Sorry for the cliff hanger but I sure do love them but I tried to make up for it by updating pretty quickly.

Half the school was in ruins from the explosion with rocks crumbling everywhere. Sean sprang up from where he had fallen from the blast. "Sam!" he called towards the ruins with a desperate look on his face. He started racing toward the school with Jo hot on his heels.

"Sean, stop!" she called before tackling him to the ground. "It's dangerous. Let's think about this clearly first."

"No Sam's in there and so is Zoe," he said looking pointedly at Carter.

"We still need to think clearly," Carter replied to Sean's look.

"The virus is definitely gone," said Zane looking up from his laptop he had just opened. "That final bomb took it out." Everyone sighed but Sean.

"But did it take out our friends as well?" asked Sean sarcastically shooting daggers at everyone.

"No wait! I see five heat signatures inside. I think they're still alive…" Zane replied typing quickly.

"You think?"

"Take a look yourself, Sean," Zane said spinning the laptop around so Sean could see.

"We should go in," Sean said quietly.

"Yes but I'll go in and only me. It's too dangerous. All the walls are crumbling…" Jo said trailing off.

"No I'll come with you," Sean and Carter said at the same time.

"Sean…"

"No I'm coming with you," Sean said cutting Jo off.

"Fine." Jo replied before she started gathering equipment to seek heat signatures.

Jo POV

The ruble everywhere is dangerous…I mean I've already stubbed my toe twice and I have a huge scratch down my leg that will probably need at least seven stitches.

I continued to look around using the heat signature detector thing. Suddenly a piece of barbed wire scratched my calf leaving cut that gushed blood. I dropped like a rock in water. I heard Zane call my name and I got up and saw him trying to pick his way through the ruins towards me. I waved him to go back but he kept coming my way. When he finally made it too me he looked at my calf and helped me to sit back down.

"You need to go back Jo," Zane said panting.

"No I need to find Zoe," I continued gasping, "You should want her found too, I mean she is your girlfriend."

Zane sorta grimaced before continuing, "Whatever Jo, I just think you think about your safety too."

"Yeah well if you care about my safety then help me look for Zoe,"

"OK come on," he said helping me up. I saw him glance at me before putting his arm around my waist to help me walk. We stumbled along before we found a very dangerous looking section of the school.

"There's someone in there," I said step away from him. His arm hung there for a second before he dropped it.

I walked towards it but Zane pulled me back. "You can't go in there like this, I will."

"No you can't, but I will. I was in special forces, I'm trained for this,"

Zoe couldn't breathe but apparently she could cough. Her hands were covering her head when the bomb exploded so now she was stuck like this. She was not even close to anyone else when the bomb went off so now she was alone. Her head pounded so much she felt like she was going faint or die. I am probably going to die here. I never made up with Lucas who came the whole way home just to apologize. Wait! Now he's stuck in this situation too because he came to make up with me and I didn't let him. Just because I was going out with Zane to make him jealous. Oh God I hope he makes it even if I don't. I am so sorry. She coughed harder but suddenly she saw sunlight. Jo was looking down at her. Jo her savior but all she wanted to do was break up with Zane and apologize to Lucas. I really think I love him and only him, not Zane. But how am I going to break this to Zane, Zoe thought.

"Jo?" Zoe coughed.

"I'm here," Jo replied lifting the young girl. Jo realized Zoe was scratched and cut everywhere and she was bleeding quite a bit and Zoe's blood was mixing with her own blood… "Zane…" Jo called.

"Zane's here?" Zoe asked looking around. Jo just looked exasperating not realizing Zoe's recent internal battle.

"I'm coming," Zane called back but stopped short when he saw all the blood. "Zoe's blood is still contagious. Jo, you're infected now too…" he said sounding a little scared.

"Then back up Zane so you don't get infected too. I'll carry her out." Jo replied.

Everyone else had been found except Sam. Sean was sitting by her car his head in his hands. Where is she? he thought, I really think I love her but I will never get to tell her that.

Carter walked over to him and said "I don't think we'll find her now. Zane checked his laptop heat register program or whatever its called and there's no more heat signatures in the building boundaries so unless she crawled out by herself….she's gone…"

Sean just looked up at Carter and dropped his head again. Suddenly his head shot up again, "No… I'm not giving up. She has to be out there somewhere even if its just…" he broke off sobbing quietly. He got up and started back towards the outskirts of the building.

"Where are you going?" Carter asked.

"To go look around the outskirts of the building for Sam," he replied turning away and jogging off thinking, She's left me…and I never even got to ask who Alex was…I never got to get mad at her or get shamed by her if he was a cousin or something. And now I'm alone. All alone. At this point Sean realized he really was alone. He was out of hearing and seeing range of everyone. Suddenly he heard a cry and it sounded oddly familiar. His eyes widened and he ran towards the noise.

Jo felt sick. Like incredibly sick. "I'm infected, definitely infected," she asked.

"Jo calm down, sorry, yes, Allison just tested your blood and you are definitely infected with this virus," Zane replied putting a hand on her shoulder.

"What about Zoe?" asked Jo shrugging his hand off your shoulder.

"What has Zoe to do with anything?" putting his hand back on her shoulder not understanding what she was asking.

"How is Zoe!" Jo yelled, "How is my best friend, my sister who I just found half alive under a pile of rubble bleeding profusely!" Jo started sobbing now. "My sister, my friend, bleeding…" she cried quietly.

"Jo, she's fine and actually better than you. Somehow the neutralizing bombs pretty much neutralized the virus in everyone slowly over the past hour. When you picked her up she was still contagious but now she's cured and your not," Zane continued glossing over his earlier face.

Her face drained of color. She started stuttering but then suddenly she stopped and looked him in the eyes. "How long do I have?" she asked determined.

His controlled expression shifted to a grimace, "We don't know yet, but not long."

Once again I absolutely love cliff hangers, but I'll probably update later today or tomorrow. Also thought I mentioned that this will probably be a thirteen chapter story with a author's note at the end with information about the sequel and prequel I'm planning to write.