. "Powering down main screen and workstations" Vi says as Jenner goes to his workstation. "You have no idea what it is, do you?" Andrea asks. "It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal." Jenner starts when Jacqui asks "Or the wrath of God?" "There is that." Jenner says looking at me as I shake my head thinking 'I don't believe in any type of God, but if there was one they could have started this.' "Somebody must know something. Somebody somewhere" Andrea says. "There are others, right? Other facilities?" Carol asks and I sigh as Jenner says "There may be some. People like me." "But you don't know? How could you not know?" Rick asks being stupid. "Everything went down. Communications, directives- all of it. We've been in the dark for almost a month." Jenner says. "So it's not just here. There's nothing left anywhere? Nothing? That's what you're really saying, right?" Andrea asks he doesn't answer her so I say "At the start of this…I found thousands of reports all over the world." She lets out a breath as Jacqui says "Jesus." Before Daryl says "Man, I'm gonna get shit-faced drunk again." Leaning on one of the workstations putting his head in his hands. "Dr. Jenner, I know this has been taxing for you and I hate to ask one more question, but...that clock-it's counting down. What happens at zero?" Dale asks looking at Jenner who says "The basement generators-they run out of fuel." "And then?" Rick asks looking at me, as Jenner walks away. "Oh shit." I mutter before face palming so Rick asks "Vi, what happens when the power runs out?" "When the power runs out, facility-wide decontamination will occur." Vi says causing me to sigh heavily I go with Rick, Shane, Glenn, and T-Dog to check the basement generators.

"Decontamination-what does that mean?" Glenn asks so I say "Ya don't want to know." "I don't like the way Jenner clammed up. The way he just wandered off like that." Shane says then basically ignoring me. "What's wrong with him? Seriously, man, is he nuts, medicated or what?" T-Dog asks as I look at the map on the wall. "In there." I say heading towards the door. Shane turns the lights on when we walk in so Rick tells Me, Glenn, and T-Dog to check one why as Shane and him check another. All we find is empty barrels until the lights go out and Vi says "Emergency lighting on." "What the hell is this?" Shane asks as we come running into the side they were on. "Hey, you guys kill the lights?" Glenn asks. "Nah, it just went out." Shane says as Rick asks "Anything?" "Yeah, a lot of dead generators and more empty fuel drums than I can count." T-Dog says this causes Shane to look at Rick and say "It can't be down to just that one."

****Glenn's POV****

"Jenner, what's happening?" Rick asks when we run into the big room. "The system is dropping all the nonessential uses of power. It's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second. That started as we approached the half-hour mark. Right on schedule." Jenner says stopping, taking a big drink of the bottle of alcohol before handing it to Daryl who snatches it. "It was the French." Jenner then says. "What?" Andrea asks so Jenner says "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." 'So much for that.' I think as Jacqui asks "What happened?" Jenner looks at her and says "The same thing that's happening here. No power grid. Ran out of juice. The world runs on fossil fuel. I mean, how stupid is that?" "Let me tell you-"Shane starts but Rick says "To hell with it. I don't care. Lori, grab our things. Everybody, get your stuff. We're getting out of here now!" as Jenner starts walking to a workstation. Troy gives me a 'I can fix this look.' As the others start to leave when an alarm starts going off. "30 minutes to decontamination." Vi says after everyone asks "What's that?" I see Troy is basically glaring at Jenner now as Daryl yells "Doc, what's going on here, damn it?" "Everybody, y'all heard Rick. Get your stuff and let's go! Go now! Go!" Shane yells just as the door closes. "You fuck!" Troy yells at Jenner going for the key pad as I say "Did you just lock us in? He just locked us in!" "Let me go!" Troy yells as Jenner grabs her, holds down her arms, and turns to the workstation saying "We've hit the 30-minute window. I am recording." "You son of a bitch." Daryl yells running at Jenner and Troy. "Shane!" Rick yells as Daryl yells "You locked us in here!" grabbing Jenner's chair as Shane pulls him back says "No no no no! Don't!" T-Dog comes running yelling "Wait, no! No, don't do it." Helping Shane with Daryl. Rick walking towards the group says "Hey, Jenner, open that door now and let Troy go." "There's no point. Everything topside is locked down. The emergency exits are sealed." Jenner says as Troy struggles against him so Dale says "Well open the damn things." "That's not something I control. The computers do. I told you once that front door closed, it wouldn't open again. You heard me say that." Jenner says so Troy yells "I can stop it! Let me go!" as everyone looks at them shocked before he adds "It's better this way." "What is? What happens in 28 minutes?" Rick asks Jenner doesn't say anything so Shane says "Come on!" as Rick asks again "What happens in 28 minutes?!" Jenner stands up pushing Troy at Daryl yelling "Do you know what this place is?! We protected the public from very nasty stuff! Weaponized smallpox! Ebola stains that could wipe out half the country! Stuff you don't want getting out! Ever!" clearly losing it. Troy rips the flash drive from around her neck and runs to one of the other computers as everyone stares at Jenner as he sits down and says "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." "Not good. That is really not good." Troy mutters as numbers start scrolling rapidly on the screen in front of her after she plugged in the flash drive as Rick asks "HIT's?" "Vi define." Jenner says so Vi says "HIT's are high-impulse thermobaric fuel-air explosives consist of a two-stage aerosol ignition that produces a blast wave of significantly greater power and duration than any other known explosive except nuclear. The vacuum-pressure effect ignites the oxygen at between 5000 degrees and 6000 degrees and is useful when the greatest loss of life and damage to structure is desired." Everyone but Troy look at Jenner shocked so she states "They set the fucking air on fire." causing Jenner to add, simply, "No pain. And end to sorrow, grief…regret…Everything."

Daryl then throws the bottle of alcohol at the door and yells "Open the damn door!" as Shane runs at the door with a fire axe yelling "Out of my way!" and starts hitting it. "Daryl!" T-Dog yells throwing him another axe. They're both hitting the door as Jenner looks at Troy and says "You should've left well enough alone. It would've been so much easier." Troy scoffs as Lori asks "Easier for who?" "All of you. You know what's out there-a short, brutal life and an agonizing death. Your-Your sister-what was her name?" Jenner says looking at Andrea who says "Amy." "Amy. You know what this does. You've seen it. Is that really what you want for your wife and son?" Jenner says looking at Rick who says "I. Don't. Want. This." "Can't make a dent." Shane says so Troy says "Those doors are designed to withstand a rocket launcher, you idiot." "Well, his head ain't!" Daryl yells trying to swing the axe at Jenner. Rick and Dale stop him as Rick yells "Daryl! Daryl! Just back up! Just back up! You could end up hitting Troy!" Daryl drops the axe as Jenner stands up and says to Troy "You do want this. It's the perfect end to the Trojan Horse." then looking at Rick adds "You want this too. Last night you said you knew it was just a matter of time before everybody you loved was dead." "Just shut the fuck up!" Troy yells as Shane asks Rick "What? You really said that? After all your big talk?" "I had to keep hope alive, didn't I?" Rick asks so Jenner counters "There is no hope. There never was." "There's always hope. Maybe it won't be you, maybe not here, but somebody somewhere." Rick counters before Andrea asks "What part of everything is gone do you not understand?" "Listen to your friend. She gets it. This is what takes us down. This is our extinction event." Jenner says causing Carol to cry "This isn't right. You can't just keep us here." "One tiny moment, a millisecond. No pain." Jenner says but Carol says "My daughter doesn't deserve to die like this." "Wouldn't it be kinder, more compassionate to just hold your loved ones and wait for the clock to run down?" Jenner asks just as a gun cocks and Rick yells "Shane, no!" "Out of the way, Rick! Stay out of my way! Open that door or I'm gonna blow your head off. Do you hear me?!" Shane yells as the numbers scrolling on Troy's screen start to slow. "Brother, brother, this is not the way you do this. We will never get out of here." Rick says so Lori adds "Shane, you listen to him." "It's too late." Shane says so Rick starts "He dies, we all-"as Shane yells he continues "We all die! Shane!" Daryl and I pull Troy back just as Shane starts shooting the computers. Rick takes him down but the computer Troy was doing the hack from was toast causing her to yell at Shane "Ya fucking moron I was almost done! There's not enough time to start another hack!" as Rick asks Shane "Are you done now? Are you done?" "Yeah, I guess we all are." Shane says.

Rick looks at everyone and hands T-Dog the gun before saying "I think you're lying." "What?" Jenner asks. "You're lying about no hope. If that were true, you'd have bolted with the rest or taken the easy way out. You didn't. You chose the hard path. Why?" Rick says so Jenner says "It doesn't matter." "It does matter. It always matters. You stayed when others ran. Why?" Rick says. "Not because I wanted to. I made a promise…to her. My wife." Jenner says pointing at the screen. "Test subject 19 was your wife?" Lori asks. "She begged me to keep going as long as I could. How could I say no?" Jenner says as Daryl starts hitting the door again with an axe then adding "She was dying. It should've been me on that table. I wouldn't have mattered to anybody. She was a loss to the world. Hell, she ran this place. I just worked here. In our field, people like her, is Einstein. Me? I'm just….Edwin Jenner. She could've done something about this. Not me." "Your wife didn't have a choice. You do. That's-that's all we want, a choice, a chance." Rick says so Lori pleads "Let us keep trying as long as we can." Jenner looks at her before saying "I told you topside's locked down. I can't open those." And going over to the key pad and opening the door. "Come on!" Daryl yells as Jenner says "Troy." "Go I'll meet up." She says pushing me towards the door before turning to glare at Jenner as the others yell their versions of come on.

****Troy's POV****

Everyone but me, Jacqui, Andrea, Dale, and Jenner ran out of the room. Jenner slowly turns to me and says "I don't believe there's a chance, but here." And tosses me another flash drive. I chuckle and go over to the station with mine and grab it before saying "Goodbye Jenner." And rushing out of the room, detouring to get my bag. I arrive at the top floor as T-Dog yells "Daryl, look out!" and starts hitting the window with a chair. It doesn't work so Shane says "Dog, get down! Get down!" before shooting the glass with a shotgun. "The glass won't break?!" Sophia asks scared and I hear Carol whisper "The grenade." before digging in the bag looking at Rick saying "Rick, I might have something that can help." "Carol, I don't think a nail file's gonna do it." Shane says. She shakes her head as she pulls out the grenade and says "Your first morning at camp, when I washed your uniform I found this in your pocket." Rick goes to grab it but I do and run to the window yelling "Time to blow shit up!" as Daryl and Glenn yell "Troy no!" I ignore them and look at Rick as I pull the pin and get ready to release is so he yells "Everybody get down!" I drop it and sprint back towards the group Daryl grabs me and pulls me under him as it explodes. "Come on let's go!" He yells pulling me up with him and start running out the now broken window.

****Daryl's POV****

When the door opens I yell "Come on!" to the rest of the group as Jenner says "Troy." "Go I'll meet up." She says pushing Glenn towards the door before turning to glare at Jenner as the others yell their versions of come on. 'She's gonna get herself killed.' I think but follow the others, minus her, Jacqui, Andrea, and Dale to the top floor. "Get them doors open!" Glenn yells running to the doors with T-Dog trying to get them open as Shane yells "Daryl!" and I throw him one of the axes and we start hitting the window as Glenn yells "It doesn't work!" "Come on! Come on!" I yell at the window as Carol says "Stay close, sweetheart." Then T-Dog yells "Daryl, look out!" I get out of the way and he starts hitting the window with a chair and I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding when I saw Troy standing next to Carol. It doesn't work so Shane says "Dog, get down! Get down!" before shooting the glass with a shotgun after T-Dog moves. "The glass won't break?!" Sophia asks scared causing Carol to mutter something nods before digging in her bag looking at Rick saying "Rick, I might have something that can help." "Carol, I don't think a nail file's gonna do it." Shane says. She shakes her head as she pulls out a grenade and says "Your first morning at camp, when I washed your uniform I found this in your pocket." Rick goes to grab it but Troy does and runs to the window yelling "Time to blow shit up!" as I can't stop myself from yelling "Troy no!" along with Glenn. She ignores us and looks at Rick as she pulls the pin and get ready to release is so he yells "Everybody get down!" She then drops it and sprints towards the group so I grab her and pull her under me as it explodes. "Come on let's go!" I yell at her pulling her up with me and start running out the now broken window. Rick and Shane shoot the walkers and I chop off their heads with the axes as we run to the cars. When Troy and I get to my truck Lori yells "Dale, get down! Down!" as the R.V.'s horn honks so I quickly push her in and cover her as I close the car door and the building explodes. We're both breathing heavy and I quickly get off her realizing the position we were in and get into the driver's seat as she sits up. She watches Dale and Andrea get into the R.V. as I look at her thinking 'What's wrong with me?' And start the truck. The caravan then starts moving back towards Fort Benning.